Internal-combustion engines – Frame construction – Horizontal cylinder
Patent
1988-01-19
1989-06-13
Wolfe, Willis R.
Internal-combustion engines
Frame construction
Horizontal cylinder
123192B, 384429, 384432, 184 65, F02F 700, F16M 1025, F16C 902
Patent
active
048382213
ABSTRACT:
An engine construction which comprises a cylinder block having a series of bearing seats formed therein for the support of a crankshaft, a lower block having bearing caps formed integrally therewith and adapted to be secured from below to the cylinder block with the bearing caps aligned with the corresponding bearing seats for the support of the crankshaft, a balancer shaft, a drive transmitting unit for transmitting the drive of the crankshaft to the balancer shaft, and an oil pan adapted to be removably fitted from below to the lower block and positioned on one side of the lower block opposite to the cylinder block. A surface region of the cylinder block and a mating surface region of the lower block which is brought into contact with the surface region of the cylinder block when the cylinder block and the lower block are connected together are formed with respective pluralities of bearing recesses for the support of the balancer shaft. The drive transmitting unit is operatively accommodated within an oil return space delimited by a main bearing cap, located rearmost of the lower block, and a rear end wall of the lower block that is positioned rearwardly of the main bearing cap.
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Mazda Motor Corporation
Wolfe Willis R.
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