1433results about "Lubricant conduit arrangements" patented technology

A separator for separating oil mist from the crankcase ventilation gas of an internal combustion engine, especially of a motor vehicle. The separator includes a gas purification chamber inside which a rotatably mounted centrifugal rotor is arranged. The gas purification chamber has a crude gas inlet, a pure gas outlet, and an oil outlet. The crankcase ventilation gas can be conducted into a radially internal zone of the centrifugal rotor via the crude gas inlet, while pure gas that is liberated from oil mist can be discharged from the gas purification chamber via the pure gas outlet, and oil separated from the gas can be discharged from the gas purification chamber via the oil outlet. The separator further includes a rotary drive for the centrifugal rotor. The rotary drive is disposed in a drive chamber of the separator, can be operated using pressurized lubrication oil of the internal combustion engine, and is connected to the centrifugal rotor by means of a shaft extending from the drive chamber into the gas purification chamber, from which the drive chamber is separated. The rotary drive is formed by at least one thrust nozzle which is connected to the shaft and to which the pressurized lubrication oil of the internal combustion engine can be fed. The separator includes at least one part of a base that forms the separation between the gas purification chamber and the drive chamber and extends into the drive chamber, the part of the base being fitted with a seat for a bearing of the shaft. The bearing is located at a distance from the centrifugal rotor.

An electrically controlled turbocharger has a motor mounted on a shaft in a motor housing between a turbine and compressor. Oil is sprayed onto the motor stator to cool the stator. An oil gallery is disposed above the stator to receive lubricating oil and contains apertures that perform as jets to allow oil to be sprayed directly on the motor stator. A coolant jacket is formed in the turbocharger housing between the turbine and the motor to allow liquid coolant to circulate therein and dissipate heat from the turbine end prior to reaching the motor components. Other embodiments provide for a stator component to be submerged in flowing cooling oil.

In a driven axle assembly (12) for a motor vehicle that includes a differential housing located substantially in the center of the axle and tubes (16, 17) extending laterally from the differential, surrounding axle shafts (20) and opening into a lubricant reservoir (60) in the differential housing, a system for circulating and cooling axle lubricant includes a cover (26) for closing and sealing the housing having a first aperture into the housing where a ring gear rotates through the lubricant reservoir. The aperture in the cover opens to a chamber that holds lubricant carried through the aperture by the rotating ring gear. Conduit (72) connected by a hydraulic fitting to the chamber has its opposite end connected to an oil cooler mounted on the axle tube. Conduit (78) returns the lubricant to the reservoir in the differential housing. Lubricant flows via a gravity feed through the first conduit into the cooler and back to the housing reservoir via the second conduit, effectively cooling the lubricant without the addition of a pump.

A gas turbine engine has an oil tube for delivering oil through a high temperature zone of the engine to an engine component for cooling and lubrication. An insulation tube surrounds the oil tube and extends in a substantial length of the oil tube. The opposed ends of the insulation tube are integrally and sealingly connected to respective end portions of the oil tube to form a dead air annulus between the oil tube and the insulation tube.

A lubrication system for an engine including a sump for lubricant, a main pump operable to pump lubricant to first lubrication positions within the engine, and an auxiliary lubricant pump also operable to pump lubricant to second lubrication positions within the engine and wherein the auxiliary pump is an electrically driven pump which is controlled by a system controller the output of the auxiliary pump being controlled according to engine operating conditions, the main pump in use, pumping lubricant to the first lubrication positions within the engine along a main lubricant feed line, and the auxiliary pump when operated pumping lubricant to the second lubrication positions within the engine along an auxiliary feed line, and wherein the main and auxiliary feed lines, are connected via a communication passage which includes a closeable communication valve, the communication valve when closed preventing the flow of lubricant from the auxiliary feed line to the first lubrication positions, and when open permitting the flow of lubricant from the auxiliary feed line to the first lubrication positions.

An oil supply device for an engine includes a first oil suction passage, a second oil suction passage, a first pump for sucking and discharging oil from the first oil suction passage, a second pump arranged in series with the first pump, the second pump for sucking and discharging oil from at least one of the first pump and the second oil suction passage, a check valve for blocking oil circulation, a first oil passage, a second oil passage, a third oil passage for establishing communication between the first oil passage and the second oil passage, and a supply volume control device for varying oil supply volume to a lubrication system portion, to a cooling system portion, or to the lubrication system portion and the cooling system portion in accordance with a change in at least one of an engine oil temperature, an engine rotation speed, and an engine load.

A marine diesel engine system includes a diesel engine having a plurality of cylinders. The system also includes, proximate the engine, a primary engine lubricant and an additive selected from certain alkylamine-alkylphosphates, 500 TBN calcium sulfonate and mixtures thereof. A means for blending the lubricant and additives into a mixture for introduction into a cylinder is provided. Thus lubricant properties may be modified depending upon engine conditions.

An electrically controlled turbocharger has a motor mounted on a shaft in a motor housing between a turbine and compressor. Oil is sprayed onto the motor stator to cool the stator. An oil gallery is disposed above the stator to receive lubricating oil and contains apertures that perform as jets to allow oil to be sprayed directly on the motor stator. A coolant jacket is formed in the turbocharger housing between the turbine and the motor to allow liquid coolant to circulate therein and dissipate heat from the turbine end prior to reaching the motor components. Other embodiments provide for a stator component to be submerged in flowing cooling oil.

A hydraulic circuit control device that selectively supplies oil to a first oil passage and a second oil passage by an oil pump, the control device includes: an oil passage switching unit adapted to connect the oil pump to either the first oil passage or the second oil passage; a control mode switching unit adapted to switch the control mode of the electric motor to either a torque control mode or a speed control mode; an oil passage selecting unit adapted to select whether to connect the oil pump to the first oil passage or the second oil passage; and a control unit adapted to perform control so that the control mode switching unit switches the control mode to the torque control mode when the first oil passage has been selected, and perform control so that the control mode switching unit switches the control mode to the speed control mode when the second oil passage has been selected.

A cylinder head cooling structure and an oil temperature control system are provided for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders, each having a plurality of intake ports and a plurality of exhaust ports. The engine includes cooling oil jackets surrounding the spark plugs in the cylinder head, a thermostat attached to the front surface of the crankcase independently of an oil filter, and an oil temperature sensor disposed on a rear face of the cylinder block above the crankcase in an oil supply path formed on the cylinder rear face for supplying oil to the oil jackets. Oil passages conducting oil into the oil jacket are provided between two separate parts of a bifucated intake port and between two separate parts of a bifurcated exhaust port, and only cooling system oil reaching high temperatures is allowed to flow through the thermostat, thereby improving temperature control response.

A method of controlling the delivery of fluid to an engine includes receiving a fuel flow rate signal. An electric pump is arranged to deliver fluid to the engine. The speed of the electric pump is controlled based on the fuel flow rate signal.

A tank assembly for a dry sump lubrication system for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The tank assembly includes a tank having an upper tank portion and a lower tank portion. An interface assembly is disposed at the lower tank portion and is configured to operably deliver and receive a lubricant to and from the engine. A first end of a return tube in fluid communication with a second end is configured to receive lubricant from the engine at the interface assembly. The second end opposite the first end is in fluid communication with the upper tank portion. In this manner, a return hose and a feed hose may be connected to a same portion of the tank assembly.

A diesel engine operating on a fuel containing from about 5 to about 100 wt. % bio-diesel components and being lubricated with a lubricating oil composition including a major amount of oil of lubricating viscosity, and a minor amount of at least one highly grafted, multi-functional olefin copolymer. The olefin copolymer is made by reacting an acylating agent with an olefin copolymer having a number average molecular weight greater than about 1,000 in the present of a free radical initiator to provide an acylated olefin copolymer having a degree of grafting (DOG) of the acylating agent on the olefin copolymer of at least 0.5 wt. %, and reacting the acylated olefin copolymer with an amine to provide the highly grafted, multi-functional olefin copolymer. As used, the highly grafted, multi-functional olefin copolymer is effective to reduce a viscosity increase in the lubricating oil composition for the engine.

A two stroke cycle internal combustion engine machine that does not require lubricating oil to be mixed with its fuel, producing greater efficiency, higher power to weight ratio, cooler operating temperatures, a wider speed range, greater simplicity, and lower toxic emissions, many of the improvements also transferable to four stroke engines.

A centrifugal air / oil separation system communicates with bearing cavities of the engine and substantially isolates separated oil from contacting the gearbox.

An output shaft bearing portion which is provided in an extension housing to be attached to an outside of an end wall portion of a casing main body of a transmission casing is lubricated by lubrication oil which is supplied to lubricating portions inside the casing main body. In the end wall portion there is formed an oil guide passage which guides the lubrication oil supplied to the lubricating portions inside the casing main body. Inside the extension housing, there is formed a rib which guides the lubrication oil flown from the oil guide passage, into a position in which the lubrication oil can be scraped by a gear wheel provided inside the extension housing. The lubrication oil scraped by the gear wheel is supplied to the output shaft bearing portion.

An oil supply system for a vehicle includes: a mechanical oil pump driven by an engine; an electric oil pump driven by an electric motor; a hydraulic pressure control circuit supplied with oil from the mechanical oil pump and the electric oil pump through an oil discharge passage for the mechanical oil pump and an oil discharge passage for the electric oil pump, which are connected to each other; a lubrication / cooling oil passage that is supplied with the oil from the hydraulic pressure control circuit; and a communication passage that provides communication between the lubrication / cooling oil passage and the mechanical oil pump. With this oil supply system, it is possible to prevent the electric oil pump from causing air-sucking noise, for example, in the motor-power cruise mode, and to improve the rising characteristics of the hydraulic pressure produced by the mechanical oil pump during startup of the engine.

An engine-pressurized prestart oiler for an engine having pressure lubrication is provided, which rapidly lubricates critical engine bearing surfaces prior to the starting sequence. An accumulator for storing oil and pressurized air contains an air-oil separation float, which essentially fills the internal cross-sectional area and prevents absorption of the air. Discharge and recharge of the accumulator is preferably implemented by a normally closed solenoid valve. Discharge is controlled either manually by a switch or automatically by circuitry containing ignition-off time and accumulator pressure comparators, a starter interrupter, and a prestart oiling timer. Recharge is automatic, as the solenoid valve allows oil flow whenever the engine oil pressure sufficiently exceeds the accumulator pressure. A conduit connects the accumulator, solenoid valve, and engine, connecting to the engine either at the oil pressure sensor port or through an adaptor installed between the oil filter and the oil filter mount.

A system for controlling hydraulic pressure and flow rate of oil in an engine, may include a first solenoid valve disposed in a channel connecting an inlet and an outlet of an oil pump supplying oil from an oil pan to the engine, and an electronic controller controlling the first solenoid valve on the basis of number of revolution of the engine, load of the engine, and temperature of the oil.

An oil supply system for a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine is disclosed in which the supply of oil to piston cooling jets is controlled by pressure operated valves designed to open at a pre-defined valve opening pressure. The pressure of oil supplied by a pump is controlled to be below this pre-defined valve opening pressure during operation of the engine in which piston cooling is not required, and the pressure of oil is controlled to above the pre-defined valve opening pressure when piston cooling is required. The control of the pump is by an electronic control unit based upon a combination of engine speed and engine load.

A motorcycle is provided in which a seat and a storage box are arranged so as to be vertically stacked on each other in a rear portion of a body frame, and a pivotally mounted powertrain unit is suspended from the body frame under the storage box. The powertrain unit extends in the fore-and-aft direction of the body frame, and the engine has a crank chamber and a lubricant oil chamber provided separately from each other. A lubrication-oil passage structure for the engine is provided between each of a pair of journal bearing portions of a crankcase. The crankcase has an enclosed crank chamber and a crankshaft which is freely rotatably supported by the journal bearing portions with plain bearings. The journal bearing portions are provided with protrusion bosses for resisting entry of lubricating oil into the crank chamber from outside of the crankcase.

An oil-feeding device for a crankshaft where the amount of lubricant oil leaking from supporting areas of main journal portions is reduced without increasing friction of bearing members against the main journal portions. The oil-feeding device for a crankshaft includes upper bearing members and lower bearing members. The upper and lower bearing members have a half hollow cylindrical shape, are provided with crush relief portions at both ends, and jointly encompass main journal portions of a crank shaft. The upper bearing members have circumferentially extending oil grooves provided in the faces opposite the main journal portions, the grooves penetrating through oil passages of a cylinder block. The lower bearing members do not have oil grooves. The oil grooves do not extend in the crush relief portions, and therefore the leakage of lubricant oil, fed to the oil grooves, to the areas of the crush relief portions is suppressed.

An internal combustion engine arrangement 7 with a variable cam timing unit pressurized oil supply arrangement 49 is provided. A first pump 44 delivers oil through a first check valve 62 to a VCT unit 83 and additionally provides oil to the engine lubrication system. A second oil pump 104 provides pressurized oil to the VCT unit 83 through a second check valve 106. An accumulator 114 is connected between the first 62 and second 106 check valves to pressurize oil delivered to the variable cam timing unit 83.

A method for scavenging oil in a gas turbine engine comprises using a driving fluid flow to drive a flow of a fluid collected in an oil system of the engine to pass through an ejector and then the driven flow of the fluid is directed to be discharged into an oil tank.

A lubricating oil supplying system for an internal combustion engine includes a lubricating oil storage section for storing lubricating oil. A driven pump is driven by the internal combustion engine to suck the lubricating oil from the lubricating oil storage section and discharge the lubricating oil to a discharge passage. An electric pump is provided for sucking the lubricating oil discharged from the driven pump to the discharge passage and discharge the lubricating oil to a lubricating oil requiring section in the internal combustion engine. A controlling mechanism is provided for drivingly controlling the electric pump in accordance with a control signal. A bypass passage is provided for bypassing the driven pump. A check valve is disposed in the bypass passage to allow the lubricating oil in the lubricating oil storage section to flow only through a path bypassing said driven pump and toward side of the discharge passage.

A control device has a mechanical oil pump driven by an engine and an electric oil pump supplying oil via a check valve in an oil passage connecting the mechanical oil pump and the electric oil pump, the check valve allowing a flow of the oil from the electric oil pump side to the mechanical oil pump side while blocking a flow in an opposite direction, regardless of the pressure of the electric oil pump. When the check valve is closed under an oil pressure condition in which the electric oil pump outputs a maximum output oil pressure while the mechanical oil pump is driven by the engine at idle, the control device is configured to drive the electric oil pump during stop of the mechanical oil pump, and to stop the electric oil pump based on a load increase after start of the mechanical oil pump.

A two part oil drain plug assembly facilitates the draining of oil or fluid from a sump, and its use prevents the threads of the sump, which may be an automotive oil pan, from becoming stripped or damaged. Further, the device aids in the determination of the physical condition (wear) of the engine, transmission or the like to which the sump is attached, by attracting metal particles to an isolated magnet on the drain plug.

Apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an estimating or controlling unit to determine an oil-diluting fuel quantity of an engine oil-diluting fuel which is fuel leaking out through a clearance between a piston and a cylinder of the engine and diluting an engine oil. The unit calculates a variation of the engine oil-diluting fuel quantity, and determines the oil-diluting fuel quantity in accordance with the variation.