Abstract:
The invention relates to a spark-ignition engine with a highly structural compression ratio greater than 15:1, throttle regulation, externally supplied ignition and with direct fuel injection into a precombustion chamber, which is connected to the main combustion chamber via an overflow channel. The fuel is injected into the precombustion chamber during the compression stroke and is ignited by a spark plug located in a manner that is as central as possible. The invention relates to a spark-ignition engine with a highly structural compression ratio greater than 15:1, throttle regulation, externally supplied ignition and with direct fuel injection into a precombustion chamber, which is connected to the main combustion chamber via an overflow channel. The fuel is injected into the precombustion chamber during the compression stroke and is ignited by a spark plug located in a manner that is as central as possible.
Abstract:
An Elevated Expansion-Ratio Internal Combustion Engine has a substantially standard repeating four-stroke sequence for each cylinder, and the Engine includes for each cylinder: an intake valve, a combustion-gas exhaust valve, and a vapor return valve. A return manifold for vapor connects from the return valves of respective ones of the cylinders back into a passage ahead of a beginning portion of an intake manifold. Substantially during a predetermined part of each compression stroke in the sequence of strokes, the return valve opens after a closing of the intake valve, and thereafter closes at a time within the compression stroke corresponding to a predetermined position of the piston in the cylinder.
Abstract:
An improved intake manifold structure for internal combustion engines includes a distribution chamber having an upper sub-chamber leading to a carburetor and a lower sub-chamber communicating with the upper sub-chamber through a communication hole. A plurality of branch passages extend from the lower sub-chamber to a plurality of combustion chambers. An air-fuel mixture fed from the carburetor to the distribution chamber is expanded successively in two steps to promote its atomization as it passes through the two sub-chambers, thus improving uniform distribution of the mixture to the respective branch passages. Engine exhaust gas is returned to the upper sub-chamber to further promote the atomization of the mixture.
Abstract:
Internal combustion reciprocating-piston engine precombustion chamber in which a mass of air or of air mixed with selective amounts of fuel and a spark-ignitable air-fuel mass are relatively segregatively compressed with the latter mass enveloping spark electrodes preparatory to ignition. The chamber is provided by recessing the air intake valve of an engine cylinder into the air intake passage for that cylinder so the chamber forms a section of that passage between the valve and the variable volume space above the piston in the cylinder. Contaminant products of combustion residual in the precombustion chamber upon completion of each combustion stroke are, during the next air intake stroke, vented into the cylinder variable volume space where they become mixed with the fresh intake air and any fuel entrained therein and then forced with this air back into the chamber pursuant to the ensuing compression stroke to be recycled during the next combustion stroke.
Abstract:
Method of and apparatus for preparing a fuel mixture for spark-ignition engines with a sectional combustion space comprising a minor combustion chamber into which a rich fuel mixture is fed through a minor duct, and a major combustion chamber into which a poor fuel mixture is fed through a major duct. The rich fuel mixture for the minor combustion chamber is withdrawn from a mixer provided in the carburetor or from an injector, while the poor fuel mixture for the major combustion chamber is fed from said mixer into a mixing chamber where it is subsequently mixed with air, whereupon the thus depleted fuel mixture is supplied into the major combustion chamber.
Abstract:
An intake manifold for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine contains main intake passages leading from a main distribution chamber for supplying lean mixture to each cylinder. The intake manifold also has auxiliary intake passages leading from an auxiliary distribution chamber for supplying a rich mixture to each cylinder. Engine coolant is circulated through the intake manifold to act as heating means for the rich mixture and for part of the lean mixture. Another part of the lean mixture is not heated.
Abstract:
An internal combustion piston engine has a main combustion chamber and an auxiliary combustion chamber connected by a torch passage, which is tapered end to end, the large end communicating with the main combustion chamber. Lean mixture is supplied to the main combustion chamber and rich mixture is supplied to the auxiliary combustion chamber. A spark plug ignites the mixture in the auxiliary combustion chamber, causing a torch flame to be projected through the tapered torch passage into the main combustion chamber near its center. A suction conduit, smaller in diameter and total area than any portion of the tapered torch passage, extends from a peripheral portion of the main chamber and intersects the tapered 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:
A carburetor system for us in a multicylinder engine comprises a carburetor having a main fuel-air mixture supply device to supply a mixture leaner than stoichiometric to at least one first cylinder and a corresponding number of second cylinder. A rich mixture supply device, integrated into the carburetor, has a rich mixture forming passage to make a mixture richer than stoichiometric. The main mixture supply device communicates with the first and second cylinders by a first passage, while the rich mixture forming passage with the second cylinder by a second passage. A first, second and third valves are provided in the first, second and rich mixture forming passages, respectively. These valves respectively are opened and closed by a first, second and third valve actuation devices, which are in turn regulated by an operation control device. Depending on the engine operating range and driving conditions, this carburetor system supplies a rich mixture to the second cylinder to raise the fuel-air ratio in it. By thus feeding both lean and rich mixtures to the engine, this system purifies its exhaust gases.
Abstract:
A carbureter for use in an internal combustion engine wherein a rotary throttle valve provided therethrough in the radial direction of the rotary shaft with a gasified fuel-air mixture passageway is provided in an air supply duct of the carburetor and the flow of mixtures of gasified fuel and air that is supplied into the engine can be controlled by the rotation of said rotary throttle valve, while said rotary throttle valve stays at a low opening degree, a bypass passageway forking from the intermediate portion of a low speed fuel passageway is made open to said gasified fuel-air mixture passageway and at the same time the upstream portion of the air supply duct of said rotary throttle valve and said gasified fuel-air mixture passageway can be communicated through an air passageway and while said rotary throttle valve is moved from the position "close" toward "open," predetermined interrelations are given to the opening positions or the sizes of port diameters of said gasified fuel-air mixture passageway, of said air passageway and of said bypass passageway, so that the flow of the mixtures of gasified fuel and air can be smoothly increased from a lower speed to a higher speed.
Abstract:
An intake arrangement for internal combustion engines of the type having a main combustion chamber which receives a lean airfuel mixture and an auxiliary combustion chamber which receives a rich air-fuel mixture and communicates with the main combustion chamber through a torch passage; the intake arrangement including a head structure having an exhaust passage and a main intake passage for the main chamber between which is located an auxiliary intake passage for the auxiliary chamber, the head structure being heat conductive so that heat from the exhaust passage vaporizes the rich air-fuel mixture in the auxiliary intake passage and excess heat is transferred to the lean airfuel mixture in the main intake passage.