Relief device of oil circuit of engine

• US 10,641,143 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2015
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yamada Manufacturing Company Limited (Fujimak Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yamada Manufacturing Company Limited (Fujimak Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyajima, Junichi, Watanabe, Takatoshi, Kato, Yuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Plakkoottam, Dominick L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tremarche, Connor J
• Application Number:
  US15/316,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20170114682A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,778 Days
• Field of Search: 417308
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 1/02 using lubricating pumps pumps in general F04; lubricating pumps per se F16N
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 1/16 Controlling lubricant pressure or quantity rendering machines or engines inoperative or idling on lubricant pressure failure F01M1/22
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 2001/0238 Rotary pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 14/26 using bypass channels
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2/102 the two members rotating simultaneously around their respective axes
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2240/81 Sensor, e.g. electronic sensor for control or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2270/18 Pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2270/19 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2270/86 Detection

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a relief device for an oil circuit of an engine provided with an oil pressure relief valve and a temperature-sensitive relief valve, with which it is possible for oil to be relieved (expelled) at the intended pressure regardless of the oil temperature, and with which it is possible to simplify the configuration. [Solution] The relief device comprises an oil pump (9), an upstream channel (61) provided from a discharge side of the oil pump (9) to an engine (E), an oil pressure relief valve (A) for relieving oil due to the valve body being moved by oil pressure, and a temperature-sensitive relief valve (B) for relieving oil by sensing the oil temperature and continuously opening and closing. The oil pressure relief valve (A) and the temperature-sensitive relief valve (B) are arranged in parallel in the upstream channel (61).

Claims

1. A relief device of an oil circuit of an engine, the relief device comprising:

an oil pump;

an upstream flow path that is provided from a side of a discharge portion of the oil pump to the engine;

an oil pressure relief valve that performs an oil relief with a movement of a valve body by a pressure of oil; and

a temperature-sensitive relief valve that performs the oil relief by sensing an oil temperature of the oil, and opening and closing steplessly,

wherein the oil pressure relief valve and the temperature-sensitive relief valve are disposed in parallel in the upstream flow path,

wherein a temperature-sensitive drive portion, including a thermowax, and an auxiliaiy elastic Member are respectively attached on opposite sides of the temperature-sensitive relief valve in an axial direction thereof, and

wherein, in a traversal direction with respect to an arrangement of the thermowax and the auxiliary elastic member in the axial direction, the oil flows to enter the temperature-sensitive relief valve.

2. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the temperature-sensitive relief valve performs the oil relief when the oil has a low oil temperature.

3. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the temperature-sensitive relief valve performs the oil relief such that an amount of the oil relief is increased in a vicinity of a low oil temperature and is reduced in a vicinity of a high oil temperature when the oil has a middle oil temperature.

4. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the temperature-sensitive relief valve does not perform the oil relief when the oil has a high oil temperature.

5. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the temperature-sensitive relief valve is provided in the engine.

6. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the temperature-sensitive relief valve includes a temperature-sensitive valve body and a temperature-sensitive housing,

wherein the temperature-sensitive valve body includes the temperature-sensitive drive portion and a temperature-sensitive valve portion,

wherein the temperature-sensitive valve portion includes an inflow hole,

wherein the temperature-sensitive drive portion includes a piston that extends and retracts in a response to an oil temperature detected with the thermowax,

wherein a second relief outflow portion is formed in an inner peripheral side surface of the temperature-sensitive housing, and

wherein the temperature-sensitive valve portion is capable of opening and closing the second relief outflow portion by sliding.

7. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 6, wherein the inflow hole of the temperature-sensitive valve portion is configured so as not to intersect an outer periphery of a top portion of the temperature-sensitive valve portion, and

wherein the inflow hole is configured so as to be smaller in an opening area than the second relief outflow portion.

8. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein a protruding portion that concentrates a flow of the oil at the temperature-sensitive drive portion of the temperature-sensitive relief valve is formed so as to bulge at a position in the discharge portion in a vicinity of an upstream side of the temperature-sensitive relief valve.

9. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 8, wherein the protruding portion is formed into an inclined shape on an upstream side.

10. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the oil pressure relief valve operates independently from the temperature-sensitive relief valve.

11. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the oil pressure relief valve and the temperature-sensitive relief valve are configured to perform the oil relief individually.

12. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the oil pressure relief valve and the temperature-sensitive relief valve are configured to perform the oil relief simultaneously.

13. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein, in a response to a change in only one of an oil discharge pressure from the oil pump and the oil temperature of the oil changes, one of the oil pressure relief valve and the temperature-sensitive relief valve is capable of performing the oil relief.

14. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the oil pressure relief valve and the temperature-sensitive relief valve, independent of each other, branch off from the upstream flow path to be connected in parallel.

15. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the oil that flows out of the temperature-sensitive relief valve returns to the oil pump independent of the oil pressure relief valve.

16. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein, between the oil pump and the engine, a first relief flow path branches off from the upstream flow path toward the oil pressure relief valve, and a second relief flow path branches off from the upstream flow path toward the temperature-sensitive relief valve.

17. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein, between the oil pump and the engine, a first relief flow path branches off from the upstream flow path toward the oil pressure relief valve, and a second relief flow path, independent of the first relief flow path, branches off from the upstream flow path toward the temperature-sensitive relief valve.

18. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 1, wherein the temperature-sensitive relief valve comprises a temperature sensor that includes the thermowax.

19. A relief device, comprising:

an oil pump;

an upstream flow path that extends between a discharge portion of the oil pump and an engine;

an oil pressure relief valve that performs an oil relief with a movement of a valve body by a pressure of oil; and

a temperature-sensitive relief valve that performs the oil relief by sensing a temperature of the oil,

wherein the oil pressure relief valve and the temperature-sensitive relief valve branch off, in parallel and independent of each other, from the upstream flow path,

wherein a temperature-sensitive drive portion, including a thermowax, and an auxiliary elastic member are respectively attached on opposite sides of the temperature-sensitive relief valve in an axial direction thereof, and

wherein, in a traversal direction with respect to an arrangement of the thermowax and the auxiliary elastic member in the axial direction, the oil flows to enter the temperature-sensitive relief valve.

20. A relief device of an oil circuit of an engine, the relief device comprising:

an oil pump;

an upstream flow path that is provided from a side of a discharge portion of the oil pump to the engine;

an oil pressure relief valve that performs oil relief with movement of a valve body by pressure of oil; and

a temperature-sensitive relief valve that performs the oil relief by sensing an oil temperature of the oil and opening and closing steplessly,

wherein the oil pressure relief valve and the temperature-sensitive relief valve are disposed in parallel in the upstream flow path,

wherein the temperature-sensitive relief valve includes a temperature-sensitive valve body and a temperature-sensitive housing,

wherein the temperature-sensitive valve body includes a temperature-sensitive drive portion and a temperature-sensitive valve portion,

wherein the temperature-sensitive valve portion includes an inflow hole,

wherein the temperature-sensitive drive portion includes a piston that extends and retracts in response to an oil temperature detected with a thermowax,

wherein the temperature-sensitive valve portion is connected to the piston,

wherein a second relief outflow portion is formed in an inner peripheral side surface of the temperature-sensitive housing,

wherein the temperature-sensitive valve portion is capable of opening and closing the second relief outflow portion by sliding,

wherein the temperature-sensitive valve portion comprises a cylindrical portion and a top portion, and includes the inflow hole that is formed through the top portion in an axial direction thereof, and

wherein, in a traversal direction with respect to an arrangement of the thermowax and an auxiliary elastic member attached on opposite sides of the temperature-sensitive relief valve in the axial direction, the oil flows to enter the temperature-sensitive relief valve.

21. The relief device of an oil circuit of an engine according to claim 20, wherein the temperature-sensitive relief valve is configured such that a difference in the oil temperature from a start of an operation for performing oil relief to an end thereof is in a range from 70°

C. to 100°

C.