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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
May. 10, 2000
Todd D. Craft, Pleasant Prarie, WI (US);
Erick Lee Gruber, Pleasant Prarie, WI (US);
Bombardier Motor Corporation of America, Grant, FL (US);
Abstract
A direct fuel injection internal combustion engine configured to reduce engine knock during high speed operation of the engine is provided. The engine comprises a cylinder head including a lower surface portion closing an upper end of a cylinder to define a combustion chamber between a piston upper surface and the cylinder head lower surface portion. The lower surface portion has therein an upwardly extending recess. The recess has a lower end which is complementary with the piston surface and an upper end. The lower end of said recess has an area in a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the cylinder and that area comprises a range from more than 20% to about 65% of the cross-sectional area of the cylinder.