Engine cooling system
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsSeok Jun Yoon, Joong Hyun Hwang
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Abstract
An engine cooling system for cooling a cylinder head and a cylinder block separately may include a cylinder block having cylinders arranged from a front side to a rear side of an engine with a block water jacket formed therein around the cylinders, a cylinder head fastened to a top side of the cylinder block with a head water jacket formed therein from the front side to the rear side of the engine, a water pump mounted to a front side of the cylinder block for pumping coolant to a front of the block water jacket, and a coolant control valve arranged in a rear side of the cylinder block and the cylinder head to have a first end connected to a rear end of the block water jacket and a second end connected to a rear end of the head water jacket for having the coolant supplied thereto.
Claims13
An engine cooling system for cooling a cylinder head and a cylinder block separately, the engine cooling system comprising:
- a cylinder block having cylinders arranged from a front side to a rear side of an engine with a block water jacket formed therein around the cylinders;
- a cylinder head fastened to a top side of the cylinder block with a head water jacket formed therein from the front side to the rear side of the engine;
- a water pump mounted to a front side of the cylinder block for pumping coolant to a front of the block water jacket;
- a coolant control valve arranged in a rear side of the cylinder block and the cylinder head to have a first end connected to a rear end of the block water jacket and a second end connected to a rear end of the head water jacket for having the coolant supplied thereto;
- a block cross drill hole formed in the block water jacket between cylinder bores for connecting the block water jacket from the intake side to the exhaust side;
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- a block packing of a predetermined length of a pipe shape inserted in each of a front side and a rear side of the block water jacket by a pressure from a top side to a lower side of the block water jacket to a predetermined distance for making the coolant flow through the block cross drill hole,
- wherein a connection passage is formed between a top side rear end of the block water jacket and a bottom side rear end of the head water jacket for supplying the coolant supplied to the block water jacket to the head water jacket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.