Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Les William Routledge

Ian Graham Pegg

Christopher Ponter

Mitchell Piddock

Daniel Moll

Methods and systems are provided for a bleed valve assembly for an engine. In one example, a method (or system) may include a fastener comprising a threaded shank received within a bore of the engine, a bleed bore within the fastener, and a bleed plug including a threaded portion received within the bleed bore of the fastener. The bleed plug may include an internal passage extending from one end of the bleed plug and a side port in fluidic communication with the passage so that when the bleed plug is in an open position fluid from an engine fluid chamber may flow through the passage of the bleed plug and out of the port.

Bleed valve assembly

A cooling system for an internal combustion engineis disclosed in which an electronically controlled flow control valveis used to control the flow of coolant exiting the engine. The electronically controlled flow control valveis able to control the cooling of the engineirrespective of the speed at which a pumpused to urge coolant to flow into the engineis rotated by a drive beltconnected to an outputfrom the engine

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Hockley, United Kingdom

Les William Routledge