Abstract:
In a preferred embodiment, a combustion monitor for an engine, including a sealed plug for each engine cylinder retaining a quartz viewing window and adapted to receive a fiber optic light transmitting element. Fiber optic elements extend from the sealed plugs of each cylinder to a remotely located viewing panel where they are spacedly arranged in an easily observed position such that the engine operator may observe and compare the intensity and color of light caused by combustion in the various engine cylinders and thereby judge their operating condition. Alternative arrangements for the sealed plug include one version in which cyclic passage of the piston ring over the viewing window surface maintains it free from engine deposits.
Abstract:
A stratified charge rotary internal combustion engine rotor having precombustion chamber cavities positioned in a wall thereof receiving a relatively rich air-fuel mixture for subsequent ignition and expansion through a throat passage to ignite a main combustion charge on a rotor peripheral surface. A relatively small spark plug and precombustion chamber assembly is mounted in each precombustion cavity wherein the spark plug is electrically connected in an ignition circuit while the liner containing the plug precisely defines the volume of a precombustion chamber. The assembly is retained in the cavity by a threaded sleeve engaging a tapped portion of the cavity.