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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8006666 | Auxiliary combustion chamber type internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine includes a main combustion chamber, an auxiliary combustion chamber, a partition wall that separates the main and auxiliary combustion chambers, a first igniter disposed in the auxiliary combustion chamber, a second igniter disposed in ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7506630 | Internal combustion engine The invention relates to an invention combustion engine comprising a cylinder head (1) with at least one inlet port (4) and at least one injection device (6) per cylinder (2), which extends into the combustion chamber. In order to reduce ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7434564 | Internal combustion engine A cylinder head for an internal combustion engine wherein intake openings to the cylinder are partly surrounded by a mask formed by a material projection of the top face of the combustion chamber, a contour of the mask having a flat main section of maximum height be... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7389752 | Use of engine lubricant as ignition fuel for micro-pilot ignition system of an internal combustion engine A method and system for providing pilot fuel for a pilot ignition system of an internal combustion engine having one or more cylinders and having a lubrication system. A portion of the lubricating oil is diverted from the lubricating system. During the pilot ignitio... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7370626 | High compression spark-ignition engine with throttle control, externally supplied ignition, and direct fuel injection into a precombustion chamber The invention relates to a spark-ignition engine with a highly structural compression ratio greater than 15:1, throttle regulation, externally supplied ignition and with direct fuel injection into a precombustion chamber, which is connected to the main combustion ch... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370609 | Internal combustion engine system An internal combustion engine system uses a blended fuel of gasoline and ethanol, operates with high efficiency, and can inhibit nitrogen oxide and the like from being discharged. The internal combustion engine system includes: a fuel tank 3 that accommodates... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7290531 | Integrated fuel supply system for internal combustion engine An electronic fuel injection system is combined with a carburetor in a carbureted internal combustion engine. The resulting air/fuel induction system comprises a carburetor air/fuel induction system in combination with an electronic fuel injection system which uses ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7281514 | Glow ring ignition assist for internal combustion engine A glow member, preferably in the shape of a ring, assists ignition and combustion of a fuel used in an internal combustion engine. A fuel injection valve injects a plurality of fuel jets directly into a combustion chamber during operation of the engine so that the f... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7273031 | Fuel mixture diffuser tab for a direct-injection internal combustion engine A cylinder head assembly for a direct-injection engine is provided. The cylinder head assembly includes a cylinder head at least partially defining a combustion chamber. The cylinder head is sufficiently configured to receive a fuel injector operable to inject fuel ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270107 | Bolted pre-combustion chamber A pre-combustion chamber for an engine is made more simply removable from the cylinder head by integrating the chamber design and not threading the assembly to the head. The assembly is provided as an integrated design using a seal that helps dissipate heat from the... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263967 | Internal combustion engine with auxiliary combustion chamber An internal combustion engine includes a main combustion chamber, an auxiliary combustion chamber, a fuel reforming unit, and a control unit. The auxiliary combustion chamber is configured and arranged to communicate with the main combustion chamber. The fuel reform... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7243634 | Turbocharging and precombustion chamber spark plug internal combustion engine, ignition method and application The invention concerns an internal combustion engine with at least one engine member, the engine member including a combustion chamber (4) of a combustible mixture with fuel components and oxidants, an ignition system of the combustible mixture by an igniter ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7237526 | Internal combustion engine with direct injection and sparking plug with precombustion chamber, ignition method and application The invention concerns an internal combustion engine with at least one engine member, the engine member including a combustion chamber (4) of a combustible mixture with fuel and oxidant components fitted with a compression system (9), an ignition syste... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7204225 | Internal combustion engine with auxiliary combustion chamber An internal combustion engine includes a main combustion chamber and a small auxiliary combustion chamber. The main chamber is formed by a cylinder, the undersurface of a cylinder head, and the crown of a piston. A main ignition unit is disposed in the cylinder head... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7188589 | Direct injection internal combustion engine In a direct injection internal combustion engine, a fuel injection valve and a spark plug of adjacent cylinders are inclined at different angles from each other in directions perpendicular to a cylinder arrangement direction in which the cylinders are arranged. Besi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7178503 | System and method to pre-ignition in an internal combustion engine An engine system and method are disclosed for controlling pre-ignition of an alcohol fuel. In one embodiment, the fuel injection timing is adjusted to cause the fuel to avoid combustion chamber surfaces. In another embodiment, the fuel injection timing is adjusted t... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178506 | Fuel supply apparatus for internal combustion engine A low-pressure fuel supply system for applying pressure to a fuel by using a feed pump and supplying the fuel to a manifold fuel injection mechanism, and a high-pressure fuel supply system branched from the low-pressure fuel supply system and for applying pressure t... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7162985 | Two-cylinder V-type OHV engine for outboard motors A two-cylinder V-type OHV engine for outboard motors, which allows space saving in the direction of the width of the engine. A starboard side cylinder bank (RB) has a cylinder (34R) and a port side cylinder bank (LB) has a cylinder (34L). The first cyl... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162994 | Control method and apparatus for gaseous fuelled internal combustion engine A method and apparatus create an environment within a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine suitable for auto-ignition and combustion of a fuel that will not otherwise auto-ignite. Under high-load conditions, a pilot quantity of the fuel is injected in... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7152572 | Internal combustion engine A high thermal efficiency lean-burn spark-ignition two or four stroke engine operable unthrottled suitable for vehicles using gasoline. It uses an indirect combustion chamber and a transfer orifice aligned to produce a jet of air moving in helical swirl motion aroun... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7107964 | Control of auto-ignition timing for homogeneous combustion jet ignition engines A method and system of controlling auto-ignition timing in an internal combustion engine cylinder in which the timing of auto-ignition in prechambers that are coupled to the cylinder is precisely controlled. The auto-ignition in the prechambers produces hot gas jets... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7073478 | Internal combustion engine with auto-ignition In an internal combustion engine with auto-ignition in which the fuel is injected directly into the combustion chamber by means of a fuel injection nozzle in the form of multiple fuel jets, wetting of the combustion chamber-side cylinder head surface is minimized by... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069901 | Control apparatus for internal combustion engine and control method for internal combustion engine combustion method for internal combustion engine and direct injection engine A gasoline engine is provided which is capable of introducing a large amount of EGR gas for performing homogeneous combustion and thus offering a good fuel economy. An external EGR mechanism or an internal EGR mechanism is used to introduce an EGR gas into a combust... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7063070 | Control device of internal combustion engine An engine ECU executes a program including a step of lowering a pressure of fuel supplied to an in-cylinder injector when it is determined that a degree of dilution of an oil with the fuel is large, a step of calculating a fuel injection period TAUd of the in-cylind... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7025037 | Internal-combustion engine with precombustion chamber and controlled ignition The disclosure concerns an internal combustion engine with controlled ignition having at least a combustion chamber (4), means (8, 18) for injection of fuel or an air-fuel mixture into the combustion chamber (4), ignition means (7) to gen... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7021275 | Igniter for internal combustion engines operating over a wide range of air fuel ratios An igniter for ignition over a wide air/fuel ratio range. Igniter includes an igniter body including an internal cavity disposed substantially within the igniter body, an internal spark gap disposed substantially within the internal cavity, an external spark gap dis... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7007661 | Method and apparatus for controlling micro pilot fuel injection to minimize NOand UHC emissions The present invention provides a system that controls the amount and timing of pilot fuel injection to obtain minimum NOx and UHC emissions. The system senses if combustion occurs, when combustion occurs, and/or the quality of combustion in the combustion... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004140 | Piston structure of engine A piston structure of an engine generates an automatic flow of gas through a hole penetrating from a bowl of the piston toward a lateral side of the piston. The structure provides a reinforcement of the compression and swirling movement in the combustion chamber of ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6990946 | Starting system for pilot-ignition gas engine The object of the present invention is to enable the reliable compression ignition from starting of a pilot oil ignition gas engine in whose cylinder head there is provided a precombustion chamber unit with pilot injection valve that has liquid fuel injection valves... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6976468 | Direct injection gasoline engine In a center injection type of direct engine, since it has an ignition plug and an injector arranged in proximity, there occurs the problem that a sprayed liquid fuel directly strikes the ignition plug and causes the plug to misfire. A notch is to be provided at a po... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6957639 | Inclined engine In an inclined engine where a cylinder (2) projects from a crank case (1) obliquely and upwardly, when seen in a direction parallel to a center axis (3) of a crank shaft (10), under a specific observation condition in which the cylinder p... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6945219 | Dual zone combustion chamber A combustion chamber and method of distributing fuel in a combustion chamber is disclosed. The combustion chamber includes a first section that is generally centrally positioned in the combustion chamber. A second section is offset from the first section and maintai... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6925991 | Fuel supply system A fuel supply system for reciprocating engines in which predetermined amounts of fuel are injected into the air fuel supply of the engine in timed relation to the reciprocating engine with the amounts of fuel varying in response to speed and load on said engine by v... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6910459 | HCCI engine with combustion-tailoring chamber An internal combustion engine is adapted for operation with homogeneous combustion and compression ignition. The engine includes plural cylinders with the piston in each cylinder defining the main combustion chamber and connected to a crankshaft for reciprocating mo... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6901905 | Pre-combustion chamber enrichment The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine, and air/gas mixture being introduced into the working chamber thereof and ignited by means of an ignition system. The above is carried out whereby the air/gas mixture is at least temporar... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6814032 | Dual fuel engine The present invention aims to allow an arbitrary selection to be made between gas operation and diesel operation, to achieve a reduction in NOx even when in diesel operation, to allow the compression ratio to be adjusted and altered in accordance with the operating ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6725824 | Internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine includes a compression chamber that is delimited by fixed housing walls and a movable piston mounted therein, and a porous component that fills the combustion chamber, which is separate from the compression chamber. The combustion of fu... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6668788 | Homogenous charge compression ignition engine having a cylinder including a high compression space The present invention relates generally to the field of homogeneous charge compression engines. In these engines, fuel is injected upstream or directly into the cylinder when the power piston is relatively close to its bottom dead center position. The fue... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6662763 | De' sax' e two cycle engine, constant pressure adiabatic compound "C.P.A.C." A reversible heat, constant pressure 2-cycle engine that takes ambient air and heats it up before mixing it with fuel, so that even a very lean mixture of air and fuel is highly combustible, to provide increased fuel economy and decreased fuel consumption... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6571764 | Direct injection internal combustion engine In a direct injection internal combustion engine having per cylinder at least two intake valves 1 mounted side by side, at least one exhaust valve 2, a more or less coaxial ignition device 3, an injection valve 4, and a piston 5 with combustion chamber tr... | 06/03/2003 |
