Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nobuhiro Shimada

Kenji Oki

Yutaka Inomoto

Ryuji Moriyama

Yuuki Muraoka

Kazuo Fujihara

Hiroyuki Nakajima

Kenichiro Ikeda

Ryuji Maeda

Katsuhiro Utsugi

Kayoko Yamazaki

In an internal combustion engine for a vehicle having a drive clutch, a blowby control system includes a fresh air introducing channel, for introducing fresh air into a crankcase, and a blowby gas return channel for returning blowby gas from the crankcase to an air-intake system. A blowby control valve is provided in the fresh air introducing channel or the blowby gas return channel, for selectively restricting gas flow through the blowby system. A controller is also provided on the vehicle for controlling operation of the blowby control valve. The controller is programmed to switch the blowby control valve from the closed state to the open state, with the drive clutch connected, when the vehicle starts traveling. The blowby control system and method hereof can reduce variations in the engine speed occurring during engine idling and before clutch engagement, to improve ride quality of the vehicle.

Blowby control system and method for an internal combustion engine

A blowby gas ventilation system for an internal combustion engine capable of preventing oil from being diluted by efficiently and quickly exhausting a blowby gas together with a water content and the like from a crank chamber through forced ventilation of the crank chamber. The blowby gas ventilation system is intended for a four-stroke-cycle internal combustion engine. The system includes a fresh air introduction pipe, through which fresh air is sent from an outside of the internal combustion engine through a throttle portion to a crank chamber. The system also includes a blowby gas return passageway, through which the blowby gas is returned back to a downstream side of an air cleaner.

Blowby gas ventilation system for an internal combustion engine, and method of using same

A fuel injection device is installed in a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine in such a manner that a fuel injection port thereof faces a curved intake passage formed in the cylinder head. Fuel is injected from the fuel injection device directly toward a wall surface of the intake passage without aiming at an intake port.

Intake structure in internal combustion engine

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Saitama, Japan

Nobuhiro Shimada