Cylinder head and engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11242819-B2
Application number	US-202017041199-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 17, 2020
Priority date	Feb 17, 2020
Publication date	Feb 8, 2022
Grant date	Feb 8, 2022

Abstract

A cylinder head includes: a cylinder head body that includes a lower deck, an upper deck defining a first cooling water space together with the lower deck, and valve hole-forming walls; a rocker housing that includes a rocker-side wall formed integrally with the cylinder head body; an expansion wall portion that expands from the cylinder head body and defines a second cooling water space communicating with the first cooling water space and extending up to a position over the upper deck; and an EGR passage-forming portion that is provided in the second cooling water space.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cylinder head comprising:
a cylinder head body that includes a lower deck, an upper deck provided above the lower deck so as to face the lower deck and defining a first cooling water space together with the lower deck, and a plurality of valve hole-forming walls extending over the lower deck and the upper deck and formed in a cylinder-row direction;
a rocker housing including a rocker-side wall that is formed integrally with the cylinder head body so as to stand up from an end portion of the upper deck provided on one side in the cylinder-row direction;
an expansion wall portion that is provided overlapping the lower deck from a vertical direction and at least partially overlapping the rocker-side wall in a direction parallel to the engine's longitudinal axis so as to expand from the cylinder head body to one side in the cylinder-row direction and defines a second cooling water space communicating with one side of the first cooling water space in the cylinder-row direction and extending up to a position over the upper deck; and
an EGR passage-forming portion that is provided in the second cooling water space and extends in a front-rear direction crossing the cylinder-row direction, configured to form a flow passage for exhaust gas having a cross-sectional area that gradually increases from an introduction portion toward an enlarged body portion where temperature of the exhaust gas is gradually cooled.

2. The cylinder head according to claim 1 ,
wherein an upper end, which extends in the front-rear direction, of the EGR passage-forming portion is positioned above the upper deck.

3. The cylinder head according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a first connection portion that is provided on one side of the EGR passage-forming portion in the cylinder-row direction and connects the EGR passage-forming portion to the expansion wall portion; and
a second connection portion that is provided on the other side of the EGR passage-forming portion in the cylinder-row direction and connects the EGR passage-forming portion to the cylinder head body.

4. The cylinder head according to claim 3 ,
wherein the first connection portion extends in the front-rear direction and includes a communicating hole that penetrates the first connection portion in a vertical direction.

5. An engine comprising:
the cylinder head according to any one of claim 4 ; and
a cylinder block that includes a cylinder bore forming a cylinder and is covered with the cylinder head from above.

6. An engine comprising:
the cylinder head according to any one of claim 3 ; and
a cylinder block that includes a cylinder bore forming a cylinder and is covered with the cylinder head from above.

7. An engine comprising:
the cylinder head according to any one of claim 2 ; and
a cylinder block that includes a cylinder bore forming a cylinder and is covered with the cylinder head from above.

8. The cylinder head according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first connection portion that is provided on one side of the EGR passage-forming portion in the cylinder-row direction and connects the EGR passage-forming portion to the expansion wall portion; and
a second connection portion that is provided on the other side of the EGR passage-forming portion in the cylinder-row direction and connects the EGR passage-forming portion to the cylinder head body.

9. The cylinder head according to claim 8 ,
wherein the first connection portion extends in the front-rear direction and includes a communicating hole that penetrates the first connection portion in a vertical direction.

10. An engine comprising:
the cylinder head according to any one of claim 9 ; and
a cylinder block that includes a cylinder bore forming a cylinder and is covered with the cylinder head from above.

11. An engine comprising:
the cylinder head according to any one of claim 8 ; and
a cylinder block that includes a cylinder bore forming a cylinder and is covered with the cylinder head from above.

12. An engine comprising:
the cylinder head according to any one of claim 1 ; and
a cylinder block that includes a cylinder bore forming a cylinder and is covered with the cylinder head from above.

13. The cylinder head according to claim 1 ,
wherein a periphery of the an EGR passage-forming portion is covered with that is provided in the second cooling water space,
inside of the EGR passage-forming portion, an EGR passage through which EGR gas flows is formed, and
the EGR passage-forming portion extends in a front-rear direction crossing the cylinder-row direction.

14. The cylinder head according to claim 1 ,
wherein the EGR passage-forming portion is formed in the second cooling water space and has the shape of a tube extending in the front-rear direction, and
the periphery of the EGR passage-forming portion includes an upper wall, a pair of side walls, and a lower wall.

Assignees

• Komatsu Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• KAGEYAMA Yuuki
• Miki Akihiro

Classifications

• F02F1/36 Primary

  for liquid cooling · CPC title

• F02F1/243 Primary

  Cylinder heads and inlet or exhaust manifolds integrally cast together · CPC title

• F02M26/65

  Constructional details of EGR valves · CPC title