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The electrification of the internal combustion engine is an important subject of future automotive technology. By using a motorized internal combustion engine, it is possible to recover waste energy by regeneration technology and to reduce various losses that deteriorate the efficiency of the internal combustion Engine. This paper summarizes the results of the development of an engine-integrated motor that can be applied to a 48V mild hybrid system for motorization of an internal combustion engine. Like the 48V MHSG-mounted mild hybrid system designed to replace the generator in the auxiliary belt system, the motorized internal combustion engine is designed with the scalability as the top priority to minimize the additional space for the vehicle and to mount the same engine in various models.

Aeration rate in engine oil is one of the most important data in developing lubrication system of the internal combustion engine. Several methods were reported to measure oil aeration, but none of them can measure aeration rate in real time at in-vehicle tests. The present study developed oil aeration meter that is able to measure oil aeration in real time without sampling oil out of engine. And the meter is very compact in size and the response time of the meter is fast enough, thus the meter can be applied to in-vehicle tests. The meter measures density, pressure and temperature of the air-oil mixture, and those variables are measured with high precision, thus the oil aeration meter having uncertainty less than 1% could be developed. The oil aeration meter is successfully being applied to develop the lubrication system of engine.