Patent ID: 8375927
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: F01M,F02F

Abstract:
1. An internal combustion engine having an engine block for a plurality of cylinders, which has side walls and hollow vertical reinforcements along the side walls of the engine block in areas of main bearing planes, at least a part of the reinforcements being implemented as oil recirculation passages between a cylinder head and engine block, wherein at least one vertical reinforcement which conducts blow-by gas has a connection for a blow-by gas line leading to an oil separator, wherein the vertical reinforcement having the connection for the blow-by gas line has a flow connection via a connection channel to an adjacent vertical reinforcement, wherein the connection channel has an oil separation edge on a bottom side of the connection channel farther away from the cylinder head in an area of the vertical reinforcement having the connection, said oil separation edge projecting upwardly from a bottom side, and wherein the connection channel is implemented as an oil collection chamber in order to conduct separated oil into the adjacent vertical reinforcement.