Abstract:
This invention relates to a timing variator device for an internal combustion engine, comprising a coupling between the cam shaft and the drive gear, which is capable of making angular movements between the coupled parts according to the rotational speed, and in which said movement is actuated by the engine lubricating oil under the control of a valve element constituting the member sensitive to the engine speed.
Abstract:
A device which, when an engine is not yet running at a steady temperature, provides for the regulation of fuel-air ratio as a function of the engine temperature but independently of the flow rate of the air aspirated by the engine, by means of additional throttling means, upstream of the main throttling means. The additional throttling means are controlled by a device sensitive to the temperature of the running engine, so as to correspondingly adjust the density of the air aspirated by the engine only as a function of the engine temperature.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a coolant circuit for internal combustion engines, specially for motor vehicles. In order to improve the engine operation after cold starting, there is provided a second valve which cooperates with the usual thermostatic valve so as to lower substantially to zero the flow rate of the coolant through the circulating pump and the engine when the engine and the coolant are still cold and limited power is requested.
Abstract:
An internal combustion engine comprises a combustion chamber located between a spherical-cup bottom wall of the engine head and a crown top wall of the piston. The crown wall includes of five wall portions, of which first and second side portions are convex, third and fourth side portions are flat, and a fifth central portion is concave.
Abstract:
A fuel feeding system for internal combustion engines, of the type comprising a carburettor with a throttle controlling the main flow of fuel-air mixture to the cylinders, the carburettor further comprising a pre-mixing chamber for the air-fuel mixture, which communicates with the engine intake duct by means of ports located both upstream and downstream of the throttle in its closed condition, said pre-mixing chamber feeding also with air-fuel mixture a secondary chamber, communicating both with the atmospheric air and with the intake duct downstream of the said throttle, whereby the fuel-air ratio is kept constant both at idling and at low RPM of the engine.
Abstract:
A device is disclosed which detects the knocking phenomena in a controlled-ignition internal combustion engine, the device essentially comprising two ionization probes arranged in a zone of the explosion chamber remote from the sparking plug: the probes deliver signals when the state of ionization changes and the time interval between the signals of the two probes is measured and compared with an appropriate reference value.
Abstract:
A regulation device is disclosed, for regulating a physical magnitude as a function of two independent parameters: the parameters can be, for example, parameters of interest in the operation of an internal-combustion engine. Instead of the conventional space cam, a surface is provided on which the third dimension is represented by different voltage so as to define on such a planar or curved surface a family of equipotential curves. The readings taken by a conductive follower are mechanically converted so as to govern the appropriate component parts of an engine so as to have an automatical adjustment of certain parameters. The device is dependable and reliable and cannot be prone to jamming or mechanical defects. The device is of the potentiometric class.
Abstract:
An exhaust conveying system for internal combustion engines, in which the exhaust pipes connecting the engine head with a single exhaust manifold comprise each at least a pair of tubular members, at least one of the tubular members being made of thin sheet having circumferential corrugations, with the crests of the corrugations being adherent to the surface of the other tubular member so as to define air spaces between the tubular members. As consequence, the heat losses from the exhaust pipes are strongly reduced, thus improving the post-combustion of unburned components of the exhaust gases which takes place downstream of the exhaust pipes. The exhaust pipes can also be provided with a porous layer of a ceramic material bonded to their inner wall.
Abstract:
In an electronic system for an explosion engine, a device for automatically adjusting the spark timing, wherein a follower is kept into contact with a three-dimensional cam having a surface shaped; with lifts representing the desired timing angle of the spark delivery with respect to an angular position of the drive shaft, said follower and said cam being mutually displaced in two directions orthogonal to each other and to the cam lifts as a function of variables representative of the engine operation, more particularly the engine r.p.m., the throttle angle and the suction pressure in the intake duct, and an electronic system comprising a transducer coupled to said follower to generate a first electric signal representative of the follower position, means generating a second electric signal representative of the time necessary for the rotation of the engine through a predetermined angle, means for processing said first and second signals to originate a third electric signal representative of the lag time corresponding to the desired timing angle measured by the follower, a timer operated upon the engine passing through the aforesaid predetermined angular position, so as to generate a fourth electric signal, and means for comparing said third and fourth signal as well as means controlling the spark delivery, thereby the latter takes place upon said third and fourth signals being equal.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an improvement in internal combustion engines equipped with a compressor for the feeding air, according to which the intake duct is equipped with a heat-exchanging element for cooling the air when the latter is compressed to a comparatively high pressure.