V-type engine

• Main Author: OHSHIGE; HIDETOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.04.1998
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: BEARINGS; BLASTING; COMBUSTION ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL; CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; SHAFTS; STEAM ENGINES; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; WEAPONS

In a V-type engine having a crankcase dividable into two halves in side ways, a crankshaft disposed inside the crankcase, a plurality of cylinder assemblies disposed onto the crankcase, arranged in V-shape and parallel to the divided faces of the crankcase, and pairs of metal bearing halves which support the crankshaft, wherein the metal bearing halves are press fit into predetermined positions inside the crankcase halves, and the metal bearing halves are arranged so that matching faces of the bearing halves make a right angle with a line which divide an angle between the V-shaped cylinder assemblies in half.