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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7634983 | Fuel inducted and injected inlet runners for combustion engine with flow modifiers for subdividing fuel droplets A fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine includes induction conduits of effectively equal flow resistance for guiding separate air and fuel streams to each of the cylinders of the engine. Each induction conduit includes at its entrance a sleeve ventu... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7389759 | Internal-combustion engine An internal-combustion engine has cylinders 21 arranged preferably in a V-formation with corresponding cylinder heads (27) including connectors for the supply and discharge of fluids. The cylinders are mounted in a crankcase (41) and are supplie... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7370620 | Intake manifold assembly having short compact runners and methods of making same An air intake manifold assembly for use with an internal combustion engine includes a plenum portion and a runner assembly mounted to the plenum portion. The runner assembly has a flange disposed between an air intake portion and an air outlet portion. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7361201 | Air cleaner device An air cleaner device for exchanging an element without permitting dust and dirt collected between the element and an air guide member in a clean side to fall and for smoothly permitting intake air to be supplied to the engine. An air cleaner device includes a cylin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7314042 | Exhaust gas recirculation system for a V-type internal combustion engine, and engine including same An EGR control valve is disposed on a V-type internal combustion engine such that the engine is compact as a whole. In the internal combustion engine, cylinders are provided with the cylinders spaced apart from each other in a V-shape, and exhaust gas obtained from ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7278403 | Internal combustion engine having at least two cylinder banks The invention relates to an internal-combustion engine having at least two cylinder bank rows, which are preferably oriented in a V-shape. An air intake system is arranged between two cylinder bank rows, and a fuel supply system is at least partially arranged below ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7237523 | Internal combustion engine with at least two cylinder banks An intake air crossover arrangement for an internal combustion engine having two cylinder banks in a V-shaped arrangement in which air compressed by at least one, and preferably two, turbochargers, is delivered via air ducts to respective intake manifolds for each c... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225779 | Intake system including a resonance chamber In an intake system for an engine incorporated with a resonance chamber (32), a variable communication unit (50) for controlling the communication between an intake passage with the resonance chamber comprises an outer tube (51) having an open a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219657 | Fuel routing structure for a V-type engine A fuel routing structure for use in a vehicle having a V-type engine is provided. The structure has fewer parts, is compact, and facilitates ease of assembly and maintenance for a vehicle where fuel injection valves are attached to an intake manifold, which contains... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7197869 | Secondary air supplying structure of internal combustion engine In a secondary air supplying structure of an internal combustion engine, extending portions protruding upward are arranged in the number corresponding to the number of cylinders. Extending portions are each provided with a secondary air distribution path. To a surfa... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7184881 | Method for diagnosing errors in an intake system of an internal combustion engine having a variable intake manifold geometry A method for diagnosing errors in an intake system of an internal combustion engine having a variable intake manifold geometry is provided. According to the method, an air mass flow oscillation in the intake manifold is detected at an engine rotational speed that is... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7165524 | Air cleaner supporting structure in V-type engine To reduce the number of component parts for supporting an air cleaner and facilitate the assembly work of the air cleaner in a V-type engine having part of an air intake device including the air cleaner arranged between a pair of banks. The air cleaner arranged on t... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7159557 | Air intake device The present invention relates to a vehicle's air intake device. In an embodiment, the intake device comprises an intake pipe, an air cleaner case in fluid communication with the intake pipe, a connection pipe in fluid communication with the air cleaner case, a carbu... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7137378 | Component mounting system for a marine engine An attachment and support system is provided for supporting a flame arrestor and cover at a preselected position relative to a throttle body which, in turn, is attached to an air intake manifold. A support member is attached, by four bolts, to the air intake manifol... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7104236 | Intake air management apparatus for a vehicle, and motorcycle including same An air cleaner housing includes an upper case, a partition wall and a lower case. The inside thereof is partitioned into an upper, filtered side and a lower unfiltered side. Intake funnel pipes, connected to front and rear cylinders, project into the filtered side. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7100559 | Engine air intake manifold An engine air intake manifold has two main body sections that are divided along an airflow direction and mated tightly against each other at oppositely facing mating parts so as to form an air intake passage therein. A gas passage is formed along the mating parts. T... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7094267 | Air cleaner and air intake structures for low-deck vehicle To secure a large space that can be utilized effectively above an air cleaner, a low-deck vehicle 10 is constructed to mount an engine shaped like a letter V in the fore-and-aft direction under a low-deck and an air cleaner. The air cleaner is adapted to be c... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7069895 | Air intake system of outboard motor An outboard motor has a V-type engine in which in which a plurality of cylinders are arranged in a V-shape, a crankshaft is arranged substantially vertically, and an overhead valve (OHV)-type valve train is mounted. This outboard motor also includes an air intake sy... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069894 | Intake manifold having intake pipes linked by transverse acoustic synchronization channels with exhaust gas recirculation inlets An intake manifold arrangement for an internal combustion engine in which transverse channels (12) are arranged between the intake channels upstream from the cylinder intakes of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine equipped with exhaust gas recirculati... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7028679 | Engine air charge system with branch conduits Prior art air charge systems for ‘V’ configuration internal combustion engines use two turbochargers and two intercoolers, one for each bank of cylinders, and require relatively long and complex air ducts. The present invention provides a charge air system for a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7017562 | Air intake system for a vehicle Because the PCV channel for guiding blow-by gas to a plenum is formed in an intake manifold, the blow-by gas can be equally supplied to respective combustion chambers. In addition, since a PCV nipple is mounted on the outermost intake runner that has a relatively hi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7007874 | Shroud assembly for waste processing machine A shroud assembly for a waste processing machine includes a shroud for attachment to an engine of the waste processing machine. The shroud assembly also includes a plurality of fasteners for attaching the shroud to the engine of the waste processing machine, whereby... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004137 | V-type multiple-cylinder air intake device A V-type multiple cylinder air intake is being configured to improve the volumetric efficiency by utilizing the resonance effect while also eliminating the adverse influence of the resonance effect (residual resonance) when the engine is operating in regions of medi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6990959 | Fuel rail delivery system arrangement An air fuel delivery system arrangement for an engine is provided, including an air manifold body, having a first set of runners for a first cylinder bank with inlets on a first side and outlets on a second side of the manifold body and a second set of runners for a... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6941914 | Internal combustion engine A twin cylinder engine, includes a pair of cylinder members mounted to mounting surfaces of a crankcase, and cylinder heads mounted to the cylinder members. The cylinder members are modular components, which may be pre-assembled with components of the valve train as... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6904883 | Modular internal combustion engines A line of small internal combustion engines, including twin cylinder engines and single cylinder engines. The engines each include a crankcase, and one or more cylinder members attached to the crankcase, the cylinder members being separate components from the crankc... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6901898 | Variable runner length intake manifold The present invention provides a variable runner length intake air manifold operative to optimize the performance of an internal combustion engine over a wide range of engine speeds. The manifold includes a housing formed of upper and lower halves fixedly attached v... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6805089 | Intake device An intake device (1) for an internal combustion engine including a main body (2) and cover element (3; 20) which are securely connected to one another. Main body (2) and cover element (3) form intake pipes (4, 5, 6, 7) of in... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6732695 | Intake manifold for an internal combustion engine An intake manifold (10) for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine includes a tubular intake distributor (12) from which a plurality of long intake tubes (13) extend and lead to the individual cylinders. Short intake tubes (14) likew... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6691661 | Tuned induction system for a motorcycle An tuned induction system for use on a motorcycle having a V-twin engine. The tuned induction system having separate and individual first and second manifold bodies. Each of the separate intake manifold bodies having a flange that couples the individual m... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6659058 | Intake system of a V-type engine A V-type engine having an intake system structure formed of a surge tank and intake pipes. The intake system structure is divided into upper and lower blocks by a horizontal dividing surface positioned below the surge tank. The upper block includes the su... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6655337 | V-type 2-cylinder engine A V-type 2-cylinder engine capable of distributing air-fuel mixtures equally to each cylinder, having a fuel injection device compact in its arrangement by making effective use of a V-space between the cylinders, and having an improved assembly performanc... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6581560 | Molded intake manifold with separate inlet entry runners An intake manifold is molded of two plastic parts. A first main manifold body provides the outer cover and an inner opening. A second runner provides a plurality of entry ports for communicating air to cylinders within the engine. In the past, it has been... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6408809 | Intake control device for multi-cylinder V-type engine An improved compact and highly efficient variable tuned intake system for a V-type, multi-cylinder engine. The induction system provides variable tuning length with both the high speed and low speed inlets being directed away from the valley between the c... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6401679 | Sectional intake manifold A sectional intake manifold includes a flanged first intake manifold section having and a flanged second intake manifold section. Bolts extend through unthreaded bores in the first intake manifold section flange into threaded bores in the second intake ma... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6343576 | Overhead camshaft V-2 engine An overhead camshaft V-2 engine includes a single power transmitting mechanism disposed on one side of a crankcase for transmitting rotational power from a crankshaft to respective camshafts of drive valve mechanisms. The power transmitting mechanism has ... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6321720 | Intake system for four-cycle engine powering an outboard motor An engine includes an improved induction system which reduces the girth of the engine, simplifies assembly, and improves better power output balance between the cylinders of the engine. The illustrated engine is a multi-cylinder engine and is designed to ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6095105 | Plenum/runner module having integrated engine valve cover A modular integrated intake manifold (10) for a V-type internal combustion engine (20). A fuel module (16) nests between cylinder heads (28, 30) and has through-passages (42) leading to intake valves in the heads. An air cleaner module (12), which has an ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6092498 | Modular integrated intake manifold A modular integrated intake manifold (10) for a V-type internal combustion engine (20). A fuel module (16) nests between cylinder heads (28, 30) and has through-passages (42) leading to intake valves in the heads. An air cleaner module (12), which has an ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6092503 | Air intake equipment for internal combustion engine An improved intake equipment, in which the formation of a liquid fuel film due to deflection of the fuel can be avoided, has a plurality of independent air intake pipes connected to a combustion chamber, for introducing air thereto, collectors connected t... | 07/25/2000 |
