Patent ID: 6374794
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: F01M

Abstract:
An oil pan separation assembly for a power plant unit for a motor vehicle that includes longitudinally, from front to rear, a thermal engine and a transmission in which a rear side of a longitudinal block of the thermal engine is rigidly connected to a forward side of a housing of the transmission which comprises:two horizontal right angle members located in proximity with a plane of attachment of an oil pan beneath the block of the engine, said two horizontal right angles members facing one another transversely, each of said right angle members including a longitudinal front first arm rigidly attached to the engine block and a transverse rear second arm rigidly attached to the transmission to strengthen the engine assembly, wherein each right angle member comprises a tetrahedron-shaped right angle member having a base which forms said second arm of the right angle members, and which has a body forming the first arm of the right angle members; and a separation piece which is insertable vertically between the engine block and the oil pan, and on which the first arms of the two right angle members are secured wherein each of said tetrahedron-shaped right angle members includes, at vertices of the base most distant from a median plane of the engine, first and second longitudinal borings for attachment of the right angle members, to a complementary perforated surface of the transmission housing and wherein the body of each of said right angle members includes a recess which opens into the base so as to lighten and strengthen said right angle members.