Combined engine cooling and lube system

• US 4,708,095 A
• Filed: 06/16/1986
• Issued: 11/24/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Deere & Company
• Original Assignee: Deere & Company
• Inventors: Luterek, Garry M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cross, E. Rollins
• Application Number:
  US06/874,903
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 123/41.42, 123/41.33, 123/41.31, 123/41.85, 123/563, 123/196 AB
• US Class Current: 123/41.42
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 5/007 Thermostatic control
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2003/006 the liquid being oil
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 3/02 Arrangements for cooling cylinders or cylinder heads
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 9/00 Cooling having pertinent characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F01P1/00 - F01P7/00 profiting from waste heat of combustion-engine cooling F02G5/00

Abstract

An internal combustion engine includes separate engine cooling and engine lubrication circuits, both of which receive engine oil pumped from the oil sump. The cooling circuit flows oil around hot engine parts and then to a cab heater and to a heat exchanger or a bypass line to sump. A valve controls oil flow to the heat exchanger and to the bypass line as a function of oil temperature in a part of the lube circuit in the engine block. The heat exchanger has a pair of outlets which discharge oil at different temperatures and at different flow rates. Less oil flows from the cooler outlet and this lesser flow is communicated to sump via a charge air cooler. The hotter outlet communicates the larger oil flow directly to sump.

Claims

1. In a vehicle having an internal combustion engine, an engine cooling and lube system comprising:

an engine oil sump;

an engine oil pump;

a flow divider having an inlet communicated with an outlet of the pump, a first outlet and a second outlet;

an engine cooling circuit connected between the first outlet and the sump for cooling heated parts of the engine;

an engine lube circuit connected between the second outlet and the sump for lubricating parts of the engine subject to wear, the lube circuit being connected in parallel with the engine cooling circuit; and

a vehicle cab heater comprising a fluid-to-air heat exchanger connected in the engine cooling circuit between the engine and the sump.

2. The cooling and lube system of claim 1, wherein the cooling circuit comprises:

a heat exchanger for cooling the engine oil and having an inlet for receiving heated oil from the engine, a first outlet for communicating cooled oil at a first temperature to the sump and a second outlet for removing cooled oil at a second temperature from the heat exchanger, the second temperature being lower than the first temperature; and

a charge air cooler for transferring heat from engine induction air to the engine oil, the charge air cooler having an oil inlet communicated with the second outlet of the heat exchanger and having an oil outlet communicated with the sump.

3. The cooling and lube system of claim 2 further comprising:

a temperature controlled valve having an inlet receiving heated cooling oil from the engine, a first outlet communicated with the heat exchanger inlet, and having a second outlet;

a bypass line communicating the second control valve outlet with the sump;

a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of oil in the engine lube circuit, the temperature controlled valve controlling oil flow through the bypass line and the heat exchanger as a function of the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor.

4. The cooling and lube system of claim 1, wherein the flow divider comprises:

a bore extending in a block of the engine;

an inlet passage communicated with the pump outlet;

a first outlet passage in the block and communicating the bore with the cooling circuit; and

a second outlet passage communicating the bore with the lube circuit.

5. An engine cooling and lube system, comprising:

an engine oil sump;

an engine oil pump;

an engine lube circuit connected between the pump and the sump for directing oil to engine parts subject to wear;

a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of oil in the lube circuit;

an engine cooling circuit connected between the pump and the sump in parallel relationship to the lube circuit, the cooling circuit including a heat exchanger for cooling heated oil received from the engine, a bypass line communicating with the sump and a valve coupled to the temperature sensor to control oil communication from the engine to the heat exchanger and to the bypass line as a function of the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor.