A housing has a housing main body and an outlet port. The housing main body includes a cylindrical housing inner wall that defines an internal space therein. The outlet port fluidly connects the internal space and an outside of the housing main body to each other. The valve has a valve body rotatable about an rotation axis along a rotation axis of the cylindrical housing inner wall. The valve is configured to selectively open and close the outlet port depending on a rotation position of the valve. The housing inner wall is formed such that a distance between the housing inner wall and the axis of the housing inner wall varies in a circumferential direction.

A cooling system of a hybrid vehicle include an engine, a drive motor, a main water pump, a cooling line, a heat-exchange line, a heater line on which a heater and an exhaust heat recovery device are provided, a coolant control valve unit selectively supplying coolant to the cooling line, the heat-exchange line and the heater line, a bypass line connecting the rear of the exhaust heat recovery device and the front of the heater, an auxiliary water pump that selectively supplies coolant from the exhaust heat recovery device to the front of the heater, a state measurement unit that measures an operation state of the vehicle and outputs a corresponding signal, and a controller configured for controlling operation of the engine, the drive motor, the main water pump, the coolant control valve unit and the auxiliary water pump according to the output signal of the state measurement unit.

An internal combustion engine system including a cylinder block, a cylinder head attached to the cylinder block, an EGR cooler, and a coolant collector bracket is provided. The cylinder head includes a plurality of coolant passages. The coolant collector bracket is coupled to and between the cylinder head and the EGR cooler. The coolant collector bracket includes a plurality of coolant inlets directly coupled to a plurality of outlets of the plurality of coolant passages of the cylinder head. The coolant collector bracket also includes an EGR coolant outlet directly coupled to an inlet of the EGR cooler. The coolant collector bracket also includes an EGR cooler inlet directly coupled to an outlet of the EGR cooler.

Combustion engines, and more particularly, integrating a supercritical fluid passageway into a cylinder head and/or cylinder block of an engine, and preferably, a combustion engine. Both a combustion engine system and a method of cooling a cylinder head in an internal combustion engine, utilizing supercritical fluid, are disclosed.

A marine cooling system performs a temperature adjustment of an object to be cooled such as an internal combustion engine of a marine vessel. The marine cooling system includes a water supply flow passage to supply cooling water to the object, a water drain flow passage to drain the cooling water from the object to reduce an amount of the cooling water that contacts the object, and a flow passage controller to shut off the water to the drain flow passage.

In a cooling apparatus including a high-temperature-side radiator in a high-temperature-side cooling circuit supplying a high-temperature coolant to a cylinder head, a low-temperature-side radiator in a low-temperature-side cooling circuit supplying a low-temperature coolant to an intercooler, and an electronic control unit, the high-temperature-side cooling circuit includes a first coolant passage where the high-temperature coolant flows around an exhaust port, a second coolant passage where the high-temperature coolant flows through the cylinder head without flowing around the exhaust port, and a flow rate adjustment valve adjusting a flow rate of the high-temperature coolant flowing through the first coolant passage. The electronic control unit executes a response improvement process for controlling the flow rate adjustment valve to reduce the flow rate of the high-temperature coolant flowing through the first coolant passage, and for controlling the low-temperature-side pump to increase a flow rate of the low-temperature coolant circulating through the low-temperature-side cooling circuit.

An internal combustion engine and a head gasket are provided. The internal combustion engine includes a block having at least one cylinder, a head joined to the block at a head interface, a cooling fluid circulation passage extending at least partially through the head and the block and having a first portion disposed in the head and a second portion disposed in the block, a head gasket having a plate extending across the head interface and separating the first portion of the cooling fluid circulation passage from the second portion of the cooling fluid circulation passage, and a plurality of orifices extending through the plate. The plurality of orifices is aligned with the cooling fluid circulation passage and is configured to control a flow of cooling fluid circulating between the first portion of the cooling fluid circulation passage and the second portion of the cooling fluid circulation passage.

A method for thermal management of a motor vehicle engine includes one or more of the following: determining a current lube oil temperature; determining a lube oil temperature for optimal friction; turning on piston cooling jets based on the current lube oil temperature and the lube oil temperature for optimal friction; and turning off the piston cooling jets.

A housing has a housing main body and an outlet port. The housing main body includes a cylindrical housing inner wall that defines an internal space therein. The outlet port fluidly connects the internal space and an outside of the housing main body to each other. The valve has a valve body rotatable about an rotation axis along a rotation axis of the cylindrical housing inner wall. The valve is configured to selectively open and close the outlet port depending on a rotation position of the valve. The housing inner wall is formed such that a distance between the housing inner wall and the axis of the housing inner wall varies in a circumferential direction.

In a cooling apparatus including a high-temperature-side radiator in a high-temperature-side cooling circuit supplying a high-temperature coolant to a cylinder head, a low-temperature-side radiator in a low-temperature-side cooling circuit supplying a low-temperature coolant to an intercooler, and an electronic control unit, the high-temperature-side cooling circuit includes a first coolant passage where the high-temperature coolant flows around an exhaust port, a second coolant passage where the high-temperature coolant flows through the cylinder head without flowing around the exhaust port, and a flow rate adjustment valve adjusting a flow rate of the high-temperature coolant flowing through the first coolant passage. The electronic control unit executes a response improvement process for controlling the flow rate adjustment valve to reduce the flow rate of the high-temperature coolant flowing through the first coolant passage, and for controlling the low-temperature-side pump to increase a flow rate of the low-temperature coolant circulating through the low-temperature-side cooling circuit.