Patent ID: 8230845

Claim:
Device for separating fluid particles from a gas flow leaking from a crankcase with a valve element ( 10 ) for a volumetric-flow-depending division of the gas flow to at least two fluid-separating devices ( 21 , 22 ), characterized in that the valve element ( 10 ) comprises a cylinder ( 11 ) which is through-flowable by the gas flow and connected at the off-flow side with a first fluid-separating device ( 21 ) and the cylinder jacket of which features at least a first aperture ( 15 ) of a branch line leading to a second fluid-separating device ( 22 ), that between the cylinder ( 11 ) and the piston ( 12 ) a clearance fit is designed and/or that the piston is provided for with at least one axial borehole ( 13 , 14 ), and that in the cylinder ( 11 ) a piston element ( 12 ) is arranged which in an initial condition covers the at least one aperture ( 15 ) and which is—due to the dynamic pressure—movable against the force of a return device ( 18 ) by opening the aperture ( 15 ).