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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1995
Ernst-Wilhelm Hufendiek, Stuttgart, DE;
Walter Kerschbaum, Fellbach, DE;
Johannes Werner, Hamburg, DE;
Mercedes-Benz AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A casing cover for an internal combustion engine with an engine casing having two cylinder banks is mounted on one end of the engine casing and includes an oil cooler, an oil filter, an oil filter bypass arrangement and also a transverse cooling water passage in communication with main cooling water passages extending along the cylinder banks and a transverse oil passage in communication with main oil passages also extending along the cylinder banks, and comprises three adjacent but separate functional areas, a first lowermost area which includes the lubricating oil passages leading to and from the oil cooler, the oil filter and the main oil passages, a second functional area which includes a cooling water space receiving the oil cooler and is disposed above the first functional area and a third functional area which is disposed next to the second functional area and includes cooling water return passages receiving the cooling water from said cylinder banks.