Spiral Passages Patents (Class 123/41.8)
  • Patent number: 10724468
    Abstract: An engine includes a crankcase in which a crank chamber that houses a crankshaft is formed, a cylinder block that is attached to the crankcase, and a cylinder that is formed with a sliding surface with respect to a piston. The crankcase includes a partition wall that forms the crank chamber. A lower end of the cylinder protrudes into the crank chamber from a lower end of the cylinder block, and a communicating hole that connects inside and outside of the cylinder is formed on a side surface of the cylinder as viewed in an axial direction of the crankshaft. The partition wall is formed with an opening that is communicated with the communicating hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Fukui, Shimpei Sakka
  • Patent number: 9534526
    Abstract: An elongated exhaust conduit comprises a first end receiving hot exhaust gas from a marine engine and a second end discharging the exhaust gas. An elongated cooling water jacket extends adjacent to the exhaust conduit. The cooling water jacket conveys the raw cooling water adjacent to the exhaust conduit to thereby cool the exhaust conduit and warm the raw cooling water therein and discharges the warmed cooling water to cool the marine engine. The cooling water jacket comprises first and second channels that are separate from each other. The cooling water is oriented in a helical flow around the exhaust conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Charles H. Eichinger, Scott G. Ahlswede
  • Patent number: 9057314
    Abstract: An elongated exhaust conduit comprises a first end receiving hot exhaust gas from a marine engine and a second end discharging the exhaust gas. An elongated cooling water jacket extends adjacent to the exhaust conduit. The cooling water jacket conveys the raw cooling water adjacent to the exhaust conduit to thereby cool the exhaust conduit and warm the raw cooling water therein and discharges the warmed cooling water to cool the marine engine. The cooling water jacket comprises first and second channels that are separate from each other. The cooling water is oriented in a helical flow around the exhaust conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Charles H. Eichinger, Scott G. Ahlswede
  • 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: 8555826
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooler arrangement for a drive train (21) in a motor vehicle (23). Said cooler arrangement comprises a first coolant circuit (3) with a first coolant cooler (7) as well as a second coolant circuit (5) with a second coolant cooler (9). The invention is characterized in that there is a connection between the first coolant circuit (3) and the second coolant circuit (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Georg Feldhaus, Eberhard Pantow
  • Patent number: 8474419
    Abstract: A temperature control valve 10 for regulating the flow of coolant 15 in an automotive cooling system 11 that includes an engine 12 and a radiator 14. The temperature control valve 10 includes a valve body 40 having an inlet 42 and an outlet 46, a first valve assembly 100 that is movable between a closed position and an open position, and a chamber 74 that is adjacent to the first valve assembly 100. In the closed position of the first valve assembly 100, the inlet 42 of the valve body 100 is not in fluid communication with the outlet 46 of the valve body 100. In the open position of the first valve assembly 100, the inlet 42 of the first valve assembly 100 is in fluid communication with the outlet 46 of the first valve assembly 100. Fluid pressure within the chamber 74 is operable to move the first valve assembly 100 between the open position and the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Melling do Brasil Componentes Automotivos Ltds.
    Inventors: Ayres Pinto De Andrade Filho, Joao Luiz de Carvalho Meira, Edgard Ferraz, Eduardo Gubbiotti Ribeiro
  • Patent number: 7318396
    Abstract: A cooling system for a marine engine incorporates first and second thermally responsive valves which are responsive to increases in temperature above first and second temperature thresholds, respectively. The two thermally responsive valves are configured in serial fluid communication with each other in a cooling system, with one thermally responsive valve being located upstream from the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Belter, William D. Lanyi, Richard A. Davis, Steve Wynveen, Christopher J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 6223702
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine comprising an engine block consisting of a crankcase, at least one cylinder sleeve extending from the crankcase and a coolant jacket disposed around the cylinder sleeve or sleeves and a cylinder head mounted on the engine block, the coolant jacket is a separate component consisting of a material lighter than the normally used cast iron jacket and is firmly engaged between the crankcase and the cylinder head which is mounted onto the cylinder sleeve or sleeves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Karl-Jörg Achenbach, Ulrich Bertsch, Jochen Betsch, Thomas Hardt, Hubert Schnüpke, Günther Zoll