EP0377829B2 - Nockenwellenschmierungsanlage für Brennkraftmaschinen - Google Patents

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EP0377829B2
EP0377829B2 EP19890122720 EP89122720A EP0377829B2 EP 0377829 B2 EP0377829 B2 EP 0377829B2 EP 19890122720 EP19890122720 EP 19890122720 EP 89122720 A EP89122720 A EP 89122720A EP 0377829 B2 EP0377829 B2 EP 0377829B2
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Yoshiaki Sugiura
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01L—CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F01L1/00—Valve-gear or valve arrangements, e.g. lift-valve gear
    • F01L1/02—Valve drive
    • F01L1/04—Valve drive by means of cams, camshafts, cam discs, eccentrics or the like
    • F01L1/047—Camshafts
    • F01L1/053—Camshafts overhead type
    • F01L1/0532—Camshafts overhead type the cams being directly in contact with the driven valve
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01M—LUBRICATING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; LUBRICATING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; CRANKCASE VENTILATING
    • F01M11/00—Component parts, details or accessories, not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F01M1/00 - F01M9/00
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01M—LUBRICATING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; LUBRICATING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; CRANKCASE VENTILATING
    • F01M9/00—Lubrication means having pertinent characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F01M1/00 - F01M7/00
    • F01M9/10—Lubrication of valve gear or auxiliaries
    • F01M9/106—Oil reservoirs
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01L—CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F01L1/00—Valve-gear or valve arrangements, e.g. lift-valve gear
    • F01L1/02—Valve drive
    • F01L1/04—Valve drive by means of cams, camshafts, cam discs, eccentrics or the like
    • F01L1/047—Camshafts
    • F01L2001/0476—Camshaft bearings
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01M—LUBRICATING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; LUBRICATING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; CRANKCASE VENTILATING
    • F01M5/00—Heating, cooling, or controlling temperature of lubricant; Lubrication means facilitating engine starting
    • F01M2005/008—Lubrication means facilitating engine starting
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
    • F02B2275/00—Other engines, components or details, not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • F02B2275/18—DOHC [Double overhead camshaft]

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  • This invention relates to a cylinder head arrangement for an internal combustion engine and more particularly to an improved arrangement for insuring that the camshafts and valve train of an internal combustion engine will be lubricated immediately upon starting of the engine.
  • lubrication system for the valve train, particularly with overhead valve overhead camshaft type engines.
  • the lubricant is supplied to the bearings and cam lobes and tappets through a pressure system that delivers the oil to the cam bearings or camshaft frequently through hollow internal passages in the camshaft. Because of the remote location, these components can be subject to high wear on initial start up when the oil has all drained from the cylinder head during long periods of inactivity.
  • a cylinder head arrangement as mentioned in the preamble portion of claims 1 is known from the article "Konzeption des convinced Mercedes-Benz-Motors mit Vier Ventilen pro Zylinder für den 190E2.3-16" MTZ 45 (1984).
  • EP-A-0 318 303 which belongs to the state of the art according to Art. 54(3) EPC, a pressurized oil ejecting lubricating system is provided which, however, implies an appropriate supply of lubricant to be difficult during the starting of the engine as said supply to the camshaft area depends on the pressurization of the lubricating system.
  • Figure 1 is a cross-sectional view taken through the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the invention and is taken generally along the line 1-1 of Figure 2.
  • Figure 2 is a top plan view of a portion of the cylinder head with the cam cover removed and a portion broken away to more dearly show the construction.
  • an internal combustion engine constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the invention is shown partially and is identified generally by the reference numeral 11. Since the invention deals primarily with the valve train and lubricating system for it, only this portion of the engine has been illustrated. The remaining components of the engine may be considered to be conventional or those which are well known to those skilled in the art.
  • the engine 11 includes a cylinder block 12 that has one or more cylinder bore 13.
  • the cylinder block 12 is disposed so that the cylinder bores 13 are indined to the vertical as in conjunction with a slanted engine or one cylinder bank of a V type engine.
  • the engine 11 is slanted toward the front of an associated vehide as indicated by the arrow Fr.
  • Pistons 14 are slidably supported within the cylinder bores 13 and are connected by means of connecting rods (not shown) to a camshaft in a well known manner.
  • a cylinder head assembly indicated generally by the reference numeral 15 is affixed to the cylinder block 12 in any known manner and is formed with individual recesses 16 that cooperate with each of the cylinder bores 13 and pistons 14 to form a combustion chamber of any desired configuration.
  • the cylinder head assembly 15 includes a main cylinder head casting 17 in which the recesses 16 are formed and which slidably support a plurality of intake valves 18. In the illustrated embodiment, there are provided three intake valves per cylinder bore 13. In addition, on generally the opposite side of the cylinder head 17 there are slidably supported two exhaust valves 19.
  • the intake valve 18 and exhaust valves 19 may be disposed in an orientation as shown and described in United States Letters Patent 4,660,529, entitled “Four Cycle Engine", issued April 28, 1987 in the name of Masaaki Yoshikawa and assigned to the Assignee of this application. It is to be understood, however, that the invention may be employed with engines having other numbers of intake and exhaust valves per cylinder.
  • the intake valves 18 have valve stems 21 that are slidably supported in guides 22 that are pressed into the cylinder head casting 17 and which control the flow of an intake charge from a suitable charge former (not shown) through one or more intake passageways 23 into the combustion chamber formed by the recess 16.
  • the exhaust valves 19 have stem portions 24 that are slidably supported within guides 25 and which control the discharge of exhaust gases from the combustion chamber 16 to the atmosphere through exhaust ports 25 and an appropriate exhaust system (not shown).
  • the intake valves 18 are each surrounded by coil compression springs 26 that act against the cylinder head casting 17 and a keeper retainer assembly 27 for urging the intake valves 18 to their closed position.
  • the intake valves 18 are opened by means of an actuating mechanism, to be described, which includes thimble tappets 28 that are slidably supported within bores 29 formed in the cylinder head casting 17 and which cooperate with the tips of the valve stems 21 in a known manner.
  • the exhaust valves 19 are urged to their dosed position by means of coil compression springs 31 that encirde their stems 24 and which act against keeper retained assemblies 32 and the cylinder head casting 17 for urging the exhaust valves 19 to their dosed positions.
  • Thimble tappets 33 are slidably supported in bores 34 formed in the cylinder head casting 17 for opening the exhaust valves 19 in a manner which will be described.
  • An intake camshaft 35 is supported within the cylinder head assembly 15 and has individual cam lobes 36, 37 and 38 which cooperate with the respective thimble tappets 28 associated with each of the intake valves 21 of the respective cylinder bore 13.
  • Bearing surfaces are formed on the intake camshaft 35 between the cam lobes 36, 37 and 38 and bearing assemblies 39 and 41 cooperate with these bearing surfaces so as to rotatably journal the intake camshaft 35 in the cylinder head assembly 15.
  • the bearing assemblies 39 and 41 are formed respectively by bearing surfaces 42 and 43 formed integrally with the cylinder head casting 17 and with bearing caps 44 and 45 that are affixed to the cylinder head casting 17 by means of studs 46 and nuts 47.
  • oil passages may be formed in the cylinder head for delivering oil to the interior of the camshaft 35 where it is delivered to the bearing assemblies 39 and 41 through cross drilled holes for lubrication of these bearing assemblies.
  • the lubricant will flow to lubricate the cam lobes, 36, 37 and 38 in a manner to be described.
  • the cylinder head casting 17 is provided with a construction for forming an oil well 48 and associated with the cam lobes 36, 37 and 38 of each cylinder.
  • These wells 48 are formed by means of upstanding walls 49 formed integrally with the cylinder head casting 17 and which cooperate with a wall 51 formed by the bearing caps 44 and 45 so that the bearing caps 44 and 45 and wall 51 form a unitary assembly.
  • Lubricant will fill within the wells 48 to a level indicated by the line 52 when the engine is running so as to trap lubricant in the area of the cam lobes 36, 37 and 38 and tappets 28 for their lubrication.
  • This oil is delivered from leakage from the bearing assemblies 39 and 41 and will accumulate during engine running, as aforenoted. Additional oil supplied during running will drain over the top of the walls 51 and can be returned back to the lubricant sump through the normal return drains in the cylinder head 17 (not shown).
  • cam lobes 36, 37 and 38 rotate through an arc indicated by the line 53 in Figure 1 which will successively immerse and remove the cam lobes 36, 37 and 38 from this lubricant.
  • the wells 48 will trap lubricant. This trapped lubricant will insure lubrication of not only the cam lobes 36, 37 and 38 and tappets 28 on start up, but also the bearing surfaces of the camshaft since it should be readily apparent that they also are immersed.
  • An exhaust camshaft is journaled within the cylinder head assembly 15 in a manner to be described and has pairs of cam lobes 55 and 56 that cooperate with the thimble tappets 33 associated with the exhaust valves 19 for opening these exhaust valves.
  • the exhaust camshaft 54 is journaled by individual bearing assemblies, indicated generally by the reference numeral 57 which cooperate with bearing surfaces formed between the individual cam lobes 55 and 56.
  • These bearing assemblies indude a bearing surface 58 formed integrally by the cylinder head casting 17 and a bearing cap 59 that is affixed to the cylinder head casting 17 by means of studs 61 and nuts 62.
  • the studs 61 and nuts 62 are made of a larger diameter than the studs 46 and nuts 47 associated with the intake camshaft 35 so as to insure good hold down relationship.
  • valve assembly now described is contained within a cam tower recess 63 formed by the cylinder head assembly and which is dosed by means of a cam cover 64 that is affixed to the cylinder head casting 17 in a known manner.
  • the indined configuration of the cylinder head assembly 15 also forms a well 65 that is in proximity to the bearings 59 and cam lobes 55 and 56 and in which lubricant which is delivered to the camshaft bearing surfaces through the bearing assembly 59 can accumulate to a level shown by the line 66 in Figure 1. Therefore, like the wells associated with the intake camshaft tappets and bearing surfaces, lubricant will accumulate during running and also will be maintained in this area when the engine is shut down so as to insure immediate lubrication when the engine is restarted.

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  1. Zylinderkopfanordnung (15) für eine Brennkraftmaschine mit Einlaß- und Auslaßnockenwelle (35, 54), die zur Drehung relativ zu der Zylinderkopfanordnung (15) drehbar gelagert sind, zur Betätigung von Tellerventilen (18, 19), die hin- und hergehend in der Zylinderkopfanordnung (15) gelagert sind, die in einer geneigten Position zur Vertikalen angeordnet ist, eine Einrichtung zur Zuführung von Schmiermittel zu der Zylinderkopfanordnung (15) zum Schmieren der Nockenwellen (35, 54) und einer Einrichtung zur Bildung eines Schmiermitteldammes, um ein Schmiermittelvolumen, das jeder der Nockenwellen (35, 54) zugeordnet ist, einzuschließen und zu halten, wobei die Schmiermitteldämme Bohrungen (48, 65), zugeordnet den Nockenwellen (35, 54) bilden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Bohrung (48), die der Nockenwelle (35) zugeordnet ist, die am höchsten in der geneigten Zylinderkopfanordnung (15) angeordnet ist, durch zwei Stücke gebildet ist, mit einer Wandung (59), die einstückig mit einem Zylinderkopfgußstück (17) ausgebildet ist und einer Wandung (51), die durch die Lagerdeckel (44, 45) einer Nockenwellen-Lagerungsanordnung gebildet ist, wobei die Schmiermitteldämme ein Schmiermittelvolumen in Kontakt mit den Nockenwellen (35, 54) einschließen, die Nockenwellen (35, 54) zumindest teilweise darin eintauchend, wenn die Einrichtung zur Zuführung von Schmiermittel die Schmiermittelzufuhr beendet.
  2. Zylinderkopfanordnung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Bohrung (65), die der Nockenwelle (54) zugeordnet ist, die am niedrigsten in der geneigten Zylinderkopfanordnung angeordnet ist, teilweise durch eine Umfangsfläche der Zylinderkopfanordnung (15) gebildet ist.
  3. Zylinderkopfanordnung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß mehr Lagerdeckel (44, 45) in Verbindung mit einer der Nockenwellen (35) als mit der anderen der Nockenwellen (54) vorgesehen sind.
  4. Zylinderkopfanordnung nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß Schraubbefestigungsmittel (46, 47, 61) die Lagerdeckel (44, 45, 59) an der Zylinderkopfanordnung (15) befestigen und daß die Schraubbefestigungsmittel (46, 47), die der Nockenwelle (35) zugeordnet sind, die die größere Anzahl von Lagern (49, 41) besitzt, einen kleineren Durchmesser aufweisen.
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