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Water pump apparatus in an internal combustion engine

US4917052A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 6, 1989
Grant dateApr 17, 1990
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Expiry dateJan 6, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF04D29/0413
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A water pump apparatus in an integral combustion engine of a water cooling type having a driving pulley fixed to one end of a crankshaft, and a driven pulley fixed to one end of a valve camshaft for driving the movable valve camshaft from the crankshaft via a timing belt has a water pump eccentrically providing a pump shaft axis relative to the valve camshaft axis, a pair of drive and driven gears provided with a suitable rotational ratio and respectively mounted on an end of the valve camshaft and one end of the pump shaft and engaged with each other, and a sliding bearing supporting the pump shaft and being inserted in a cylinder head.

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