Mazda Motor Corporation

Kazuhiko Hashimoto

Hiroyuki Oda

Kazuhiko Ueda

Noriyuki Iwata

Tatsuya Uesugi

Osamu Sado

Yoshihiko Imamura

Yoshihisa Noh

Shunji Masuda

Tsuyoshi Goto

Naoyuki Yamagata

Kouichi Hatamura

Fumihiko Saito

Toshimitsu Tanaka

Masanori Misumi

Toshihide Yamamoto

Takashi Ohtsuru

Shigeo Tabata

An engine intake system includes a primary port for introducing intake gas throughout an entire engine operating condition. A secondary port is provided with a gate valve which is opened in a high engine load condition for introducing the intake gas. A ratio of a tumble flow to a swirl flow is gradually increased as the gate valve is operated from an entirely closed condition to a fully open condition. According to this invention, ignition and combustion characteristics can be improved.

Intake system for engine

A combustion chamber for an engine is provided between a cylinder bore formed in a cylinder block, a generally conically-shaped wall formed in an under wall of a cylinder head, and a piston in the cylinder bore. The combustion chamber has a structure into which an intake port opens so as to introduce an intake air flow closer to a marginal portion than a central portion of the combustion chamber, thereby generating a swirl flow of intake air in the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber also includes a curved air flow guide wall formed in the generally conically-shaped wall which extends from near the intake port so as to approach the cylinder bore surface gradually, thereby generating what is termed a squish flow of intake air.

Combustion chamber structure for an engine

A valve driving device of an engine under the present invention is provided with a cam shaft for exclusive use of intake for driving intake valves and a cam shaft for exclusive use of exhaust for driving exhaust valves. At least either the intake valve or the exhaust valve is pluralized and a transmitting member is trained between the cam shaft with more valves to drive and an engine output shaft. Gears to mesh with each other are provided on said two cam shafts. Under the above composition, only one pulley on the driven side or only one sprocket is required and therefore compactness of the engine can be realized. Also, rotation of the cam shaft having more valves to drive and large torque fluctuation can be stabilized and reliability of gears can be improved, without reinforcing the gears.

Valve driving system for internal combustion engine

An air feeding system for a vehicle engine equipped with a supercharger comprises an inlet passage provided in an engine room with its first section interconnecting an air cleaner and a throttle valve, its second section interconnecting the throttle valve and the supercharger, and its third section interconnecting the supercharger and an engine body of the vehicle engine for feeding a cylinder in the engine body with intake air introduced through the air cleaner into the first section. The air cleaner is disposed at a front portion of one side half of the engine room and the supercharge is disposed in the other side half of the engine room. A part of the inlet passage including the first and second series is arranged to extend backward from the air cleaner and then to extend further along a dash panel forming a rear end of the engine room from one side half to the other side half of the engine room so as to reach temperature.

Air feeding system for a vehicle engine equipped with a supercharger

A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders which do not fire one after another and intake ports for the cylinders. A mechanical supercharger is disposed in an intake passage. An intake resonance passage having no enlarged volume space or chambers, which consists of a resonance passage part and a collecting passage part directly communicating with the resonance passage part, is connected to an outlet port of an intercooler forming a pressure reflecting portion. The intake ports for the cylinders are separately communicated with the collecting passage part by way of a plurality of independent intake passages. A bypass passage is connected between the collecting passage part and the intake passage downstream the mechanical supercharger so as to form a circular passage running the mechanical supercharger, intercooler, intake resonance passage.

Intake system for multi-cylinder engine with supercharger

A multi-valve engine of the type having a line of cylinders, intake and exhaust camshafts, and rocker arms for operatively connecting valves to the camshafts includes a first valve group of three valves consisting of either intake valves or exhaust valves and a second valve group consisting of the other of either intake valves or exhaust valves. Each of the valves of the first valve group is oriented such that a valve stem thereof is inclined outwardly to one side of the line of cylinders, while each of the valve of the second valve group is oriented such that a valve stem thereof inclines outwardly to an opposite side of the line of cylinders. First hydraulic lash adjuster means for a centrally-located valve out of three valves of the first valve group is positioned closer to a bore center of the cylinder than the centrally-located valve, or on a delay side in the rotational direction of the camshaft. Second and third hydraulic lash adjuster means for side-located valves of the three valves of the first valve group are positioned farther from the bore center than the side-located valves, or on a leading side in the rotational direction of the camshaft.

Multi-valve engine

An intake system is incorporated in a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders. The intake system includes an intake manifold having a plurality of discrete intake passages connected to the plurality of cylinders, respectively, and two intake pipes, each intake pipe being arranged in such a way as to descend substantially vertically downwardly from a communicating portion where the intake pipe communicates with each of two groups of the intake passages, turns to extend horizontally in one longitudinal direction of the engine body and then turns back to extend in the opposite longitudinal direction of the engine body surrounding the discrete intake passages. The two groups of the discrete intake passages are connected to two groups of the cylinders which in each and the same group are not intended to be fired one after another.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Kazuhiko Hashimoto