A cylinder head cover for an internal combustion engine includes an oil
separator with a vortex chamber extending in a longitudinal direction
from a proximal end to a distal end. Said vortex chamber comprises an
essentially pipe-shaped wall extending in said longitudinal direction, a
gas inlet arranged at said proximal end of said vortex chamber and
oriented tangentially to said essentially pipe-shaped wall, for
tangentially blowing blow-by gas into said vortex chamber, such that a
gas vortex flow helically rotating along said essentially pipe-shaped
wall in the longitudinal direction from said proximal end to said distal
end of said vortex chamber is created, and a gas outlet opening. The gas
outlet opening is arranged in the region of said distal end of said
vortex chamber.