Method for preventing piston oil-up and engine employing the same

• US 9,995,215 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2016
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Kwon, Hyun-Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Amick, Jacob
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brauch, Charles
• Application Number:
  US15/246,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20170167371A1
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 11/10 Indicating devices; Other safety devices
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 13/00 Crankcase ventilating or breathing
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 13/04 having means for purifying air before leaving crankcase, e.g. removing oil
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 69/04 for gaseous and non-gaseous fuels
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 77/04 Cleaning of, preventing corrosion or erosion in, or preventing unwanted deposits in, combustion engines cleaning of fuel injection apparatus F02M65/00

Abstract

A method for preventing a piston oil-up, may include determining an oil-up condition formation to use a controller, wherein an oil-up oil generates since an engine oil moves upward above a piston, after an engine operation state is verified; determining a suction condition of the oil-up oil to use the controller based on any of a cylinder total control suction method, a cylinder explosion sequence suction method and a cylinder identical stroke sequence suction method when the oil-up condition has been formed; and operating an oil pump to use the controller, sucking the oil-up oil to use a suction force of the oil pump and discharging the sucked oil-up oil from a cylinder block.

Claims

1. A method for preventing a piston oil-up, comprising:

determining an oil-up condition formation using a controller, wherein an oil-up condition generates when an engine oil moves upward above a piston, after verifying an engine operation state;

determining a suction condition of the oil-up condition to use the controller based on any of a cylinder total control suction method, a cylinder explosion sequence suction method and a cylinder identical stroke sequence suction method when the oil-up condition has been formed; and

operating an oil pump using the controller, sucking an oil-up oil using a suction force of the oil pump and discharging the sucked oil-up oil from a cylinder block.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the engine operation state is checked based on detection values of an engine RPM (Revolution Per Minute) and an oil pressure.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the oil-up condition formation is determined based on an engine idle condition and a coasting condition, and the determination on the coasting condition is carried after the engine idle condition is judged.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the engine idle condition is an oil pressure, and the coasting condition is an intake manifold negative pressure.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the oil pressure is compared to a check valve opening pressure of an engine oil flow passage of the engine, and when the oil pressure is equal to or larger than the check valve opening pressure, it is determined that an oil-up condition has formed.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the intake manifold negative pressure is compared to a predetermined value, and when the intake manifold negative pressure is smaller than the predetermined value, it is determined that the oil-up condition has formed.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the predetermined value is 100 Kpa.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein in the cylinder total control suction method, the oil-up oil is simultaneously sucked by a plurality of cylinders of the engine.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein in the cylinder explosion sequence suction method, the oil-up oil is sucked in an explosion sequence of a plurality of the cylinders of the engine.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein in the cylinder identical stroke sequence suction method, the oil-up oil is sucked based on motions at a same top and bottom dead points of a plurality of the cylinders of the engine.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the controller controls a pump ECU (Electronic Control Unit), and the pump ECU controls the oil pump.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the controller is an engine ECU (Electronic Control Unit).

13. An engine, comprising:

a piston provided at each of a plurality of cylinders of a cylinder block, wherein an oil suction hole is formed at a piston ring of the piston; and

an oil-up oil suction system including;

a plurality of oil suction lines connected to the piston and extending from the cylinder block; and

an oil pump fluidically communicating with the plurality of oil suction lines and driven according to a pump Electronic Control Unit (ECU) when an oil pressure of the engine rises or an intake manifold negative pressure decreases, thus generating a suction force at the oil suction lines,

wherein the pump Electronic Control Unit (ECU) is associated with the engine ECU to control the oil pump,

wherein the oil-up oil suction system is connected to an oil filter unit which is connected to an outlet of the oil pump via a hose, and the oil filter unit is configured to purify oil discharged to the cylinder block via the oil-up oil suction system and supply the purified oil to an oil pan, and

wherein the oil filter unit is connected to a turbo charger, and the turbo charger is provided to flow mist oil containing a blow-by gas outputted from the oil filter unit, into a compressor.

14. The engine of claim 13, wherein the oil-up oil suction system is provided at each of the plurality of the cylinders of the cylinder block, and the oil suction hole is connected to the piston provided at each of the piston rings.