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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2013
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Noboyuki Akaishi, Wako, JP;
Hidehiko Kamiyama, Tochigi, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A balancer housing () consists of an upper housing () and a lower housing (), and receives a pair of rotatably supported balancer shafts () therein. An oil strainer mounting portion () is formed as a cylindrical wall extending downward from a bottom wall of the lower housing, and an inlet passage () leading to an inlet end of an oil pump () extends along a length of the balancer shafts adjacent to the oil strainer mounting portion. A communication passage consisting of a pair of circular holes () arranged along an axial line of the inlet passage is passed through a wall separating an interior of the oil strainer mounting portion with the inlet passage. The two holes provides an adequate cross sectional area without increasing the height of the balancer housing.