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US 2018/0334934 A1Published application
Small air-cooled engine assembly with dry sump lubrication system
AssigneeBriggs & Stratton Corporation
InventorsAdam J. Hellman, John Schneiker, Timothy Kwiatkowski, Casey Groh, Robert Price, Ryan Sullivan, Gary Johnson
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Abstract
An engine assembly includes a small air-cooled engine and a dry sump lubrication system including an external oil reservoir, wherein the dry sump lubrication system has an overall oil capacity that provides at least five hundred hours of engine oil life.
Claims15
An engine assembly, comprising:
- a small air-cooled engine;
- and
- a dry sump lubrication system including an external oil reservoir, wherein the dry sump lubrication system has an overall oil capacity that provides at least five hundred hours of engine oil life.
The engine assembly of 7, wherein the reservoir volume is greater than five quarts and a recommended oil fill capacity of the oil chamber is five quarts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.