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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2022
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
To meet both a request to improve the thermal efficiency in medium load operation of an engine and a request to suppress knocking in high load operation of the engine, the engine includes a main combustion chamber including a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a piston; a pre-chamber having a plurality of injection holes that open into the main combustion chamber; and a spark plug that ignites an air-fuel mixture in the pre-chamber. A compression ratio of the main combustion chamber is not less than 14 and not more than 24, an aperture ratio, which is the ratio of a total cross-sectional area of the plurality of injection holes to a volume of the pre-chamber, is not less than 0.0078 mmand not more than 0.0145 mm, and the volume of the pre-chamberis not less than 0.0430 cmand not more than 0.5631 cm.