Abstract:
An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder (21), a head (58) closing one end of the cylinder (21) and a piston (24) slidably mounted in the cylinder (22) for reciprocating motion in the usual manner, wherein reciprocation is converted into rotary motion for example, by a conventional crankshaft. The top surface (32) of the piston (24), cylinder head (58) and cylinder (21) serve as walls defining a system chamber (70) with a pocket (36) formed in one of the system chamber walls for receiving fuel and serving as a combustion chamber (70) for localized combustion therein. In one disclosed embodiment, the cylinder (21) is divided into two sections (21 and 22) with thermal insulation (14, 30) serving as a heat barrier disposed between the two sections (21 and 22) and the piston (24) has a hollow interior containing one or more heat shields (41, 42) spanning the hollow interior.
Abstract:
In a piston comprising a trough-shaped combustion chamber of axially symmetric design, it is proposed to provide a recess in said chamber in the floor of the piston. In view of its depth and width, this recess has an influence on the aerodynamic speed of the gases entering and leaving the combustion chamber via the edge of the trough. In this way, heat-induced cracks are avoided at the level of said edge. The widths of the recess is limited in relation to the piston floor by the fact that no tilting moment has to be introduced into the valve shafts, and the widths of the recess is thus fixed in relation to the position and size of the valve heads.
Abstract:
Heat plugs made of durable, heat resistant material are useful for protecting aluminium pistons from the jet flame of burning fuel emitted from the precombustion chamber of some compression ignition engines. However, when slower burning fuel such as vegetable oil is burned, unburned fuel is sometimes deflected by the heat plug against the adjacent cylinder bore where it dilutes the lubricating oil and causes high wear to that portion of the bore and to the piston rings. The subject heat plug (26) is provided with a barrier (37) which prevents unburned fuel from being deflected against a portion of the cylinder bore (12) nearest the heat plug. Thus, that unburned fuel remains in the burning gaseous mixture in the combustion chamber and is burned during the combustion process within the combustion chamber.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a plunger for internal combustion engines, having a combustion cavity (2) and at least one valve niche (3) in the plunger head. The combustion cavity (2) is cut by at least one valve niche (3). The invention seeks to reduce the risk of superficial cracking during transition U between the valve niche edge and the cavity. To this end, the edge of the transition U between the valve niche (3) and the cavity is situated in a comparatively low tension area separated from the actual valve niche (3) by an extension area (B) of the valve niche (3) running along the cavity edge.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a piston with swirl-inducing device for Diesel engines, where a recess is machined in the upper part of the piston which is in communication with the engine's main combustion chamber when the piston is built-in. The essence of the invention lies in that said swirl-inducing device (4) comprises a heat storage insert (5) fixed in the piston's (1) recess (3) axially spaced from a bottom plate (6) of the recess (3) by way of a reduced heat transfer connection and provided with a series of gas turbulence inducing ducts (12) through which a space (14) of the recess (3) created by said axial spacing (7) below the heat storage insert (5) is in communication with a space, e.g. the main combustion chamber (13) above the heat storage insert (5).
Abstract:
A piston (10) for an internal combustion engine has a re-entrant type combustion bowl (13). The combustion bowl (13) comprises two re-entrant volumes (16, 17) in fluid communication and cascaded with respect to the longitudinal axias of the piston. The cascaded re-entrant volumes (16, 17) enhance gas velocities within the combustion bowl to improve fuel combustion.
Abstract:
Piston with a reinforcing insert, presenting a top face (11) with a recessed combustion chamber (12) provided with a lateral peripheral wall, defined by the annular insert (20), which presents an internal end face (24) with a radial extension (d1) that is substantially smaller than the radial extension (d2) of the opposite external end face (22) of said annular insert (20), the radial thickness of the insert (20) varying along the profile of its external peripheral face (23), in order to maintain a value necessary to meet the requirements of structural reinforcement of the piston (10), at the region where the insert (20) is applied.