Patent ID: 6725823
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: F01M,F01P,F02B

Abstract:
A lubricating oil supply structure for an internal combustion engine comprising:a generator including a stator with generating coils and a rotor coupled to a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine; a housing member, said generator being housed in said housing member, said housing member having a nozzle forming region combined with a lubricating oil passage, said nozzle forming region having a first nozzle in communication with said lubricating oil passage for continuously ejecting lubricating oil; and a lubrication object mounted on said crankshaft and disposed opposite to said stator across a flange of said rotor in an axial direction of said crankshaft, wherein said first nozzle is disposed on a stator side of said housing member in confronting relation to said flange, said rotor having a first through passage disposed at a position confronting said lubrication object in a direction in which the lubricating oil is ejected from said first nozzle, so that the lubricating oil is ejected from said first nozzle through said first through passage to said lubrication object.