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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2001
Kunio Hasegawa, Ikeda, JP;
Eiji Mishima, Ikeda, JP;
Toshihiro Imanishi, Ikeda, JP;
Kazunori Nishikawa, Ikeda, JP;
Takeshi Serizawa, Ikeda, JP;
Yoshiki Morinaga, Ikeda, JP;
Kunio Hasegawa, Ikeda, JP;
Eiji Mishima, Ikeda, JP;
Toshihiro Imanishi, Ikeda, JP;
Kazunori Nishikawa, Ikeda, JP;
Takeshi Serizawa, Ikeda, JP;
Yoshiki Morinaga, Ikeda, JP;
Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A multicylinder internal combustion engine is provided with a plurality of cylinders sharing a single crankshaft. The combustion characteristics in the respective cylinders is improved by taking out part of combustion (expansion) gas produced in one of the cylinders at an earlier stage of the explosion (expansion) stroke, and then introducing the gas into another one of the cylinders in the suction or compression stroke.