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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1988
Mitsuo Hitomi, Hiroshima, JP;
Yasuhiro Yuzuriha, Hiroshima, JP;
Toshihiko Hattori, Hiroshima, JP;
Akinori Yamashita, Hiroshima, JP;
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
An intake system for a multiple-cylinder engine has first and second branch passages, a plurality of discrete intake passages for connecting the cylinders to one of the first and second branch passages, an intake air supply passage, an upstream side communicating passage for communicating the first and second branch passages with each other and with the downstream end of the intake air supply passage, and a downstream side communicating passage for communicating the downstream side ends of the first and second branch passages with each other. The firing order is set so that the cylinders connected to each of the branch passages do not fire one after another. The first and second branch passages and the upstream side and downstream side communicating passages forming a circular passage for supercharging the engine by resonance tuning effect of intake air. The downstream side communicating passage is provided with a cross-sectional area changing means for changing the effective cross-sectional area of the downstream side communicating passage according to the engine speed to increase the effective cross-sectional area of the downstream side communicating passage with increase in the engine speed.