Exhaust device of engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10012123-B2
Application number	US-201515129935-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2015
Priority date	Apr 4, 2014
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

An exhaust device of an engine, with an exhaust path to lead exhaust gas discharged from the engine to outside, the exhaust device comprising: an exhaust heat collector being configured to collect heat from the exhaust gas, and a cooling part being configured to cool down the exhaust heat collecting part from an outer peripheral side via a cooling fluid; and an exhaust gas flow controlling member in a cylindrical shape, comprising an inlet part and an outlet part where the inflow of the exhaust gas is discharged to an upstream side of the exhaust heat collecting part. An opening diameter of the outlet part is arranged to be smaller than an outer diameter of the exhaust heat collecting part. The exhaust gas flow controlling member is placed so that an open end of the outlet part opposes a central portion of an upstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part. The open end of the outlet part and the upstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part are a predetermined distance apart.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An exhaust device of an engine, with an exhaust path to lead exhaust gas discharged from the engine to outside, the exhaust device comprising:
an exhaust heat collector, comprising an exhaust heat collecting part being configured to collect heat from the exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust path, and a cooling part being configured to cool down the exhaust heat collecting part from an outer peripheral side via a cooling fluid; and
an exhaust gas flow controlling member in a cylindrical shape, comprising an inlet part which the exhaust gas flows into, and an outlet part where the inflow of the exhaust gas is discharged to an upstream side of the exhaust heat collecting part, wherein:
an opening diameter of the outlet part of the exhaust gas flow controlling member is arranged to be smaller than an outer diameter of the exhaust heat collecting part;
the exhaust gas flow controlling member is placed so that an open end of the outlet part opposes a central portion of an upstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part, and the open end of the outlet part and the upstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part are a predetermined distance apart;
the exhaust gas flow controlling member is arranged so that the opening diameter of the outlet part is smaller than the opening diameter of the inlet part, and placed so that an inner wall plane of the exhaust path and an outer peripheral plane of the outlet part are apart; and
the exhaust gas flow controlling member is provided so that an open end of the outlet part is placed in a downstream side of the upstream end of the cooling part of the exhaust heat collecting part.

2. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 1 , further comprising an exhaust tube connected to an upstream end of the exhaust heat collector,
wherein the inlet part is fixed in the exhaust tube so that part of the inlet part projects into the exhaust heat collector.

3. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 1 , further comprising an exhaust tube connected to an upstream end of the exhaust heat collector,
wherein the inlet part is fixed in the exhaust heat collector so that part of the inlet part projects into the exhaust tube.

4. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the exhaust gas flow controlling member is placed so that an outer peripheral plane of the inlet part is exposed to the outside.

5. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the inlet part projects outward in an axial direction from an end part of the exhaust heat collector so that an outer peripheral plane of the inlet part is exposed to the outside.

6. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 1 , further comprising a rectifier including a rectifying part to rectify the exhaust gas,
wherein the rectifier is provided in an upstream side of the exhaust gas flow controlling member.

7. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 6 ,
wherein the rectifier is a catalyst converter comprising an exhaust gas purifying part to rectify the exhaust gas, and, furthermore, purify the exhaust gas.

8. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in a plane along a direction in which the exhaust path extends, an angle formed between a line connecting between an outer edge of the open end of the outlet part and an outer edge of the upstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part, and the inner wall plane of the exhaust path, is a value within a range of 10° to 45°.

9. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 1 , wherein:
in the exhaust gas flow controlling member, a penetrating part to penetrate between the upstream side and a downstream side of the exhaust gas flow controlling member is formed in a location decentered from a central axis of the exhaust gas flow controlling member; and
an opening area of the penetrating part is smaller than an opening area of the outlet part.

10. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 1 , further comprising a support member in a downstream side of the exhaust heat collecting part, the support member having an inlet port where the exhaust gas from the exhaust heat collecting part flows in, and an outlet port where the inflow of the exhaust gas is discharged,
wherein: an opening diameter of the inlet port of the support member is arranged to be smaller than an outer diameter of the exhaust heat collecting part; and
in the support member, an open end of the inlet port opposes a central portion of a downstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part, and, furthermore, the open end of the inlet port and the downstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part are a predetermined distance apart.

11. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 10 ,
wherein: in the support member, a penetrating part to penetrate between an upstream side and a downstream side of the support member is formed in a location decentered from a central axis of the support member; and
an opening area of the penetrating part is smaller than an opening area of the inlet part.

12. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 9 ,
wherein a plurality of penetrating parts are formed along a circumferential direction of the exhaust gas flow controlling member.

13. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 9 ,
wherein the penetrating part is formed below the central axis of the exhaust gas flow controlling member in a vertical direction.

14. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 13 ,
wherein the penetrating part is formed so that part of an opening region of the penetrating part is located below a lowest part in an opening of the outlet part in the vertical direction.

15. The exhaust device of the engine according to claim 12 ,
wherein the penetrating parts are formed at equal intervals along the circumferential direction of the exhaust gas flow controlling member so that, when the exhaust gas flow controlling member is provided in the exhaust device, part of an opening region of at least one penetrating part is located below a lowest part in an opening of the outlet part in the vertical direction.

16. An exhaust device of an engine, with an exhaust path to lead exhaust gas discharged from the engine to outside, the exhaust device comprising:
an exhaust heat collector, comprising an exhaust heat collecting part being configured to collect heat from the exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust path, and a cooling part being configured to cool down the exhaust heat collecting part from an outer peripheral side via a cooling fluid; and
an exhaust gas flow controlling member in a cylindrical shape, comprising an inlet part which the exhaust gas flows into, and an outlet part where the inflow of the exhaust gas is discharged to an upstream side of the exhaust heat collecting part, wherein:
an opening diameter of the outlet part of the exhaust gas flow controlling member is arranged to be smaller than an outer diameter of the exhaust heat collecting part;
the exhaust gas flow controlling member is placed so that an open end of the outlet part opposes a central portion of an upstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part, and the open end of the outlet part and the upstream end plane of the exhaust heat collecting part are a predetermined distance apart;
the exhaust device further comprising an exhaust tube connected to an upstream end of the exhaust heat collector; and
wherein the inlet part is fixed in the exhaust tube so that part of the inlet part projects into the exhaust heat collector.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Fukami Toru
• Ogihara Satoshi
• Toda Yasukimi
• Nagai Hiroyuki
• Mizoguchi Shinichirou

Classifications

• F01N2240/20

  a flow director or deflector · CPC title

• F01P3/18

  Arrangements or mounting of liquid-to-air heat-exchangers (such arrangements on cylinders or cylinder heads F01P3/04; relative to vehicles B60K11/04) · CPC title

• F01N3/2889 Primary

  with heat exchangers in a single housing · CPC title

• F01N5/02

  the devices using heat · CPC title

• B01D53/9454

  characterised by a specific device · CPC title