An oil-feeding device for a crankshaft where the amount of lubricant oil
leaking from supporting areas of main journal portions is reduced without
increasing friction of bearing members against the main journal portions.
The oil-feeding device for a crankshaft includes upper bearing members
and lower bearing members. The upper and lower bearing members have a
half hollow cylindrical shape, are provided with crush relief portions at
both ends, and jointly encompass main journal portions of a crank shaft.
The upper bearing members have circumferentially extending oil grooves
provided in the faces opposite the main journal portions, the grooves
penetrating through oil passages of a cylinder block. The lower bearing
members do not have oil grooves. The oil grooves do not extend in the
crush relief portions, and therefore the leakage of lubricant oil, fed to
the oil grooves, to the areas of the crush relief portions is suppressed.