Exhaust gas recirculation device

• US 9,926,893 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2016
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Long T
• Application Number:
  US15/068,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20160281651A1
• Time in Patent Office: 743 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/21 with EGR valves located at or near the connection to the intake system
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/41 characterised by the arrangement of the recirculation passage in relation to the engine, e.g. to cylinder heads, liners, spark plugs or manifolds; characterised by the arrangement of the recirculation passage in relation to specially adapted combustion chambers
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/51 EGR valves combined with other devices, e.g. with intake valves or compressors combined with intake air throttles F02M26/64
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/70 Flap valves; Rotary valves; Sliding valves; Resilient valves

Abstract

An exhaust gas recirculation device includes a housing including an inner wall defining an intake passage through which an intake air passes. The housing includes an outlet opening of an EGR gas provided in the inner wall, and a throttle valve positioned in the intake passage and generating a negative pressure at the outlet opening. The housing includes an intake air guide device provided in the housing and guiding the intake air, which has passed between the throttle valve and the inner wall of the housing, toward an axial center area of the intake passage. At least a part of the intake air guide device is positioned on an upstream side of the intake air with respect to the outlet opening.

Claims

1. An exhaust gas recirculation device comprising:

a housing including an inner wall defining an intake passage through which an intake air passes, and an outlet opening of an EGR gas provided in the inner wall;

a throttle valve positioned in the intake passage and generating a negative pressure at the outlet opening; and

an intake air guide device provided in the housing and guiding the intake air, which has passed between the throttle valve and the inner wall of the housing, toward an axial center area of the intake passage, wherein

at least a part of the intake air guide device is positioned on an upstream side of the intake air with respect to the outlet opening,

the intake air guide device is provided in the intake passage,

the inner wall of the housing defines an EGR passage that extends from the outlet opening, the EGR gas flowing through the EGR passage,

the housing includes a gas guide device that guides the EGR gas, which flows into the intake passage through the outlet opening, in a downstream direction of the intake air,

the gas guide device is located in the EGR passage, and

the gas guide device protrudes from an inner wall of the outlet opening of the EGR gas toward an axial center area of the EGR passage.

2. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 1, wherein

the intake air guide device is provided adjacent to the outlet opening at least in an area in which the outlet opening positioned.

3. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 1, wherein the intake air guide device is in an annular shape extending along an inner peripheral wall of the housing defining the intake passage.

4. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 1, wherein the throttle valve includes at least one through-hole communicating the upstream side of an intake air with a downstream side of the intake air with respect to the throttle valve with each other.

5. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 1, wherein

the intake air guide device is a first protrusion portion that protrudes from the inner wall of the intake passage toward the axial center area of the intake passage.

6. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 1, wherein

the intake air guide device has an annular shape extending along the inner wall of the intake passage,

the intake air guide device includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being located upstream of the second portion with respect to the EGR gas, the second portion being located on an opposite side of the first portion in a radial direction of the intake passage, and

the second portion is located downstream of the first portion with respect to the intake air.

7. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 6, wherein the second portion of the intake air guide device is located downstream of an axial center of the outlet opening with respect to the intake air.

8. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 1, wherein

an upstream surface of the intake air guide device is inclined with respect to the intake air, and

the upstream surface is parallel to a surface of the throttle valve when the throttle valve throttles the intake passage at maximum.

9. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 8, wherein the upstream surface of the intake air guide device is inclined in the downstream direction of the intake air.

10. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 1, wherein the intake air guide device and the gas guide device are integrated with each other.

11. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 1, wherein the EGR passage is branched from the intake passage.

12. An exhaust gas recirculation device comprising:

a housing including an inner wall defining an intake passage through which an intake air passes, and an outlet opening of an EGR gas provided in the inner wall;

a throttle valve positioned in the intake passage and generating a negative pressure at the outlet opening; and

an intake air guide device provided in the housing and guiding the intake air, which has passed between the throttle valve and the inner wall of the housing, toward an axial center area of the intake passage, wherein

at least a part of the intake air guide device is positioned on an upstream side of the intake air with respect to the outlet opening,

the intake air guide device is provided in the intake passage,

the intake air guide device has an annular shape extending along the inner wall of the intake passage,

the intake air guide device includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being located upstream of the second portion with respect to the EGR gas, the second portion being located on an opposite side of the first portion in a radial direction of the intake passage, and

the second portion is located downstream of the first portion with respect to the intake air.

13. The exhaust gas recirculation device according to claim 12, wherein

the second portion of the intake air guide device is located downstream of an axial center of the outlet opening with respect to the intake air.