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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1987
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1984
Yujiro Oshima, Aichi, JP;
Masatoshi Yamada, Aichi, JP;
Nobuyuki Mori, Aichi, JP;
Katsuhiko Sugiyama, Aichi, JP;
Taro Aoyama, Aichi, JP;
Akinori Saito, Aichi, JP;
Kazuhiro Kozuka, Aichi, JP;
K.K. Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A direct injection internal combustion engine of a compression ignition type in which portions of an injected fuel spray which have not been evaporated are prevented from striking the walls of the combustion chamber, and the fuel spray is prevented from catching up the air around it when moving in the combustion chamber, thereby providing an engine having reduced combustion noise, reduced amount of smoke and noxious emissions, and improved fuel economy. A combustion chamber is formed in the piston substantially in the form of a spherical cavity gradually narrowing towards the opening of the cavity at the top surface of the piston. An air intake mechanism swirls intake air supplied to the combustion chamber. A swirl injector injects a fuel spray substantially in the form of a hollow cone having a velocity component in a direction tangential of the central axis of the nozzle. The nozzle is offset from the central axis of the cavity and inclined with respect to the central axis of the cavity so that the fuel spray is injected in a forward direction of a swirl stream of intake air in the cavity.