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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7431008 | Ignition system of an internal combustion engine An ignition system of an internal combustion engine, of a motor vehicle in particular, having at least one device for igniting a jet of a fuel/air mixture which has a chamber enclosing a process space in which the ignition of the fuel/air mixture takes place. The ch... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7373956 | Passageway having non-linear flow path A tube for directing fluid along a path that includes a bend. The tube comprising a conduit having a first aperture, a second aperture, and a bend portion adjacent the second aperture. An outer bend surface is integrally formed as part of the conduit to at least par... | 05/20/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7100567 | Method to extend lean ignition limit within internal combustion engine A method of operating an internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a main combustion chamber in fluid communication with a prechamber. The method comprises the step of varying the volume within the prechamber during a portion of a compression strok... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6830601 | Carburetor arrangement The invention relates to a carburetor arrangement for an internal combustion engine (1) which drives a work apparatus. The engine (1) has an intake channel (3) leading through a carburetor (2). The intake channel (3) includes an in... | 12/14/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6098588 | Injection device and combustion process for an internal combustion engine An injection device for an internal combustion engine, especially a diesel engine, with a combustion chamber (16) for each defined by piston (2), cylinder and cylinder head (1), a multi-hole injection nozzle (5) and a shroud (3) projecting from the cylind... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6055954 | Spark ignition type internal combustion engine with sub-combustion chamber A spark ignition internal combustion engine includes a sub-combustion chamber in which gas mixture with an air-fuel ratio adapted for an operating state of the engine over a wide operating range of the engine is supplied to a combustion chamber. The amoun... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5105781 | Air-compressing internal combustion engine with self-ignition, with a main combustion space and an insert adjoining the latter, accommodated in the cylinder head and having an antechamber An air-compressing internal combustion engine with oblique injection into an antechamber having a sphere-like combustion space and conduit of arranged offset relative to one another. A spheroid impact head with a cup shaped recess on the underside thereof... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5069179 | Internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine is described which comprises a main combustion chamber and a secondary combustion chamber which is arranged in the cylinder head of the internal combustion engine and is connected via a shot channel to the main combustion cha... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5031588 | Internal combustion engine utilizing stratified charge combustion process Internal combustion stratified-charge engine having within a cylinder thereof a variable volume space wherein a piston pursuant to an air intake stroke draws a stream of intake air through an entrance end of the combustion chamber and through such chamber... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4884538 | Diesel engine swirl chamber The nozzle throat through which fuel is injected into a swirl chamber is arranged so that a flame front which travels back through the plume of injected fuel is deflected and prevented from directly propagating thereinto. The orientation of the nozzle thr... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4784098 | Internal combustion engine utilizing stratified charge combustion process High-compression spark-ignited stratified-charge fuel-injection reciprocating-piston engine in which the combustion chamber initial charge includes a discrete air-fuel stratum that is lean with fuel at low speed idle and progressively increased in fuel ri... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4770138 | Fuel injection type internal combustion engine An engine comprising a piston having a cavity formed on the top face thereof. A projection having an impingement face at the top thereof is formed at the center of the cavity. Fuel is injected from a fuel injector toward the impingement face to form a ric... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4722309 | Internal combustion engine The internal combustion engine performs the thermodynamic cycle partially inside the cylinder, with the piston connected to the crankshaft, and partially in a turbo blower in which there takes place the final stage of the expansion of the burnt gases and,... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4612888 | Diesel engine A diesel engine has a cylinder head, an auxiliary combustion chamber defined in the cylinder head, an atomization passage communicating with the auxiliary combustion chamber, and a fuel injection nozzle means mounted in the cylinder head and having a prim... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4572133 | High compression ratio and efficiency governed self-ignition internal combustion engine A high compression ratio internal combustion engine operable on a fuel capable of being pressurized and vaporized to pressures above atmospheric pressure and having dual fuel introduction means respectively communicating with dual fuel sources. The first ... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4541376 | Internal combustion engine Spark ignited internal combustion engine of the reciprocal piston type, having inlet means 7 for substantially tangentially introducing a combustible mixture into a combustion chamber 6 to generate a swirling motion of the mixture and provided with means ... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4499399 | Anti-pollutant spark plug adaptor A spark plug adaptor for an internal combustion engine is provided with two chambers, an upper preliminary chamber and a lower secondary chamber. The upper chamber encompasses the spark plug electrodes and communicates with the lower chamber through an ac... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4480613 | Catalytic late direct injection spark ignition engine A late injection direct injection stratified charge spark ignition engine is provided with a catalytic grid disposed in the path of injected fuel spray and downstream of the point of spark ignition to assist the completion of combustion of previously igni... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4421079 | Diesel engine combination fuel vaporizer and air/fuel mixer A diesel type prechamber has a centrally located heated tubular member supplied internally with hot air through a secondary throat or transfer passage, the air vaporizing the fuel sprayed against the outer surface of the hot member and also mixing with th... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4323039 | Antechamber system diesel engine An antechamber system Diesel engine including an antechamber consisting of a front chamber and a rear chamber and a communication port communicating said antechamber with a main combustion chamber wherein at least one of fuel injection ports of a fuel inj... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4318377 | Internal combustion engine with fuel injection An internal combustion engine has a fuel injector in a side wall of each cylinder to direct a fuel jet onto a flat or concave impingement surface of a shield projecting into the cylinder from the cylinder head, to atomize the fuel in the vicinity of the s... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4270498 | Internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine has a fuel injector located in a side wall of each cylinder, and a combustion chamber in each cylinder formed largely by a cavity recessed in the crown of the piston, to define substantial "squish" areas between the piston cr... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4258680 | Reciprocating engine with cylindrical combustion chamber A reciprocating internal combustion engine has a cylindrical combustion chamber lying substantially entirely within the cylinder head and including a fuel injection nozzle and possibly a glow plug. The top of the cylindrical combustion chamber is defined ... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4242990 | Spark ignited internal combustion engine The invention is in an externally ignited internal combustion engine which has one main combustion chamber per cylinder and one ignition chamber which communicates with the main combustion chamber via an excess flow channel, the opening member of which pr... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4224902 | Air-compressing injection internal combustion engine with auxiliary chamber An air-compressing injection internal combustion engine with a main combustion space arranged in the piston and with an auxiliary chamber equipped with an injection nozzle and with a glow plug, which is in continuous communication with the main combustion... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4219992 | Row crop attachment for combines A row crop attachment adapting a combine for efficient harvesting of soybeans and similar crops, has crop-receiving structure disposed forwardly of the cutter for catching beans prematurely separated from the stalks by action of the combine cutter. Multip... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4218992 | Externally ignited internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine in which each cylinder or combustion volume includes a separate ignition chamber which communicates with the main combustion chamber through a relatively narrow channel or channels. The combustible mixture is delivered to the... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4193379 | Compression-ignition internal combustion engine A compression-ignition internal combustion engine including a mixing chamber in permanently open communication with a cylinder of the engine via a duct, there being provided means for injecting fuel into the mixing chamber during compression of combustion... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4186692 | Compression ignition internal combustion engine with auxiliary swirl combustion chamber A compression ignition internal combustion engine having a swirl chamber and a primary combustion chamber both of which are fluid-connected by a primary communicating passage has a recess portion at the fuel impinged portion of the swirl chamber for produ... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4182281 | Spark plug adapter and process A spark plug adapter has a tubular member provided with an enlarged upper portion internally threaded to receive a spark plug and the spark gap thereof and a smaller lower portion externally threaded and adapted for threading into a spark plug receiving b... | 01/08/1980 |
| 4160431 | Insert liner for divided auxiliary combustion chamber of engine The auxiliary combustion chamber of a four-cycle stratified-charge piston engine is divided into a primary cavity and a secondary cavity both formed in an insert liner received in the cylinder head. The primary cavity receives a relatively rich mixture wh... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4127095 | Torch-ignition internal combustion engine A torch-ignition internal combustion engine has a main and pre-combustion chambers communicated with each other through a torch aperture. Electrodes of a spark plug are disposed in the pre-combustion chamber at a point remote from the torch aperture. A fr... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4123998 | Flame deflector for the auxiliary combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine is provided with a relatively small auxiliary combustion chamber opening into a main combustion chamber, a spark plug adapted to ignite a combustible mixture in the auxiliary combustion chamber, and a deflector means for caus... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4112877 | Internal combustion engine An internal combustion chamber including a main combustion chamber receiving an air-fuel mixture, an auxiliary combustion chamber in communication with the main combustion chamber, and an air supply source for supplying air to the auxiliary combustion cha... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4091774 | Stratified combustion type engine The present invention relates to a stratified combustion type engine comprising an engine cylinder, a main combustion chamber located above the cylinder, an injection nozzle for injecting auxiliary fuel towards the combustion chamber, and an open pre-comb... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4086885 | Carburetor for stratified internal combustion engine A carburetor for an internal combustion engine of the stratified combustion type supplies a rich air-fuel mixture in the neighborhood of the ignition plug in each cylinder and a lean air-fuel mixture in the remaining space in the cylinder. The carburetor ... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4085713 | Torch ignition internal combustion engine A torch ignition internal combustion engine has a main combustion chamber for the combustion of a lean air-fuel mixture and an auxiliary combustion chamber for the combustion of a rich air-fuel mixture. The auxiliary combustion chamber has a suction and a... | 04/25/1978 |
