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US 2010/0212867 A1Published application
Cooling Device for Engine Oil and/or Transmission Oil, Particularly in an Internal Combustion Engine
AssigneeMAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG
InventorJohannes HOLLWECK
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Abstract
A cooling device for engine oil and/or transmission oil, particularly in an internal combustion engine, with an oil cooler which is arranged in an oil pan and through which a coolant flows. The oil cooler is formed by a plate heat exchanger (3) with coolant-carrying and oil-carrying plate intermediate spaces (5, 6). At least some of the oil-carrying plate intermediate spaces (6) open into the oil pan (2) in such a way the oil flows out of the oil pan directly via the opening (24) into the oil-carrying plate intermediate spaces (6).
Claims14
An oil cooling device comprising:
- an oil pan;
- an oil cooler formed by a plate heat exchanger having coolant-carrying and oil-carrying plate intermediate spaces,
- at least some of said oil-carrying intermediate spaces having an opening into said oil pan permitting oil to flow out of said oil pan directly via said opening into said oil-carrying plate intermediate spaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.