Engine having coolant control valve

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9435248-B2
Application number	US-201414546139-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2014
Priority date	Jun 5, 2014
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

An engine having a coolant control valve may include a sealing ring including a sealing ring inlet and sealing ring outlets, a valve housing to rotatably house the sealing ring therein, wherein discharge outlets are formed corresponding to the sealing ring outlets, a drive portion coupled to the sealing ring to selectively rotate the sealing ring, and a blocking wall that is disposed to the one end portion of the sealing ring to block a part of the one end portion of the sealing ring to form the sealing ring inlet, wherein the blocking wall is selectively rotated about a central axis thereof in accordance with a rotation of the sealing ring, wherein the blocking wall selectively blocks a first coolant line of a cylinder head or a second coolant line of a cylinder block depending on a rotation position of the sealing ring.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An engine having a coolant control valve, comprising:
a sealing ring that has a pipe shape, wherein a sealing ring inlet is formed at an end portion of the sealing ring and sealing ring outlets are formed at a predetermined position from an inner surface to an outer surface of the sealing ring;
a valve housing that a mounting space is formed therein to rotatably house the sealing ring therein, wherein the valve housing has an interior circumference corresponding to an exterior circumference of the sealing ring, and discharge outlets are formed corresponding to the sealing ring outlets;
a drive portion that is coupled to the sealing ring to selectively rotate the sealing ring such that the sealing ring outlets match the discharge outlets and a coolant that flows in the sealing ring is supplied to the discharge outlets; and
a blocking wall that is disposed to the one end portion of the sealing ring to block a part of the one end portion of the sealing ring to form the sealing ring inlet, wherein the blocking wall is selectively rotated about a central axis thereof in accordance with a rotation of the sealing ring,
wherein the blocking wall selectively blocks a first coolant line of a cylinder head or a second coolant line of a cylinder block depending on a rotation position of the sealing ring.

2. The engine having the coolant control valve of claim 1 , wherein the blocking wall is integrally formed with the sealing ring.

3. The engine having the coolant control valve of claim 1 , comprising:
a plate that is engaged with the valve housing,
wherein an inner side surface of the plate corresponds to the sealing ring inlet or the blocking wall of the sealing ring,
wherein a first passage for the first coolant line and a second passage for the second coolant line are formed to the plate to correspond to the sealing ring inlet, and
wherein the blocking wall of the sealing ring blocks the first passage or the second passage depending on the rotation position thereof.

4. The engine having the coolant control valve of claim 3 , wherein an outer side surface of the blocking wall slidably contacts an inner side surface of the plate.

5. The engine having the coolant control valve of claim 3 , wherein the blocking wall is configured to close all of the first passage and the second passage, the blocking wall is configured to close one of the first passage and the second passage, or the blocking wall is configured to open all of the first passage and the second passage accordion to the rotation position of the sealing ring.

6. The engine having the coolant control valve of claim 3 , wherein the blocking wall has a semi-circular shape about the central axis, and the first passage and the second passage have a fan shape that divides the blocking wall into two sides.

7. The engine having the coolant control valve of claim 3 , wherein the valve housing is directly engaged with the cylinder head through the plate.

8. The engine having the coolant control valve of claim 1 ,
wherein a first outlet that discharges coolant for cooling the cylinder head and a connection passage that receives coolant for cooling the cylinder block that is disposed under the cylinder head are formed in the cylinder head, and
wherein a second outlet for discharging coolant that flows through the connection passage is formed in the cylinder head, wherein the first outlet is formed near the second outlet.

9. The engine having the coolant control valve of claim 1 , wherein one of the discharge outlets is connected to an EGR cooler for cooling recirculated exhaust gas, and another of the discharge outlets is connected to a radiator that radiates heat through outside air.

10. The engine having the coolant control valve of claim 1 , wherein the drive portion includes an electric motor.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Park Yoonghwa
• Lee Jongho

Classifications

• F02D21/08

  the other gas being the exhaust gas of engine · CPC title

• F01P7/00 Primary

  Controlling of coolant flow · CPC title

• F01P3/02 Primary

  Arrangements for cooling cylinders or cylinder heads · CPC title

• F01P2007/146

  using valves · CPC title

• F01P7/14 Primary

  the coolant being liquid · CPC title