Assembly with cylinder head having integrated exhaust manifold and method of manufacturing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9574522-B2
Application number	US-201414469766-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2014
Priority date	Aug 27, 2014
Publication date	Feb 21, 2017
Grant date	Feb 21, 2017

Abstract

An assembly includes a cylinder head with an integrated exhaust manifold that has four exhaust flow passages directing cylinder exhaust from inlets arranged to correspond with exhaust from the four cylinders, respectively, and has only three outlets. The assembly includes a twin scroll turbocharger having a housing with a first scroll passage, a second scroll passage, and only three inlets. Two of the exhaust flow passages join in the cylinder head to direct exhaust flow into only one of the inlets of the housing and through the first scroll passage. Exhaust flow through the other two of the exhaust flow passages flows separately into the other two inlets in the housing and joins in the housing to flow through the second scroll passage.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An assembly for an engine cylinder block having four in-line cylinders arranged in axial order as a first cylinder, a second cylinder, a third cylinder, and a fourth cylinder, the assembly comprising:
a cylinder head with an integrated exhaust manifold that has four exhaust flow passages directing cylinder exhaust from inlets arranged to correspond with exhaust from the four cylinders, respectively, and has only three outlets at a side face of the cylinder head; wherein none of the exhaust flow passages of the integrated exhaust manifold overlap one another in a vertical direction;
a twin scroll turbocharger having a housing with a first scroll passage, a second scroll passage, and only three inlets; wherein the housing is mounted directly to the side face of the cylinder head without a flow adapter therebetween, with the three inlets of the housing at the side face and in fluid communication with the three outlets of the cylinder head; wherein none of the three inlets of the twin scroll turbocharger overlap in the vertical direction at the side face;
wherein the integrated exhaust manifold and the housing are configured so that two of the exhaust flow passages join in the cylinder head to direct exhaust flow into only one of the inlets of the housing and through the first scroll passage, and exhaust flow through the other two of the exhaust flow passages flows separately into the other two inlets in the housing and joins in the housing to flow through the second scroll passage.

2. The assembly of claim 1 , wherein the cylinder head has:
a first coolant cavity positioned adjacent to each of the exhaust flow passages;
a second coolant cavity positioned adjacent to each of the exhaust flow passages with the exhaust flow passages between the first coolant cavity and the second coolant cavity;
wherein the first and the second coolant cavities together substantially surround the exhaust passages at the three outlets of the integrated exhaust manifold.

3. The assembly of claim 1 , wherein the cylinder head has:
a first coolant cavity positioned adjacent to each of the exhaust flow passages;
a second coolant cavity positioned adjacent to each of the exhaust flow passages with the exhaust flow passages between the first coolant cavity and the second coolant cavity;
at least a first and a second machined passage extending through the cylinder head past the exhaust flow passages without intersecting the exhaust flow passages and connecting the first coolant cavity with the second coolant cavity.

4. The assembly of claim 1 , wherein a first combined surface area of the two exhaust flow passages that join in the cylinder head is substantially equal to a second combined surface area of the other two exhaust flow passages.

5. An assembly for an engine cylinder block having four in-line cylinders arranged in axial order as a first cylinder, a second cylinder, a third cylinder, and a fourth cylinder, the assembly comprising:
a cylinder head having an integrated exhaust manifold with only three outlets at a face of the cylinder head; wherein the three outlets include a first outlet, a second outlet, and a third outlet, with the second outlet positioned between the first outlet and the third outlet;
wherein the integrated exhaust manifold has:
a first exhaust flow passage in fluid communication with only the first cylinder and extending to the first outlet;
a second exhaust flow passage in fluid communication with the second cylinder;
a third exhaust flow passage in fluid communication with the third cylinder;
a fourth exhaust flow passage in fluid communication with only the fourth cylinder and extending to the third outlet;
a first common flow passage in fluid communication with both the second and the third exhaust flow passages and with the second outlet such that both of the second and third exhaust flow passages join at the first common flow passage to allow exhaust gas flow to the second outlet; and

a housing for a twin scroll turbocharger having a first scroll passage, a second scroll passage, and only three inlets at a face of the housing; wherein the three inlets include a first inlet, a second inlet, and a third inlet, with the second inlet positioned between the first inlet and the third inlet;
wherein the housing has:
a first flow passage extending from the first inlet;
a second flow passage extending from only the second inlet to only the second scroll passage;
a third flow passage extending from only the third inlet;
a second common flow passage in fluid communication with each of the first flow passage and the third flow passage such that both of the first flow passage and the third flow passage join at the second common flow passage to flow into the first scroll passage;

wherein the housing is directly mounted to the face of the cylinder head without a flow adapter therebetween so that the first inlet is in fluid communication with only the first outlet, the second inlet is in fluid communication with only the second outlet, and the third inlet is in fluid communication with only the third outlet;
wherein none of the exhaust flow passages of the integrated exhaust manifold overlap one another in a vertical direction; and wherein none of the three inlets of the housing of the twin scroll turbocharger overlap in the vertical direction at the face of the cylinder head.

6. The assembly of claim 5 , wherein the cylinder head has:
a first coolant cavity positioned adjacent to each of the exhaust flow passages;
a second coolant cavity positioned adjacent to each of the exhaust flow passages with the exhaust flow passages between the first coolant cavity and the second coolant cavity; and
wherein the first and the second coolant cavities together substantially surround the exhaust passages at the first, second and third outlets of the integrated exhaust manifold.

7. The assembly of claim 5 , wherein the cylinder head has:
a first coolant cavity positioned adjacent to each of the exhaust flow passages;
a second coolant cavity positioned adjacent to each of the exhaust flow passages with the exhaust flow passages between the first coolant cavity and the second coolant cavity;
a first machined passage extending between the first exhaust flow passage and the first common flow passage and connecting the first coolant cavity with the second coolant cavity; and
a second machined passage extending between the fourth exhaust flow passage and the first common flow passage and connecting the first coolant cavity with the second coolant cavity.

8. The assembly of claim 5 , wherein a sum of a surface area of the first exhaust flow passage and a surface area of the fourth exhaust flow passage is substantially equal to a sum of a surface area of the second exhaust flow passage, a surface area of the third exhaust flow passage, and a surface area of the first common flow passage.

9. A method of manufacturing a cylinder head for an in-line four cylinder engine cylinder block, the method comprising:
molding an exhaust port sand core in a single core box having only an upper half mold and a lower half mold; wherein the exhaust port sand core has four exhaust flow passage core sections, two of which merge together;
assembling a core assembly in a cylinder head with a first coolant core on one side of the exhaust port sand core and a second coolant core on an opposite side of the exhaust port sand core;
casting a cylinder head around the core assembly in the cylinder head die such that an integrated exhaust manifold is formed by the exhaust port sand core, and first and second coolant cavities are formed by the first and second coolant cores, respectively; and wherein the integrated exhaust manifold

Assignees

• Gm Global Tech Operations Llc

Inventors

• Moran Robert J
• Luchansky Kevin M
• Douse Eric C

Classifications

• F02F1/40

  cylinder heads with means for directing, guiding, or distributing liquid stream · CPC title

• F02M25/071 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• Y02T10/121

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F02M25/0727

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F02F1/243

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