Oil separator
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoji HORIUCHI
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Abstract
The present oil separator is an oil separator for capturing oil contained in blow-by gas generated in an engine, and includes a housing provided independently of a body of the engine and a gas-liquid separation unit which is provided in the housing and separates blow-by gas into a gas component and an oil component. The housing includes a lead-in port through which the blow-by gas is led in, a lead-out port through which the gas component is led out, and a drain port through which the oil component is discharged. And the housing has an attachment portion inside to which a plurality of types of the gas-liquid separation units respectively are attachable, to which attachment portion, selected one of the plurality of types of gas-liquid separation units is attached.
Claims5
An oil separator for capturing oil contained in blow-by gas generated in an engine, comprising:
- a housing provided independently of a body of the engine;
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- a gas-liquid separation unit which is provided in the housing and separates blow-by gas into a gas component and an oil component, wherein:
- the housing includes a lead-in port which is provided on the upstream side of the gas-liquid separation unit and through which the blow-by gas is led in, a lead-out port which is provided on the downstream side of the gas-liquid separation unit and through which the gas component is led out, and a drain port which is provided on the downstream side of the gas-liquid separation unit and through which the oil component is discharged;
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- the housing has an attachment portion inside to which a plurality of types of gas-liquid separation units respectively are attachable, to which a selected one of a plurality of types of gas-liquid separation units is attached.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.