Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Chiemi Sasaki

Kazuyoshi Abe

Mutsumi Kanda

Hironori Kitadani

In an intake device for an internal combustion engine, in which a valve body rotatable about a valve shaft is provided within an intake passage and by which an intake flow is controlled, the valve shaft is eccentric with a center of the valve body and is supported at a position eccentric with a center of the intake passage. When the valve body rotates, a half open state is formed from a fully closed state via a fully open state. The butterfly-type intake control valve are simply altered, so that the fully closed state, the fully open state, and the half open state can be formed and the vortex flow can be formed into the cylinder.

Intake device for internal combustion engine

A variable intake device includes an intake pipe through which air flows towards a combustion chamber of an engine, defining a first streamline at an intermediate portion of the pipe, a short-circuit pipe connected at the intermediate portion, defining a second streamline crossing the first streamline at the connected other end, and a valve arranged at the short-circuit pipe adjacent to the intermediate portion. The valve includes a valve body regulating air flow. When the valve allows air flow merging into the intake pipe from the short-circuit pipe, the valve body is positioned to extend in a direction between the extending direction of the first streamline indicated by arrow and the extending direction of the second streamline indicated by arrow. By such a configuration, a variable intake device having pressure loss at the intake path sufficiently reduced can be provided.

Variable intake device

A direct-fuel-injection-type spark-ignition internal combustion engine has a fuel injection valve which directly injects fuel into a cylinder. A nozzle hole of the fuel injection valve directs fuel toward an impingement portion of the cylinder bore located opposed to the nozzle hole in a lower section of the cylinder bore so that fuel can be injected into a cavity formed in a top face of a piston from an upper section of the cylinder bore during the latter half of a compression stroke. A cooler located at least in the neighborhood of the impingement portion in the lower section of the cylinder bore has a lower cooling capacity than a cooler located in the neighborhood of the upper section of the cylinder bore. Thus, fuel injected during the latter half of an intake stroke that adheres to the cylinder bore can be effectively gasified.

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Suntou-gun, Japan

Chiemi Sasaki