Grooved alignment dowel and engine assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorStephen Leonard Clark
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Abstract
An engine assembly is provided. The engine assembly comprises a first housing defining a first oil gallery, a second housing defining a second oil gallery, and an alignment dowel configured to be received within the first and second housings to provide an alignment feature for locating first and second housings of an engine assembly relative to one another, wherein the alignment dowel comprises a groove formed in an outer surface of the dowel configured to receive oil from the first oil gallery, and wherein the dowel is configured to provide a flow channel for the received oil to flow to the second oil gallery. An alignment dowel for use in the engine assembly is also provided.
Claims19
An engine assembly, comprising:
- a first housing defining a first oil gallery;
- a second housing defining a second oil gallery;
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- an alignment dowel received within the first and second housings to provide an alignment feature for locating the first and second housings of an engine assembly relative to one another,
- an exterior oil receiving groove extending across an outer surface of the alignment dowel and the exterior oil receiving groove positioned within the first and second housing such that oil flows from the first oil gallery through the exterior oil receiving groove to the second oil gallery;
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- a centerline of the exterior oil receiving groove extends in a direction with a component in a circumferential direction of the alignment dowel.
An alignment dowel positioned within a first and a second housing of an engine assembly and configured to provide an alignment feature for locating the first and the second housing relative to one another, the alignment dowel comprising:
- an exterior oil receiving groove extending across an outer surface of the alignment dowel oil and the exterior oil receiving groove positioned to receive oil from a first oil gallery of the first housing and flow the received oil to a second oil gallery of the second housing;
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- where a centerline of the exterior oil receiving groove extends in a direction with a component in a circumferential direction of the alignment dowel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.