Cylinder head structure of engine
View Patent ↗Head cooling passages are formed around intake ports and exhaust ports provided in a cylinder head, and a flow control member which controls the volume of cooling medium flowing toward the intake ports to be larger than the volume of cooling medium flowing toward the exhaust ports is provided in the vicinity of a supply port via which cooing medium is supplied.
1. An engine, comprising:
head cooling passages formed around intake ports and exhaust ports provided in a cylinder head;
a supply port, formed in the cylinder head, that supplies a cooling medium directly into said head cooling passages; and
a flow control member provided in vicinity of said supply port, for controlling a volume of cooling medium flowing in said head cooling passages such that a volume of cooing medium flowing the intake ports is larger than a volume of cooling medium flowing toward the exhaust ports.
2. An engine according to claim 1 , wherein said flow control member is provided to divide a flow of cooling medium into a flow toward the intake ports and a flow toward the exhaust ports, and is formed in a manner being extended from an upstream side toward a downstream side in a flowing direction of the cooling medium, such that the downstream side being closer to the intake ports than the upstream side.
3. An engine according to claim 2 , wherein said head cooling passages on the intake port side and the exhaust port side are in communication with each other downstream of the flow control member in the flowing direction.
4. An engine according to claim 1 , wherein said supply port of said head cooling passages is provided at an end of a cylinder bank.
5. An engine according to claim 1 , wherein the cooling medium is supplied from said head cooling passages, and then flows into a block cooling passage provided in the cylinder block.
6. An engine according to claim 1 , wherein said head cooling passages include intake side discharge holes formed on side of the intake ports, for discharging the cooling medium into the block cooling passage, and exhaust side discharge holes formed on side of the exhaust ports, for discharging the cooling medium into the block cooling passage, said intake side discharge holes having a larger flow passage area as compared with said exhaust side discharge holes.
7. An engine according to claim 6 , wherein said intake side discharge holes and said exhaust side discharge holes are formed to have a larger flow passage area as said intake side discharge holes and said exhaust side discharge holes become further away from said supply port of said head cooling passages.
8. An engine according to claim 1 , wherein said flow control member includes a plate member provided in a manner being extended in a direction in which the cooling medium flows.
9. An engine according to claim 1 , wherein said flow control member is formed to cross said head cooling passage in a direction from a lower surface to an upper surface of the cylinder head.