Abstract:
A camshaft adjusting device having improved lubricant management including adjusting gearing for adjusting the angular position of a camshaft is proposed, the adjusting gearing having an input shaft, which can be coupled to a crankshaft, an output shaft, which can be coupled to the camshaft and an adjusting shaft, which can be coupled to an actuator. The adjusting gearing defines a rotational axis and the gearing forms a gearing interior, in which the input shaft, the output shaft and the adjusting shaft are operatively interconnected. The camshaft adjusting device has a lubricant supply for supplying the gearing interior with a lubricant and the lubricant supply is designed to form a lubricant sump in the gearing interior, the sump being radially outwards situated relative to the rotational axis.
Abstract:
Cover (25) is mounted on wall surface (12) on the front side of cylinder block (10). Sub gallery (26) through which engine oil flows is formed between cover (25) and wall surface (12). Chain tensioner (17) is mounted on cover (25), and the engine oil in sub gallery (26) is supplied to chain tensioner (17) through oil supply port (31) formed through cover (25).
Abstract:
A sealing and lubrication system includes first and second machine components with a combination sealing and lubrication directing gasket mounted between the first and second machine components. The gasket includes a sealing portion extending between the components and a nozzle portion which is operatively connected with the sealing portion as well as with a lubrication supply passage. The nozzle portion extends from the sealing portion of the gasket to a region external to the first machine component and the second machine component. The nozzle provides lubricating oil to at least one moving part of a third machine component.
Abstract:
An oil feeding system of an engine equipped with a transmission configured to change a rotational speed of rotation of a crankshaft and to output the rotation, including an oil pump configured to be driven in cooperation with the rotation of the crankshaft, an oil passage through which the oil outflowing from the oil pump flows, in which the oil passage includes a transmission oil passage through which the oil outflowing from the oil pump is guided to the transmission, and an engine body oil passage through which the oil outflowing from the oil pump is guided to portions other than the transmission, and an oil control portion configured to change a ratio between a pressure of the oil flowing through the transmission oil passage and a pressure of the oil flowing through the engine body oil passage.
Abstract:
A spline lubrication apparatus is disclosed for lubricating a spline of a pump drive. The apparatus includes a housing and a rotatable spline disposed within the housing. The spline includes a shaft having a first and a second end and an external surface extending between the first and second ends of the spline, the external surface defining a plurality of longitudinally extending splines. A gear is rotatably supported within the housing, the gear including an internally splined bore for the rotatable reception therein of the rotatable spline. The arrangement is such that the rotatable spline extends through the bore with the plurality of splines intermeshing with the internally splined bore. A bearing has a first and a second extremity, the bearing being disposed between the gear and the housing for bearingly supporting the gear for rotation within the housing. Also, a shield is disposed adjacent to one of the extremities of the bearing for diverting a portion of a flow of lubricant flowing through the bearing so that the portion of the flow of lubricant flows through the bore between the plurality of splines and the intermeshing internally splined bore for inhibiting fretting corrosion of the intermeshing splines and splined bore.
Abstract:
An engine includes an engine housing having an oil pan with an amount of oil therein. An oil lubricating system for the engine has a low pressure pump attached to the engine housing. A hydraulic system, which uses the same oil as the lubricating system, has a high pressure pump positioned in the oil pan, attached to the engine housing, and at least partially submerged in the oil.
Abstract:
A crankshaft drive in an internal combustion engine, which comprises at least one cylinder having a cylinder head, and a crankcase housing a crankshaft rotating at a predetermined direction and at a predetermined speed, and a balance shaft extending parallel to the crankshaft and rotating at the predetermined speed of the crankshaft in a direction opposite to the predetermined rotating direction of the crankshaft, the crankshaft and the balance shaft carrying balance weight means for balancing a mass of first order. An auxiliary shaft extends parallel to the crankshaft and rotates at the predetermined speed of the crankshaft in the predetermined rotating direction of the crankshaft, the auxiliary shaft carrying a counterweight for balancing a residual moment resulting from the rotating balance shaft with respect to the rotating crankshaft.
Abstract:
An induction system for a marine propulsion engine wherein the induction system has a flow-controlling valve. A lubricant supply system is provided for delivering lubricant to the induction system upstream of the valve and toward the sliding support surfaces of the valve so as to reduce the likelihood of corrosion, particularly if the fuel supply washes the flow-controlling valve of lubricant during engine running.
Abstract:
In a machine, such as an internal combustion engine, in which a chain is used to transmit rotating power from one shaft to another, the chain is situated in an oil-tight chain compartment which is separated from other lubricant containing spaces so that lubricating oil in the other spaces cannot flow directly into the lubricating oil in the chain compartment. Contamination of the chain lubricant is avoided, and the useful life of the chain is increased. In a first embodiment, a separate quantity of oil is situated in the chain compartment. In a second embodiment, the chain lubricating oil is recirculated in the chain compartment by a dedicated pump. In a third embodiment, filtered engine oil is delivered to the chain compartment through a passage in a shaft, and through a port in a chain sprocket on the shaft.
Abstract:
The invention is in an oil drain and turbo assembly support that includes a tubular body that is open longitudinally to pass a flow of oil draining from a turbocharger bearing assembly through an engine valley pan and back into the engine oiling system. The tubular body is bent to accommodate an offset of the bearing assembly housing oil drain to the hole through the engine valley pan and provides a top end coupling for rigid mounting across which bearing assembly housing oil drain. The opposite tubular body end is necked into a smooth cylindrical surface for telescoping into the valley pan hole and includes an O-ring seal fitted thereto for travel through the valley pan hole and is pulled upwardly into sealing engagement with the hole edge when the tubular body top end coupling is secured to the bearing assembly housing. A cross bar is arranged across the tubular body and includes fastener mounts at the ends thereof that receive fasteners for rigid coupling into the side of an engine mounted compressed air intake manifold, the tubular body for providing a columnar support between the turbocharger and the engine mounted compressed air intake manifold. Which cross bar provides a collar for covering over a crank case anti-depression valve opening into the compressed air intake manifold.