Mazda Motor Corporation

Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Yasuo Honda

Tomoo Tadokoro

Tomohiro Sunada

Yasuhiro Kawasako

Takenori Ohtsuka

Haruo Okimoto

Hiroshi Nomura

Masato Yoshimura

Tomoyuki Yamamoto

An internal combustion engine of the in-line type having a surge tank located above the engine. Intake tubes connect the surge tank with the in-line engine cylinders. The tubes extend from one side of the engine body in a direction away from the engine body and are then curved upwardly in a U-shaped manner toward the surge tank. Surge tank openings and the ends of the intake tubes connected together are both formed as ellipses having a major axis lying in a direction parallel to the cylinder axes. The cross-sectional shape of the intake tubes gradually changes from an ellipse into a circle at approximately the middle or bend of the intake tube.

Intake apparatus for internal combustion engine

An intake apparatus for an in-line type internal combustion engine having an elongated surge tank extending the full extension of the in-line cylinders of the engine. Intake passages connect the surge tank with the in-line engine cylinders. A throttle body is secured to one side surface of the surge tank. The registering and connected surfaces of the surge tank and the throttle body are mutually inclined an angle .theta. with respect to the medial plane or axes of the in-line cylinders.

Rotary piston engine having a main intake port in one side housing of the casing. The side housing is further formed with a supercharging air port which is connected with a supercharging passage leading from an air pump. The supercharging air port is so formed that it is opened substantially simultaneously with and closed later than the main intake port. A timing valve is provided in the supercharging passage to open the passage cyclically so that the supercharging is performed at the end period of the intake stroke. A centrifugal device controls the valve timing so that the valve timing is advanced under an increased engine speed.

Rotary piston engine having supercharging means

A catalytic converter for effecting purification of automobile exhaust gases comprises a casing having inlet and outlet, at least two separate catalyst carriers within the casing, a spacer ring element for connecting the catalyst carriers together in longitudinally spaced and aligned relation to each other to provide a single unitary structure of catalyst carriers, and a cushioning layer positioned in compressed sandwich fashion between the unitary structure and the casing.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Yasuo Honda