Roki Co., Ltd.

Taisuke Sato

Yosuke Hio

Takamasa Murata

Norikazu Seki

The present invention provides an oil separator that can improve oil separation performance with a simple structure. An oil separator includes a casing that has an inlet and an outlet and the oil separator is configured to separate oil contained in blow-by gas in the casing. The casing includes therein multiple staggered partition walls to form a gas passage through which the blow-by gas flows in a meandering manner in a horizontal direction from the inlet to the outlet, and a filter element that partially closes the gas passage and crosses the partition walls.

Oil separator

A filter element includes a filter member provided with a plurality of pleat portions and a frame body holding an outer peripheral portion of the filter member. The frame body is provided with a comb-shaped portion having a comb-tooth portion which is inserted into adjacent pleat portions and contacts to a surface of the filter member, and the comb-shaped member is formed by an insert-molding process.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Taisuke Sato