Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenji Hori

Katsuo Akishino

Yuhiko Kiyota

Tatsuro Nakagami

Hirokazu Nakamura

Yutaka Tsukamoto

Tsuneo Ohinouye

Shigeo Nakamura

An internal combustion engine comprising a main intake passage supplying air-fuel mixture to a combustion chamber, an auxiliary intake passage supplying air or an air-fuel mixture to the combustion chamber through an injection port, a fuel supplement passage for supplementally supplying fuel to the auxiliary intake passage, a solenoid valve provided in the fuel supplement passage, and a control device for controlling opening and closing of the solenoid valve in response to a signal from an oxygen sensor disposed in an exhaust passage, said solenoid valve controlling supply of fuel to the auxiliary intake passage, thereby regulating an overall air-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to the combustion chamber approximately to a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.

Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine comprising a combustion chamber, an injection chamber connected thereto through an injection port, a secondary inlet passage opening to the injection chamber, and a secondary inlet valve for opening and closing the secondary inlet passage. A spark plug extends into the combustion chamber with the spark gap of the plug close to the injection port. At the suction stroke of the engine, air in the injection chamber is injected near to the spark gap through the injection port to blow away the combustion gas around the gap and also to generate a strong swirl and turbulence of the mixture in the combustion chamber, thereby improving firing and combustion of the lean mixture in the combustion chamber to reduce the discharge of noxious components in the exhaust gas and to improve the fuel consumption.

A secondary intake gas control system for an internal combustion engine having a secondary intake gas supply means for supplying air or a lean mixture to a combustion chamber, comprising an air control valve means provided in a secondary intake passage means of the secondary intake gas supply means to control a supply of the air. The air control valve means comprises a valve member and actuating means therefor. The actuating means is operated by means for sensing a temperature of the engine and means for sensing an opening degree of a throttle valve to open the valve member to communicate the secondary intake passage means with atmosphere when the opening degree of the throttle valve is above predetermined value at a predetermined temperature range of the engine during warming-up thereof.

Secondary intake gas control system for internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine comprising a combustion chamber, an injection chamber connected thereto through an injection port, a secondary inlet passage opening to the injection chamber, and a secondary inlet valve for opening and closing the secondary inlet passage. A spark plug is extended into the combustion chamber so as to dispose a spark gap of the plug close to the injection port. At the suction stroke of the engine, air in the injection chamber is injected near to the spark gap through the injection port to blow away the combustion gas around the gap and also to generate a strong swirl and turbulence of the mixture in the combustion chamber, thereby improving firing and combustion of the lean mixture in the combustion chamber to reduce the discharge of noxious components in the exhaust gas and improve the fuel consumption.

An internal combustion engine has a combustion chamber which communicates via an injection port with an injection chamber whose volume is 0.5 cc.about.1.5 cc. During the intake stroke, air-fuel mixture is introduced from an intake port into the combustion chamber, and at the same time, under the influence of high vacuum produced in the combustion chamber, a jet stream of exhaust gas, air or air-fuel mixture is violently injected from the injection port into the combustion chamber via an auxiliary intake passage communicates with the injection chamber through an auxiliary intake valve, so that the jet stream enhances the ignitability by scavenging burned gases from around a spark gap and also generates strong swirl and turbulence of air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber.

In an internal combustion engine, an injection hole is provided in the cylinder head to inject narrow streams of air towards the spark gap, particularly during idling and low load running conditions. The injected air is 5 to 30% by weight of the intake fuel-air mixture provided via the intake manifold and creates a swirl or turbulence thereby increasing combustibility. The hole is connected via a sub intake passage to the main air intake passage upstream of the venturi in the carburetor or between the venturi and throttle valve.

A crank chamber in a multicylinder-engine is divided by division walls into a plurality of spaces each of which contains one set of cranks fixed to a crankshaft, and in which varying air pressure is developed. The air under such pressure flows into a pressure chamber of an air-pump, as power source to drive the pump; suitably compressed air is produced in a pump chest of this air-pump. This air can be supplied to an exhaust gas passage for recombustion of incompletely oxidized combustive gas in the exhaust gas.

Air-pump system for reciprocating engines

Multicylinder having a pair of cylinders for over-concentrated mixed gas and a pair of cylinders for under-concentrated mixed gas, suction manifolds for supplying mixed gas to the cylinders respectively, a communication hole provided between the manifolds and opened or closed by an opening and closing valve which is controlled by means of a controlling device in response to negative pressure in the manifolds.

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Nagaokakyo, Japan

Kenji Hori