Abstract:
An Elevated Expansion-Ratio Internal Combustion Engine has a substantially standard repeating four-stroke sequence for each of a plurality of cylinders. The head of each cylinder has an intake valve, a combustion-gas exhaust valve, and a vapor return valve. A return manifold for vapor connects from respective ones of the cylinders via a plurality of valve assemblies, each of which includes the return valve, into a passage ahead of a beginning portion of an intake manifold. Each valve assembly also has a discharge valve coupled to the return valve via a holding tank for cylinder vapor or gas. Valve stems of the discharge and return valves are coaxial in a single section valve housing or spaced-apart in a two-section valve housing. A quantity of the vapor is received into the holding tank during the compression stroke, and subsequently transferred via the discharge valve to the return manifold.
Abstract:
A valve-operating mechanism for an internal combustion engine having intake and exhaust valves and valve control members for controlling the intake and exhaust valves. The intake and exhaust valves are configured as dual valves having an outer valve and an inner valve. The valve control members, at least during scavenging, simultaneously close the outer valves of the intake and exhaust valves, producing a non-overlapping state, and simultaneously open the inner valves of the intake and exhaust valves, producing an overlapping state.
Abstract:
An internal combustion engine is provided in which an intake valve, which opens and closes an intake valve hole formed in a cylinder head facing a combustion chamber has a hollow structure. An exhaust valve hole formed in the intake valve is made to open and close by an exhaust valve coaxially housed within the intake valve. The intake valve hole communicates directly with an intake port, and the exhaust valve hole coniniunicates with an exhaust port via an exhaust passage formed within the hollow intake valve. This ensures that the intake valve has a large opening area, thus increasing the intake charging efficiency. Furthermore, since exhaust gas coming out of the combustion chamber does not make direct contact with the cylinder head, which has a large heat capacity, any decrease in temperature of the exhaust gas can be minimized, thereby utilizing waste heat effectively.
Abstract:
A fuel injection system includes a hydraulically-actuated electronically-controlled fuel injector having a needle valve member and an injector body that defines a fuel pressurization chamber that opens to a nozzle outlet. The needle valve member is positioned in the injector body and is moveable between an inject position at which the nozzle outlet is open, and a blocked position at which the nozzle outlet is blocked. A portion of the injector body adjacent the nozzle outlet is a mono gas valve member. The movement of the gas valve member controls one or both of the intake and exhaust portions of the engine cycle. The gas valve member is also hydraulically-actuated and electronically-controlled by the same hydraulic actuator that operates the fuel injector.
Abstract:
A cylinder head for a four-stroke combustion engine includes at least one inlet conduit having a valve and/or slide valve and at least one exhaust conduit situated in the cylinder head. The inlet conduit and the exhaust conduit connect into a single main conduit. The main conduit has an orifice having the shape of an annulus, the axis of which is aligned with the main axis of the cylinder. The orifice of the main conduit is provided with an interior valve seat and an exterior valve seat, on which, in the closed position, is seated a ring-shaped plate of the sole lifting valve. The lifting valve has at least one stem. The exhaust conduit of the cylinder head is directly interconnected to the exhaust branch and includes no valve gear and/or slide valve gear. The size of the orifice flow cross-section area corresponds to the sum of flow cross-sectional areas around and inside the annular plate. A space is provided in an interior area adjacent to the valve seat for a spark plug and/or an injection nozzle.
Abstract:
A cylinder head with single colander valve per cylinder for internal combustion engines (IC engine) and the like is provided. The single colander valve per cylinder has significantly enlarged valve open area and remains fully open at the end of the exhaust stroke and at the beginning of the intake stroke. The volumetric efficiency of IC engines, therefore, is significantly improved. The cylinder head with single colander valve per cylinder and support members of the present invention is practical because of the following features: single colander valve per cylinder has light weight and operates under low temperature. Some of advantages associated with these features are the following: (a) single colander valve has greater durability, (b) the compression ratio of IC engines may be raised, (c) dynamic effects on the valve train are reduced, (d) the speed of IC engines is increased, (e) the polluting emission is reduced, and (f) the fuel economy is improved. Also colander valves, which have different combinations of face-down aperture(s) and/or face-up aperture(s) disposed on the heads of the colander valves, are provided for IC engines, which have at least two valves per cylinder, and the like. Overall the present invention improves the comprehensive performance of IC engines and the like.
Abstract:
An internal-combustion-engine cylinder head has a concentric, annular passages to admit an intake charge into a combustion chamber and to remove combustion product exhaust gasses. Each of these passages is isolated from the combustion chamber by the closure of concentric ring valves coaxial with the engine cylinder. Mechanical devices are provided to actuate the valves according to the timing of an engine camshaft. The actuating mechanisms comprise multiple valve stems, concentric operating plates, fork-shaped actuators, and connecting devices.
Abstract:
A cylinder head for an internal combustion engine of either a two-cycle operation or a four-cycle operation is disclosed. The cylinder head includes an intake port, an exhaust port, a dual-function chamber, a poppet valve positioned within the dual-function chamber, and a flapper valve also positioned within the dual-function chamber, capable of sealing the intake port from the dual-function chamber, capable of sealing the exhaust port from the dual-function chamber. If the cylinder head is for a two-cycle engine, an injector may be positioned within the cylinder head so that fuel is injected either within the dual-function chamber, or directly injected within the combustion chamber. A process of operating the cylinder head in conjunction with an internal combustion engine is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A four-stroke internal combustion engine for the otto and diesel cycle, characterized by incorporating a valve distribution for engines that use one or more ports near Bottom Dead Center. The four-stroke internal combustion engine comprises one or more cylinders each with a piston movable therein to define a combustion chamber and a port provided in a wall of each cylinder. The port is openable independently of an inlet valve and an exhaust valve to provide an additional route for the discharge of air or fuel/air mixture.
Abstract:
A rotary commutator valve that is located at the exhaust ports of the cylinder of an internal combustion, reciprocal engine for regulating the flow of exhaust and allowing the exhaust ports to be sequentially utilized as supplementary intake ports for charging the engine cylinder, the communtator valve having an exhaust passage, an intake passage and a common exhasut/intake passage that communicates with the exhaust ports and a rotor with a rotor notch that sequentially and selectively connects either the intake passage or the exhaust passage to the common exhasut/intake passage allowing the exhaust ports to first exhaust combustion gases and then form supplemental intake ports for admitting additional air.