To provide an internal combustion engine that can inject lubricating oil to both of the first region in the skirt of the piston and the second region outside the skirt with fewer nozzles. An internal combustion engine including: a piston configured to reciprocate in a cylinder bore; and an oil injector configured to inject lubricating oil to the piston. The piston includes pin bosses, skirts, side walls, and a piston inner region that is surrounded by respective inner surfaces of the pin bosses, skirts, and side walls. The oil injector is configured to inject the lubricating oil to the pair of pin bosses when the piston is at one of a top dead center and a bottom dead center, and inject the lubricating oil to the piston inner region when the piston is at another of the top dead center and the bottom dead center.

Systems and apparatuses include a lubrication system having an engine piston defining a gudgeon pin aperture, a piston pooling cavity extending radially outward from the gudgeon pin aperture, a piston cooling gallery, and a piston lubrication passage. The piston lubrication passage is in fluid communication with the piston cooling gallery and the piston pooling cavity. The piston further includes a pin journal received in the gudgeon pin aperture of the engine piston and defining a journal aperture in fluid communication with the piston pooling cavity and a journal pooling cavity in fluid communication with the journal aperture. A gudgeon pin is received within the gudgeon pin aperture adjacent the pin journal, which provides fluid communication between the journal pooling cavity and the gudgeon pin.

An oil jet device for supplying pressure oil which is supplied from a pressure oil supply source, includes a valve body and a supporting portion. The valve body is molded by cold-forging a metal material and accommodates a valve portion for controlling the supply of the pressure oil from the pressure oil supply source. The supporting portion is molded by cold-forging a metal material, supports the valve body, and has a first principal surface having a flat shape and configured to abut on an attachment target object.

A nozzle of a piston cooling system includes a flow path defined by a structure of the nozzle and configured to receive a cooling fluid, a first flow opening fluidly coupled with the flow path and extending through the structure of the nozzle, and a second flow opening fluidly coupled with the flow path and extending through the structure of the nozzle. The first flow opening and the second flow opening are sized to enable laminar flow of corresponding first and second jets of the cooling fluid discharged through the first and second flow openings, respectively.

An engine oil supply apparatus includes: a cylinder block; a shaft supporting member which bears a crank journal of a crank shaft in cooperation with a journal supporting wall section; and a nozzle which injects oil to a piston. The cylinder block includes a first oil supply path which extends in a cylinder bank direction at a position of one side section of the cylinder in a width direction that is perpendicular to the cylinder bank direction, a branch oil path which branches from the first oil supply path at a position of the journal supporting wall section and which supplies oil to a crank bearing section by which the crank journal is borne, and a second oil supply path which extends in the cylinder bank direction at a position further outward than the first oil supply path in the width direction and which supplies oil to the nozzle.

Methods and systems are described for an oil delivery system of an engine. In one method, oil is pumped via a lower pressure oil pump to piston cooling jets while oil is separately pumped via a higher pressure oil pump to a cylinder head, bearings, a turbocharger, or a variable valve operation system. Herein, the higher and lower pressure oil pumps each draw oil from a common, shared sump, and return oil back to the common, shared sump.

A nozzle of a piston cooling system includes a flow path defined by a structure of the nozzle and configured to receive a cooling fluid, a first flow opening fluidly coupled with the flow path and extending through the structure of the nozzle, and a second flow opening fluidly coupled with the flow path and extending through the structure of the nozzle. The first flow opening and the second flow opening are sized to enable laminar flow of corresponding first and second jets of the cooling fluid discharged through the first and second flow openings, respectively.

A control valve for a lubricant nozzle for cooling a piston of an internal combustion engine includes at least one passage opening through which lubricant can flow, a control part which is movable in a respective movement direction and which, as a function of its position, forms an opening cross section with the passage opening for at least partially opening up or for closing off the passage opening, and an actuation part which moves the control part as a function of a pressure of the lubricant between at least one first position in the presence of a first pressure, a second position in the presence of a second pressure and a third position in the presence of a third pressure of the lubricant. The second pressure is higher than the first pressure and lower than the third pressure, wherein the opening cross section formed in the second position is larger than the opening cross sections in the first position and in the third position.

Systems and apparatuses include a lubrication system having an engine piston defining a gudgeon pin aperture, a piston pooling cavity extending radially outward from the gudgeon pin aperture, a piston cooling gallery, and a piston lubrication passage. The piston lubrication passage is in fluid communication with the piston cooling gallery and the piston pooling cavity. The piston further includes a pin journal received in the gudgeon pin aperture of the engine piston and defining a journal aperture in fluid communication with the piston pooling cavity and a journal pooling cavity in fluid communication with the journal aperture. A gudgeon pin is received within the gudgeon pin aperture adjacent the pin journal, which provides fluid communication between the journal pooling cavity and the gudgeon pin.