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Breather arrangement for internal combustion engine

US4541399A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 29, 1984
Grant dateSep 17, 1985
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Expiry dateFeb 29, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02F2200/06
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A V-type internal combustion engine having cam shafts respectively provided in first spaces defined between cylinder heads and head covers of a pair of upwardly diverging cylinder banks and a breather arrangement which includes a pressure buffer chamber provided between the cylinder banks of a cylinder block and having side walls constituted by cylinder block walls of said cylinder banks so as to be closed at its upper portion and communicated with an interior of a crankcase, and a communicating passage for communicating said pressure buffer chamber with an intake passage at a downstream of a throttle valve, and a baffle plate provided in said pressure buffer chamber to confront the open end of said communicating passage.

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