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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2019
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Shintaro Hotta, Susono, JP;
Susumu Hashimoto, Ebina, JP;
Shinji Sadakane, Susono, JP;
Hiroshi Tada, Mishima, JP;
Fumio Takamiya, Gotemba, JP;
Akira Hojo, Susono, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An internal combustion engine has a plurality of cylinders and transmission arranged adjoining the engine. If designating an average height of a combustion chamber in a region inside from a virtual cylindrical surface passing through center of a valve body of an intake valve and extending in a circumferential direction of each cylinder when a piston is at top dead center, as 'center height', and designating average of a height of the combustion chamber in a region outside from the virtual cylindrical surface when the piston is at top dead center, as 'peripheral height', the combustion chambers form a center height of a transmission side cylinder positioned most to the transmission side among the plurality of cylinders is higher than center heights of usual cylinders including one cylinder other than the transmission side cylinder and a peripheral height at the transmission side cylinder lower than peripheral heights of usual cylinders.