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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2016
Mazda Motor Corporation, Aki-gun, Hiroshima, JP;
Takaaki Nagano, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Yuji Harada, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Mazda Motor Corporation, Aki-gun, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a combustion chamber structure of an engine configured to inject fuel in a predetermined operation range in a period from a second half of a compression stroke until a first half of an expansion stroke to perform ignition after a compression top dead center. The combustion chamber structure includes: a piston including a cavity; a fuel injection valve provided at a middle portion of the piston; and a spark plug provided at a radially outer side of the middle portion of the piston and an upper side of the cavity. The cavity is formed by a curved surface having curvature that becomes larger as the curved surface extends toward the radially outer side. A tangential direction of an edge end portion of the curved surface intersects with a combustion chamber ceiling radially outward of the spark plug.