Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Mayuka Odo

Junya Saito

Hirotaka Komatsu

Sei Maruyama

Yuya Kasajima

Yoshiki Matsushiro

Takeshi Fujii

Kazunari Shigemoto

Kouji Nakano

Masahiro Nakajima

Kazuhiro Aoki

To improve the oil separation performance in an oil separation device for an internal combustion engine. The oil separation device () comprises a gas liquid separation passage () internally defined by a lower wall, an upper wall and a pair of side walls, and extending in a horizontal direction, a gas inlet () and a gas outlet () provided on either end of the gas liquid separation passage, a plurality of lower partition walls (H) projecting upward from the lower wall, and a plurality of upper partition walls (J) projecting downward from the upper wall. The lower partition walls and the upper partition wall are tilted with respective the length wise direction in plan view so as to define a spiral passage. The lower wall is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane such that an upstream part of the lower wall is lower than a downstream part of the lower wall with respect to a direction of the swirl flow.

Oil separation device for internal combustion engine

An oil separation device of an internal combustion engine includes a gas liquid separation chamber defined by a head cover of the engine, a gas introduction passage connected to a first end of the gas liquid separation chamber at an angle to the first direction, a gas inlet formed in an end of the gas introduction passage remote from the gas liquid separation chamber, and a gas outlet formed in a second end of the gas liquid separation chamber. Oil splashed from a valve actuating chamber of the engine is prevented from entering the oil separation device, and oil mist can be effectively separated from blow by gas.

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