Bottom plate for a crankcase
AssigneeMTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
InventorGeorg Ruetz
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Abstract
In a bottom plate for closing a crankcase of an internal combustion engine wherein the bottom plate includes openings and channels for collecting and conducting fluids, the bottom plate consists of a number of individual plates which are joined together after the channels and openings have been cut into the individual plates by laser beam cutting or water beam cutting.
Claims6
A crankcase bottom plate (1) for an internal combustion engine, said bottom plate (1) being disposed at the bottom of an engine crankcase and having channels for lubricants and coolants, and comprising a number of individual plates (EP(i)) of the same circumferential shape, said individual plates (EP(i)) including at least one inner individual plate tightly sandwiched between opposite outer individual plates, with sections cut out of the inner individual plate (EP(i)) to form between the outer plates in the inner individual plate said channels for conducting the lubricants and the coolants through the interior of the crankcase bottom plate (1) which is formed solely by the tightly joined sandwiched inner and outer plates.
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