With Passages, Baffles, Etc. Patents (Class 123/41.79)
  • Patent number: 11859575
    Abstract: An arrangement for an internal combustion engine includes a crank case, a cylinder liner disposed in a cylinder of the crank case and including a flange, and a cylinder head disposed on an end of the cylinder delimiting a combustion zone inside the cylinder liner, wherein the flange of the cylinder liner is braced between the cylinder head and the crank case, wherein a flange cooling cavity is provided, which is delimited by a circumferential surface of the flange of the cylinder liner and the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Innio Jenbacher GmbH & Co OG
    Inventor: Florian Becker
  • Patent number: 11767803
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for an internal combustion engine. An engine system, in one example, includes a cylinder liner positioned within an opening of a crankcase, including a surface biasing a landing surface of an undercut fillet of the crankcase, and including a cylinder opening and a seal arranged in a groove of the cylinder liner positioned axially above the undercut fillet. The engine system further includes a fluid gasket and a combustion gasket positioned between a cylinder head and the crankcase, the fluid gasket and the combustion gasket being decoupled from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: POWERHOUSE ENGINE SOLUTIONS SWITZERLAND IP HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Kotha Ramesh Kumar, John Patrick Dowell, Jason Lymangrover, John Roth
  • Patent number: 11365674
    Abstract: A two cycle-opposed piston, two cycle, homogenous charge compression ignition engine with cylinder sets, each cylinder set having a first cylinder with an intake port; a second cylinder coaxially aligned with the first cylinder and having an exhaust port; a first piston engaged within the first cylinder; a second piston engaged within the second cylinder; a combustion chamber formed between the first piston and the second piston; a first cam mechanically engaged with the first piston; a mechanical device to convert reciprocating motion to rotational motion connected to the second piston; and a charge pump connected to the intake port by an intake passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventor: Roderick Alan Newstrom
  • Patent number: 11300037
    Abstract: A coolant pump module for an internal combustion engine is provided. The coolant pump module includes an inlet thermostat and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage integrated into a single unit. The coolant pump module provides inlet and outlet of coolant to various cooling circuits and inlet and outlet for an EGR gas circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Andrey Y. Buzinov, Brian M. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11047333
    Abstract: A cylinder liner that is casted in a block and defines a cylinder bore for one cylinder includes: a cylindrical liner body; a projection part including a plurality of projections on an outer peripheral surface of a part of the liner body; and a bore adjacent part inclined at a predetermined angle to an axial direction of the body and extending in the inclination direction, at a predetermined part between an upper side end and a lower side end of the body, of the outer peripheral surface of the body, which faces another cylinder bore to be adjacent when casted in the block. The outer peripheral surface of the bore adjacent part is positioned more on an inner side of the body than the outer peripheral surface above and below, and is formed such that the projections are absent on at least a part of the outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: TPR Co., Ltd., TPR Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Sato, Koichi Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 11028799
    Abstract: An anti-cavitation engine block includes a first cylinder having a first cylinder centerline, a second cylinder having a second cylinder centerline, and a first inter-cylinder wall section located between the first cylinder and the second cylinder along an axis perpendicular to the first and second cylinder centerlines. A first plurality of anti-cavitation channels is formed in the first inter-cylinder wall section. A cylinder liner is inserted into the first cylinder and has an outer circumferential surface toward which the first plurality of anti-cavitation channels open. A water jacket extends at least partially around the outer circumferential surface of the cylinder liner. The first plurality of anti-cavitation channels increase local radial thicknesses of the water jacket to deter cavitation within the water jacket and adjacent the cylinder liner during engine operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert J. Reding, Douglas S. Brocco, Terry W. Schwickerath, Umesh A. Tol, Craig W. Lohmann
  • Patent number: 10876462
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a coolant jacket insert. In one example, a system may include a coolant jacket arranged in a block comprising an insert with a first internal passage configured to direct coolant from an inlet manifold of the coolant jacket directly to a portion of the coolant jacket arranged in a cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Draisey, Cem Demirkesen
  • Patent number: 10823043
    Abstract: The invention relates to an outer pipe (1) of an outlet (4) of a volute (3) of a heat transfer pump (2), particularly arranged in a recess defined in a heat engine of a vehicle, the outer pipe (1) being provided on an outer surface (9) of the cylinder housing (8) of the engine and comprising a first component (5a) capable of guiding the heat-transfer fluid from said outlet (4) to an inlet (6) of an inner circuit (7) for circulating the heat-transfer fluid defined in the cylinder housing (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michel Bartalini, Xavier Decomble
  • Patent number: 10774780
    Abstract: A cylinder bore wall thermal insulator is installed in a groove-like coolant passage of a cylinder block having cylinder bores in an internal combustion engine to insulate the entire bore wall of all the cylinder bores or part of the bore wall of all the cylinder bores. The thermal insulator includes: a base member made of a synthetic resin and having a shape conforming to the shape of the groove-like coolant passage at the installation position of the thermal insulator; a cylinder bore wall thermal insulating member formed of a heat-expandable rubber and affixed to the inside of the base member; and a cylinder bore opposite wall contact member formed of a heat-expandable rubber and affixed to the outside of the base member. A thermal insulator can be obtained which is less likely to be displaced in the groove-like coolant passage, and is readily manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Sato
  • Patent number: 10683827
    Abstract: A cylinder bore wall thermal insulator is provided to a middle-lower part of a groove-like coolant passage of a cylinder block included in an internal combustion engine that includes a plurality of cylinder bores, and insulates part of a cylinder bore wall, the cylinder bore wall thermal insulator including a rubber member that comes in contact with part of a cylinder bore-side wall surface of the middle-lower part of the groove-like coolant passage that covers one cylinder bore, or covers two or more cylinder bores, a metal base member on which the rubber member is secured, and an elastic member that is provided to the metal base member, and biases the metal base member so that the metal base member presses the rubber member against the cylinder bore-side wall surface of the middle-lower part of the groove-like coolant passage, one or more elastic members being provided to each bore-covering part of the metal base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignees: NICHIAS CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Okawa, Tetsu Yamada, Takashi Kurauchi, Shinpei Yamashita, Kazuaki Nishio, Yoshifumi Fujita, Yoshihiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10634087
    Abstract: An engine and a method of forming an engine are provided. The engine has a block that defines a cooling jacket extending continuously about an outer perimeter of first and second siamesed cylinders. The block defines a series of head bolt bores intersecting a deck face such that each cylinder is surrounded by four bores. The jacket has a first floor and a second floor. The second floor is offset above the first floor and extends along an intake side of the block between midpoints of the first and second cylinders, respectively. The second floor is configured to decouple a relationship between the cooling jacket and the series of bores for each cylinder and reduce fourth order bore distortion for each cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammed Yusuf Ali, Scott Allan Kerry, Christopher K. Palazzolo
  • Patent number: 10584657
    Abstract: An oil cooled cylinder liner, a method for cooling the same, and an opposed piston engine using the oil cooled cylinder liner are described. The cylinder liner includes a liner wall that has an inner face adjacent a piston bore and an outer face including an oil gallery surface. A plurality of grooves are disposed along the oil gallery surface. The grooves run parallel to each other and are spaced apart by bridging portions of the liner wall. At least some of the grooves have at least one fin disposed therein that runs parallel with the grooves. The grooves in combination with the fins increase surface area of the oil gallery to improve heat transfer from the liner wall to oil disposed along the oil gallery surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: AVL Powertrain Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Hunter
  • Patent number: 10526951
    Abstract: A cylinder bore wall thermal insulator set in a groove-like cooling water channel of a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine including cylinder bores and for insulating all bore walls of all the cylinder bores or a part of the bore walls of all the cylinder bores includes bore wall insulating sections having an arcuate shape when viewed from above and for insulating a wall surface on the cylinder bore side of the groove-like cooling water channel and a supporting section made of synthetic resin and having a shape conforming to a shape of the groove-like cooling water channel in a setting position of the thermal insulator, the bore wall insulating sections being fixed to the supporting section. The bore wall insulating sections include rubber members, rear surface pressing members, and elastic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fujita, Tatsunori Kataoka
  • Patent number: 10247084
    Abstract: There is provided a novel regulating member that ensures easy manufacturing and does not adversely affect cooling water and environment. A spacer 6 is inserted from an opening 30 of a cooling water flow passage 3 into the cooling water flow passage 3 to be disposed. The cooling water flow passage 3 is disposed in a cylinder block 1 in an internal combustion engine. The spacer 6 includes a supporting member 7 with rigidity formed into a shape configured to be disposed in the cooling water flow passage 3 and a regulating portion 8 supported by the supporting member 7. The regulating portion 8 regulates a flow of cooling water. The regulating portion 8 includes a cellulose-based sponge 81. The cellulose-based sponge 81 is restorable from a compressed state through a contact with the cooling water w.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: UCHIYAMA MANUFACTURING CORP.
    Inventor: Koji Makino
  • Patent number: 10087894
    Abstract: An engine is provided with a cylinder head having a bridge region surrounded by an exhaust face, an exhaust passage intersecting the exhaust face, and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage fluidly coupled to the exhaust passage and intersecting the exhaust face. The head defines an upper cooling jacket having a cavity or fluid passage extending from the jacket towards a head deck face and to a closed end wall within the bridge region. The cylinder head is cooled by directing coolant from a lower jacket to an upper jacket via a drill passage adjacent to an exhaust face of the head, diverting the coolant exiting the drill passage into the fluid passage or cavity along a rib. Coolant is then directed from the fluid passage into an EGR cooling passage formed by the upper jacket adjacent to the exhaust face and about the EGR passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Theodore Beyer, Brian W. Lizotte, Charles Joseph Patanis, Philip Damian Cierpial, Shane Keough, John Christopher Riegger
  • Patent number: 10060326
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for an engine includes an oil warmer, an engine internal passage, a warmer passage, a water pump, and a thermostat. The warmer passage connects an outlet of the internal passage to an inlet of the internal passage. The thermostat regulates an amount of coolant that flows into the oil warmer. The thermostat includes a valve member, a body, and a plurality of types of wax. The thermostat determines a degree of opening of the valve member in accordance with amounts of expansion of the respective types of wax caused by melting of the respective types of wax. The types of wax include a first wax, which melts at a first temperature, and a second wax, which melts at a second temperature which is higher than the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuji Kanzaka, Yoshikazu Shinpo, Kenji Isaka
  • Patent number: 9828933
    Abstract: An engine cooler capable of suppressing a piston slap sound is provided. The engine cooler includes a cylinder block including a cylinder barrel and a water jacket, and a spacer stored in the water jacket, the water jacket surrounds the cylinder barrel, and the spacer encloses the cylinder barrel. Given that a width direction of the cylinder block is a lateral direction, a pressed member is pressed between the cylinder barrel and the spacer on lateral sides of the cylinder barrel, and a lower end of the pressed member is disposed above a lower end of each of right and left skirts of a piston located at a top dead center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Nagai, Hideyuki Koyama, Hideyuki Goto, Takahiro Yamazaki, Hiroshi Kuwasaki
  • Patent number: 9745888
    Abstract: An engine system having a coolant control valve may include a cylinder head including an intake side head coolant jacket for cooling an intake side thereof and an exhaust side head coolant jacket for cooling an exhaust side thereof formed in the cylinder head, a cylinder block arranged on a lower side of the cylinder head and having an intake side block coolant jacket for cooling an intake side of the cylinder block and an exhaust side block coolant jacket for cooling an exhaust side cylinder block formed therein, and a coolant control valve arranged for independently controlling coolant flowing through the intake side head coolant jacket, the exhaust side head coolant jacket, the intake side block coolant jacket and the exhaust side block coolant jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: HyoJo Lee
  • Patent number: 9488127
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a head gasket positioned between a cylinder block and a cylinder head. The cylinder block has first and second cylinders separated by a block bore bridge, and a block cooling jacket with a first passage and a second passage intersecting a block deck face. The cylinder head has first and second chambers separated by a head bore bridge, and a head cooling jacket with a third passage and a fourth passage intersecting a head deck face. The gasket forms a slot positioned adjacent to at least one of the block bore bridge and the head bore bridge to fluidly connect the first and fourth passages to cool the at least one of the block bore bridge and head bore bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Theodore Beyer, Jody Michael Slike, Jeffrey D. Fluharty, John Christopher Riegger, Scott Eeley
  • Patent number: 9334829
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine can include a first ignition plug disposed on the inner side of a range surrounded by a plurality of intake valves and a plurality of exhaust valves with a cylinder head viewed in parallel to a cylinder axial line and standing uprightly along the cylinder axial line. A second ignition plug is inclined with respect to the cylinder axial line on the outer side of the range. The second ignition plug is disposed on the opposite side to a valve driving mechanism with respect to the cylinder axial line on the outer side of the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Kisaichi, Hitoshi Yokotani, Hiroshi Sotani
  • Patent number: 9316173
    Abstract: A cylinder liner for an engine block assembly of an internal combustion engine is provided. The cylinder liner includes a liner member formed of cast iron and presenting an outer surface. A first portion of the outer surface of the liner member is machined to a reduced outside diameter. An aluminum-based material is then thermally sprayed onto the machined first portion, while a second portion of the outer surface remains uncoated. The coated cylinder liner is then placed in a mold, and another aluminum-based material is cast around the coated cylinder liner to form the engine block assembly. During the casting process, the two aluminum-based materials form a strong intermetallic bond between the liner member and the engine block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Allan Highum
  • Patent number: 9068496
    Abstract: An engine is provided with an open deck cylinder block having an open water jacket that surrounds a plurality of cylinders that are joined together in a Siamese design by a cylinder bore bridge. The engine also includes a cylinder head gasket, and a cylinder head. For the purpose of removing excess heat from the cylinder bore bridge, cooling channels are provided that allow coolant to flow from the engine block water jacket, across the cylinder bore bridge, and into a cylinder head coolant passageway. In addition, coolant is prevented from flowing from the water jacket on one side of the cylinders, across the bore bridge, and into the water jacket on the other side of the cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Theodore Michael Beyer, Jody Michael Slike, Mathew Hintzen
  • Patent number: 9032916
    Abstract: A cylinder bore wall insulating member has a contact surface that comes in contact with a wall surface of a cylinder bore wall that forms a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine and defines a groove-like coolant passage. An internal combustion engine in which the cylinder bore wall has a uniform temperature may be obtained using the insulating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: NICHIAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Nishio, Akihiro Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20150083058
    Abstract: A cylinder head having a thread for an ignition device, in particular a spark plug, and a cooling circuit having at least one cooling cavity, wherein the cylinder head can be cooled in operation by conveying cooling medium through the cooling circuit, wherein provided in the cooling circuit is a further cooling cavity having an inside wall and an inlet opening disposed substantially in opposite relationship to the inside wall, and a cooling medium flow entering through the inlet opening can be so deflected by the inside wall that the cooling medium flow passes at least partially around the thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Florian BECKER
  • Patent number: 8967094
    Abstract: A ringed coolant water passage 16 formed to surround a plurality of cylinders #1-#4 is provided. Two partitioning members having a larger thermal expansion coefficient as compared to that of a cylinder block 10, and separating the ringed coolant water passage 16 into first passage 22 and second passage 24 is provided. The first passage 22 exists mainly at one side of a longitudinal bore center plane which extends along the longitudinal direction of the cylinder block 10 while the second passage 24 exists mainly at the other side. An inlet which communicates with the first passage and an outlet which communicates with the second passage are provided. A cylinder head including a coolant water passage which opens to both of the first passage 22 and the second passage 24 is attached to the cylinder block 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoko Tofukuji, Atsunori Kumagai
  • Patent number: 8960684
    Abstract: A motorcycle includes a cylinder body, a cylinder head disposed above the cylinder body, and a plurality of dowel pins configured to position the cylinder body and the cylinder head. The cylinder body includes a plurality of cylinders and a plurality of bolt insertion holes. The cylinder head includes first and second passages configured to flow oil or air therethrough. The cylinder body includes a first communication port in communication with the first passage and a second communication port in communication with the second passage. The first communication port is disposed in a front left region, and the second communication port is disposed in a rear right region. The plurality of dowel pins consist of a first dowel pin fitted into the first communication port and the first passage and a second dowel pin fitted into the second communication port and the second passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuji Isechi, Jyouji Sawaoka
  • Publication number: 20150007784
    Abstract: A cylinder head is disclosed. The cylinder head may include a body, and a lower jacket formed in a lower portion of the body. The cylinder head may also have a centrally-located fuel injector opening passing through the lower portion of the body, and a plurality of intake and exhaust valve openings spaced evenly around the fuel injector opening. The cylinder head may also include at least one inlet located between adjacent ones of the plurality of intake valve openings or between adjacent ones of the plurality of exhaust valve openings, and at least one outlet located between one of the plurality of intake valve openings and one of the plurality of exhaust valve openings. The cylinder head may further include a plurality of cooling passages surrounding the plurality of intake and exhaust valve openings, and connecting the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: Robert Thurber MacVicar
  • Publication number: 20150007785
    Abstract: An engine includes a piston and a casing including a cylinder. The cylinder and the piston define a combustion chamber. The casing includes an intake port, a plurality of exhaust ports, a spark plug hole, a drainage hole, and a water jacket. The spark plug hole extends to the combustion chamber. A spark plug is housed in the spark plug hole. The drainage hole extends from the spark plug hole. The water jacket includes a central passage and an inter-port passage. The central passage is located near the spark plug hole. The inter-port passage extends to the central passage. The inter-port passage is arranged between the plurality of exhaust ports. The inter-port passage is located between the drainage hole and the cylinder in a central axis direction of the spark plug hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Tadakatsu HOSOKAWA, Kazuyuki MAEDA
  • Patent number: 8919302
    Abstract: A spacer arranged inside a water jacket which is formed to surround peripheries of cylinder bores in a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine includes support legs extending in an up-and-down direction from a spacer main body part which partitions the water jacket into an upper and lower cooling water passages. The support legs are disposed in opposite end portions in a cylinder row line direction, where the temperatures of the cylinder bores tend to be lower. Accordingly, even if the flow of cooling water is more or less inhibited by the support legs and the cooling effect deteriorates, it is possible to prevent the temperatures of the respective cylinder bores from becoming different by suppressing the influence to a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeru Hamakawa, Atsushi Nakajima, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Yoshihisa Kazui, Takeshi Fujii, Kuniyasu Tamura, Yoshiyuki Iida
  • Patent number: 8857387
    Abstract: A cylinder head is provided with liquid cooling system and a method for cooling the cylinder head. The cylinder head includes, but is not limited to a liquid jacket in which a coolant flows along a main flow pathway from a coolant inlet to a coolant outlet. The liquid jacket is interrupted between the coolant inlet and coolant outlet by portals to cylinders of an internal combustion engine. A second portal is arranged in a flow shadow of a first portal. The cylinder head in the liquid jacket exhibits a flow guide wall with a constriction of the flow cross section, and a baffle plate, which is arranged in the direction of the main flow pathway, downstream from the flow guide wall. The baffle plate is designed to divert a coolant flow branch in a direction of flow transverse to the main flow pathway, toward the second portal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Waldemar Schlidt, Peter Seeger, Stefan Vogel, Carsten Tauscher, Markus Klein, Roland Maucher, Jan Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8820273
    Abstract: A cylinder block side drain is provided in a cylinder block and a crankcase side drain is provided in a crankcase. A jacket cover is provided in an water jacket of the cylinder block. The jacket cover is pressed against the wall of the water jacket on the crankcase side. When discharging the coolant, the water jacket is opened by pushing the jacket cover inward using a coupler and the coolant is discharged to the outer side of the crankcase via the coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaaki Kashiwa
  • Patent number: 8794197
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled engine provided with cooling means for cooling an area surrounding a combustion chamber using a cooling liquid cooled by a radiator and caused to flow through a cooling passage. The cooling passage is embedded inside a cylinder block and a cylinder head. The cooling passage is formed in a continuous fashion such that the cooling liquid is introduced from the radiator to cool an area surrounding the combustion chamber, and thereafter returns to the radiator by looping around an area surrounding an exhaust valve for opening and closing an exhaust port of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Sato, Keita Ito, Yasuhiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8763568
    Abstract: A spacer fitted inside a water jacket of a cylinder block in an internal combustion engine is set so that a space formed between an inner peripheral surface of the spacer and an inner wall surface of the water jacket is smaller than a space formed between an outer peripheral surface of the spacer and an outer wall surface of the water jacket. Accordingly, even if a position of the spacer is shifted in a radial direction, the inner peripheral surface of the spacer comes into abutment on the inner wall surface of the water jacket at first. Thereby, the abutment of the outer peripheral surface of the spacer on the outer wall surface of the water jacket is prevented completely. Therefore, hitting sounds of pistons can be blocked by the space between the outer peripheral surface of the spacer and the outer wall surface of the water jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeru Hamakawa, Eiji Takahashi, Takuma Adachi, Hisayuki Hashimoto, Takenori Akiyoshi, Makoto Andou, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Ichirou Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8689744
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with one or more inserts that are inserted at the lower portion of a water jacket formed at siamese portions between cylinder bores of a cylinder block and increase the flow of cooling water at the upper portion of the water jacket, in order to provide a cooling device and an insert for a water jacket of an internal combustion engine, which is inserted at the lower portion of the water jacket formed at the siamese portions of the cylinder block to increase the flow of cooling water, improves cooling efficiency of the siamese portions of the cylinder block by inducting recirculation of the cooling water at the lower portion, and improves fuel efficiency by making the temperature uniform in the stroke direction of the piston of the cylinder block and reducing friction of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Dongsuk Chae, Kwangsik Yang, Taewon Park, Wootae Kim, Sanghee Lee, Jaeheon Lee, Changseok Oh, Kiwoong Song
  • Patent number: 8667932
    Abstract: A spacer covets intermediate portions of respective cylinder bores in a depth direction of a water jacket throughout the entire peripherics of the intermediate portions in the peripheral direction. Accordingly, the intermediate portion of each cylinder bore becomes higher in temperature than any other portion, and is thermally expanded. Thereby, the clearance between the cylinder bore and the corresponding piston increases. Thus, the friction decreases to improve fuel efficiency of an internal combustion engine. Furthermore, the temperature of oil lubricating the intermediate portion of the cylinder bore rises, and the viscosity decreases. Accordingly, the effect of friction reduction is enhanced more. Furthermore, upper and lower portions of the cylinder bores in a cylinder axis direction are sufficiently cooled. Therefore, the cooling performance of a top part and a skirt part of each piston, which tends to become higher in tempera lure, is secured. Accordingly, overheat can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeru Hamakawa, Kenji Sato, Shigeo Okui, Naoto Kodama
  • Patent number: 8596239
    Abstract: A cylinder head of an internal combustion engine in which a cooling circuit is arranged, suited for a coolant circulation, includes a peripheral duct surrounding an exhaust valve seat and a peripheral duct surrounding an inlet valve seat communicating by means of a connecting duct; the cylinder head including a first coolant inlet, a second coolant inlet, and an outlet for heated coolant, the second inlet communicating with the connecting duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Société de Motorisations Aéronautiques
    Inventors: Jérôme Escriva, Bruno Blanc, Hervé Pohier, Norbert Lartigue
  • Patent number: 8584627
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled internal combustion engine which includes a cylinder housing for at least one cylinder and at least one cylinder head, with the at least one cylinder in the cylinder housing being enclosed by a cooling jacket and with a bottom partial cooling chamber adjacent to a fire deck and an upper partial cooling chamber which is flow-connected with the same via at least one transfer opening being arranged in the cylinder head which is connected with the cylinder housing, with a coolant outlet which can be connected with a pressure sink originating from the bottom partial cooling chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: AVL List GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Poeschl, Andreas Ennemoser, Manfred Breitenberger
  • Patent number: 8555825
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine is disclosed that has a cylinder block with multiple cylinders, a bridge between adjacent cylinders, a cooling slot in the bridge, and a water jacket portion in the cylinder block. A cylinder head is coupled to the cylinder block which has a first cooling passage fluidly coupling the cooling slot and the water jacket portion in the cylinder block, a water jacket portion in the cylinder head, and a second cooling passage in the cylinder head fluidly coupling the cooling slot with the water jacket portion in the cylinder head. A cylinder head gasket is arranged between the cylinder head and the cylinder block which has a first orifice in the cylinder head gasket cooperating with the first cooling passage a second orifice in the cylinder head gasket cooperating with the second cooling passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ingo Lenz, Urban Morawitz, Richard Fritsche, Guenter Bartsch, Bernd Steiner, Jeroen Slotman
  • Publication number: 20130233258
    Abstract: A cylinder head for a motorcycle engine in which the cylinder head includes an intake side including an intake passage and an intake valve movably disposed within the intake passage, and an exhaust side including an exhaust passage and an exhaust valve movably disposed within the exhaust passage, the exhaust side being positioned remote from the intake side. A cooling liquid inlet port and a cooling liquid discharge port are located on the intake side. A cooling liquid passage runs through the cylinder head to reduce an operating temperature of the cylinder head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Jesse L. Dees, Michael S. Carlin, Scott B. Cain, Dan M. Sepic, Terry J. Rumpel, Matt G. Hoffmann, Scott A. Koerner, Rick W. Elchert, Brian E. Healy, Stephann E. Balthazar, Nicolae Glaja
  • Patent number: 8479691
    Abstract: A cooling system for a marine engine is provided with various cooling channels which allow the advantageous removal of heat at different rates from different portions of the engine. A split flow of water is conducted through the cylinder head, in opposite directions, to individually cool the exhaust port and intake ports at different rates. This increases the velocity of coolant flow in the downward direction through the cylinder head to avoid the accumulation of air bubbles and the formation of air pockets that could otherwise cause hot spots within the cylinder head. A parallel coolant path is provided so that a certain quantity of water can bypass the engine block and avoid overcooling the cylinder walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Taylor, Timothy S. Reid, William J. Towne, David J. Belter, Gregg D. Langenfeld
  • Patent number: 8474418
    Abstract: The position of a passage separating member in the axial direction of the cylinder bores is determined by causing a spacer to contact a bottom surface of a water jacket. When the separating member is inserted in the water jacket, the width of the separating member is reduced due to elastic deformation, so that the separating member can be arranged in the water jacket. After being arranged, the separating member tightly contacts the inner surface of the water jacket due to elastic restoration force. The tight contact prevents the separating member from moving upward in the water jacket. As a result, coolant is prevented from moving between the upper portion and the lower portion with respect to the separating member. The advantages of separate cooling of the coolant in the upper and lower portions with respect to the separating member are obtained. This reliably reduces the temperature difference along the axial direction of the cylinder bore forming body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Uchiyama Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: Takasuke Shikida, Shuichi Hanai, Makoto Hatano, Nobumitsu Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20130160725
    Abstract: A cylinder bore wall insulating member has a contact surface that comes in contact with a wall surface of a cylinder bore wall that forms a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine and defines a groove-like coolant passage. An internal combustion engine in which the cylinder bore wall has a uniform temperature may be obtained using the insulating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: NICHIAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Nishio, Akihiro Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20130055970
    Abstract: It has been difficult to manufacturing a cylinder head having an EGR gas cooling structure which has high cooling performance and can be easily configured. A cylinder head having an EGR gas cooling structure is configured in such a manner that a gas passage which guides to the air intake port side a part of the exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust port is disposed within the cylinder head water jacket to cool the exhaust gas flowing through the gas passage. The gas passage comprises a cooling section which makes contact with the coolant within the cylinder head water jacket, and also comprises a hollow pipe which has high-strength sections located at side portions of the cooling section and having higher strength than the cooling section. The high-strength sections of the gas passage are molded within and surrounded by the cylinder head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Harada, Masahiko Asano
  • Patent number: 8312848
    Abstract: An engine block assembly for an internal combustion engine comprises a cylinder portion having a plurality of cylinder walls disposed therein. A water jacket, having opposed side walls, extends about the plurality of cylinder walls to define a coolant flow path. A coolant inlet in fluid communication with the water jacket delivers coolant thereto and a coolant outlet in fluid communication with the water jacket removes coolant therefrom. Opposed sealing shoulders extend into the coolant flow path from the water jacket side walls and a longitudinally extending coolant baffle is disposed in the water jacket adjacent to the sealing shoulders. The coolant baffle includes a baffle sealing face configured to engage the opposed sealing shoulders to direct the coolant entering the water jacket in a single direction around the cylinder walls of the cylinder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Dean Lee Weed
  • Patent number: 8291882
    Abstract: A cooling system of an internal combustion engine is provided that can improve flexibility of arrangement of peripheral machinery included in the engine. A cooling system of an internal combustion engine includes a crankcase; a cylinder block disposed on an upper portion of the crankcase and having a plurality of cylinder bores; a cylinder head disposed on an upper portion of the cylinder block; and an oil passage formed in a rear surface portion of the cylinder block so as to extend along a cylinder-arrangement direction. The oil temperature sensor is attached to the oil passage from the axial direction of the oil passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20120240884
    Abstract: An engine assembly includes an engine block, a cylinder head coupled to the engine block with a cooling system running through both. The engine block defines a first cylinder bore and a first cylinder cooling jacket at an outer periphery of the first cylinder bore. The cylinder head defines a first port cooling jacket for a first set of ports in communication with the first cylinder bore. The coolant supply is in communication with the first cylinder cooling jacket and the first port cooling jacket. The first port cooling jacket defines a first head coolant flow path in a parallel flow arrangement with a coolant flow path defined by the first cylinder cooling jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: AKRAM R. ZAHDEH, NASER I. HINEITI
  • Publication number: 20120240885
    Abstract: An engine includes a housing having a single wall, where the wall has a rib and a flange, and the wall provides a primary structure and cooling for the engine. A closeout is attached to an outer surface of the wall, and the closeout and the wall form a cavity. The closeout provides a secondary structure for containing a coolant fluid flow within the cavity. The closeout may be corrugated, and the ribs may be exposed to the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark David Horn
  • Patent number: 8256114
    Abstract: A cooling jacket casting core for the production of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine. The cooling jacket casting core has a slot running at least in part substantially in the direction of a crankshaft longitudinal axis and separating the cooling jacket casting core in at least one section. The slot can run at least in part in an impression of the cooling jacket and can have at least one elevation arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cooling jacket casting core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: FEV GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Hildebrand, André Küsters, Marc Grafen
  • Publication number: 20120204821
    Abstract: A ringed coolant water passage 16 formed to surround a plurality of cylinders #1-#4 is provided. Two partitioning members having a larger thermal expansion coefficient as compared to that of a cylinder block 10, and separating the ringed coolant water passage 16 into first passage 22 and second passage 24 is provided. The first passage 22 exists mainly at one side of a longitudinal bore center plane which extends along the longitudinal direction of the cylinder block 10 while the second passage 24 exists mainly at the other side. An inlet which communicates with the first passage and an outlet which communicates with the second passage are provided. A cylinder head including a coolant water passage which opens to both of the first passage 22 and the second passage 24 is attached to the cylinder block 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoko Tofukuji, Atsunori Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20120132156
    Abstract: A cylinder head is provided with liquid cooling system and a method for cooling the cylinder head. The cylinder head includes, but is not limited to a liquid jacket in which a coolant flows along a main flow pathway from a coolant inlet to a coolant outlet. The liquid jacket is interrupted between the coolant inlet and coolant outlet by portals to cylinders of an internal combustion engine. A second portal is arranged in a flow shadow of a first portal. The cylinder head in the liquid jacket exhibits a flow guide wall with a constriction of the flow cross section, and a baffle plate, which is arranged in the direction of the main flow pathway, downstream from the flow guide wall. The baffle plate is designed to divert a coolant flow branch in a direction of flow transverse to the main flow pathway, toward the second portal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Waldemar SCHLIDT, Peter SEEGER, Stefan VOGEL, Carsten TAUSCHER, Markus KLEIN, Roland MAUCHER, Jan ZIMMERMANN