With Cooling Of Additional Parts Or Materials Patents (Class 123/41.31)
  • Patent number: 6474311
    Abstract: A fuel tank for an engine capable of preventing the temperature of the fuel tank from rising and grass from entering a cooling fan, and being low in production cost with a simple structure is provided. To this end, in the fuel tank for an engine installed on a crankcase (2) of an engine (1) and having a face opposing a muffler (7), a heat insulating part (22) integrally formed is provided on the face opposing the muffler (7). Further, a stand part (25) integrally formed is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Komatsu Zenoah Co.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Sawada, Hiroshi Kato, Takeshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6446585
    Abstract: An intake manifold for a compact internal combustion engine includes a pair of arm having air passageways and coolant passageways formed therethrough. The air passageways couple an air inlet at a carburetor flange to respective air outlets at the ends of the arms. The coolant passageways couple coolant inlets at the ends of arms to a coolant chamber having a first and second coolant outlet, the first coolant outlet providing a first coolant path for connecting the coolant chamber to a radiator assembly, and the second coolant outlet providing a second coolant path for connecting the coolant chamber directly to a coolant pump. A thermostatic valve disposed in the coolant chamber directs the engine coolant along the first and second coolant paths as a function of coolant temperature. The manifold further includes an integral radiator support element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: Anthony L. Coffey, Timothy S. Thiel
  • Patent number: 6446026
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying or determining degradation in performance of an engine cooling subsystem having an electric motor for powering a fan in a locomotive is provided. The method allows for monitoring a signal indicative of an electrical imbalance in one or more phases in the fan motor of the cooling subsystem, and for adjusting the value of the monitored signal for deviations from an estimated nominal phase signal value due to predetermined external variables so as to generate an adjusted phase signal value. The method further allows for comparing the value of the adjusted phase signal value against the nominal phase signal value to determine the performance of the cooling subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jason A. Dean, Myron L. Smith, William Roy Schneider
  • Publication number: 20020104490
    Abstract: In a cooling mechanism for an engine electronic control module, a base plate of the engine electronic control module is attached to an intake pipe, and includes air rectifier fins. The air rectifier fins have an air rectification function for concentrating suction-air streams at a position while rectifying the suction-air streams, and a cooling function for cooling the engine electronic control module. Suction air flows into an intake duct, in which an air flow meter is provided, through the air rectifier fins. Therefore, eddies of air can be restricted from being generated at an upstream side of the air flow meter, thereby obtaining stable air-flow signals from the air flow meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventors: Keisuke Itakura, Yasuo Sagisaka
  • Patent number: 6427798
    Abstract: A construction machine is disclosed which comprises an upper rotating structure formed by a revolving frame, an engine room formed at a rear portion of the upper rotating structure and in which are accommodated at least an engine, a radiator, and a muffler, a compartment formed within the engine room and in which the muffler is accommodated, and a vent portion formed in the compartment to make communication between the outside air and the compartment through an underside of the upper rotating structure. According to this construction, heat generated from the muffler is cut off in the compartment and is not transmitted into the engine room, and the outside air is introduced into the compartment through the vent portion to suppress an increase of temperature. Consequently, it is possible to prevent deterioration in the cooling efficiency of the radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Imashige
  • Patent number: 6427640
    Abstract: A system 10 which utilizes engine coolant to selectively heat and cool fluid or oil used by another vehicle system, such as a transmission 14. System 10 includes a first cooling path or circuit 28 having a fluid-to-fluid heat exchanger 18 which is fluidly coupled to engine 12. The system 10 further includes a second fluid flow circuit 36, which contains and communicates transmission oil or fluid to and from transmission 14. Circuit 36 includes a conventional solenoid controlled shunt valve 22 which is fluidly coupled to transmission 14 and to fluid-to-fluid heat exchanger 18. Valve 22 is effective to selectively channel transmission oil through heat exchanger 18 based on one or more parameters (e.g., ambient temperature and transmission oil temperature), thereby relatively rapidly heating the transmission oil under certain operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Ford Global Tech., Inc.
    Inventors: John Curtis Hickey, Robert Clayton Roethler
  • Patent number: 6412450
    Abstract: An injection device for injecting liquid fuel, such as LPG, which evaporates when emerging from the injector. The device ensures that ice deposits do not form at the opening of the outlet pipe by providing an interior output pipe made of a thermally insulating material surrounded by an exterior sleeve of heat conducting material. The opening of the pipe is fitted substantially flush with the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Vialle Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Servatius Alfons Maria Jaasma
  • Patent number: 6408801
    Abstract: A fuel injection system is provided for use in an internal combustion engine, where the engine includes at least one cylinder head cover. The fuel injection system includes at least one fuel injector assembly that is inserted into an inlet in the cylinder head cover. The fuel injector assembly includes an upper body portion and a lower body portion that extends through the inlet of the cylinder head cover, where at least part of the lower body portion is comprised of a low radiant heat absorbent material having a high radiant heat reflectance color for reflecting radiant heat away from the fuel injector assembly during engine operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis Allen Frostick, Donald L. Thorson, Scott Willis Jorgensen, Kenneth William Turner
  • Patent number: 6408802
    Abstract: A personal watercraft features a four-cycle engine. The four-cycle engine has an intake valve and an exhaust valve. The intake valve and the exhaust valve are controlled through a use of a cam drive arrangement. The cam drive arrangement is contained within a protective housing. A number of waterjackets are provided to the housing to control the temperature within the housing. In addition, the watercraft features a protective housing in which a starter motor is mounted to the cylinder block. The housing features two members that can be mounted to the cylinder block together while one member can be removed for access to the starter motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiya Funahashi
  • Patent number: 6405712
    Abstract: The invention provides a fuel distribution pipe which can restrict an increase of temperature of a fuel flowing within a fuel distribution path of the fuel distribution pipe, whereby it is possible to improve an operation property of the engine. In the fuel distribution pipe, the fuel distribution path is pierced along a line X—X in a direction of a longitudinal axis of the fuel distribution pipe and an injection valve supporting hole for inserting and supporting a rear end portion of the fuel injection valve and a fuel introduction path for supplying a fuel having a pressure increased by a fuel pump are continuously provided in the fuel distribution path of the fuel distribution pipe, and a cooling water flow path extending along the line X—X in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the fuel distribution path and sectioned from the fuel distribution path is provided on an outer periphery of the fuel distribution path, thereby introducing a cooling water into the cooling water flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Keihin Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Nomura
  • Patent number: 6401670
    Abstract: A device for regulating transmission oil temperature having a heat exchanger through which the oil flows and to which coolant from an internal combustion engine can be supplied through at least one valve controlled by a thermostatic operating element immersed in the oil, the device includes a flow control body attached to a heat exchanger in a flange-like manner, the flow control body containing an oil channel connected to an oil outlet of the heat exchanger into which a housing enclosing the thermostatic operating element projects for the detection of and response to the temperature of the oil exiting the heat exchanger, the thermostatic operating element having a work piston connected to an extension member which is connected to the at least one valve in the flow control body, the valve disposed between at least one coolant inlet and a coolant opening to the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Behr Thermot-tronik GmbH & Co,
    Inventors: Barbu Frunzetti, Erwin Olescher
  • Patent number: 6394076
    Abstract: An engine charge air cooler system including a charge air compressing system, a refrigerant cycling system, and a charge air cooling apparatus for transferring heat from the compressed charge air of the charge air compressing system to the refrigerant fluid of the refrigerant cycling system. The charge air cooling apparatus comprises a housing with a charge air passage for charge air moving through the housing. A plurality of fins are positioned in the charge air passage. A fluid tube is provided in the housing and passes through each of the fins in a plurality of locations. Preferably, the refrigerant compressor of the system is adapted to also compress a separate flow of refrigerant fluid for an air conditioning system of the vehicle in addition to the refrigerant fluid of the system of the invention. A heating element may be provided in the interior of the housing, and may be selectively heatable for preventing accumulated moisture from freezing in the interior of the housing in sub-freezing temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Inventor: Duane L. Hudelson
  • Patent number: 6396692
    Abstract: An electronic control unit (20) comprising a cooling module (36) having at least one fluid channel (32) therein, a substrate (50) configured to define an interior region (52) and having an electronic component (54) mounted thereto, such that the electronic component (54) faces the interior region (52), and a cooling fluid (34) within the fluid channel (32), the cooling fluid (34) having a temperature below an operating temperature of the electronic component (54), wherein the cooling module (36) is positioned within the interior region (52), such that the heat generated by the electronic component (54) is convectively transferred to the cooling module (36). By integrating the cooling module (36) with the substrate (50) and by positioning the cooling module (36) in the interior region (52), the cooling module (36) is able to convectively cool the substrate (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Jasmin B. Farshi, Steven E. Larson
  • Patent number: 6390871
    Abstract: A fuel system for a marine propulsion system includes a reservoir that defines a cavity in which first and second fuel pumps are disposed. The reservoir is mounted on the marine propulsion system at a location which causes the reservoir to be at least partially submerged within, and in thermal communication with, water in which the marine propulsion system is operated when a propulsor of the marine propulsion system is inactive. The first fuel pump is a lift pump which draws fuel from a fuel tank and pumps the fuel into the cavity of the reservoir. The second fuel pump is a high pressure pump which draws fuel from the cavity and pumps the fuel at a higher pressure to a fuel rail of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy P. Wickman, David C. Entringer, Ervin H. Voss, Jr., Robert J. Hensel
  • Patent number: 6386151
    Abstract: The air supply system of the vehicle engine includes a flow body that allows for the flow of air through a flow passage to the vehicle engine. An aluminum support mounts the engine control module. This support is then placed in communication with cool air flowing through the flow passage. Heat is accordingly dissipated from the engine control module. Because of the proximity of the air supply system to the vehicle engine, the wire harness for the engine control module is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Canada Limited
    Inventor: Jeff Powell
  • Patent number: 6382145
    Abstract: A reed valve is fitted in an intake port member formed on a crankcase of an engine and the flange of the reed valve is placed between the respective joining surfaces of the intake port member and an intake manifold. A water jacket is formed in a circumferential wall of the intake port member or the intake manifold, or water jackets are formed on both the intake port member and the intake manifold to cool the reed valve by cooling water for a forced cooling. When the water jacket is formed on the intake port member, a gasket of a metal is placed between the joining surface of the intake port member and the flange of the reed valve. The reed valve cooling apparatus can effectively cool the reed valve with cooling water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimoto Matsuda
  • Patent number: 6364004
    Abstract: A cooling fan, in particular a radiator fan for a motor vehicle, includes an electronically commutated electric motor and an electronics casing (21) with an electronic control for controlling the electric motor. The outer surface of the electronics casing (21) has cooling fins (25), the free ends of which project into the cold air flow produced by the impeller (9) of the fan. The free ends (27) of the cooling fins (25) projecting into the cold air flow have air diverting elements through which a part of the predominantly axial cold air flow produced by the impeller (9) is diverted in a radial direction relative to the impeller (9) and then in the longitudinal direction of other ends (29) of the cooling fins (25) arranged on the surface of the electronics casing (21). This provides effective cooling of the electronics casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignees: Temic Telefunken microelectronic GmbH, Temic Automotive Electric Motors GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Ehrmann, Dietrich von Knorre
  • Patent number: 6360702
    Abstract: A system (1) for cooling EGR gas and lubrication oil, which is compact, resistive to vibration, and heats the lubrication oil at cold start of an engine (2) while cooling EGR gas. A system housing (10) is directly attached to a lateral wall of a cylinder block (3) such that engine cooling water flows therein. An EGR gas heat exchanger (16) and oil heat exchanger (15) are located in the housing (10) and immersed in the cooling water. Since the two heat exchangers (15, 16) are placed close to each other, high temperature EGR gas flowing in the EGR gas heat exchanger (16) heats low temperature lubrication oil flowing in the oil heat exchanger (15) via the cooling water when the engine (2) is cold. As a result, the viscosity of the lubrication oil drops and it assists easier start up of the engine under a cold condition. Since the single housing (10) is shared by the two heat exchangers (15, 16), the system (1) is compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventor: Hideki Osada
  • Patent number: 6357399
    Abstract: A two-cycle, multi-cylinder engine maintains roughly equal temperatures between cylinders, despite differing exhaust efficiencies between the cylinders. Several ways of reducing the temperature of one of the cylinders in comparison to the other are disclosed. One embodiment involves supplying more coolant to the cooling passages around the hotter running cylinder. Other ways involve reducing the compression ratio or retarding ignition timing in the hotter running cylinder in comparison to the other cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuyoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6352066
    Abstract: A common rail system for internal combustion engines, having a high-pressure pump mounted on a part of the engine, especially on an engine block, control gear or reduction gear. For thermal decoupling purposes, the contact areas between the part of the engine and the high-pressure pump are minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Guentert, Uwe Kuhn, Juergen Hammer
  • Patent number: 6349680
    Abstract: A cooling device for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, particularly of a passenger car, has at least one radiator, through which cooling water is flowing. The radiator is disposed in a cooling cycle and connected over a supplying pipeline and a returning pipeline with the internal combustion engine. Moreover, a heat exchanger, with which the oil of a transmission is cooled, is provided in the cooling cycle. For spatial and functional reasons, a flow resistance is connected in the supplying pipeline before the internal combustion engine. A branching pipeline, which is connected with the heat exchanger of the transmission and downstream, behind the heat exchanger, with the flow resistance, leads away from the supplying pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Artur Wolter, Heiner Neumann, Manfred Hochkönig
  • Publication number: 20020020365
    Abstract: An radiator and charge-air-cooling package made up of two air cooled heat exchangers: a radiator and a charge-air-cooler, the heat exchangers being attached to one another directly or indirectly and then attachable to a chassis or body of the vehicle. The two heat exchangers are both longer than wide with each having center cooling areas. Each heat exchanger has cooling cores in which their coolant flows. Air passes across these cooling cores when the vehicle moves to cool the coolant. The long sides of each of the heat exchangers are geometrically out of synch with the other. With the center cooling areas of each of the heat exchangers overlapping each other, at least one end of each heat exchanger may be unfettered by air flow the other heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventor: Scott A. Wooldridge
  • Patent number: 6343572
    Abstract: A method of regulating heat in a internal combustion engine by measuring temperature at a plurality of points and providing changes in temperature for the cooling and providing changes in temperature for the cooling and/or heating medium. The regulation of the heat of the internal combustion engine results from detecting and monitoring changes in critical component temperatures and/or characteristic output values of the internal combustion engine. These critical component temperature changes per unit time and/or output characteristic value changes per unit time are used in the regulation of the heat of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Ruediger Pfaff, Joachim Wiltschika
  • Publication number: 20020011242
    Abstract: A charge air cooler for internal-combustion engines, having at least two cooling circulations which are guided through heat exchanger blocks which are connected behind one another in the flow direction of the air and have different coolant temperatures. At least the heat transfer block provided as the first heat transfer block in the flow direction of the air is produced of a more erosion-resistant and temperature-stable material than the heat transfer block which fallow and is situated in la high-temperature coolant circuit in which the coolant temperature is selected to be as high as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruppel, Guenther Schmalzried
  • Publication number: 20020005179
    Abstract: A device for regulating transmission oil temperature having a heat exchanger through which the oil flows and to which coolant from an internal combustion engine can be supplied through at least one valve controlled by a thermostatic operating element immersed in the oil, the device includes a flow control body attached to a heat exchanger in a flange-like manner, the flow control body containing an oil channel connected to an oil outlet of the heat exchanger into which a housing enclosing the thermostatic operating element projects for the detection of and response to the temperature of the oil exiting the heat exchanger, the thermostatic operating element having a work piston connected to an extension member which is connected to the at least one valve in the flow control body, the valve disposed between at least one coolant inlet and a coolant opening to the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventors: Barbu Frunzetti, Erwin Olescher
  • Patent number: 6331127
    Abstract: An engine for a watercraft includes a cooling system having a coolant supply. The coolant supply supplies an engine coolant jacket with a flow of coolant that is controlled by a temperature dependent flow control valve. The coolant supply also supplies an exhaust conduit coolant jacket independently of the engine coolant jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akitaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20010045206
    Abstract: An air/fuel intake manifold module having fuel injectors and having an electronic engine control module (ECM) cooled by the passage of air through the manifold. The ECM is protected from contamination and damage by a coating. The ECM may be mounted in the air flow path immediately ahead of the main engine throttle body, or in a well formed in a wall of the manifold. The ECM in the well may be further cooled by placement of a heat-sink between the ECM and the manifold or by fins extended through the manifold wall into the air stream within the manifold. Alternatively, the ECM circuit board itself may be extended through a slot in the manifold wall into the air stream, or the circuits may be applied to, or formed directly on, an interior or exterior surface of the manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2001
    Publication date: November 29, 2001
    Inventors: Daniel F. Smith, William P. Whitlock, Daniel A. Lawlyes, Keith A. Confer, Curtis D. Lamb
  • Patent number: 6314921
    Abstract: An engine cooling system includes a two-pass radiator, a jacket water pump pumping coolant from the radiator to the engine, and an aftercooler for cooling engine charge air from a turbocharger. An aftercooler pump pumps coolant from the radiator to the aftercooler. An orifice can be disposed in the aftercooler discharge line to limit flow therethrough, and an orifice bypass line with thermostatic control valve can be provided to selectively bypass the orifice. A shunt tank is connected to the suction of the jacket water pump to establish a static pressure head thereon, to ensure that the jacket water pump has sufficient suction pressure despite relatively high coolant head loss through the two-pass radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Ash, Michael D. Betz, Ronald L. Dupree
  • Patent number: 6311678
    Abstract: A thermal exchanger to be implemented in the air intake circuit of an internal combustion engine, notably in an intake splitter which includes a hollow plastic body (1) that defines an air intake chamber (2), an entry (3) for air and one or many exits which communicate with the head of the engine. The thermal exchanger constitutes of a chamber (5), at least part of which is in a plastic material, and which features a first opening towards the outside, a second opening (7) that communicates with the intake chamber (2), a third opening (8) that communicates with a canal (9) which supplies coolant fluid, a fourth opening (10) that communicates with a canal (11) which carries the coolant fluid out, a metallic assembly that forms the hot part of the exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Westaflex-Automobile
    Inventor: Henri Lepoutre
  • Publication number: 20010029908
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to improve a cooling efficiency for cooling an engine generator by dividing a cooling air passage into two routes. The engine generator includes an engine, a generator, a muffler and a cooling fan, which are all enclosed in a housing. A first cooling air passage is formed adjacent to a cylinder of the engine. A second cooling air passage is formed beneath the engine, extending from the lower side of the cooling fan, passing through an area below the engine and arriving at the muffler. The second cooling air passage is formed between an oil pan and a vibration isolation support base plate, with the oil pan facing the second cooling air passage. In this way, an air supplied from the cooling fan is divided into two routes, with one cooling the cylinder head of the engine and the other the lower portion of the engine and the muffler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Applicant: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Misao Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20010029907
    Abstract: A control system and method for controlling the speed of a plurality of fans for cooling a plurality of fluids in a work machine in accordance with the heat dissipation requirements of the particular heat transfer cores, the present control system including a plurality of sensors positioned to sense the temperature of each of the plurality of fluids, each sensor being operable to output a signal indicative of the temperature of that particular fluid. An electronic controller coupled to the sensors receives signals indicative of the temperature of each of the plurality of fluids, determines therefrom a desired fan speed for each fan, and outputs a signal to individually control the speed of each fan. Each output signal is based upon a comparison of at least some of the temperature error signals determined from the plurality of sensor signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Marcelo C. Algrain, Paul A. Dicke
  • Publication number: 20010027757
    Abstract: An engine of the outboard motor comprises an engine body and a plurality of engine components disposed around the engine body. The cooling system comprises first and second water passages. The first water passage is arranged to cool the engine body. The second water passage branches off from the first water passage upstream the engine body and extends through the engine components. One of the engine components is generally positioned above the engine body. In one arrangement, two of the other engine components are generally positioned on different sides of the engine body relative to one another. In another arrangement, the first and second water passages have separate discharge ports. In a further arrangement, the engine components are made of a metal material. The second water passage at least in part is defined by tubular members made of corrosion-resistant materials and the respective tubular members are at least partially embedded in the respective bodies of the engine components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventor: Goichi Katayama
  • Patent number: 6295956
    Abstract: A cylinder head in a direct fuel injected engine includes an improved construction and defines a combustion chamber with other components of the engine. The engine has a fuel injector arranged to spray fuel directly into its combustion chamber and positioned at one side of the cylinder head. The cylinder head has a coolant jacket through which coolant flows. At least one rib of the cylinder head is positioned on a generally opposite side relative to the fuel injector in the coolant jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Kato, Takayuki Sato
  • Patent number: 6295969
    Abstract: A fuel injector is mounting in a cylinder head assembly. The cylinder head assembly includes a mounting bore that extends into a recess wall that forms a portion of a combustion chamber. A sleeve is placed within the mounting bore. The fuel injector is secured with a nozzle portion extending through the sleeve. The fuel injector and sleeve interface is sealed by a heat resistant sealing member. The sleeve has any of a number of configurations designed to reduce the temperature of the nozzle. In addition, the nozzle can be recessed within the sleeve to reduce the direct exposure of the nozzle to flames propagated within the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Kato, Takayuki Sato
  • Patent number: 6286485
    Abstract: A distributor arrangement is disclosed which comprises a distributor member rotatable within a bore formed in a sleeve, the sleeve being provided with a supply port through which fuel under high pressure can be supplied to the distributor member, in use, and a plurality of delivery ports, the distributor member being provided with a delivery passage registrable with the delivery ports, in turn, upon rotation of the distributor member whereby fuel under pressure supplied through the supply port flows to a selected one of the delivery ports, in use, the distributor arrangement further comprising a porting arrangement whereby, when the distributor member occupies a position in which the delivery passage is not registered with any of the delivery ports, cooling fluid is able to flow through the delivery passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Lucas Industries plc
    Inventor: George Nicholas Felton
  • Patent number: 6279515
    Abstract: A coolant pump housing for an internal combustion engine includes a cover having integral supports for an ignition module. Each ignition module support projects outwardly to define an elongated member having a mounting end defining a bore sized to receive fasteners for securing an ignition module. Preferably, the coolant pump cover is cast of aluminum. The cover further a pump cavity in fluid communication with inlet and outlet passageways having respective ports for communication of coolant through the coolant pump and the rest of the cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: Anthony L. Coffey, Robert W. Richards
  • Publication number: 20010015181
    Abstract: An engine having an electronic engine control unit (ECU) is provided with a temperature management system for the ECU to prevent failure of the ECU through overheating. The temperature management system comprising means for monitoring or evaluating the temperature of the ECU to determine when the temperature of the ECU is approaching a predetermined limit and means for limiting further heating of the ECU to prevent the said limit from being exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Inventors: John Jerl Purcell, Paul Sowerby, Edward P. Hodzen, Eric B. Andrews
  • Patent number: 6276338
    Abstract: A direct fuel injected engine includes an improved construction for preventing a fuel injector from holding considerable heat therein. A cylinder head of the engine has a cavity opened to a combustion chamber. A fuel injector is placed within the cavity and is arranged to directly spray fuel into the combustion chamber. At least one heat insulator is disposed between the cylinder head and the fuel injector to insulate the fuel injector, at least in part, generally from the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Kato, Junji Hakamata
  • Patent number: 6273033
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle with a coolant system, includes a cab heater (23) and a cooling element (21) for cooling exhaust recirculating to the inlet side of the engine (1). The cooling element has a coolant outlet (26), which communicates with the coolant inlet (22) of the cab heater to quickly heat the cab heater with the aid of the exhaust when the engine is cold-started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: AB Volvo
    Inventors: Niklas Enander, Arne Andersson
  • Publication number: 20010008127
    Abstract: A reed valve is fitted in an intake port member formed on a crankcase of an engine and the flange of the reed valve is placed between the respective joining surfaces of the intake port member and an intake manifold. A water jacket is formed in a circumferential wall of the intake port member or the intake manifold, or water jackets are formed on both the intake port member and the intake manifold to cool the reed valve by cooling water for a forced cooling. When the water jacket is formed on the intake port member, a gasket of a metal is placed between the joining surface of the intake port member and the flange of the reed valve. The reed valve cooling apparatus can effectively cool the reed valve with cooling water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Publication date: July 19, 2001
    Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimoto Matsuda
  • Patent number: 6250981
    Abstract: A water jacket device for an outboard motor is designed to accommodate electrical components and improve cooling efficiency. The water jacket device has a base portion, and a cover portion hermetically coupled to the base portion for retaining a fluid between the base portion and the cover portion. The cover portion has an portion integrally formed with the cover portion, for installing an electrical component so that the electrical component is configured to be cooled by the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Tadaaki Morikami
  • Patent number: 6250328
    Abstract: A device for supplying an internal combustion engine (1) of a motor vehicle with fuel has a return line (4) which is passed into a fuel tank (2) and has a wall made of a material of high thermal conductivity. The return line (4) is arranged within a ventilation duct (5). Cooling air is conveyed through the ventilation duct (5) to the return line (4). This is a simple means of limiting the maximum temperature of the fuel in the fuel tank (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Mannesmann Vdo AG
    Inventors: Markus Distelhoff, Karl Eck, Winfried Fröhlich, Dieter Keller, Justus Klöker, Knut Meyer, Ingo Mohr, Bernd Rumpf, Wolfgang Sinz
  • Patent number: 6247441
    Abstract: An outboard motor has a fuel injected internal combustion engine operating on either a two-cycle or four-cycle principle. In some embodiments, the engine is directly injected while in others it is indirectly injected. The engine features one of a number of methods for reducing the temperature of injector drivers. The methods include sensing the temperature of the injector drivers and decreasing the engine speed if the temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature. Another method involves sensing the duration of a high-speed, high-load operating condition and slowing the engine speed if the duration exceeds a predetermined time period. Yet another method involves activating a cooling fan if the temperature of the injector drivers exceeds a predetermined temperature and activating a warning device if the temperature does not decrease with the fan operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Sato, Masahiko Kato, Hitoshi Motose
  • Patent number: 6237573
    Abstract: A variable delivery fuel supply device comprising fuel injection valves 1a through 1d injecting a fuel to cylinders of a combustion engine, a fuel pump 3 taking the fuel in a pressurization chamber 17 from a fuel intake passage 25 through an intake valve 26, pressurizing the fuel, and discharging thus pressurized fuel from a discharge valve 27 by a reciprocal motion of a plunger 15 inside a cylinder, an electromagnetic valve 28, formed in a relief passage 31 connecting the pressurization chamber 17 of the fuel pump 3 to the fuel intake passage 25, for controlling a discharge quantity by relieving the pressurized fuel inside the pressurization chamber 17 at the time of opening the injection valves, and a control means 13 applying a valve-opening signal to the electromagnetic valve 28, wherein a width of a time of the valve-opening signal, applied to the electromagnetic valve 28 from the control means 13, is always set at a constant with respect to a period of the reciprocal movement of the plunger 15, whereby
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Onishi, Masayasu Miyajima
  • Patent number: 6237547
    Abstract: Two embodiments of water cooled internal combustion engines employing an EGR system. The embodiments also utilize direct cylinder injection. The EGR system is formed integrally within a housing assembly that also forms a portion of the cooling system for the engine and particularly a return coolant manifold. In this way, the exhaust gas recirculation valve can be cooled and its life and performance improved. In addition, this reduces the amount of heat added to the intake system and thus improves the volumetric efficiency of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideyuki Ishiyama
  • Patent number: 6216778
    Abstract: A cooling system for an off-highway vehicle includes a heat exchanger (e.g., an engine coolant or hydraulic oil heat exchanger) and a fan mechanism for flowing air along a flow path through the heat exchanger. In the improvement, the fan mechanism is a centrifugal fan mechanism and is substantially the sole means for flowing air along the flow path. That is, there is substantially no ram-urged air. The mechanism includes a housing and a fan in the housing. The fan has forward curved blades, thereby to reduce system noise. A preferred fan has a depth-to-diameter ratio not in excess of about 0.4 and, most preferably, not in excess of about 0.25. An alternate embodiment includes what might be termed a split-discharge arrangement wherein air blown by the fan is discharged along two paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Case Corporation
    Inventors: Russell V. Corwin, Edward L. Wagner
  • Patent number: 6213062
    Abstract: A cooling system for an engine with a supercharger is designed to reliably prevent seizing of the supercharger during an engine-soaking period. To this end, a cooling system for an engine with a supercharger includes a main cooling system for cooling the engine and a sub-cooling system for cooling the supercharger. The sub-cooling system is positioned alongside the main cooling system. The sub-cooling system includes cooling piping for cooling the supercharger and a tank for temporarily reserving cooling water. The tank is disposed substantially midway along the cooling piping at a location above a position where the supercharger is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventor: Shuichi Kawase
  • Patent number: 6202603
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder block (1) with at least two cylinders (8) and at least two exhaust valves (12) per cylinder (8), a slit (28) in the cylinder block (1) between each pair of cylinders (8), and a cooling system which comprises an inlet opening (36) for cooling liquid (20), formed in the cylinder block (1), an outlet opening (42) for cooling liquid (20), formed in a cylinder head (2), a restriction member (34) which is arranged in the cylinder block (1) and guides most of the cooling water flow to an intake side (38) of the cylinder block (1), and cooling liquid channels (18a-18e) in the cylinder head (2) which are chiefly located on an exhaust side (40) of the cylinder head (2). The cooling liquid channels (18a-18e) open into the cylinder head (2) in an area between the exhaust valve seats (16) for each cylinder (8) and thereby regulate at the same time the flow and cooling around the cylinder liners (32) and between the exhaust valve seats (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: AB Volvo
    Inventor: Sassan Etemad
  • Patent number: 6196167
    Abstract: A cooling system for a turbo-charged internal combustion engine utilizing a unified flow control valve capable of changing the mode of operation of the system in response to a varying heat demand. The unified flow control valve may be a solenoid operated slider valve having a cylinder with connections to the engine water jacket outlet, the intercooler inlet, the radiator inlet and outlet, and the water tank, and a piston having rows of openings which when aligned with the cylinder connections provide flow paths corresponding to various modes of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Marsh, Peter Loring Valentine
  • Patent number: 6196195
    Abstract: A thermal insulating sleeve for a fuel injection valve, which can be inserted in a mounting hole of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, has a sleeve body which at least partially envelops a nozzle body of the fuel injection valve. At the injection end of the sleeve body there is a folded-back section, in which the sleeve body has a two-layered configuration, and there is a conical section, which tapers in the direction toward the injection end and which in the assembled state fits tightly against the tapered section of the nozzle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Trutschel, Guido Pilgram, Rainer Norgauer, Christian Preussner