Engine unit for a vehicle

• US 6,557,516 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2001
• Issued: 05/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Suzuki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Tsutsumikoshi, Shinobu
• Primary Examiner(s): McMahon, Marguerite
• Assistant Examiner(s): Benton, Jason
• Application Number:
  US09/956,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20020033162A1
• Time in Patent Office: 592 Days
• Field of Search: 123/196.R, 123/198.R
• US Class Current: 123/196.00R
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 1/02 using lubricating pumps pumps in general F04; lubricating pumps per se F16N
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 2001/0253 characterised by the pump driving means
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 61/02 for driving cycles

Abstract

An engine unit for a vehicle comprises an engine case in which a crankshaft and a counter shaft are rotatably supported and an oil pump is provided so that rotation of the crankshaft is transmitted to the counter shaft. The counter shaft serves as a driving shaft of the oil pump arranged to be coaxial with the counter shaft. The oil pump has a pump case, which is provided with a tubular engaging member concentrically surrounding the counter shaft to extend in an axial direction thereof and with a discharge passage extending so as to be apart from the counter shaft in the axial direction thereof. The tubular engaging member is fitted into a fitting hole for a counter shaft bearing and the discharge passage having an end portion fitted into an oil supply port formed in the engine case.

Claims

1. An engine unit for a vehicle, comprising an engine case in which a crankshaft and a counter shaft are rotatably supported and an oil pump is provided so that rotation of the crankshaft is transmitted to the counter shaft at a reduced speed, wherein said counter shaft is arranged so as to serve as a driving shaft of the oil pump which is arranged coaxial with the counter shaft, said oil pump has a pump case, which is provided with a tubular engaging member concentrically surrounding the counter shaft so as to extend in an axial direction thereof and with a discharge passage extending so as to be apart from the counter shaft in the axial direction thereof, said tubular engaging member being fitted into a fitting hole for a counter shaft bearing, which is arranged on the engine case side, and said discharge passage having an end portion fitted into an oil supply port formed in the engine case.

2. An engine unit for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said tubular engaging member has an outer diameter substantially equal to an outer diameter of the counter shaft bearing, which is fitted into said fitting hole.

3. An engine unit for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said engine case is divided at a position of said fitting hole for the counter shaft bearing and a C-shaped ring is fitted between an outer peripheral surface of the tubular engaging member and an inner peripheral surface of said fitting hole for the counter shaft bearing so as to restrict movement of said oil pump in the axial direction.

4. An engine unit for a vehicle according to claim 3, wherein said pump case is divided into one and another case bodies which are secured together by means of a plurality of bolts so as to provide a liquid tight structure, and said tubular engagement portion is integrally formed with one of said case bodies so as to coaxially surround the periphery of the counter shaft so as to extend in the axial direction and the other one of the case bodies has a suction port and a discharge port, which surround the respective half peripheral portions of the counter shaft.

5. An engine unit for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said counter shaft is provided with a shock absorbing mechanism for absorbing shock due to variation in torque, and the shock absorbing mechanism has an output side end to which the oil pump is provided.

6. An engine unit for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said oil pump is a trochoid pump.

7. An engine unit for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle is a scooter-type motorcycle.

8. An engine unit for a vehicle, comprising:

an engine case in which a crankshaft and a counter shaft are rotatably supported so that rotation of the crankshaft is transmitted to the counter shaft at a reduced speed; and

an oil pump arranged coaxially with the counter shaft serving as a driving shaft of the oil pump,

said oil pump having a pump case, which is provided with a tubular engaging member concentrically surrounding the counter shaft so as to extend in an axial direction thereof and a discharge passage extending so as to be apart from the counter shaft in the axial direction thereof, said tubular engaging member being fitted into a fitting hole formed to a counter shaft bearing supporting the counter shaft and being arranged on the engine case side, and said discharge passage having an end portion fitted into an oil supply port formed to the engine case.