Mazda Motor Corporation

Koichi Nagamoto

Masaki Harada

Mikio Nakata

A suction apparatus for an engine is provided with an intake path which has an opening portion at one end, and the other end of which is connected to an intake pulsation generation source. A resonator is connected to a downstream portion of said intake path through a connecting pipe, for eliminating a (0.5+n)th-order (where n is an integer equal to or larger than 0) resonant wave in the intake path which is induced by a compression wave generated from said intake pulsation generation source toward the upstream side.

Suction apparatus for engine

An intake system for a multiple cylinder engine includes a plurality of discrete intake passages which respectively communicate with the cylinders of the engines at the respective downstream ends and merge together at the respective upstream ends so as to form a merging portion, a common intake passage which communicates with the merging portion at the downstream ends and with the atmosphere by way of an air cleaner at the upstream end, and a resonance muffler which communicates with the air cleaner and has a resonance frequency which corresponds to the fundamental resonance frequency of the portion of the intake system upstream of the merging portion.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Koichi Nagamoto