Patent ID: 9623350
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: B01D,F01M

Claim:
1. An oil management system to reduce and remove an amount of soot, rust or other contaminating particles in an oil used in an engine, the oil management system comprising: an oil filter assembly including a housing defining a chamber, the chamber retaining a filter element and an additive cartridge, the additive cartridge including a cartridge housing defining an additive chamber in which an additive is retained, the cartridge housing providing a flow pathway into the additive chamber via an inlet opening formed in the cartridge housing and an flow pathway out of the additive chamber via an outlet opening formed in the cartridge housing in order to continuously disperse a small quantity of the additive into the oil; an oxidation prevention means to prevent or diminish oxidation of metal in the oil management system; and an oil condition monitoring sensor coupled to an oil collection sump of the engine and separate from the oil filter assembly, the oil condition monitoring sensor configured to measure at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of an amount of rust particles per unit of oil, an amount of nitrogen in the sump, and an amount of oxygen-scavenging material in the sump.