Patent ID: 6973925
Filing Date: 2005-12-13
Classification: B04B,F01M

Abstract:
1. A venting device for a crankcase of an internal combustion engine with a centrifugal oil separator ( 1 ) comprising a mixture inlet ( 13 ) for an air-oil mixture and an air outlet ( 12 ) for clean air as well as an oil outlet ( 14 ) for oil, and said centrifugal oil separator being designed as a plate separator ( 1 ) having a stator ( 2 ) in the form of a housing ( 7 ) into which a rotor ( 3 ) comprising several plates ( 9 ) is placed which are located along the rotor axis ( 19 ) parallel to each other and coaxial to the rotor axis ( 19 ) whereby a gap ( 10 ) is formed between each two neighbouring plates ( 9 ), said gap joining an annular space ( 11 ) formed inside the rotor ( 3 ) with a space ( 8 ) which surrounds the rotor ( 3 ) inside the housing ( 7 ), whereby the annular space ( 11 ) of rotor ( 3 ) is joined to a first connection ( 12 ), and the space ( 8 ) of housing ( 7 ) to a second connection ( 13 ) as well as a third connection ( 14 ) which serves as the oil outlet, characterised in that the first connection (