Cylinder Head Cover

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016201528-A1
Application number	US-201414914337-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 17, 2014
Priority date	Nov 21, 2013
Publication date	Jul 14, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A cylinder head cover includes: a cover section that covers a cylinder head, a pump casing section that is integrally formed with the cover section, that includes an upward-facing opening and that is provided with a circular hole portion that penetrates the cover section at a bottom portion; a rotation shaft that fits into the circular hole portion, with one axial direction end side disposed inside the pump casing section and with another end side coupled to a cam shaft; a vane that is disposed inside the pump casing section and that rotates integrally with the rotation shaft; and an oil supply path that extends from the pump casing section to the cover section, that is in communication with an oil flow path of the cylinder head, and that supplies oil pumped to the oil flow path from an oil pump to inside the pump casing section.

First claim

1 . A cylinder head cover, comprising:
a cover section that covers a cylinder head of an engine provided with a cam shaft; a pump casing section that has a bottomed tube shape, that is integrally formed with the cover section, that includes an upward-facing opening with the opening closed off by a lid body, and that is provided with a circular hole portion that penetrates the cover section at a position offset from a casing section center of a bottom portion; a rotation shaft that fits into the circular hole portion, with one axial direction end side of the rotation shaft disposed inside the pump casing section and with another axial direction end side of the rotation shaft coupled to the cam shaft, and that is rotated by motive power transmitted from the cam shaft; a vane that is disposed inside the pump casing section, that is supported by the rotation shaft so as to be capable of moving reciprocally along a direction orthogonal to the rotation shaft, that rotates integrally with the rotation shaft, that includes an end portion that slides across an inner wall face of the pump casing section, and that partitions the inside of the pump casing section into a plurality of spaces; and an oil supply path that extends from the pump casing section to the cover section, that is in communication with an oil flow path formed at the cylinder head, and that supplies oil pumped to the oil flow path from an oil pump of the engine to inside the pump casing section.

2 . The cylinder head cover of claim 1 , wherein one end of the oil supply path opens onto a hole wall face of the circular hole portion, and another end of oil supply path opens onto a portion of the cover section that abuts the cylinder head and is in communication with the oil flow path.

3 . The cylinder head cover of claim 1 , wherein the other axial direction end side of the rotation shaft is provided with a driven side gear that meshes with a drive side gear provided at the cam shaft, and that couples the rotation shaft and the cam shaft together.

Assignees

• Sanoh Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nishikido Hideki

Classifications

• F01M2011/021

  for lubricating auxiliaries, e.g. pumps or turbo chargers · CPC title

• F01M11/02 Primary

  Arrangements of lubricant conduits · CPC title

• F02F7/0043

  Arrangements of mechanical drive elements · CPC title

• F01L1/047

  Camshafts · CPC title

• F01M1/02

  using lubricating pumps (pumps in general F04; lubricating pumps per se F16N) · CPC title