A heat retention material cartridge fixed to a base member of a heat retention tool of a cylinder bore's bore wall for heat retention of the cylinder bore wall, which includes a thermosensitive expansion rubber, a back-side pressing member, a rectangular opening, a front-side abutting plate cooperative with the back-side pressing member for sandwiching an outer edge portion of the thermosensitive expansion rubber, and an elastic member attached member to which an elastic member is attached. A convex portion being convex toward the side of the back-side pressing member is formed in a portion of the front-side abutting plate where the outer end is not sandwiched by bendable portions. And, the outer edge portion of the thermosensitive expansion rubber is formed in such a manner that the outer end of the thermosensitive expansion rubber is positioned inside an apex of the convex portion.

In the case of using the thermosensitive expansion rubber as a rubber member of the heat retention material cartridge, even when the thermosensitive expansion rubber thermo-sensitively expands in a groove-like cooling water passage, the present invention can provide the heat retention material cartridge capable of preventing the expanding thermosensitive expansion rubber from protruding from the upper or lower side of the heat retention material cartridge.

An internal combustion engine includes an anisotropic thermal conductivity member (37, 51) provided on a wall surface defining a cylinder or a wall surface of a cooling water passage on a side of the cylinder, a thermal conductivity of the anisotropic thermal conductivity member in an axial direction of the cylinder being higher than a thermal conductivity of the anisotropic thermal conductivity member in a radial direction of the cylinder, and a thermally insulating member (38. 52) provided on an outer surface of the anisotropic thermal conductivity member with respect to the radial direction of the cylinder.

The invention relates to a fluid-cooled internal combustion engine (1) having at least one cylinder block (40) and at least one cylinder head (10) for at least two cylinders (41), wherein the internal combustion engine (1) has a first side (4) and an opposite second side (5) of a longitudinal center plane (27) spanned by at least two cylinder axes (46) of the cylinders (41). In at least one web portion (12) between two cylinders (41) positioned next to one another in the region of a motor transverse plane (3) arranged in a normal position to the longitudinal center plane in the cylinder head (10), at least one second cooling channel (13) connecting the first side (4) and the second side (5), having at least one first opening (31) on the first side (4) and at least one second opening (32) on the second side (5), is arranged. The aim of the invention is to cool the web portion (12) in a most space-saving manner. This aim is achieved in that between the first opening (31) and the second opening (32), the second cooling channel (13) is molded into the cylinder head as a closed cross section, and has, from a cylinder head sealing plane (11) of the cylinder head (10), at least in the region of the longitudinal center plane (27) in the direction of a cylinder axis (46), a sealing plane distance (a).

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 relates to a liquid-cooled internal combustion engine (1), comprising: a cylinder head (2) having a top-down cooling concept, with a head cooling chamber (15) with a first head partial cooling chamber (16) spaced apart from the fire deck (4) and with a second head partial cooling chamber (17), which adjoins the fire deck (4) of the cylinder head (2) and is separated from the first head partial cooling chamber (16) by an intermediate deck (18), the first head partial cooling chamber (16) and the second head partial cooling chamber (17) being fluidically interconnected, in the region of a central component (19), by means of a passage channel (21) in the intermediate deck (18); a main feed channel (32), which is disposed in the cylinder block (3) and is connected to the first head partial cooling chamber (16) by means of a first flow passage (34) in the fire deck (4) of the cylinder head (2) and by means of a supply channel (35); a block cooling jacket (41), which is fluidically connected to the second head partial cooling chamber (17) by means of a second flow passage (36) in the fire deck (4) of the cylinder head (2). According to the invention, in order to improve the cooling, the block cooling jacket (41) has a first block partial cooling jacket (29), which is near the fire deck (4) and into which the second flow passage (36) leads, and a second block partial cooling jacket (30), which is separated from the first block partial cooling jacket (29) and is emote from the fire deck (4), the first block cooling jacket (29) being fluidically connected to the second block cooling jacket (30) by means of a third flow passage (37) which is diametrically opposite the second flow passage (36), and the second block partial cooling jacket (30) being connected to a main discharge channel (33) which is disposed in the cylinder block (2).

A water jacket spacer adjusting a flow amount of cooling water in a water jacket, the water jacket spacer being inserted in the water jacket of a cylinder block, the water jacket spacer has a spacer body and a rectification means inhibiting flow of cooling water to an inner wall on a cylinder bore side of the water jacket, the rectification means having a form of a pocket and being provided on a face of the spacer body, the face being on a side of a cooling water introduction port of the water jacket, the rectification means being provided lower than the cooling water introduction port in a depth direction.

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.

An engine is disclosed of the V-configuration having an integrated engine and transmission. The engine has a crankshaft which directly couples to drive the water pump, oil pump and transmission clutch. The water pump has a drive shaft coupled to the crankshaft that extends across the crankcase from a first to a second side. The water pump includes a housing where at least a portion is defined in the face of the crankshaft.

A water jacket spacer is arranged to surround substantially an entire periphery of a portion of the cylinder liner which corresponds to the water jacket. An opening through which a coolant introduced from a coolant-introducing section is introduced to an inner side of a water jacket spacer is formed in a portion of the water jacket spacer which corresponds to the coolant-introducing section. An upper section of the water jacket spacer is positioned close to a cylinder block outer peripheral wall. A coolant passage through which the coolant introduced from the opening is circulated around an outer periphery of an upper portion of the cylinder liner is formed between the upper section of the water jacket spacer and the outer periphery of the upper portion of the cylinder liner. A lower section of the water jacket spacer is positioned close to the cylinder liner.

A device seating a valve body with the aid of an urging force of a spring by stopping the operation of a pump, changes over an energization state of a coil of at least one of the liquid shutoff valves which is changed over to the closed-valve state where the coil is energized, and then resumes the operation of the pump. Upon detecting the start of operation of the pump, a valve control unit causes a pump control unit to perform opening-closing force-feed control, where an amount of the cooling liquid force-fed by the pump is set to an amount within such a range that the valve body of the liquid shutoff valves whose coil is energized is not displaced in a valve-opening direction while the valve body of the liquid shutoff valves whose coil is not energized is displaced in the valve-opening direction.