Abstract:
A cylinder of an internal combustion engine is provided with an exhaust valve and two inlet valves one of which is controlled in motion to increase the torque at low speed and is fed through an induction passage controlled by a butterfly valve responsive to an accelerator pedal while the other is controlled in motion to increase the power output at high speed and is fed through another induction passage controlled by a butterfly valve automatically responsive to suction in the first-mentioned induction passage. At no time are the first mentioned inlet valve and exhaust valve opened simultaneously.
Abstract:
1,179,709. Integral engine/gear-box units. SOC. ANON. ANDRE CITROEN. 21 Sept., 1967 [13 Oct., 1966], No. 43098/67. Heading B7H. [Also in Division F1] In an engine-gear-box unit wherein the gearbox is disposed to one side or underneath the engine, the drive from the crank-shaft is taken to the gear-box input shaft through three pinions, the first of which, 9, is mounted by bearings 14 and 15 upon a casing member 13 surrounding the end of the crank-shaft, the member 13 being integral with a sill 11 secured to the engine casing by bolts 12 and formed with supports for the bearings of the pinions of which one 18 supports the bearing 19 of the input shaft 6 and pinion 17. The crank-shaft 6 is connected to the pinion 9 through a clutch 7, 8.