Bearing device for crankshaft of internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10072705-B2
Application number	US-201715636693-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2017
Priority date	Jul 6, 2016
Publication date	Sep 11, 2018
Grant date	Sep 11, 2018

Abstract

The provided is a bearing device for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine including: a crankshaft having a plurality of journal portions; main bearings for supporting the crankshaft; and a bearing housing, wherein a range in which the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the second main bearing is formed in the circumferential direction includes at least a range of a circumferential angle of 20° within the ±45° region, a circumferential end portion of the oil groove on a rotationally forward side communicates with the crush relief at a minimum, and is open to a circumferential end face at a maximum, and a circumferential end portion of the oil groove on the rotationally backward side of the journal portion is positioned on a circumferential center portion side of the upper-side halved bearing from a circumferential end face of the upper-side halved bearing.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A bearing device for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine comprising:
a crankshaft having a plurality of journal portions and a plurality of crank pin portion;
main bearings for supporting the crankshaft; and
a bearing housing for holding the main bearings,
wherein the plurality of journal portions comprise a first journal portion having a lubricating oil passage for feeding oil to a crank pin portion of the crankshaft, and a second journal portion without the lubricating oil passage,
wherein the first journal portion is supported by a first main bearing, and the first main bearing comprises a pair of an upper-side halved bearing and a lower-side halved bearing in half-cylindrical shape,
wherein the second journal portion is supported by a second main bearing, and the second main bearing comprises a pair of an upper-side halved bearing and a lower-side halved bearing in half-cylindrical shape,
wherein the bearing housing comprises an upper-side housing made of Al alloy and a lower housing made of Fe alloy, the upper-side housing has a half-cylindrical surface aligned with an outer circumferential surface of the upper-side halved bearing, the lower-side housing has a half-cylindrical surface aligned with an outer circumferential surface of the lower-side halved bearing, the upper-side halved bearings is held on the half-cylindrical surface of the upper-side housing, and the lower-side halved bearings are held on the half-cylindrical surface of the lower-side housing,
wherein an inner oil passage for supplying oil to the first and second main bearings is formed inside the upper-side housing, and an opening of the inner oil passage is formed on the half-cylindrical surface of the upper-side housing,
wherein only the upper-side halved bearings out of the pair of halved bearings respectively have oil grooves formed on the inner circumferential surface and at least one oil hole,
wherein the oil hole penetrates a bearing wall thickness of the upper-side halved bearings, and is open to an outer circumferential surface,
wherein the opening of the inner oil passage of the upper-side housing and the oil grooves communicate with each other through the oil hole,
wherein the upper-side and lower-side halved bearings have a crush relief at circumferential both end portions of an inner circumferential surface thereof,
wherein a range in which the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the first main bearing is formed in a circumferential direction is such that each of circumferential both end portions of the oil groove communicates with the crush relief at a minimum, and is open to a circumferential end face of the upper-side halved bearing at a maximum,
wherein when a region of a circumferential angle of ±45° is defined as ±45° region with reference to a circumferential center portion of the upper-side halved bearing, a range in which the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the second main bearing is formed in the circumferential direction includes at least a range of a circumferential angle of 20° within the ±45° region, a circumferential end portion of the oil groove on a rotationally forward side of the journal portion communicates with the crush relief of the upper-side halved bearing on the rotationally forward side of the journal portion at a minimum, and is open to a circumferential end face of the upper-side halved bearing on the rotationally forward side of the journal portion at a maximum, and the circumferential end portion of the oil groove on the rotationally backward side of the journal portion is positioned on a circumferential center portion side of the upper-side halved bearing from a circumferential end face of the upper-side halved bearing on a rotationally backward side of the journal portion,
wherein a groove depth at least in the ±45° region of the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the second main bearing is half or less of a groove depth in the ±45° region of the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the first main bearing.

2. The bearing device for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the groove depth of the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the second main bearing is, over a circumferential entire length, half or less of the groove depth of the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the first main bearing at a corresponding position in the circumferential direction.

3. The bearing device for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the groove depth of the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the second main bearing is 0.5 mm at a maximum at least in the ±45° region.

4. The bearing device for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the groove depth of the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the second main bearing becomes smallest at a circumferential end portion on the rotationally backward side of the second journal portion, and increases toward a circumferential end portion on the rotationally forward side of the second journal portion.

5. The bearing device for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the groove depth of the oil groove of the upper-side halved bearing of the second main bearing becomes largest at a center portion of a circumferential length of the oil groove, and decreases toward the circumferential both end portions.

Assignees

• Daido Metal Co

Inventors

• Uesu Yusuke
• Saito Yasushi

Classifications

• F16C2204/20

  Alloys based on aluminium · CPC title

• F16C17/022

  with a pair of essentially semicircular bearing sleeves · CPC title

• F16C2204/10

  Alloys based on copper · CPC title

• F16C33/6666

  from an oil bath in the bearing housing, e.g. by an oil ring or centrifugal disc · CPC title

• F16C33/1065 Primary

  Grooves on a bearing surface for distributing or collecting the liquid · CPC title