Coolant control valve that selectively supplies EGR cooler with coolant

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9670884-B2
Application number	US-201414539615-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2014
Priority date	Jun 5, 2014
Publication date	Jun 6, 2017
Grant date	Jun 6, 2017

Abstract

A coolant control valve that selectively supplies an EGR cooler with coolant may include a cylinder head having a first water jacket and a second water jacket, an EGR cooler that is disposed at one side of the cylinder head and is disposed on an EGR line that recirculates exhaust gas from an exhaust side to an intake side, a heater that is disposed at another side of the cylinder head and heats air through coolant that is supplied to the heater, and a coolant control valve that respectively controls coolant that is supplied from the first water jacket and the second water jacket, supplies the heater with the coolant, and selectively supplies the EGR cooler with the coolant depending on a temperature of the coolant.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A coolant control valve that selectively supplies an EGR cooler with coolant, comprising:
a cylinder head including a first water jacket and a second water jacket;
an EGR cooler that is disposed at one side of the cylinder head and is disposed on an EGR line that recirculates exhaust gas from an exhaust side to an intake side;
a heater that is disposed at another side of the cylinder head and heats air through coolant that is supplied to the heater; and
a coolant control valve that respectively controls coolant that is supplied from the first water jacket and the second water jacket, supplies the heater with the coolant, and selectively supplies the EGR cooler with the coolant depending on a temperature of the coolant,
wherein the coolant control valve includes:
a valve body having a mounting space formed therein;
a sealing ring that has a cylindrical shape and is rotatably disposed in the mounting space based on a length direction, wherein a blocking wall is formed in a coolant inlet of a front end portion of the sealing ring;
a motor that rotates the sealing ring depending on the coolant temperature; and
a plate that is disposed on the valve body, wherein a first passage connected to the first water jacket to be opened or closed by the blocking wall depending on a rotation position of the sealing ring is formed on the plate, and wherein a second passage is formed through the plate of the coolant control valve near the first passage and is connected to the second water jacket to continuously supply the heater with coolant.

2. The coolant control valve that selectively supplies the EGR cooler with coolant of claim 1 , wherein the blocking wall has a semi-circular shape, and the first passage has a semi-circular shape corresponding to the shape of the blocking wall.

3. The coolant control valve that selectively supplies the EGR cooler with coolant of claim 1 , wherein a coolant outlet is formed on the sealing ring and the coolant outlet is formed from an inner side to an outer side of the sealing ring to supply the coolant that is supplied to the inner side to a radiator and is formed in a rotating direction of the sealing ring, and
wherein the first passage is connected to the first water jacket, the second passage is connected to the second water jacket, and the valve body is mounted on an outside of the cylinder head through the plate to be fixed thereto.

4. The coolant control valve that selectively supplies the EGR cooler with coolant of claim 1 , wherein the second water jacket is formed under the first water jacket, and the first passage is correspondingly formed under the second passage.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Park Yoonghwa
• Lee Jongho
• Park Jeonjin

Classifications

• F02M26/65

  Constructional details of EGR valves · CPC title

• F02M26/30 Primary

  Connections of coolers to other devices, e.g. to valves, heaters, compressors or filters; Coolers characterised by their location on the engine · CPC title

• F16K3/30

  Details · CPC title

• F02M26/32

  Liquid-cooled heat exchangers · CPC title

• F01P3/14 Primary

  for cooling intake or exhaust valves · CPC title