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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2000
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The interior of a chain case,accommodating therein a chain-sprocket mechanism (a sprocket,and a silent chain,)provided for rotating a crankshaft,and camshafts,in an interlocking fashion and a tensioner shoe,for applying a predetermined tension to a slack side of a chain or a guide shoe,for preventing the run-out of the chain on a stretched side thereof is partitioned by providing a rib,so as to protrude from at least either of an end face of an engine E and an inner surface of a chain cover,joined to the end face with distal end edges of the ribs being directed toward sides,of the tensioner shoe or the guide shoe that are perpendicular to the crankshaft. According to this construction, since the rib provided so as to protrude from the cylinder block or the chain cover cooperates with the tensioner shoe or the guide shoe so as to form a separator, an oil passage having a sufficient cross-sectional area can be defined without control from the chain line and necessity of enlargement of the engine.