Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Giken Kogyo K.k.

Yoshibumi Mishima

Shumpei Hasegawa

Noriyuki Kishi

Yasushi Takahashi

Yuzi Makino

A direct-injection diesel engine comprising a cylinder block having a cylinder in which a piston is slidably received, a cylinder head connected to an upper surface of the cylinder block, a fuel injector nozzle mounted on the cylinder head to directly inject fuel into a combustion chamber defined between the piston and the cylinder head, and first and second independent intake ports provided in the cylinder head for introducing intake gas into the combustion chamber. An intake controller is mounted in the second intake port for bringing the second intake port into a controlled intake gas flow state in a region of low speed operation of the engine and into a normal state in a region of high speed operation of the engine. Each of the first and second intake ports are formed helically in the same direction to produce swirls in the same direction in intake gases introduced respectively through the intake ports into the combustion chamber.

Direct-injection diesel engine

An aluminum alloy piston for an internal combustion engine has two spaced piston pin bosses. A steel alloy bushing is fitted in each boss. A ceramic piston pin is fitted in said bushings.

Piston for internal combustion engine

A method of controlling the quantity of supplementary air being supplied to an internal combustion engine having first and second control valves arranged, respectively, in first and second auxiliary air passages bypassing the throttle valve for on-off control of the opening areas of the respective auxiliary air passages. When the engine is operating in a particular operating condition, the first and second control valves are selectively actuated in response to the detected value of atmospheric pressure encompassing the engine in such a manner that the sum of the opening areas of the first and second auxiliary air passages increases as the detected value of the atmospheric pressure decreases. The engine is determined to be operating in the particular operating condition when it is in a cranking condition, when a predetermined period of time has not yet elapsed after the engine has got out of a cranking condition, or when the engine is in a warming-up condition. Preferably, the engine includes a third control valve arranged in a third auxiliary air passage bypassing the throttle valve, and adapted to increase the opening area of the third auxiliary air passage with a decrease in the engine temperature for controlling the supplementary air quantity to be supplied to the engine through the third auxiliary air passage to an appropriate value when the engine is operating in a warming-up condition at a predetermined reference atmospheric pressure.

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Saitama, Japan

Yoshibumi Mishima