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Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Internal Combustion Engine Valve Train Lubricating Structure
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 12, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 12 -- Yosuke Hoi of Saitama, Japan, has developed a structure of an internal combustion engine.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention aims to "prevent a drop in a lubricating oil supply pressure in a valve train from occurring by disposing a lubricating oil supply path for the exclusive use of the valve train without allowing the lubricating oil to flow through an oil gallery, thereby securing a sufficient amount of supply of the lubricating oil in the valve train to enhance lubrication efficiency. A feed pump rotating with a crankshaft is disposed at a leftward end of the crankshaft. Lubricating oil supplied from the feed pump flows ...