Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100043731 | Medium circulating apparatus for improving startability and warm up ability - A medium circulating apparatus of engine oil, which improves startability and warm up ability of an internal combustion engine, includes a microbubble generator that generates microbubbles and mixes the microbubbles into the circulating engine oil. Further, the medium circulating apparatus includes a medium temperature acquiring unit that acquires a temperature of the engine oil. The microbubbles are generated by the microbubble generator when the temperature of the engine oil is less than or equal to a predetermined value in order to decrease a viscosity, a heat conductivity, and a heat capacity of the engine oil in which the microbubbles are mixed. | 02-25-2010 |
20100162972 | Heat Storage Apparatus and Engine Including the Same - In the cylinder block of an engine including a heat storage apparatus, a water jacket is formed between a cylinder bore wall that forms a cylinder bore and a cylinder block outer wall. An actuator is installed on the cylinder block outer wall. A container is housed in the water jacket. A coolant temperature sensor is installed on the upper portion of the container. An ECU determines the state of a heat storage agent in the container and the state of the container, based on information on the temperature of coolant determined by the coolant temperature sensor. | 07-01-2010 |
20100199942 | OIL PAN STRUCTURE - An oil pan structure ( | 08-12-2010 |
20110126784 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A vehicle control system | 06-02-2011 |
20120037456 | Oil pan and lubricating device - An oil pan is provided with an oil pan separator that partitions a first chamber that communicates with a moving part inside a cylinder block and a second chamber outside the first chamber. A communicating hole is provided to a bottom panel of the oil pan separator. The communicating hole is shielded from a strainer. | 02-16-2012 |
20120132172 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL DEVICE FOR ENGINE - A hydraulic control device is equipped with an oil jet that injects oil to a piston, an oil gallery through which oil injected by the oil jet and oil supplied to a lubrication part of an engine pass, an oil pump that pumps oil to the oil gallery, and a switching valve that is provided on an oil jet passage connecting the oil gallery and the oil jet together and leads oil supplied from the oil gallery to either the oil jet or an oil pan disposed at an upstream side of the oil pump. An ECU controls the switching valve on the basis of an engine speed and an engine cooling water temperature. | 05-31-2012 |
20130008165 | RANKINE CYCLE SYSTEM - A Rankine cycle system includes: a superheater, an expander including a first outlet discharging steam and a second outlet discharging liquid refrigerant produced therein; a first discharge path discharging the steam from the expander; a condenser condensing the steam introduced through the first discharge path into liquid refrigerant, a condensed water tank reserving the liquid refrigerant produced in the condenser; and a second discharge path discharging the liquid refrigerant from the expander to the condensed water tank, wherein a liquid level in the condensed water tank satisfies a following relation: Δh>ΔPto/ρg, when Δh means a height difference between the liquid level and a lowest liquid level in the second discharge path, ΔPto means a pressure loss when the steam flows into the condenser from the expander through the first discharge path, ρ means a density of the liquid refrigerant, and g means a gravitational acceleration. | 01-10-2013 |
20150136381 | HEAT TRANSPORT DEVICE - A heat transport device ( | 05-21-2015 |