Patent ID: 8518248
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: F16H

Abstract:
1. An oil strainer comprising: a body member which is adapted to form a valve body provided with a pressure regulating valve to adjust an outlet pressure of an oil pump to a predetermined level, and including a circumferential wall projecting in a first direction toward an oil pan; a cover member covering an inside space surrounded by the circumferential wall, and including a suction hole to suck an oil from the oil pan; the body member further including: wherein the partition wall extends from a base wall end connected with the circumferential wall to a forward wall end not connected with the circumferential wall, in the inside space surrounded by the circumferential wall and thereby forms an oil passage extending from an upstream end portion which is adjacent to the base wall end of the partition wall on a first side of the partition wall and which is formed with the discharge hole, to a downstream end portion which is adjacent to the base wall end of the partition wall on a second side opposite to the first side and which is formed with the communication hole, through an intermediate portion in which the suction hole is opened in a plan view of the oil strainer.