Abstract:
The present teaching provides a two-valve engine configured to suppress occurrence of a combustion noise while improving fuel efficiency. A two-valve engine includes: a crankshaft; a rolling bearing; a piston part; a cylinder part that cooperates with the piston part to define a combustion chamber, the cylinder part including a cylinder head part and a cylinder body part, the cylinder head part having one intake port and one exhaust port, the cylinder body part having a cylinder bore; a fuel injector part; and an ignition device arranged in one of two regions that are defined by dividing the combustion chamber by a straight line passing through a center of the intake port and a center of the exhaust port, wherein the combustion chamber has a non-squish region that is provided in at least a part of a peripheral region of the combustion chamber, and the intake passage is arranged such that the region where the ignition device is not arranged, as well as, the non-squish region are located on a straight line that is an extension of a center line of the intake passage from the center of the intake port, when viewed in the direction of a central axis line of the cylinder bore.
Abstract:
The invention provides a 2-stroke internal combustion engine comprising two opposed cylinders, each cylinder housing two opposed pistons and having at least one exhaust port and at least one intake port, and a crankshaft having asymmetrically arranged journals and scotch-yoke mechanisms for driving the journals from the pistons. The pistons in each cylinder operate to open its exhaust port or ports before its intake port or ports and to close its exhaust port or ports before its intake port or ports.
Abstract:
In a cross section in which squish flow from an outer peripheral part of a piston (13) toward a cavity (25) is large due to a width (W2) of a squish area (SA) being large and a squish clearance (C2) being small, a collision angle (α2) at which a fuel injection axis (Li2) collides with the cavity (25) is made large, whereas in a cross section in which squish flow is small due to the width of the squish area (SA) being small and the squish clearance being large, the collision angle at which a fuel injection axis collides with the cavity (25) is made small. This enables a tendency for fuel to flow out to the exterior of the cavity (25) in a cross section where the squish flow is small to be wakened, and a tendency for fuel to flow out to the exterior of the cavity (25) in a cross section where the squish flow is large to be strengthened, thereby making the conditions in which fuel and air are mixed uniform throughout the entire region of the cavity (25).
Abstract:
A combustion chamber structure for a direct injection diesel engine is provided which can increase recirculated amount of exhaust gas while avoiding generation of black smoke and deterioration of fuel efficiency as much as possible. Disclosed is a combustion chamber structure for a direct injection diesel engine having a cavity 10 on a top surface of a piston 9. The cavity is concave to provide a majority of the combustion chamber. Fuel is injected from a center of a cylinder top radially into an inner periphery of the cavity 10 to self-ignite. A depression 24 is formed at an outer periphery of the cavity 10 and is sunken relative to the top surface of the piston 9 to provide a step. The depression 24 has a bottom with an outer periphery gradually rising radially outwardly in modestly curved surface to the top surface of the piston 9. The inlet lip 11 is formed at a position lower than the top surface of the piston 9 by an inner periphery of the bottom of the depression 24 and a combustion chamber wall 12 rising from a bottom of the cavity 10.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine (20) comprising a fuel-injection unit (25) and a laser ignition-unit (26). According to the invention, during a compression cycle of the internal combustion engine, fuel is injected into the combustion chamber (29) by means of the fuel-injection unit (25) in such a way that an ignitable, round, flat mixed region (28) of fuel and air forms on a plunger (21) and a predetermined period elapses between the end of the fuel injection and the start of ignition in order to form the round flat mixed region (28). Ignition then takes place within the flat round mixed region (28) by means of the laser-ignition unit (26).
Abstract:
A center cavity (13) made up of a circular recess is formed in a head (4a) of a piston (4). An injector is provided for injecting fuel into the center cavity. Sub-cavities (14) are formed to be connected to the center cavity on the periphery side of the head (4a). The injector is positioned to inject fuel to a border portion (17) between the sub-cavities (14) and the center cavity.
Abstract:
A high energy inductive coil-per-plug ignition system operating at a higher voltage Vc than battery voltage Vb by use of boost-type power converter (1), using high energy density low inductance coils Ti which are further improved by partial encapsulation of the coils and by use of biasing magnets (120) in the large air gaps in the core to increase coil energy density, the coils connected to capacitive type spark plugs, with improved halo-disc type firing ends, by means of improved suppression wire (78), the system operated and controlled by a micro-controller (8) to generate and control the coil charge time Tch, the sequencing the spark firing, and other control features including finding the firing cylinder by simultaneous ignition firing and sensing during engine cranking, to provide a highly controlled and versatile ignition system capable of producing high energy flow-coupling ignition sparks with relatively fewer and smaller parts.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a spark-ignition internal combustion engine comprising a combustion chamber, a fuel injection means (13) for injecting fuel, an air amount control means (28) for controlling intake air amount into a combustion chamber (7), an ignition means (14) for igniting the mixture of air and fuel in said combustion chamber (7) and an engine controlling means (5) coupled to said fuel injection means (13), said air amount control means (28) and said ignition means (14), respectively, wherein said engine controlling means (5) has a first control mode in which an engine torque is changed when an air/fuel ratio is varied and a second control mode in which the engine torque is changed by controlling a throttle valve (22) while maintaining a substantially fixed air/fuel ratio, the engine torque in the second control mode is smaller than a predetermined value and the engine torque in the first mode is larger than said predetermined value.
Abstract:
An internal combustion engine includes an engine block defining a cylinder 46 having a longitudinal axis 66, and a piston 90 reciprocally movable in the cylinder 46 along the axis 66, the piston 90 having an upper surface 98. The cylinder head 110 includes a lower surface portion 114 closing the upper end of the cylinder 46 and extending generally perpendicularly to the axis 66 and having therein an upwardly extending recess 122. The lower end of the recess 122 has an area in a plane perpendicular to the axis 66 which is equal to approximately one-fifth of the cross-sectional area of the cylinder 46, and the height of the recess 122 is equal to at least one-third of the cylinder diameter. A fuel injector 126 is supported relative to the cylinder head 110 for injecting fuel into the recess 122, and a spark plug 142 is supported relative to the cylinder head 110 and extends into the recess 122 for creating a spark.