Engine device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10801378-B2
Application number	US-201716096225-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 29, 2017
Priority date	Apr 26, 2016
Publication date	Oct 13, 2020
Grant date	Oct 13, 2020

Abstract

An engine including: an exhaust manifold provided near one side surface of an engine; a turbocharger having an exhaust-side inlet connected to the exhaust manifold; and a rocker-arm-chamber-integrated intake manifold disposed on a cylinder head and integrally including a rocker arm chamber and an intake manifold. The intake manifold has a wall dividing the rocker arm chamber provided near one side surface of the engine and the intake manifold provided near another side surface thereof to isolate the rocker arm chamber and the intake manifold from each other. The rocker arm chamber has, in its upper portion, a positive crankcase ventilation device protruding therefrom and returning blowby gas to an intake system. The positive crankcase ventilation device has a blowby-gas discharge port connected with a gas conduit through which blowby gas is delivered to an intake-side inlet of the turbocharger.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An engine device comprising:
an exhaust manifold disposed at a location close to a first one of left and right side surfaces of the engine device;
a turbocharger having an exhaust-side inlet connected to the exhaust manifold; and
a cylinder head cover disposed on an upper surface of a cylinder head, the cylinder head cover integrally including a rocker arm chamber and an intake manifold,
wherein:
the cylinder head cover has a wall dividing the rocker arm chamber disposed at a location close to the first one of the left and right side surfaces of the engine device and the intake manifold disposed at a location close to a second one of the left and right side surfaces of the engine device from each other to isolate the rocker arm chamber and the intake manifold from each other, and
the rocker arm chamber has an upper portion provided with a positive crankcase ventilation device which protrudes from the upper portion of the rocker arm chamber and which is configured to return blowby gas to an intake system, the positive crankcase ventilation device has a side surface provided with a blowby-gas discharge port of the cylinder head cover to which a gas conduit is connected, and the blowby gas is delivered to an intake-side inlet of the turbocharger through the gas conduit.

2. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein the intake manifold has an upper surface covered with an intake lid provided with an intake inlet protruding upward from the intake lid, the intake inlet is connected to an intake-side outlet of the turbocharger via an intake relay pipe, and the gas conduit is positioned such that the gas conduit crosses the intake relay pipe.

3. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein the intake-side inlet of the turbocharger is connected to an intake pipe which is curved into an L-shape and which has an upstream-side portion connected to the gas conduit and inclined upward, and the gas conduit is inclined upward from the blowby-gas discharge port to a connecting part at which the gas conduit and the intake pipe are connected to each other.

4. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein a gas introduction part, which is configured to introduce blowby gas in the rocker arm chamber upward into the positive crankcase ventilation device, is inserted into the rocker arm chamber, and an inner passage between a gas outlet of the gas introduction part and a gas discharge part communicating with the blowby-gas discharge port has a labyrinth structure.

5. The engine device according to claim 4 , wherein the positive crankcase ventilation device includes a dividing wall which is disposed away from a peripheral wall of the positive crankcase ventilation device and which divides, from the inner passage, a gas introduction chamber to which the gas outlet of the gas introduction part is inserted, and an oil trap material is provided between the peripheral wall and the dividing wall to allow the oil trap material to be interposed between the gas outlet of the gas introduction part and the inner passage.

6. The engine device according to claim 5 , wherein a beam-shaped dividing wall is provided in a suspended manner at a position between the oil trap material and the gas introduction chamber and above the oil trap material, and the inner passage includes, as a part thereof, a space surrounded by an upper surface of the oil trap material, the beam-shaped dividing wall, and the peripheral wall.

7. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the turbocharger is positioned above the exhaust manifold, and
the turbocharger is supplied with a lubrication oil through an oil feeding pipe, the oil feeding pipe being installed such that the oil feeding pipe extends from the second one of the left and right side surfaces of the engine device toward the first one of the left and right side surfaces of the engine device, while making a detour by extending along a first one of front and rear side surfaces of the engine device, and the oil feeding pipe further extending, over the first one of the left and right side surfaces of the engine device, from a first one of front and rear side surfaces of the exhaust manifold toward a position above the exhaust manifold, while making a detour by extending along an outer periphery of the exhaust manifold.

8. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein:
an injector is inserted into the cylinder head, and is supplied with a fuel from a fuel injection pump device,
the fuel injection pump device has front and rear ends, a first one of which is provided with an electronically-controlled speed-governing mechanism, the first one of the front and rear ends of the fuel injection pump device is fixed to a second one of left and right side surfaces of the cylinder head via a fixing bracket, and a second one of the front and rear ends of the fuel injection pump device is fixed to a gear case attached to a cylinder block, and
the injector is placed in a recess in the intake manifold, which is mounted on the upper surface of the cylinder head, and the injector is connected to the fuel injection pump device through a fuel pipe.

9. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the intake-side inlet of the turbocharger is positioned to face a first one of front and rear side surfaces of the engine device, and
an intake pipe, which is curved into an L-shape, has
a downstream-side portion positioned along a front-and-rear direction of the engine device and connected to the intake-side inlet of the turbocharger, and
an upstream-side portion positioned along a left-and-right direction of the engine device and extending toward the second one of the left and right side surfaces of the engine device.

10. A system comprising:
a cylinder head cover disposed on an upper surface of a cylinder head and integrally including a rocker arm chamber and an intake manifold, the cylinder head cover comprising:
a wall dividing the rocker arm chamber and the intake manifold;
a positive crankcase ventilation device in fluid communication with the rocker arm chamber; and
a blow-by gas discharge port positioned on a side surface of the positive crankcase ventilation device and in fluid communication with the positive crankcase ventilation device, the blow-by gas discharge port configured to be coupled to a turbocharger.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein:
the intake manifold and rocker arm chamber are isolated from each other.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein:
the positive crankcase ventilation device is positioned on an upper surface of the cylinder head cover; and
the positive crankcase ventilation device protrudes from the upper surface of the cylinder head cover.

13. The system of claim 12 , further comprising:
the turbocharger configured to be coupled to the blow-by gas discharge port via a gas conduit.

14. The system of claim 10 , wherein:
the cylinder head cover is positioned such that:
the rocker arm chamber is positioned on a first side of the cylinder head cover, and
the intake manifold is positioned on a second side of the cylinder head cover, the second side different from the first side.

15. The system of claim 14 , further comprising:
an exhaust manifold; and
wherein the turbocharger comprises a turbocharger gas inlet coupled to the exhaust manifold.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein:
the turbocharger is positioned above the exhaust manifold.

17. The system of claim 15 , further comprising:
a cylinder block; and
wherein the exhaust manifold is disposed on a first side surface of the cyl

Assignees

• Yanmar Co Ltd
• Yanmar Power Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kimura Tomoyuki
• INOKUCHI Hisato

Classifications

• F02M35/161

  Arrangement of the air intake system in the engine compartment, e.g. with respect to the bonnet or the vehicle front face · CPC title

• F02M35/16

  characterised by use in vehicles · CPC title

• F02M35/10288

  Air intakes combined with another engine part, e.g. cylinder head cover or being cast in one piece with the exhaust manifold, cylinder head or engine block · CPC title

• F02M35/10222

  Exhaust gas recirculation [EGR]; Positive crankcase ventilation [PCV]; Additional air admission, lubricant or fuel vapour admission · CPC title

• F02M35/10157

  Supercharged engines · CPC title