Heat transfer member for balancer housing
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuhiro Terada
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Abstract
A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine in which pistons provided in a plurality of cylinders are coupled to a crankshaft by connecting rods, an oil pan for storing oil is mounted below a crankcase, and a balancer device which has a balancer shaft driven to rotate in accordance with rotation of the crankshaft and a balancer housing for accommodating the balancer shaft is housed between the crankcase and the oil pan, the multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having a heat transfer member that is provided between the balancer housing and the oil pan and below the balancer shaft, and comes into contact with the balancer housing and the crankcase.
Claims11
A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine in which pistons provided in a plurality of cylinders are coupled to a crankshaft by connecting rods, an oil pan for storing oil is mounted below a crankcase in which the crankshaft is accommodated, and a balancer device which has a balancer shaft driven to rotate in accordance with rotation of the crankshaft and a balancer housing for accommodating the balancer shaft is housed between the crankcase and the oil pan,
- the multi-cylinder internal combustion engine comprising:
- a heat transfer member that is positioned between the balancer housing and the oil pan and below the balancer shaft, and comes into contact with the balancer housing and the crankcase.
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