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AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsXavier Demeulenaere, Graham Slaughter, Mark Michel, David Harknett
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An engine is provided with a cylinder block and a ladderframe having a portion of an oil conduit and a deflector. The engine has a metal-to-metal seal positioned between the ladderframe and block to circumferentially surround the oil conduit, and has a gasket seal positioned between the ladderframe and block to be outboard and spaced apart from the oil conduit. The deflector is positioned between the metal-to-metal seal and the gasket seal. An engine component is provided with a member having a deflector and forming an oil conduit. The deflector has an arcuate deflector surface following an outer wall of the oil conduit to redirect oil escaping the oil conduit. A ladderframe is configured to provide a deflection surface, with the deflection surface positioned to guide high pressure oil away from adjacent RTV seals.
An engine component comprising a member having a deflector and forming an oil conduit intersecting an upper surface, the oil conduit defined by a tubular structure with an inner wall and an outer wall extending transversely to the upper surface, a component mating face extending between and connecting the inner and outer walls the inner wall defining an oil passage therein, the deflector having an arcuate deflector surface following the outer wall of the oil conduit and positioned adjacent to and radially outboard of the outer wall to redirect oil escaping the oil conduit and flowing towards a groove in an outer edge region of the member, the groove sized to receive a room temperature vulcanizing seal.
A ladderframe member having an upper surface shaped to cooperate with a lower surface of a cylinder block, the ladderframe member defining a tubular oil conduit having an inner wall and an outer wall, the inner and outer walls extending transversely to and outwardly from the upper surface, the inner wall defining an oil passage therein and arranged concentrically with the outer wall, the upper surface of the ladderframe member extending between and connecting the inner and outer walls of the tubular oil conduit, the ladderframe member defining a deflector having an arcuate deflector surface, the arcuate deflector surface having an inner concave wall curved to follow the outer wall of the tubular oil conduit, the arcuate deflector surface positioned adjacent to and radially outboard of the outer wall of the tubular oil conduit, the ladderframe member defining a groove sized to receive a room temperature vulcanizing seal, the deflector surface positioned between the oil conduit and the groove and shaped to redirect oil escaping the oil conduit and flowing towards the seal.
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