With Lubricant Heat Exchange Patents (Class 123/41.33)
  • Publication number: 20020050251
    Abstract: Cooling water is circulated at small flow rate of 1 to 5 L/min between a bypass passage and an engine without circulating the cooling water in an oil cooler before the warming-up of the engine is completed. After the warming-up is completed, the cooling water is supplied to the oil cooler so that the engine cooling water temperature is maintained at 95° C. to 110° C. Consequently, the no local boiling of the cooling water in the engine occurs to prevent the engine from being deformed locally due to heat. Thus, the warming-up of the engine can be promoted while preventing the heat of the engine from being absorbed by the ATF through the cooling water. After the warming-up is completed, the fuel consumption can be improved by reducing the friction loss of the engine oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Eizo Takahashi, Masataka Ota, Kazutaka Suzuki, Yoshikazu Shinpo
  • 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: 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: 20020014212
    Abstract: The invention relates to internal combustion engine, with an engine block with at least one cylinder, with a cylinder head which is fastened to the cylinder, with cooling ribs which are disposed on the outside of the cylinder and the cylinder head in order to discharge the heat produced during the operation of the internal combustion engine, and with an oil pump for conveying the engine oil through oil lines to the parts to be lubricated of the internal combustion engine and to an oil cooler for cooling the engine oil. An effective and even cooling of the internal combustion engine is ensured in such a way that the oil cooler is integrated in the cooling ribs of the internal combustion engine and two mutually separated oil conduit systems are provided in the cylinder head, namely a lubricating oil system and a cooling oil system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventor: Franz Laimbock
  • Patent number: 6321832
    Abstract: An automotive radiator has an integrated air-liquid cooled oil cooler incorporated directly into the radiator core and header tanks. A pair of nested oil cooler tubes, nested in a general U shape, has parallel upper and lower lengths running through the top and bottom of the basic core, spaced within the same header plates as the standard coolant tubes. Intermediate parallel lengths of the oil cooler tubes run through the center lengthwise of one longer header tank. A shorter header tank allows the upper and lower lengths of the oil cooler tubes to run through its header plate with clearance from its tank ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Anh Le
  • Publication number: 20010032610
    Abstract: Oil cooler for cooling lubricant oil in an internal combustion engine that has a cooling element (3) that is arranged in the sump (2) of the engine and has an essentially rectangular plate with longitudinal coolant channels (4) over the major portion of its extent. The channels are joined with coolant inlet and outlet tubes (11,16), which have connections (11a, 16a) on the outside of the sump for connection to an engine coolant system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventor: Jan Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20010029909
    Abstract: To provide a cooling apparatus for a vehicle enabling protection of a cooling device by effectively utilizing a vehicle frame. The cooling apparatus, which is attached to a vehicle including a vehicle frame and a steering member provided at a front upper portion of the vehicle frame, has a heat exchanger, which performs thermal exchange with the outside air. The heat exchanger is provided within an area formed with a vertical plane passing through a front end of the vehicle frame and a horizontal plane passing through an upper end of the steering member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Shinji Takahashi, Yuji Maki, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Naoki Nozaki
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20010017121
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has an oil cooler arranged in a water tank of a cylinder crankcase, with cooling water from a cooling water circuit flowing through the water tank. To improve the cold start properties of an internal combustion engine, without increasing the installation space, while also permitting subsequent retrofitting, an electric heating element is arranged in the water tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Inventors: EBERHARD MACK, HAMDI SAYDAM
  • Publication number: 20010015190
    Abstract: The oil cooler has four fastening sites for fastening bolts, two sites on each side of the oil cooler when viewed from the front. The exhaust pipes are arranged so that spacings between exhaust pipes are arranged at least in front of the center of the oil filter and in front of the inner fastening sites of the oil cooler, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 6263962
    Abstract: An oil cooler is fixed to an engine via an installation stay provided around an outer periphery of the oil cooler. Thus, the load applied to a core portion is reduced, and the load is dispersed on entire portion of the oil cooler. Thus, the respective stresses applied to respective portions of the oil cooler are very small, and a deformation of the core portion is prevented. Furthermore, since the respective stresses on any portion of the oil cooler is reduced, it is possible to make the oil cooler with aluminum whose strength is lower than that of iron. Furthermore, since the thickness of the installation stay can be reduced, difference in the thermal expansion quantity caused by difference in coefficients of linear expansion of the bolt and the installation stay is significantly reduced, and the loose bolt of the bolt caused by difference in coefficients of linear expansion is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Komoda, Shinichi Hamada, Yasutoshi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 6196168
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device and method for cooling and preheating, especially of transmission fluid, of an internal combustion engine, with an equalization tank, with at least one radiator, which can be connected by means of an engine thermostat when a predetermined temperature is reached in the cooling loop, and with a water/oil heat exchanger. It is prescribed according to the invention that the forward stream (1) of a single water/oil heat exchanger (5) be branched off in the heating phase by means of a valve unit (3) essentially from the main cooling loop (12) of the internal combustion engine (17) and that its forward stream (1) in the cooling phase be taken by means of the same valve unit (3) essentially in the coolant side stream (13) from the low-temperature region (14) of the radiator (4) or a separate low-temperature cooler (14a) connected in the side stream after radiator (4, 4a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignees: Modine Manufacturing Company, Bayerische Motoren Werke
    Inventors: Winfried Eckerskorn, Axel Temmesfeld, Heinz Lemberger, Christian Absmeier, Gerhart Huemer, Victor Brost, Klaus Kalbacher, Karl Schütterle
  • Patent number: 6182748
    Abstract: A plate heat exchanger includes a plurality of spaced plates secured together to form a stack having a plurality of fluid flow channels and a first plurality of passages. The channels are divided into at least first and second groups, the channels in the first group spaced from one another by the channels in second group. Each passage in the first plurality of passages extends between adjacent plates through one of the channels in the second group of channels. Each successive passage in the first plurality of passages is in fluid communication with successive channels in the first group of channels, and is offset from each preceding passage in the first plurality of passages such that fluid flowing through the first group of channels and the first plurality of passages follows a serpentine pattern through the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Viktor Brost, Martin Kehr