Patent ID: 8104581

Claim:
An oil module for an internal combustion engine, comprising: a carrier element that can be attached to an engine block of the internal combustion engine via a flange and carries at least one oil filter and an oil cooler; the oil module being provided with at least two channels for guiding oil and at least one channel for guiding water, one of the two channels for guiding oil being an oil cooler bypass channel connecting an oil inlet of the oil cooler to an oil outlet of the oil cooler, wherein in operation a first partial flow of the oil flows through the oil cooler and a second partial flow of the oil flows through the oil cooler bypass channel bypassing the oil cooler, such that the partial flow of the oil flowing through the oil cooler bypass channel is caused to avoid flowing through the oil cooler, an oil cooler base plate forming one part of the oil cooler and occluding the oil cooler on the carrier side, the oil cooler base plate lying in a plane and having one side facing the oil cooler and an opposite side facing the carrier element, wherein at least a main part of the oil cooler bypass channel extends through the oil cooler base plate in the plane of the oil cooler base plate and is sealed towards at least one of an outside environment on the oil cooler side by the remaining oil cooler and on the carrier element side by the carrier element.