Patent ID: 6823968
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: F01M,F02B,F05C

Abstract:
An oil collecting arrangement for an internal-combustion engine, particularly for an opposed-cylinder engine, having an oil collecting housing arranged below a crankcase, in which oil collecting housing an oil suction space is constructed from which a lubricating oil is delivered by way of a main oil pump equipped with an oil suction pipe to consuming devices, and at least one oil collecting space adjoining the oil suction space, into which oil collecting space the lubricating oil coming from the consuming devices is returned by way of an oil pipe, the oil suction space being separated from the oil collecting space by at least one wall section in which at least one passage opening is arranged which is controlled by way of a flap, by way of which passage opening the lubricating oil can flow from the oil collecting space into the oil suction space,wherein the wall section provided with the passage opening is constructed as a plug-in oil separating wall which is fitted in between guiding ribs provided in the oil collecting housing.