Abstract:
[Problem] To provide an internal combustion engine for a saddle-ride type vehicle configured to improve assemblability and productivity. [Solution] An internal combustion engine 31 for a motorcycle 10 includes a rear cylinder head 97, the rear cylinder head 97 being provided with a camshaft 104, an exhaust rocker arm 107 rocked by the camshaft 104, an engine valve closed/opened by being push-pressed by the exhaust rocker arm 107, and a rocker arm shaft 108 swingably supporting the exhaust rocker arm 107. In the internal combustion engine 31 for the motorcycle 10, the rear cylinder head 97 is provided separately from a holder member 98, the holder member 98 being provided adjacently to the rear cylinder head 97, the camshaft 104 is rotatably supported by the holder member 98, and the holder member 98 is provided with right and left rear side walls 152u and internal combustion engine supporting portions 152a, the right and left rear side walls 152u supporting the rocker arm shaft 108, the internal combustion engine supporting portion 152a being supported by a vehicle body frame.
Abstract:
A reference angle detecting device includes a control shaft (60) that is connected to a controlled object (e.g., to a variable valve actuation mechanism of an engine E) and an electric motor (73) that causes the control shaft (60) to rotate via a worm gear mechanism (72), a stopper (80) disposed on a motion track of a worm wheel (74), an angle sensor (94) that can detect a rotation angle of the control shaft (60), and a controller (90). The stopper (80) includes a spring member (for example, torsion coil spring (84)) which is elastically deformable in an operation direction of the worm wheel (74). The controller (90) drives the electric motor (73) to operate so that the worm wheel (74) may face the stopper (80), and stores the rotation angle at a time point when a change rate É of the rotation angle ¸ detected by the angle sensor (94) changes to a value less than a predetermined threshold É1 as a reference angle ¸ 0 . With this, the reference angle can be detected with high accuracy for control of an angle of the control shaft.
Abstract:
A system for variable actuation of an engine valve of an internal-combustion engine, comprises a master piston (16) and a slave piston (21), which drives the engine valve (7) and is hydraulically driven by said master piston (16) by means of a volume of pressurized fluid (C). The system further comprises an electrically operated control valve (24), which controls a communication of the volume of pressurized fluid (C) with a lower pressure environment (23). A device (D) for dampening pressure oscillations is connected to the volume of pressurized fluid (C) and comprises an additional volume adapted for receiving fluid from the volume of pressurized fluid (C) only when, following upon oscillations of the pressure in the volume of pressurized fluid (C), the pressure exceeds a maximum threshold value, which is higher than a mean pressure value that is set up in the volume of pressurized fluid (C).
Abstract:
An engine includes: an oil control valve built in a cylinder head, and configured to control a pressure of oil to be supplied to a variable valve mechanism via a camshaft; and a cam cap fixed to an upper face of the cylinder head, and configured to rotatably support the camshaft between the cam cap and the cylinder head, as a flow passage for the oil to be force-fed from an oil pump to the oil control valve, the cam cap including: a lateral passage formed inside the cam cap, and extended in a direction along the upper face of the cylinder head; and a downward passage extended downward from the lateral passage so as to serve as a downstream side flow passage of the lateral passage, and configured to guide the oil toward the oil control valve.
Abstract:
A control unit for an internal combustion engine is configured for suppressing knocking phenomenon with reduction of overlap, while maintaining an opening timing of an exhaust valve at the time of low-rotation, high-load state. A valve opening/closing timing control apparatus includes a phase adjustment mechanism configured to vary a relative rotational phase between a driving side rotary body rotatable in synchronism with a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and a driven side rotary body rotatable together with an exhaust cam shaft. After an opening timing of the exhaust valve, an advancing operation is effected for displacing the relative rotational phase in the advancing direction relative to the opening timing.
Abstract:
An internal combustion engine (1) includes a first bank (A) and a second bank (B). The first bank (A) includes a continuously variable valve apparatus (600A) that continuously changes a valve characteristic of an intake valve. The second bank (B) includes a multi-stage variable valve apparatus (600B) that changes the valve characteristic in multiple stages. An engine control apparatus (100) adjusts the intake air amount of the first bank (A) by adjusting the valve characteristic that is changed by the continuously variable valve apparatus (600A), based on the intake air amount of the second bank (B).
Abstract:
There is provided an oil feed member capable of preventing lubricant from being excessively fed from an oil feed member to lubrication portions of valve gears, and a lubricant feed mechanism for an engine provided with the same. An oil feed member for feeding lubricant to lubrication portions of valve gears 30 for opening and closing intake valves 31B and exhaust valves 31A of an engine 1, the oil feed member including: an upper panel member 110 and a lower panel member 120 laid over each other; and an oil feed passage 102 formed by recessing laid surfaces of the upper panel member 110 and the lower panel member 120, wherein the oil feed passage 102 includes basis oil passages 150 formed on a downstream side, and an introduction oil passage 130 formed on an upstream side and having a smaller lubricant flow area than that of the basis oil passages 150.
Abstract:
A valve gear for an engine includes a camshaft (14) including a cam (12), a rocker shaft (37), and a first rocker arm (52) which swings when being pressed by the cam (12) and. The valve gear includes a spring member (66) for return which biases the first rocker arm (52), and a second rocker arm (54) which presses an intake valve or an exhaust valve (9). The valve gear includes a first pin hole (63) of the first rocker arm (52), a second pin hole and a third pin hole (82) of the second rocker arm (54), a first switch pin (55), a second switch pin, a third switch pin (57), and a switching mechanism (3) which witches between the connected state and non-connected state of the switch pins. The second rocker arm (54) includes a stopper (78) against which the first rocker arm (52) abuts. When the first rocker arm (52) abuts against the stopper (78), all the pin holes are located on the same axis. It is possible to provide the valve gear in which the switch pins readily and reliably move when switching between a form in which the two types of rocker arms are integrated and a form in which the rocker arms are separated.
Abstract:
To provide a valve opening and closing timing control apparatus which is applicable to various types of internal combustion engines and which includes improved startability. The valve opening and closing timing control apparatus includes a valve opening and closing timing control apparatus provided at a camshaft for an intake valve opening and closing the intake valve of an internal combustion engine and a valve opening and closing timing control apparatus provided at a camshaft for an exhaust valve opening and closing the exhaust valve, at least one of the valve opening and closing timing control apparatus for the intake valve and the valve opening and closing timing control apparatus for the exhaust valve being an electric type and includes a control unit changing a phase of one of the valve opening and closing timing control apparatus for the intake valve and the valve opening and closing timing control apparatus for the exhaust valve serving as the electric type which malfunctions to a most advanced angle phase and changing a phase of the other of the valve opening and closing timing control apparatus for the intake valve and the valve opening and closing timing control apparatus for the exhaust valve which is inhibited from malfunctioning to an advanced angle side to decrease an overlap amount between the intake valve and the exhaust valve in a case where one of the valve opening and closing timing control apparatus for the intake valve and the valve opening and closing timing control apparatus for the exhaust valve serving as the electric type malfunctions.