Mazda Motor Corporation

Mazda Motor Corporat Ion

Masanobu Koutoku

Shinichi Hikitani

Toshinori Ueno

Tomokuni Kusunoki

Naoki Nagano

Kenji Sugasaki

Hajime Umehara

Katsuya Murakami

Kazumi Okamura

Yukiya Tanaka

Makoto Shinhama

Ryo Yamamoto

Tsukasa Hoshino

Toshimichi Nishikawa

Shinji Takayama

Tatsuya Takahata

Masahiro Nagoshi

Shin Kodama

Shinji Watanabe

Nobuhiko Yokoyama

Keisuke Tanaka

Hiromasa Nakagawa

Kentaro Ota

Taiga Kamiji

Hironobu Sakashita

Junki Yoshizako

An intake-air temperature controlling device for an engine is provided, which includes an engine body, an intake passage, an air intake part, an intake air temperature adjuster configured to adjust air temperature taken in through the air intake part to the passage, and a controller. An operating range in which the CI combustion is performed has a lean operating range in which A/F of mixture gas formed inside the cylinder, or G/F that is a relationship between the total weight G of gas inside the cylinder and a weight F of fuel fed to the cylinder is relatively low, and a rich operating range in which the A/F or G/F is relatively high. When the engine is in the lean operating range, the controller outputs a control signal to the intake air temperature adjuster so that the air temperature is increased, as compared in the rich operating range.

Intake-air temperature controlling device for engine

A compression ignition engine with a supercharger is provided, which includes one or more valves configured to switch a state between a first state where intake air is boosted by the supercharger and a second state where it is not boosted, a fluid temperature adjuster configured to adjust a temperature of engine coolant to be supplied to a radiator from an engine body, and a controller. When the engine operates in a high-load range, the controller controls the combustion mode to be in a compression ignition combustion mode, and causes the valve(s) to be in the first state, and in a low-load range, the controller causes the valve(s) to be in the second state. In the high-load range, the controller outputs a control signal to the fluid temperature adjuster so that a target temperature of the engine coolant is lowered than that in the low-load range.

Compression ignition engine with supercharger

An intake-air temperature controlling device is provided, which includes an engine body, an intake passage, a supercharger, a first passage, a second passage, an intake air flow rate adjuster, an intercooler, a pump, and a controller. The controller outputs a control signal to the pump so that coolant is supplied to the intercooler in a first operating range in which the intake air flow rate adjuster at least partially opens the first passage to supply intake air boosted by the supercharger to the engine body, and outputs a control signal to the pump so that the coolant is supplied to the intercooler also in a second operating range in which an engine load is below a given load, and the intake air flow rate adjuster opens the second passage and closes the first passage to supply the intake air to the engine body in a non-boosted state.

Intake-air temperature controlling device for engine with supercharger

A heat insulating structure of an internal combustion engine (engine) includes a cylinder-head-side heat insulating cover () and a cylinder-block-side heat insulating cover (). Each of the first side walls () of the cylinder-head-side heat insulating cover () is disposed outwardly of, and is spaced apart from, a corresponding one of the second side walls () of the cylinder-block-side heat insulating cover () in the width direction of the vehicle. The lower edge of each of the first side walls () is positioned below the upper edge of the corresponding one of the second side walls () to overlap with the corresponding one of the second side walls () when viewed from the side of the vehicle.

Heat insulating structure for internal combustion engine

A grille shutter control device of a vehicle includes an encapsulation structure covering an engine, a grille shutter provided at an opening formed at a front wall portion of the encapsulation structure, an actuator configured to move the grille shutter to open/close the opening, and a controller configured to control the actuator. The controller determines whether or not heat damage occurs on a related component relating to the engine upon key OFF, closes the grille shutter upon key OFF in the case of determining that the heat damage will not occur, and opens the grille shutter upon key OFF in the case of determining that the heat damage will occur.

Grille shutter control device of vehicle

A heat insulating cover (cylinder-head-side heat insulating cover ()) includes a top wall () and first side walls (). The top wall () covers a top surface of an engine () that is a surface of an upper portion of the engine (). The first side walls () cover respective upper portions of both side surfaces of the engine () in a vehicle width direction. A portion of the heat insulating cover closer to the rear of the vehicle is provided with a hinge mechanism () vertically rotatably supporting the upper portion of the heat insulating cover including the top wall (). The upper portion of the heat insulating cover can be rotated, with the hinge mechanism () as a fulcrum, between a closed position where the engine () is shielded and an open position where the engine () is visible.

Attachment structure for heat insulating cover

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Masanobu Koutoku