Water jacket of engine
View Patent ↗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.
1. A water jacket of an engine, comprising:
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,
wherein 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 the head water jacket.
2. The water jacket of claim 1 , wherein the engine operating condition includes a temperature of the cooling water.
3. The water jacket of claim 2 , wherein the variable partition wall is installed on a bottom of a cooling water path so as to allow a height of the variable partition wall to be varied according to the temperature of the cooling water in the space between the positions of the cylinders in the head water jacket.
4. The water jacket of claim 2 , wherein the variable partition wall includes a wax which is expanded or contracted according to the temperature of the cooling water and of which shape is varied.
5. The water jacket of claim 4 , wherein the variable partition wall is installed on a bottom of a cooling water path so as to allow a height of the variable partition wall to be varied according to the temperature of the cooling water in the space between the positions of the cylinders in the head water jacket.
6. The water jacket of claim 5 , wherein the variable partition wall has a structure in which a sheathing material fixed to the bottom of the cooling water path surrounds the wax.
7. The water jacket of claim 6 , wherein the sheathing material includes a material having elasticity which is deformed when the wax is expanded and is restored when the wax is contracted.
8. The water jacket of claim 7 , wherein the sheathing material includes a rubber material.