Cylinder head cover
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSho Fujiwara
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Abstract
A cylinder head cover for a hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine includes a head cover body and an outlet passage. The head cover body defines a main passage for blow-by gas that has leaked from a combustion chamber to a crankcase. The outlet passage is connected to a downstream end of the main passage and conducts the blow-by gas to an intake passage. The main passage includes a restriction in a middle of the main passage. The cylinder head cover further includes an auxiliary passage. The auxiliary passage is connected to a section of the main passage that is on the upstream side of the restriction. The auxiliary passage conducts the blow-by gas to the outlet passage or the intake passage.
Claims4
A cylinder head cover for a hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine, comprising:
- a head cover body that defines a main passage for blow-by gas that has leaked from a combustion chamber to a crankcase;
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- an outlet passage that is connected to a downstream end of the main passage and configured to conduct the blow-by gas to an intake passage, wherein
- the main passage includes a restriction in a middle of the main passage,
- a section of the main passage on an upstream side of the restriction is referred to as an upstream passage,
- a section of the main passage on a downstream side of the restriction is referred to as a downstream passage,
- a cross-sectional flow area of the restriction is smaller than a cross-sectional flow area of the upstream passage and smaller than a cross-sectional flow area of the downstream passage, and
- the cylinder head cover further comprises an auxiliary passage that is connected to the upstream passage and configured to conduct the blow-by gas to the outlet passage or to the intake passage, wherein
- the head cover body includes a plurality of ribs that protrudes from a wall surface that defines the main passage,
- a dimension in a direction orthogonal to the wall surface is defined as a height dimension, and
- the height dimension of a rib in the downstream passage is smaller than the height dimension of a rib in the upstream passage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.