Abstract:
The present invention discloses an internal combustion engine having an auxiliary combustion chamber in which a principal chamber is provided having (a) two intake valves and an intake port connected thereto and, (b) on the opposite side of a vertical plane extending along an axial line centered at the crank shaft and the center of the cylinder, a single exhaust valve and an exhaust port connected thereto, the same being in communication with the auxiliary combustion chamber.
Abstract:
An internal combustion piston engine has a main combustion chamber and an auxiliary combustion chamber connected by a torch passage. On the suction stroke of the piston lean mixture is drawn into the main combustion chamber and rich mixture is drawn into the auxiliary combustion chamber. A spark plug ignites the mixture in the auxiliary combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke, causing a torch flame to be projected through the torch passage into the main combustion chamber near its center. A suction conduit, smaller in diameter and total area than the torch passage, extends from a peripheral portion of the main chamber and intersects the torch passage between its ends. Movement of the burning gases through the torch passage aspirates a flow of mixture from the main combustion chamber through the suction conduit into the torch passage.
Abstract:
The auxiliary combustion chamber of a four-cycle stratified-charge piston engine is divided into a primary cavity and a secondary cavity. The primary cavity receives a relatively rich mixture which passes into the secondary cavity, and the main combustion chamber receives a relatively lean mixture. The primary cavity is in communication with a spark plug. A long torch passage connects the primary cavity with the central portion of the main combustion chamber, and one or more short torch passages connect the secondary cavity with a peripheral portion of the main combustion chamber. The purpose is to reduce emission of NO.sub.x without adversely affecting emissions of CO and HC, and to improve fuel economy.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an internal combustion engine comprising a main combustion chamber, a first auxiliary combustion chamber and a second auxiliary combustion chamber. The first auxiliary combustion chamber is connected to the main combustion chamber via a first connecting passage in which the spark plug is located. The second auxiliary combustion chamber having no spark plug is connected to the main combustion chamber via a second connecting passage. A flame of the combustible mixture contained in the first connecting passage and ignited by the spark plug reaches the second connecting passage and causes the ignition of the combustible mixture in the second auxiliary combustion chamber. As a result a burning jet is injected from the second connecting passage into the main combustion chamber a little while after the burning jet is injected from the first connecting passage into the main combustion chamber.
Abstract:
The auxiliary combustion chamber of a four-cycle stratified-charge piston engine is divided into a primary cavity and a secondary cavity. Fuel injection produces a relatively rich mixture in the primary cavity and in the secondary cavity, and the main combustion chamber receives a relatively lean mixture. A spark plug communicates with the primary cavity. A long torch passage connects the primary cavity with the central portion of the main combustion chamber, and one or more short torch passages connect the secondary cavity with a peripheral portion of the main combustion chamber. The purpose is to reduce emission of NO.sub.x without adversely affecting emissions of CO and HC, and to improve fuel economy.
Abstract:
Herein disclosed is an automotive spark-ignition valve-in-head internal combustion engine of the type which has main and auxiliary combustion chambers wherein combustion is initiated in the auxiliary combustion chamber and the resultant flame squirts into the main combustion chamber through a flame passageway whereby the flame fronts radiates out throughout the main combustion chamber from the outlet end of the flame passageway. The outlet end of the flame passageway is located about a "small-clearance-volume" portion of the main combustion chamber so that the flame fronts travel from the small-clearance-volume portion toward a "major-clearance-volume" portion. The small-clearance-volume portion largely corresponds to a squish-quench area in a combustion chamber of the turbulence type such as the wedge combustion chamber.
Abstract:
An auxiliary intake passage system for internal combustion engines having a main carburetor delivering a lean mixture to main combustion chambers through a main intake passage, and an auxiliary carburetor delivering a rich mixture to auxiliary combustion chamber through an auxiliary intake passage. The auxiliary intake passage system is comprised of an induction passage leading from the auxiliary carburetor to an auxiliary intake distribution chamber. A plurality of branch passages extend laterally from said auxiliary intake distribution chamber and lead to the auxiliary combustion chambers. The induction passage comprises a first portion of substantially uniform cross-sectional area connected to a second portion which is tapered and so formed that the internal wall of the tapered section is outside the axial projection of the internal wall of the first portion, thus minimizing resistance to fluid flow and improving fuel distribution and homogenation to each combustion chamber.
Abstract:
Herein disclosed is a manifold system for an internal combustion engine of the type having an auxiliary combustion chamber associated with each main combustion chamber and connected by a torch passage. The manifold system includes a main intake manifold for distributing a lean air-fuel mixture to all of main combustion chambers of the engine, an auxiliary intake manifold for distributing a rich air-fuel mixture to all of auxiliary combustion chambers of the engine; and a cooling liquid passage extending in contact with the main and auxiliary intake manifolds to heat the lean and rich air-fuel mixtures.
Abstract:
A fraction of exhaust gas heatingly contacts an induction manifold riser bottom wall and an adjacent radiating wall to heat said riser bottom wall rapidly to vaporize fuel droplets passing through multiple air fuel induction passages.
Abstract:
An automotive internal combustion engine having main and auxiliary combustion chambers for each of the cylinders and combined with a carburetor is provided with an air-fuel mixture induction system which comprises an intake manifold providing communication between the carburetor and each of the main combustion chambers, characterized by passageways leading to the auxiliary combustion chambers and open into the intake manifold or the intake ports for the main combustion chambers through an opening in the main tube portion of the intake manifold, openings respectively formed in the runner portions of the intake manifold or openings formed in wall portions defining the intake ports for the main combustion chambers.