CN218717191U

CN218717191U - Integrated air inlet structure, engine assembly and vehicle

Info

Publication number: CN218717191U
Application number: CN202222948764.6U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 毛绍辉; 郭健; 刘伟; 李强; 宓思恩
Original assignee: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd; Ningbo Geely Royal Engine Components Co Ltd; Aurobay Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd; Ningbo Geely Royal Engine Components Co Ltd; Aurobay Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-11-01
Filing date: 2022-11-01
Publication date: 2023-03-24
Anticipated expiration: 2032-11-01

Abstract

An integrated air intake structure, engine assembly, and vehicle are provided herein. The integrated air intake structure includes: the air inlet side of the air inlet manifold is provided with a first connecting part; and the water-cooled intercooler is positioned outside the air inlet manifold, a second connecting part is arranged on the air outlet side of the water-cooled intercooler, and the first connecting part is connected with the second connecting part. This integrated air inlet structure has integrated air intake manifold and water-cooled intercooler, and the structure is compacter, the volume is littleer, is applied to engine unit spare, can reduce engine unit spare's volume, improves the problem that engine unit spare's arrangement space is compact in the front deck.

Description

Integrated air inlet structure, engine assembly and vehicle

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to vehicle technology, and more particularly to an integrated air intake structure, engine assembly, and vehicle.

Background

For a new energy automobile, various new energy modules such as a driving motor, a generator, a control module and an inverter need to be arranged in a front cabin, so that the arrangement space of an engine assembly in the front cabin is compact, and how to reduce the occupied space of the engine assembly is a technical problem which needs to be solved urgently by a technical staff in the field.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The research finds that: new energy automobile's engine assembly, including booster, intake pipe, air throttle, air intake manifold and water-cooling intercooler, the gas outlet of intake pipe is connected with the air inlet of water-cooling intercooler, and water-cooling intercooler gas outlet is connected with the air inlet of air throttle, and the gas outlet of air throttle is connected with air intake manifold's air inlet, and air intake manifold's gas outlet is connected with the cylinder cap of engine. The supercharger, the air inlet pipe, the water-cooled intercooler, the throttle valve and the air inlet manifold all need to consider arrangement gaps, so that the structure of an engine assembly is not compact and the occupied space is large; in addition, the water-cooled intercooler is arranged above the air inlet manifold, the strength requirement on the air inlet manifold is very high, and therefore the air inlet manifold with the structure can be made into cast aluminum parts, the weight is large, and the oil consumption of the whole automobile can be improved.

In order to solve at least one of the above technical problems, the present application provides an integrated air intake structure, which is applied to an engine assembly, and can reduce the volume of the engine assembly and improve the problem of compact arrangement space of the engine assembly in a front cabin.

The application also provides an engine assembly and a vehicle.

The embodiment of the utility model provides an integrated inlet structure, include: the air inlet side of the air inlet manifold is provided with a first connecting part; and the water-cooling intercooler is positioned outside the air inlet manifold, a second connecting part is arranged on the air outlet side of the water-cooling intercooler, and the first connecting part is connected with the second connecting part.

In some exemplary embodiments, the intake manifold is a non-metallic member.

In some exemplary embodiments, the non-metallic member is made of plastic.

In some exemplary embodiments, the water-cooled intercooler is a metal piece.

In some exemplary embodiments, the metal member is made of aluminum.

In some exemplary embodiments, the first connecting portion includes a flange, the second connecting portion includes a mounting surface and a press-fitting flange provided around the mounting surface, the flange is disposed on the mounting surface, and the press-fitting flange is pressed against a side of the flange facing away from the mounting surface.

In some exemplary embodiments, the water-cooled intercooler is provided with a fitting hole for passing a screw therethrough.

The embodiment of the utility model provides an engine assembly, including engine and above-mentioned arbitrary embodiment integrated air inlet structure, air intake manifold's the side of giving vent to anger is fixed on the cylinder head of engine.

In some exemplary embodiments, the engine assembly further comprises a supercharger, an intake pipe and a throttle valve, and the supercharger, the intake pipe, the throttle valve and an inlet side of the water-cooled intercooler are connected in sequence.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a vehicle, including automobile body and above-mentioned arbitrary embodiment engine assembly.

The application provides an integrated air inlet structure, integrated air intake manifold and water-cooling intercooler, the structure is compacter, the volume is littleer, is applied to engine unit spare, can reduce engine unit spare's volume, improves the problem that engine unit spare's the space of arranging is compact in the front deck.

Additional features and advantages of the application will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by the practice of the application. Other advantages of the present application may be realized and attained by the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the specification and the drawings.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings are included to provide an understanding of the present disclosure and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the disclosure and together with the examples serve to explain the principles of the disclosure and not to limit the disclosure.

Fig. 1 is a schematic partial structural view of an engine assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of a partial structure of a position where the intake manifold and the water-cooled intercooler in fig. 1 are connected through a flanging press-fitting process.

Wherein, the correspondence between the reference numbers and the component names in fig. 1 and fig. 2 is:

100 intake manifold, 110 first flange, 200 water-cooled intercooler, 210 press-fitting flanging, 220 assembly holes, 300 intake pipe, 400 throttle valve and 500 cylinder cover.

Detailed Description

The present embodiments are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention to the specific embodiments shown. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other without conflict.

The embodiment of the utility model provides an engine assembly, as shown in FIG. 1, including engine and integrated air intake structure. The integrated air intake structure includes: an intake manifold 100 provided with a first connection portion on an intake side; and a water-cooled intercooler 200 located outside the intake manifold 100, the air outlet side of the water-cooled intercooler 200 being provided with a second connecting portion, the first connecting portion being connected with the second connecting portion.

The integrated air inlet structure integrates the air inlet manifold 100 and the water-cooled intercooler 200, the structure is more compact, the size is smaller, the integrated air inlet structure is applied to the engine assembly, the size of the engine assembly can be reduced, and the problem that the arrangement space of the engine assembly in the front cabin is compact is solved.

In some exemplary embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, the engine assembly further includes a supercharger, an intake pipe 300, and a throttle valve 400, the supercharger, the intake pipe 300, the throttle valve 400, and an inlet side of the water-cooled intercooler 200 are connected in sequence, an outlet side of the intake manifold 100 is fixed to a cylinder head 500 of the engine, and the water-cooled intercooler 200 is fixed to a cylinder block of the engine.

The intake manifold 100 is located above the water-cooled intercooler 200, so that the intake manifold 100 does not need to bear the weight of the water-cooled intercooler 200, the intake manifold 100 can be made of low-strength light materials or in a thinning mode, the intake manifold 100 is lighter in weight, and the oil consumption of the whole vehicle can be reduced.

The intake manifold 100 may be a non-metal part, such as a plastic part; the water-cooled intercooler 200 is a metal part, such as an aluminum part; the above can achieve the purpose of the present application, and the purpose of the present application does not depart from the design concept of the present invention, which is not repeated herein, and all should fall within the protection scope of the present application.

In some exemplary embodiments, as shown in fig. 2, the first connecting portion includes a flange 110, the second connecting portion includes a mounting surface and a press-fitting flange 210 disposed around the mounting surface, the flange 110 is disposed on the mounting surface, the press-fitting flange 210 is folded and pressed on a side of the flange 110 opposite to the mounting surface by a flange press-fitting process, and sealing is performed without a sealing gasket, a bolt, or other structures, so that the number of required parts is reduced, the arrangement is more compact, the cost and the probability of part failure are reduced, and the reliability of the engine is improved. In addition, the scheme is also beneficial to replacement of the subsequent water-cooled intercooler 200 after upgrading.

In some exemplary embodiments, as shown in FIG. 1, the water cooled intercooler 200 is provided with mounting holes 220 for threading screws. The water-cooled intercooler 200 is screwed and fixed on the cylinder body of the engine by bolts penetrating through the assembly holes 220, so that the overall mode is improved, and NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) performance of the engine is facilitated.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a vehicle (not shown in the figure), including automobile body and the engine assembly of any above-mentioned embodiment.

The vehicle has all the advantages of the engine assembly provided by any one of the above embodiments, and the description is omitted here.

To sum up, the integrated inlet structure that this application provided has integrated air intake manifold and water-cooled intercooler, and the structure is compacter, the volume is littleer, is applied to engine unit spare, can reduce engine unit spare's volume, improves the problem that engine unit spare's arrangement space is compact in the front deck.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "one side", "the other side", "one end", "the other end", "side", "opposite", "four corners", "periphery", "mouth" word structure "and the like indicate the orientation or positional relationship based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of the description, but do not indicate or imply that the structure referred to has a specific orientation, is constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, is not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "connected," "directly connected," "indirectly connected," "fixedly connected," "mounted," and "assembled" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; the terms "mounted," "connected," and "fixedly connected" may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be connected through two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood as a specific case by those skilled in the art.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the description is only for the convenience of understanding the present invention, and the present invention is not limited thereto. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. An integrated air intake structure, comprising:

the air inlet side of the air inlet manifold is provided with a first connecting part; and

the water-cooling intercooler is positioned outside the air inlet manifold, a second connecting part is arranged on the air outlet side of the water-cooling intercooler, and the first connecting part is connected with the second connecting part.

2. The integrated air intake structure of claim 1, wherein the intake manifold is a non-metallic member.

3. The integrated air intake structure of claim 2, wherein the non-metallic member is plastic.

4. The integrated air intake structure of claim 1, wherein the water-cooled intercooler is a metal piece.

5. The integrated air intake structure of claim 4, wherein the metal member is aluminum.

6. The integrated air intake structure of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the first connection portion comprises a flange, the second connection portion comprises a mounting surface and a press-fitting flange arranged around the mounting surface, the flange is arranged on the mounting surface, and the press-fitting flange is folded and pressed on one side of the flange, which is opposite to the mounting surface.

7. The integrated intake structure of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the water-cooled intercooler is provided with fitting holes for passing screws.

8. An engine assembly comprising an engine and an integrated air intake structure as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 7, the air outlet side of the air intake manifold being secured to a cylinder head of the engine.

9. The engine assembly of claim 8, further comprising a supercharger, an intake pipe, and a throttle valve, the supercharger, the intake pipe, the throttle valve, and an inlet side of the water-cooled intercooler being connected in series.

10. A vehicle comprising a vehicle body and an engine assembly as claimed in claim 8 or 9.