Patent ID: 7198018

Claim:
A structure of a cylinder block in an engine comprising: said cylinder block; a plurality of bearing caps for supporting a crankshaft mounted to the cylinder block; a number of cap bolts fixing the plural bearing caps to said cylinder block; a plurality of bearing cap beams, disposed one beneath each of said plural bearing caps, supporting said plural bearing caps; a plurality of baffle plates, each baffle plate protruding downward from two adjacent bearing cap beams and serving as a connection there between; and a number of beam bolts fixing said plural bearing cap beams to a skirt portion of said cylinder block, wherein each of said plural bearing cap beams and the corresponding one of said plural bearing cap are fixed to said cylinder block by two or more of said cap bolts, and two or more of said cap bolts and two or more of said beam bolts associated with a same one of said plural bearing cap beams are disposed at close proximity sequentially.