Mazda Motor Corporation

Osamu Aoki

Kenji Uchida

Yuji Harada

Yoshihisa Nou

Kazuo Ichikawa

Takashi Ikai

Xiyao Ge

Naoyuki Yamagata

Yoshihisa Nakamoto

Kouichi Nakano

Yoshiyuki Koga

Susumu Masuyama

Shinichi Fujimaki

Keisuke Okihama

Akira Kuramochi

A method of manufacturing an internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a cylinder forming member, a piston reciprocatably accommodated in a cylinder, an injector which supplies fuel into a combustion chamber, and a heat insulating layer covering at least a part of a combustion-chamber wall surface and having a lower heat conductivity than the combustion-chamber wall surface. The method includes applying a coating material that is a material of the heat insulating layer to the combustion-chamber wall surface, assembling the piston to the cylinder forming member while the coating material is uncured, and heating the coating material to be cured by combusting the fuel injected from the injector and reciprocating the piston. The heating the coating material includes injecting the fuel from the injector at least in an early stage of the heating so that the injected fuel adhering to the surface of the coating material is suppressed.

Internal combustion engine and method of manufacturing the same

A combustion chamber structure for an engine includes a combustion chamber that is defined by a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a piston. The cylinder head includes: a head body that has a lower surface opposing the combustion chamber; and a coat layer that covers the lower surface. The coat layer includes: a heat-insulating layer that is arranged in a region, which opposes a cavity, in the lower surface and has a lower thermal conductivity than the head body; a heat-shielding layer that is arranged to cover the lower surface and has a lower thermal conductivity than the head body and the heat-insulating layer; and a heat diffusion layer that is arranged between the heat-insulating layer and the heat-shielding layer and has a higher thermal conductivity. The heat diffusion layer includes a side end edge and an extending portion, each of which abuts the head body.

Combustion chamber structure for engine

A combustion-chamber structure of an engine comprises a combustion chamber which is partitioned by a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a piston. The piston includes a piston body having an upper surface facing the combustion chamber, a heat-insulation layer provided at least in a central area, in a radial direction, of the upper surface and having smaller heat conductivity than the piston body, a heat-barrier layer provided to cover the upper surface and having smaller heat conductivity than the piston body and the heat-insulation layer, and a heat-diffusion layer provided between the heat-insulation layer and the heat-barrier layer and having larger heat conductivity than the heat-insulation layer and the heat-barrier layer. The heat-diffusion layer comprises a side end edge and an extension portion which contact with the piston body.

Combustion-chamber structure of engine

Disclosed is an engine piston structure including an outer peripheral portion () formed along an outer shape of a piston (), and having a predetermined thickness, a pair of piston pin supporters () having peripheral walls () having a predetermined thickness, and couplers () each coupling the pair of the piston pin supporters () to the outer peripheral portion (). The outer peripheral portion () and the peripheral walls () of the piston pin supporters () are solid. Each of the coupler () is porous. The outer peripheral portion (), the piston pin supporters (), and the couplers () are made of a metal material and are integrally formed together.

Piston structure for engine

An object of the present invention is to, while forming a heat insulating layer on a squish area surface of a top surface of a piston main body, prevent generation of large cracks on the heat insulating layer and suppress damages and peeling of the heat insulating layer. To achieve this object, in the present invention, a heat insulating layer on a squish area surface of a top surface of a piston main body is made thinner than a heat insulating layer on a cavity surface of the top surface of the piston main body.

Heat insulation structure of combustion chamber of engine

Three or more independent passages are coupled to respective cylinders which are different from each other, and a collective portion where the independent passages collect is provided. An exhaust turbocharger is arranged downstream of the collective portion. Rotary throttle valves are arranged respectively in the independent passages upstream of the collective portion. At least two of the throttle valves are supported by a common rotary axis. The independent passages with the throttle valves supported by the common rotary axis are coupled to cylinders which have exhaust strokes which are not adjacent to each other. Accordingly, the exhaust gas can be supplied to the exhaust turbocharger efficiently.

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Aki-gun, Japan

Osamu Aoki