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US 2019/0178121 A1Published application
Fast engine oil warm-up type oil pan and engine system thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsByung-Hyun LEE, Hyun-Jun KIM, Jung-Ho JOO, Joon-Ho PARK
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Abstract
An oil pan may include a pan body forming a dual chamber including a primary chamber and a secondary chamber, and a mesh. The primary chamber and the secondary chamber each contains a different amount of oil, and the mesh allows a different amount of oil permeation discharged from the secondary chamber to the primary chamber based on temperature of the oil.
Claims17
An oil pan comprising:
- a pan body configured to form a primary chamber and a secondary chamber which are configured to contain a different amount of oil, respectively;
- and
- a mesh configured to differentiate an amount of oil permeation discharged from the secondary chamber to the primary chamber based on temperature of the oil.
An engine system comprising:
- an oil pan configured to store oil,
- wherein the oil pan comprises:
- a pan body forming a dual chamber having a primary chamber formed by a main chamber case and a secondary chamber formed by a sub-chamber case of;
- a mesh provided at an oil drop hole of the sub-chamber case and configured to adjust an amount of oil permeation discharged from the primary chamber to the secondary chamber based on temperature of the oil;
- and
- an oil pump configured to pump the oil so as to circulate the oil in an engine.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.