Blow-by gas recirculation apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9702280-B2
Application number	US-201314440484-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 11, 2013
Priority date	Nov 22, 2012
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

A blow-by gas recirculation apparatus which can release freezing of a PCV valve in a short period of time is obtained with a simple configuration. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus is provided with the PCV valve at a case member of a gas space portion to which blow-by gas is sent in a manner that the PCV valve penetrates through the case member and a return path supplying the blow-by the gas, which is from the PCV valve, to an induction system of an engine. A heating portion to which part of oil lubricating the engine is supplied and thus which heats the PCV valve with heat of the oil is formed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A blow-by gas recirculation apparatus comprising:
a PCV valve provided at a case member of a gas space portion to which blow-by gas occurring at an engine is sent in a manner that the PCV valve penetrates through the case member;
a return path supplying the blow-by gas, which is sent out from the PCV valve, to an induction system of the engine; and
a heating portion provided in an intermediate portion of a control oil passage diverging from a supply oil passage for supplying part of oil lubricating the engine to a feed oil pipe, and thus the heating portion transmitting heat of the oil to the PCV valve.

2. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the heating portion is formed by a heating oil passage provided at an inside of a thick wall portion of the case member through which the PCV valve penetrates.

3. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the heating portion is provided with a heating space portion formed at an inside of a thick wall portion of the case member through which the PCV valve penetrates and the heating portion is provided with a nozzle spraying the oil, in the heating space portion, towards a penetration portion through which the PCV valve penetrates.

4. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the heating portion is formed by a storage space portion formed at an inside of a thick wall portion of the case member through which the PCV valve penetrates and storing the oil.

5. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein whole of the case member is made of resin and metal material is inserted in a portion which is from the heating portion to the PCV valve.

6. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein whole of the case member is made of resin and metal material is inserted in a portion which is from the heating portion to the PCV valve.

7. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein whole of the case member is made of resin and metal material is inserted in a portion which is from the heating portion to the PCV valve.

8. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the case member is provided outside a head cover, and the feed oil pipe is provided inside the head cover.

9. A blow-by gas recirculation apparatus comprising:
a PCV valve provided at a case member of a gas space portion to which blow-by gas occurring at an engine is sent in a manner that the PCV valve penetrates through the case member;
a return path supplying the blow-by gas, which is sent out from the PCV valve, to an induction system of the engine; and
a heating portion provided in an intermediate portion of a control oil passage diverging from a supply oil passage for supplying part of oil lubricating the engine to a feed oil pipe, and thus the heating portion transmitting heat of the oil to the PCV valve,
wherein oil having passed through the heating portion is supplied to hydraulic equipment for controlling the engine.

10. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the heating portion is formed by a heating oil passage provided at an inside of a thick wall portion of the case member through which the PCV valve penetrates.

11. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the heating portion is provided with a heating space portion formed at an inside of a thick wall portion of the case member through which the PCV valve penetrates and the heating portion is provided with a nozzle spraying the oil, in the heating space portion, towards a penetration portion through which the PCV valve penetrates.

12. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the heating portion is formed by a storage space portion formed at an inside of a thick wall portion of the case member through which the PCV valve penetrates and storing the oil.

13. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein whole of the case member is made of resin and metal material is inserted in a portion which is from the heating portion to the PCV valve.

14. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein whole of the case member is made of resin and metal material is inserted in a portion which is from the heating portion to the PCV valve.

15. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein whole of the case member is made of resin and metal material is inserted in a portion which is from the heating portion to the PCV valve.

16. The blow-by gas recirculation apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the case member is provided outside a head cover, and the feed oil pipe is provided inside the head cover.

Assignees

• Aisin Seiki

Inventors

• Kira Naoki
• Nishigaki Atsushi
• Inokuchi Takahiro

Classifications

• F02F7/006 Primary

  Camshaft or pushrod housings · CPC title

• F01M2013/0472

  using heating means · CPC title

• F01M13/00

  Crankcase ventilating or breathing · CPC title

• F01M13/02 Primary

  by means of additional source of positive or negative pressure · CPC title

• F01M13/0011 Primary

  Breather valves · CPC title