Engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10415443-B2
Application number	US-201615177444-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 9, 2016
Priority date	Jun 11, 2015
Publication date	Sep 17, 2019
Grant date	Sep 17, 2019

Abstract

There is provided an engine capable of reducing oil consumption. The engine includes a cylinder head, a cylinder head cover mounted above the cylinder head, a rocker arm covered by the cylinder head cover, and a breather chamber provided inside the cylinder head cover. As a front-rear direction is defined by a longitudinal direction of the cylinder head cover, the breather chamber has a blow-by gas inlet at one side in the front-rear direction, a blow-by gas outlet at another side in the front-rear direction, and an oil discharging guide chamber at an intermediate part in the front-rear direction. The blow-by gas inlet is opened on a bottom wall of the breather chamber, and a peripheral wall of the oil discharging guide chamber is protruded downwardly from the bottom wall of the breather chamber toward between the rocker arm provided at a side of the blow-by gas outlet and the blow-by gas inlet.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An engine comprising:
a cylinder head;
a cylinder head cover mounted above the cylinder head;
a rocker arm covered by the cylinder head cover;
a breather chamber provided inside the cylinder head cover;
wherein, as a front-rear direction is defined by a longitudinal direction of the cylinder head cover, the breather chamber has a blow-by gas inlet at one side in the front-rear direction, a blow-by gas outlet at another side in the front-rear direction, and an oil discharging guide chamber at an intermediate position in the front-rear direction, and wherein the blow-by gas inlet is opened on a bottom wall of the breather chamber;
a protrusion extending downwardly forming a peripheral wall of the oil discharging guide chamber, the downward protrusion being relative to the bottom wall of the breather chamber between the blow-by gas inlet and the rocker arm; provided at a side of the blow-by gas outlet;
the breather chamber has an oil discharging pie at a lower part of the oil discharging guide chamber;
the cylinder head has an oil storing part;
a pipe outlet of the oil discharging pipe extends into the separated oil stored in the oil storing part;
the protrusion protrudes downwardly from the bottom wall of the breather chamber to a place where the protrusion overlaps an input end portion of the rocker arm provided at the side of the blow-by gas outlet when viewed in a direction parallel to the front-rear direction; and
the oil discharging pipe is disposed at a place where the oil discharging pipe overlaps a provided at the rocker arm provided at the side of the blow-by gas outlet when viewed in the direction parallel to the front-rear direction.

2. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein:
the breather chamber has an inlet side oil separating chamber having the blow-by gas inlet, and a blow-by gas bypass passage, and
the breather chamber is configured to guide blow-by gas coming out of the inlet side oil separating chamber to the oil discharging guide chamber via the blow-by gas bypass passage.

3. The engine according to claim 2 , wherein:
the breather chamber has a partition wall which separates the blow-by gas bypass passage and the oil discharging guide chamber, and a separated oil guide passage, and
the separated oil guide passage has a start section provided in the inlet side oil separating chamber, an intermediate section provided at a first end of the blow-by gas bypass passage, and an end section provided below the partition wall such that the separated oil guide passage is led to the oil discharging guide chamber.

4. The engine according to claim 3 , wherein the separated oil guide passage is formed by a groove.

5. The engine according to claim 3 , wherein the separated oil guide passage is formed by a pipe.

6. The engine according to claim 3 , wherein:
the oil discharging guide chamber has an oil discharging guide surface on its inner surface, and
the oil discharging guide surface is formed to be inclined downwardly from the end part of the separated oil guide passage toward the oil discharging pipe.

7. The engine according to claim 3 , wherein:
the oil discharging guide chamber has an oil discharging guide surface on its inner surface, and
the oil discharging guide surface is formed by a downwardly stepped zigzag face from the end part of the separated oil guide passage toward the oil discharging pipe.

8. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein the oil discharging guide chamber has a baffle plate which receives the separated oil splashed up from a pipe inlet of the oil discharging pipe by a backflow.

9. The engine according to claim 8 , wherein:
the oil discharging guide chamber has an oil discharging guide surface inclined downwardly toward the pipe inlet of the oil discharging pipe,
the baffle plate has a top plate which covers the pipe inlet of the oil discharging pipe from above of the pipe inlet,
the top plate has an upper side peripheral edge located at an upper side of the oil discharging guide surface,
an oil discharging gap is formed between the upper side peripheral edge of the top plate and the oil discharging guide surface, and
the separated oil flowed down along the oil discharging guide surface is discharged below the top plate via the oil discharging gap.

10. The engine according to claim 9 , wherein:
the oil discharging guide chamber has a side inner peripheral surface located on the side of the oil discharging guide surface,
the baffle plate has a vertical plate extended downwardly from the upper side peripheral edge of the top plate,
a lower edge of the vertical plate is extended along the oil discharging guide surface,
the vertical plate has a side peripheral edge located at a side of the side inner peripheral surface of the oil discharging guide chamber, and
an oil discharging gap is formed between the side peripheral edge of the vertical plate and the side inner peripheral surface of the oil discharging guide chamber.

11. The engine according to claim 9 , wherein:
the oil discharging guide chamber has a side inner peripheral surface located on the side of the oil discharging guide surface,
a peripheral edge of the top plate has a side peripheral edge located at a side of the side inner peripheral surface of the oil discharging guide chamber, and
the side peripheral edge of the top plate is configured to extend along the side inner peripheral surface of the oil discharging guide chamber.

12. The engine according to claim 9 , wherein:
the oil discharging guide chamber has a lower side inner peripheral surface located at a lower side of the oil discharging guide surface,
the top plate has a lower side peripheral edge located at a lower side of the oil discharging guide surface, and
the lower side peripheral edge of the top plate is configured to extend along the lower side inner peripheral surface of the oil discharging guide chamber.

13. The engine according to claim 9 , wherein:
the oil discharging guide chamber has a side inner peripheral surface located side of the oil discharging guide surface, a lower side inner peripheral surface located at a lower side of the oil discharging guide surface, and a corner part inner peripheral surface located at a border area between the side inner peripheral surface and the lower side inner peripheral surface,
the top plate has a side peripheral edge located at a side of the side inner peripheral surface of the oil discharging guide chamber, a lower side peripheral edge located at a lower side of the oil discharging guide surface, and a notched peripheral edge located at a border area between the side peripheral edge and the lower side peripheral edge,
the side peripheral edge of the top plate is configured to extend along the side inner peripheral surface of the oil discharging guide chamber,
the lower side peripheral edge of the top plate is configured to extend along the lower side inner peripheral surface of the oil discharging guide chamber, and
an oil discharging port is opened between the notched peripheral edge of the top plate and the corner part inner peripheral surface of the oil discharging guide chamber such that the separated oil above the top plate is discharged below the top plate via the oil discharging port.

14. The engine according to claim 9 , wherein the top plate has an oil diffusion suppressing part configured to suppress the separated oil, which is splashed up from the pipe inlet of the oil discharging pipe by a backflow, to be diffused toward a side of the oil discharging gap.

15. The engine according to claim 14 , wherein:
the lower surface

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Nagai Kentaro
• Yamazaki Takahiro
• Hamasaki Takahito
• Goto Hideyuki
• Oso Hiroki
• Koyama Hideyuki
• Tanaka Akira
• Tanaka Yoshinori

Classifications

• F01M2013/0488

  with oil trap in the return conduit to the crankcase · CPC title

• F01M13/0416 Primary

  arranged in valve-covers · CPC title

• F01M2013/0038

  Layout of crankcase breathing systems · CPC title

• F01M13/00 Primary

  Crankcase ventilating or breathing · CPC title

• F01M2013/045

  using compression or decompression of the gas · CPC title