Mazda Motor Corporation

Tomohiro Koguchi

Kenta Honda

Ryotaro Nishida

Mikimasa Kawaguchi

Yuichi Ayukawa

Shinji Wakamoto

Daisuke Shimo

Kenji Kashiyama

Tatsuya Takahata

Yoshie Kakuda

Hirokazu Matsuura

Masaaki Sato

Akinobu Aoki

Shinji Fujihira

Shinji Watanabe

Keita Watanabe

Daisuke Fukuda

Akira Tsuda

Shinichi Hikitani

Haruki Misumi

Masahiro Miyazaki

Takayuki Tominaga

Keiichi Kamimura

Keitaro Kageyama

Hiroaki Gotan

Yusuke Marutani

Kenta Kobayashi

Takeshi Nakahira

Noriyoshi Okii

Yukio Jo

Kazufumi Kumakura

Kenji Tanaka

Michiyuki Miura

Nobuhiro Fujii

Fumie Kitakaze

Atsushi Hisano

Takahiro Okazaki

Toshiaki Tohoda

Aki Murai

Masaki Yamamoto

Yusaku Takahashi

A cooling device of a vehicle is provided, which includes a transmission, a first coolant circuit where a first coolant which cools the internal combustion engine circulates, a second coolant circuit independent from the first coolant circuit, where a second coolant which cools the electric drive system circulates, and a fluid circuit where fluid which lubricates and cools friction engagement elements in the transmission circulates. The fluid circuit includes a first heat exchanger which exchanges heat between the fluid and the first coolant, a second heat exchanger in-series with the first heat exchanger which exchanges heat between the fluid and the second coolant, a first adjuster which changes a flow rate of the fluid passing through the first heat exchanger, and a second adjuster which changes a flow rate of the fluid passing through the second heat exchanger.

Vehicle cooling device

An object of the present invention is to simplify portions of an oil supply passage which portions are formed at a cylinder block. An oil supply device according to the present invention includes a cylinder block, an oil pan, an oil pump, and an oil filter. Wall portions of the oil pan are coupled to wall portions of the cylinder block. An oil filter is attached to the oil pan. An upstream oil supply passage through which the oil filtrated by the oil filter flows is formed at the oil pan. A downstream oil supply passage including a main gallery extending in a cylinder column direction is formed at the cylinder block. A first communication passage through which the main gallery and the upstream oil supply passage communicate with each other is formed at the wall portion of the cylinder block and the wall portion of the oil pan.

Oil supply device of engine, method of manufacturing engine, and oil supply passage structure of engine

A head-side jacket through which coolant flows is formed in a cylinder head. A main circulation path and a sub circulation path through which coolant fed from a coolant pump respectively circulates are formed. The head-side jacket is separated into an exhaust-port side jacket formed around an exhaust port, and a combustion-chamber-side jacket closer to a combustion chamber than the exhaust-port-side jacket. A heat exchanger is not formed in the main circulation path including the combustion-chamber-side jacket, but is formed in the sub circulation path excluding the combustion-chamber-side jacket and including the exhaust-port-side jacket.

Cooling device for engine

The present disclosure improves serviceability of an automotive powertrain unit without deteriorating NVH characteristics. A powertrain includes an engine having a cylinder head; and a transmission coupled to the engine. The engine includes an EGR connected between an intake passage and an exhaust passage. The transmission is provided below the cylinder head in a vehicle height direction. The EGR is provided along a side of the cylinder head toward the transmission, and supported by the transmission.

Automotive powertrain unit

Disclosed herein is an oil supply device for an internal combustion engine, which includes a control unit that controls activation of an electric oil pump and that functions as either a reserve oil level estimator for estimating the level of oil reserved in auxiliary chambers or a reserve oil level detector for detecting the level of the oil reserved there. When it is estimated or detected that the level of the oil reserved in the auxiliary chambers has become equal to or less than a predetermined reserve oil level while the internal combustion engine is OFF, the control unit performs an oil replenishment control to replenish the auxiliary chambers with the oil by activating the electric oil pump.

Oil supply device of internal combustion engine

An engine cooling device includes a heater circulation passage including an exhaust-side channel and a heater channel, the exhaust-side channel extending through an exhaust port-side portion of a cylinder head, the heater channel extending through a heater core; an auxiliary device circulation passage including a main channel and an auxiliary device channel, the main channel extending through a portion of the cylinder head other than the exhaust port-side portion, the auxiliary device channel extending through an auxiliary device; a temperature detecting portion configured to detect a temperature of an engine; and a channel switching valve configured to perform connection between the main channel and the auxiliary device channel and connection between the heater circulation passage and the auxiliary device circulation passage depending on the detected temperature falling within one of three temperature ranges.

Engine cooling device

An engine oil supply apparatus includes: an oil pump; an oil supply path which supplies oil to a hydraulic operating section of an engine; an oil cooler which is provided on the oil supply path and which cools oil discharged from the oil pump; and a control apparatus which sets a required oil pressure required from the hydraulic operating section in accordance with an operation state of the engine, as a target oil pressure, and controls the discharge amount of the oil pump so that an oil pressure inside the oil supply path equals the target oil pressure. The control apparatus controls the oil pump so that, during an operation state of the engine where the oil enters a prescribed high oil temperature state, the oil is discharged in an amount exceeding a discharge amount corresponding to the required oil pressure of the hydraulic operating section.

Engine oil supply apparatus

An oil supply apparatus includes: an oil pump; a main oil supply path; a sub oil supply path connected to the main oil supply path; a first oil supply section which is connected to the main oil supply path and which supplies oil to a crank bearing section of a specific crank journal; a second oil supply section which is connected to the sub oil supply path and which supplies oil to a crank bearing section of a crank journal other than the specific crank journal; and a control apparatus which sets, as a target oil pressure, a highest required oil pressure among required oil pressures required from a plurality of hydraulic operating sections in accordance with an operation state of the engine, and which controls the discharge amount of the oil pump so that an oil pressure detected by an oil pressure sensor equals the target oil pressure.

A transverse engine adjacent to a drive shaft includes an engine body having a crankshaft, a first pipe connected to the engine body and running such that an engine coolant flows therethrough, and an accessory drive system. The accessory drive system includes an endless outer belt wound between a crankshaft pulley and an alternator drive pulley. A portion of the first pipe forms a water protector located between the drive shaft and the outer belt and overlapping with the outer belt as viewed from the front or rear of the vehicle.

Structure for reducing amount of water splashed on vehicle engine

An oil pump device includes an oil pump () and an electrically operated control valve (). The valve adjusts hydraulic pressures to be applied to a decrease-side control pressure chamber (A) for causing a pump casing () to swing in the discharge amount decrease direction and an increase-side control pressure chamber (B) for causing the pump casing to swing in the discharge amount increase direction so as to hold the pump casing at a predetermined approximately intermediate position between the maximum swing position in the discharge amount decrease direction and the maximum swing position in the discharge amount increase direction by balancing the urging forces of a decrease-side return spring () for urging the pump casing in the discharge amount decrease direction and an increase-side return spring () for urging the pump casing in the discharge amount increase direction when supply of current to the valve is stopped.

Oil pump device

An auxiliary machine drive device for an engine includes a fuel pump including first and second sprockets mounted on a rear end surface of an engine body; a starter disposed below the fuel pump; a drive sprocket and a crankshaft sprocket fixed to a crankshaft; an oil pump including an oil pump sprocket disposed below the drive sprocket; an intake camshaft including an intake camshaft sprocket, and disposed on the upper side of the engine body than the fuel pump; a balancer drive shaft including a balancer shaft sprocket disposed on the exhaust side than the crankshaft and below the crankshaft; a first chain wound between the crankshaft sprocket and a first sprocket; a second chain wound between the intake camshaft sprocket and a second sprocket: and a third chain wound between the drive sprocket, the oil pump sprocket, and the balancer shaft sprocket.

Auxiliary machine drive device for engine

A cooling structure includes a block-side water jacket formed in a cylinder block, a head-side water jacket formed in a cylinder head, an introducing portion which introduces a cooling liquid from an end of the cylinder block to the block-side water jacket, a discharging portion which discharges a cooling liquid from the other end of the cylinder block to the head-side water jacket, and a spacer member accommodated in the block-side water jacket, and including a peripheral wall which forms an exhaust-side passage and an intake-side passage between a cylinder bore wall and the peripheral wall. The spacer member includes a distribution adjustment mechanism which distributes a cooling liquid introduced to the block-side water jacket between the exhaust-side passage and the intake-side passage.

Cooling structure for multi-cylinder engine

A cooling structure of a multi-cylinder engine is provided. The engine has cylinders and a cylinder block formed with a cylinder bore wall. The cooling structure includes a water jacket formed in the cylinder block and defined by the cylinder bore wall and a jacket outer surface surrounding the cylinder bore wall, a water pump for feeding a coolant to the water jacket, an introduction portion formed in the cylinder block, having an introduction port opening to the jacket outer surface, and for introducing the coolant to the water jacket, and a spacer member accommodated inside the water jacket. The spacer member has a spacer main body surrounding the cylinder bore wall, and a dividing wall protruding toward the jacket outer surface from an outer circumferential surface of the spacer main body. The dividing wall extends in a circumferential direction at a position opposing the introduction port.

Cooling structure of multi-cylinder engine

Disclosed is an arrangement structure for a sensor to be mounted to an engine of a vehicle, wherein the engine is arranged in an engine compartmentof the vehicle in a posture allowing a crankshaftof the engine to be oriented in a widthwise direction of the vehicle. The arrangement structure comprises a driveshaftarranged along a vehicle-rearward lateral surface of the enginefacing in a rearward direction of the vehicle, to rotatably drive a front wheel, and a flange sectionprovided as a joining section between two members () constituting the engine, to protrude in the rearward direction of the vehicle and at a height position below that of the driveshaft, wherein the sensoris mounted to the vehicle-rearward lateral surface of the engineat a height position located above the flange sectionand in overlapping relation with the driveshaftwhen viewed from a rear side of the vehicle. The arrangement structure of the present invention is capable of more reliably protecting the sensor mounted to the engine against foreign objects, such as water and a pebble, to adequately maintain performance of the sensor on a long-term basis.

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Tomohiro Koguchi