摘要:
An engine with mesh anchored combustion with a pressure regulating auxiliary chamber for providing controlled internal combustion at essentially a constant pressure. The engine comprises a main cylinder and piston with an auxiliary chamber and piston integral therewith. The auxiliary chamber is adjacent to the main cylinder head, connected thereto through a relatively narrow throat. A mesh is positioned in the throat at the boundary of the main cylinder and the auxiliary chamber. Accordingly, when the main piston compresses a charge in the main cylinder during its compression stroke, the charge is pushed through the mesh into the auxiliary chamber. The auxiliary chamber piston pushes the charge in the reverse direction back through the mesh into the main cylinder. As the charge passes through the mesh back into the main chamber, its combustion forces the main piston back down toward bottom dead center.
摘要:
An internal combustion engine (10) comprising: a piston (12) arranged to reciprocate within a cylinder (14); an adjustable volume induction chamber (50) communicating with the cylinder (14); an air inlet port (30) communicating (42) with the induction chamber (50), the air inlet port (30) being connectable, in use, to a pressurized air supply (38); an air inlet valve (32) configured to selectively open and close the air inlet port (30); and a fuel injector (70) communicating with the induction chamber (50), wherein the valve (32) and fuel injector (70) are together configured, in use, to deliver a charge comprising a fuel-air mixture into the induction chamber (50).
摘要:
An internal combustion engine includes a pre-chamber assembly including a wall having an internal surface opposite an external surface, the internal surface of the wall defining a combustion pre-chamber and at least one orifice extending to an aperture through the external surface of the wall; a block having an internal surface defining a bore therein; a piston disposed within the bore and configured for reciprocal translation within the bore, the piston, the bore, and the external surface of the wall at least partly defining a main combustion chamber, and the combustion pre-chamber being in fluid communication with the main combustion chamber via the at least one orifice; an energy source operatively coupled to the combustion pre-chamber; and a controller operatively coupled to the energy source.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for pretreatment of fuel in a combustion device such as an internal combustion engine, in which a fuel is partially combusted by a catalytic reaction to form a high temperature hydrogen-rich product gas, which gas is thereafter directly injected into an oxidizing atmosphere in the combustion chamber of the device. A composite catalyst is utilized constituted by diverse catalytic materials to achieve different contributing effects on the catalytic combustion process by the respective materials, particularly the inhibition of coke formation by the use of magnesium oxide, and platinum to achieve low temperature ignition and partial combustion of a fuel-oxidizer mixture.
摘要:
A torch ignition apparatus and method, the apparatus including a secondary, torch ignition piston interconnected to the primary piston and operable to produce through compression ignition of a carbureted fuel/air mixture a jet of hot gases capable of igniting a fuel and air mixture compressed in a primary combustion chamber by the primary piston. The apparatus also includes a secondary fuel system for supplementing a low ratio fuel/air mixture in the combustion chamber and a novel hoop valve and exhaust port system for providing a unique, highly efficient flow-through system for exchanging gases in the combustion chamber.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is apparatus including all of the components present in a conventional internal combustion engine such as body forming cylinder walls that define a primary combustion chamber, a piston reciprocable in the cylinder between compression and power strokes, intake means for introducing fuel charges into the primary combustion chamber, ignition means for igniting fuel charges and exhaust means for removing residual gases from the primary chamber after ignition of each fuel charge. Added to these conventional engine components is a housing that defines an auxiliary combustion chamber and an orifice that provides communication between the primary and auxiliary combustion chambers. During operation of the engine, both the primary and auxiliary chambers are charged with a fuel mixture after which the charge in the auxiliary chamber is ignited producing a jet of turbulent flame that passes through the orifice into the primary chamber inducing complete and uniform mixing and burning of the fuel mixture retained thereby. Optimum performance of the engine is insured by a purging mechanism that moves through the auxiliary combustion chamber after each ignition cycle so as to force residual gases out of the orifice which therefore functions also as an exhaust port. This purging provides a free volume for receiving an undiluted fresh fuel charge.