Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Akihiro Katsumata

Itsuro Hashiguchi

Masaki Chujo

Yojiro Koga

Yuji Iwata

Takumi Hattori

Ichiro Kawano

An internal combustion engine includes an oil seal mounted at a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine body to restrain leakage of oil to an outside of the internal combustion engine, an oil seal fixing member fixed to the internal combustion engine body to fix the oil seal to the internal combustion engine body, and a cover member assembled on a lateral surface portion of the internal combustion engine body in a direction in which the crankshaft extends, the cover member covering the oil seal fixing member from a side opposite to the internal combustion engine body, the oil seal fixing member being fixed to the internal combustion engine body at a fixing position which is provided at an inner side than an outer edge portion of the cover member fastened to the internal combustion engine body.

Internal combustion engine

A water pump includes a rotation member, a hollow shaft portion having an opening on one end and connected to the rotation member for unitary rotating with the rotation member, an impeller connected to the shaft portion for unitary rotating with the shaft portion, a body defining a fluid chamber in which the impeller is rotated, a bearing for rotatably supporting the shaft portion on the body, a sealing member provided between the shaft portion and the body for sealing the fluid chamber and a cover portion for substantively closing the opening of the shaft portion.

Water pump with a hollow shaft, seal, and drain opening therein

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Kariya, Japan

Akihiro Katsumata