A water jacket coolant passage division member includes: a partition member that has a planar shape that conforms to a groove-like coolant passage provided to a cylinder block that is provided to an internal combustion engine; an inner-side rubber member that is provided to an inner side of the partition member, and comes in contact with a cylinder bore-side wall surface of the groove-like coolant passage; and an outer-side rubber member that is provided to an outer side of the partition member, and comes in contact with an outer wall surface of the groove-like coolant passage. An internal combustion engine in which a cylinder bore wall has a uniform temperature can be provided by utilizing the water jacket coolant passage division member.

The invention provides a method for easily producing an engine block for a combustion engine. The method includes: a) providing an engine block with an open water jacket opening; b) placing an insert in the water jacket opening; and c) fixing the insert in the water jacket opening by friction welding. The shape of the insert is adapted to the shape of the water jacket opening such that the insert, when being placed, at least partially closes the water jacket opening and bridges the distance between the outer wall and the cylinder wall, thereby supporting the cylinder wall against the outer wall of the engine block. An engine block produced accordingly shows the advantages of a closed deck engine block.

A combustion engine housing with cylinder cooling includes at least one cylinder. The cylinder cooling channel has a distribution cross-sectional area having a cross-sectional area through which coolant can flow, in a first cross-sectional plane that is perpendicular to the cylinder axis. In a second cross-sectional plane, which is perpendicular to the cylinder axis and which is arranged in relation to the vertical direction between the first cross-sectional plane and the coolant outflow opening, has a throttle cross-sectional area, which is a cross-sectional area through which coolant can flow. The throttle cross-sectional area is smaller than the distribution cross-sectional area.

Systems are provided for cooling a cylinder block via bore bridge cooling passages. In one example, a system may include a cylinder block with a first cylinder and a second cylinder adjacent to the first cylinder and a bore bridge positioned between the first cylinder and the second cylinder, the cylinder block further including a coolant jacket at least partially surrounding the first cylinder and the second cylinder. The system may further include a cooling passage positioned within the bore bridge, the cooling passage including an inlet fluidly coupled to the coolant jacket and an outlet positioned at a deck face of the cylinder block, the cooling passage curving from the inlet to the outlet with a curvature greater than zero.

A cooling structure of an engine comprises a cylinder block provided with a wall surface partitioning a water jacket provided to surround a cylinder line and allow cooling water to flow therein and a water-jacket spacer arranged inside the water jacket and provided to regulate flowing of the cooling water. The water-jacket spacer comprises a spacer body having a shape along an outer-peripheral shape of the cylinder line and includes an internal surface facing cylinders, and an expansive member expandable according to an external factor is provided at the internal surface of the spacer body such that the expansive member extends continuously over a range from an one-end side to the other-end side of the cylinder line at a lower part, in a cylinder-axis direction, of the internal surface of the spacer body.

A cylinder block defines a cylinder, in which a piston is reciprocated. The cylinder includes an upper bore, a center bore, and a lower bore arranged in order from proximity to a cylinder head in the axial direction of the cylinder. The inner diameter of the center bore is greater than the inner diameters of the upper bore and the lower bore. The cylinder block defines an upper recess that serves as an upper water jacket surrounding the upper bore and a lower recess that serves as a lower water jacket surrounding the lower bore. The upper recess and the lower recess are spaced apart from each other in the axial direction of the cylinder so as to sandwich a spacer.

A structure is mounted in a water jacket for a cylinder block of an engine. The structure includes a body forming a housing mounting portion including a panel formed in an arc shape so as to have inner and outer curved surfaces to be surrounded by a block bore. A pad-housing is formed in a plate shape to have curved surfaces with a curvature equal to the inner and outer curved surfaces of the housing mounting portion. The pad-housing is inserted into a housing mounting hole and is formed in a shape to correspond with the housing mounting hole. A pad is formed in a shape to correspond with a pad mounting hole which is bored through the pad-housing through. The pad has a curved surface and is inserted into the pad mounting hole to achieve water tightness.

A water jacket of an engine is capable of implementing cooling water flows as both a cross flow and a parallel flow. The water jacket includes a head water jacket formed in a cylinder head of an engine; a block water jacket formed in a cylinder block of the engine; and a variable partition wall which is configured to induce a cross flow of cooling water in a space between positions of cylinders in the head water jacket, where the variable partition wall has a shape configured to be varied according to an engine operating condition, and the variable partition wall allows the cooling water to flow in a selected one of the cross flow and a parallel flow according to the shape which is varied in head water jacket.

An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall that defines a water jacket and a block outer peripheral wall, a spacer housed in the water jacket, and a cooler provided outside the engine body. The spacer includes: a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall; and a dividing wall protruding from the peripheral wall to divide the water jacket into an upper passage and lower passages below the upper passage. A coolant introduced from a coolant inlet into the upper passage passes through an inter-bore part of the block inner peripheral wall. The coolant in the lower passages is introduced into the cooler through a coolant exit.

Methods and systems are provided for a coolant jacket insert. In one example, a system may include a coolant jacket arranged in a block comprising an insert with a first internal passage configured to direct coolant from an inlet manifold of the coolant jacket directly to a portion of the coolant jacket arranged in a cylinder head.