US008075772B2

(12) United States Patent (10) Patent N0.: US 8,075,772 B2

Suga (45) Date of Patent: Dec. 13, 2011

(54) OIL PAN WITH BUILT-IN FILTERING FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS

ELEMENT DE 36 20 959 10/1987

(75) Inventor: Takeharu Suga, Aki-gun (JP) (Continued)

(73) Assignee: Daikyonishikawa Corporation, OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Hiroshima-kc (JP)
Machine translation of DE 3620959, pp. 1.*
(*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
patent is extended or adjusted under 35 (Continued)
U.S.C. 154(b) by 1364 days.
Primary Examiner * Tony G Soohoo
(21) App1.N0.: 11/395,947 Assistant Examiner * David C Mellon
(22) Filed: Mar. 30, 2006 (74) Attorney, Agent, orFirm * Hamre, Schumann, Mueller
& Larson, PC.
(65) Prior Publication Data
US 2006/0219620 A1 Oct. 5, 2006 (57) ABSTRACT
(30) Foreign Application Priority Data The present invention provides an oil pan with a built-in
?ltering element which does not easily receive in?uence of
Mar. 31, 2005 (JP) ............................... .. 2005-102386
Mar. 31, 2005 (JP) ............................... .. 2005403140
lateral swing of oil, which has high support rigidity of a ?lter,
or which has excellent assembling operability of the ?lter, or
(51) Int. Cl. which is light in weight as compared with a conventional oil
pan. The oil pan P1 with a built-in ?ltering element has a ?lter
B01D 35/30 (2006.01) 20. The ?lter 20 is provided therein with an oil ?ow path Q
C02F 1/00 (2006.01)
which is in communication with an oil pump. The ?lter 20
F01M 11/03 (2006.01)
?lters oil ?owing toward the oil pump. An oil ?ow path
(52) US. Cl. ............ .. 210/232; 210/167.01; 210/167.02;
includes a bottom ?ow path Qb having a ?ow path wall 7
210/4165; 210/435; 210/445; 210/453; 210/454; extending along a bottom wall 5 of the oil pan, and a side ?ow
184/624; 184/106; 123/196A path Qs having a ?ow path wall 8 extending along a ?rst
(58) Field of Classi?cation Search ................ .. 210/232,
sidewall 1 of the oil pan. The ?rst sidewall includes a drain
210/168, 188, 416.5,428, 167.01, 167.02, hole 1h which opens at the bottom ?ow path and through
210/435, 436, 416.4, 445, 453, 454, 455, which the ?lter can be inserted into the bottom ?ow path. The
210/462, 459, 172, 249, 473; 184/1.5, 106, bottom ?ow path is provided with a ?lter retaining portion 7k
184/624; 123/196, 196A which retains the inserted ?lter. The drain hole is provided
See application ?le for complete search history. with a plug ?xing portion 1m which ?xes a closing plug 10 of
the drain hole. The closing plug is formed with a ?lter receiver
(56) References Cited
11k against which a terminal end 20k of the inserted ?lter is
U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS abutted.
1,671,391 A * 5/1928 Winslow et a1. ............ .. 184/106

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US. PATENT DOCUMENTS JP 54-53142 9/1977

2,057,779
1,759,447 A * 10/1936
5/1930 Jacobs
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2,447,144 A * 8/1948 Thornton . 210/120 JP 6169809 4/1986
3,707,202 A * 12/1972 Dixon .... .. 184/6.24 JP 10611209 11/1988
3,749,248 A * 7/1973 Dickinson 210/238 JP 63468010 11/1988
4,459,208 A * 7/1984 Lemon ...... .. 210/167.02 JP 1408310 7/l989
4,640,771 A * 2/1987 Whalen etal. ......... .. 210/167.01 JP 1463516 11/1989
4,930,469 A 6/1990 Kamprath et al. JP 1474672 l2/l989
6,428,699 B1* 8/2002 Iwata et al. ................. .. 210/249 JP 842319 2/1996
6,517,710 B2 * 2/2003 Hartmann et al. 2I0/I67.02 JP 3104544 4/1996
6,584,950 B1 * 7/2003 Cunningham .......... .. 123/195 C JP 9_53434 2/1997
6,616,836 B1* 9/2003 Covington ............. .. 210/167.02 JP 2002364325 12/2002
7,282,140 B2* 10/2007 Boast etal. ................. .. 210/130 JP 2004432317 4/2004
2002/0095763 A1 7/2002 Willis et al. JP 2004-150631 5/2004
2002/0096221 A1 7/2002 Kapcoe et al. JP 2005-48946 2/2005
2004/0007520 A1 1/2004 Rosendahlet al. KR 2003-52265 6/2003
2004/0084250 A1* 5/2004 Moriiet a1. ................. .. 184/106 KR 2004-0033274 4/2004
W0 W0 03/064827 8/2003
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
DE 38 30 966 5/1989
DE 197 35 445 1/1999 Machine Translation of JP 2004-132317 A, pp. 16*
DE 100 08 692 9/2001 Korean Of?ce Action dated Jan. 30, 2007.
EP 1 238 693 9/2002
JP 47-8267 3/1972 * cited by examiner
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