Engine having water jacket

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10030571-B2
Application number	US-201615334498-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 26, 2016
Priority date	Mar 16, 2016
Publication date	Jul 24, 2018
Grant date	Jul 24, 2018

Abstract

An engine having a water jacket may include a cylinder block in which cylinder liners forming a combustion chamber may be disposed from a first end to a second end of the cylinder block, and a block water jacket may be formed around the cylinder liners, a cylinder head having a head water jacket coupled to a top of the cylinder block, receiving cooling water from an exhaust side of the block water jacket and discharging cooling water to an intake side of the block water jacket, and inserts that may be inserted into the block water jacket and that may have horizontal dividing blades dividing the block water jacket into upper and lower parts, legs extending downward from the horizontal dividing blades, and flow preventing protrusions protruding upward from the horizontal dividing blades to divide the upper part of the block water jacket.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An engine having a water jacket, the engine comprising:
a cylinder block in which cylinder liners forming a combustion chamber are disposed from a first end to a second end of the cylinder block, and a block water jacket is formed around the cylinder liners;
a cylinder head having a head water jacket coupled to a top of the cylinder block, receiving cooling water from an exhaust side of the block water jacket through a first connecting passage, and discharging cooling water to an intake side of the block water jacket through a second connecting passage; and
inserts that are inserted into the block water jacket and that have horizontal dividing blades dividing the block water jacket into upper and lower parts, legs extending downward from the horizontal dividing blades, and first, second and third flow preventing protrusions respectively protruding upward from the horizontal dividing blades to divide the upper part of the block water jacket into an upper exhaust part and an upper intake part,
wherein the first flow preventing protrusion is formed at a first end of the upper intake part of the block water jacket, the second flow preventing protrusion is formed at a second end of the upper intake part of the block water jacket, and the third flow preventing protrusion is formed at a second end of the upper exhaust part of the block water jacket, and
wherein cooling water is supplied to the upper part of the block water jacket through a first end of the upper exhaust part.

2. The engine of claim 1 , further comprising a water pump coupled to the cylinder block to pump the cooling water to a first end of the lower part of the exhaust side of the block water jacket under the horizontal dividing blades,
wherein a top opening portion that connects to the upper and lower parts is formed on the exhaust side of the horizontal dividing blade.

3. The engine of claim 2 , wherein the cooling water pumped by the water pump and fed to the first end of the lower part of the exhaust side of the block water jacket is fed to the upper part of the exhaust side of the block water jacket.

4. The engine of claim 3 , wherein the cooling water fed to the upper part of the exhaust side of the block water jacket flows from the exhaust side of the head water jacket to the intake side through the first connecting passage and is circulated to the upper part of the intake side of the block water jacket through the second connecting passage.

5. The engine of claim 4 , further comprising a water control valve placed on the second end of the cylinder block,
wherein the water control valve controls cooling water flowing through the lower part of the block water jacket corresponding to the legs and discharged from the block water jacket, and controls cooling water sequentially flowing through and discharged from the upper part of the exhaust side of the block water jacket, the first connecting passage, the head water jacket, the second connecting passage, and the upper part of the intake side of the block water jacket.

6. The engine of claim 3 , wherein the legs are placed at a center of the lower part of the block water jacket to divide the lower part of the block water jacket into an outside part and an inside part.

7. The engine of claim 6 , wherein the leg of the exhaust insert includes a side opening portion that connects the outside and inside of the lower part of the block water jacket.

8. The engine of claim 7 , wherein the side opening portion and the top opening portion are connected together and integrated into a single unit.

9. The engine of claim 5 , wherein the inserts comprise an exhaust insert formed on the exhaust side and an intake insert formed on the intake side and facing the exhaust insert.

10. The engine of claim 9 , wherein the top opening portion is formed on a first end of the exhaust insert.

11. The engine of claim 10 , wherein
a vertical transfer passage is formed in the gap between a second end of the exhaust insert and the second end of the intake insert; and
cooling water fed to the lower part of the exhaust side of the block water jacket moves along the legs and then moves up through the vertical transfer passage and is circulated to the water control valve.

12. The engine of claim 9 , wherein guide protrusions extending upward are formed at corresponding positions between the cylinder liners on the exhaust insert and intake side.

13. The engine of claim 12 , wherein the guide protrusions are disposed at a distance from the cylinder liners so that the cooling water flowing through the upper part of the block water jacket flows in between the cylinder liners.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Yi Jeawoong

Classifications

• F02F1/14 Primary

  Cylinders with means for directing, guiding or distributing liquid stream · CPC title

• F01P3/02 Primary

  Arrangements for cooling cylinders or cylinder heads · CPC title

• F02F1/40

  cylinder heads with means for directing, guiding, or distributing liquid stream · CPC title

• F01P2060/04

  Lubricant cooler · CPC title

• F01P5/10

  Pumping liquid coolant; Arrangements of coolant pumps · CPC title