Patent ID: 6189521
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: F02M

Abstract:
An internal combustion engine intake module comprising:composite elements forming at least a portion of an air intake system for an engine and a walled chamber of a PCV system for the engine;a mounting receptacle for a PCV valve within the chamber;a PCV valve disposed in the mounting within the chamber and comprising an inlet adapted to be communicated, via an entrance to the chamber, to a crankcase of the engine, and an outlet adapted to be communicated, via an exit from the chamber, to engine vacuum created when the engine is running; anda removable cap closing a through-hole in a wall of the chamber via which the PCV valve can be removed when the cap is removed from the through-hole;in which the walled chamber is cooperatively defined by at least one composite element and a cover, and the through-hole that is closed by the cap is in the cover.