Mazda Motor Corporation

Suguru Fukui

Takashi Kashiwabara

Shigemi Okada

Jun Yamane

Yusuke Nakata

Toshinobu Mori

Tokio Kagawa

Takashi Fukui

Satoshi Nozawa

Takahiro Sakaguchi

Naoki Suizu

A cylinder head cover structure of an engine includes a positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) valve releasing blow-by gas from an oil separating chamber to an intake system of the engine. The oil separating chamber is included in an oil separator provided to an interior of a cylinder head cover. In the oil separating chamber, oil mist is separated and removed from the blow-by gas. The PCV valve is located between a portion of a defining wall and an exterior wall of the cylinder head cover, and supported by the defining wall and the exterior wall, the defining wall defining the oil separating chamber and the cam housing, and the exterior wall being spaced apart from the portion of the defining wall. The PCV valve is surrounded by a space communicating with the cam housing.

Cylinder head cover structure for engine

A cylinder head cover structure for an engine includes a cylinder head cover. The cylinder head cover includes a metal cover member forming one end of the cylinder head cover in an engine length direction and a portion adjacent to the one end, and a resin cover member forming a portion of the cylinder head cover other than the metal cover member. The metal cover member is provided with a cam angle sensor attachment to which a cam angle sensor is attached, the cam angle sensor detecting a rotational position of a camshaft of the engine.

An extension piece portion is provided at a lower end portion of a screen plate so as to extend from the lower end portion, beyond a gas-passing through hole, to an oil pocket portion. An oil guide portion is provided at respective gas-hitting-side face portions of the screen plate and the extension piece portion so as to guide oil trapped at the above-described face portions into the oil pocket portion. Accordingly, it can be prevented that part of the oil in the middle of dropping down into the oil pocket portion from the screen plate is carried away by the gas flow passing through the gas-passing through hole, so that the efficiency of oil trap can be improved.

Oil separation device of engine

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Hiroshima, Japan

Suguru Fukui