Abstract: A four-stroke piston engine in which air is drawn into a cylinder while rotary motion about the cylinder axis is imparted to the air. Fuel may be blown/injected into the air during its rotation in the cylinder while the fuel supply is located on the axis of the cylinder and supplies at least one jet of fuel directed radially outwardly and which jet of fuel in cooperation with the rotating air forms at least one helical stream of mixture within the cylinder, preferably during the compression stroke, which is transformed into a coherent mixture zone enclosed by a ring of air upon completion of compression. The piston may have a recess in the upper end into which the fuel nozzle is received when the piston approaches top dead center so that an enriched region is formed in the recess which can be ignited by electrodes disposed adjacent the recess.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for combusting diesel, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol and other compression ignition fuels in either direct or indirect injection compression auto ignition internal combustion engines which enables such engines to operate at low compressions. The apparatus includes an ignition chamber which functions to receive a portion of the incoming fuel charge thereby concentrating such portion in an area separate from the auxiliary or primary combustion chambers.

Abstract: A piston has formed in the top thereof a part-spherical depression which forms part of a combustion chamber. The depression is so formed as to permit the flame front during the initial stage of combustion to reach the surface of the depression substantially at the same time, giving better conditions for efficient combustion and short combustion duration.

Abstract: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention an internal combustion engine comprising at least a combustion chamber, a piston, a turbulence chamber provided inside the overhead cylinder above the piston, and an ignition device leading to the turbulence chamber is provided. The invention is characterized in that at least one channel provided at the base of the overhead cylinder, opens tangentially along the walls of the turbulence chamber. The channel has, at its origin, a width substantially equal to the diameter of the seat of the intake valve and narrows as it goes deeper in the direction of the turbulence chamber. This engine embodies an improvement of the Otto type engines.

Abstract: A compression-ignition type internal combustion engine comprising a combustion chamber and an accumulation chamber which are interconnected to each other via an accumulation valve. The opening operation of the accumulation valve is controlled so that the accumulation valve remains opened during the compression stroke. In the first half of the compression stroke, a jet of air is spouted into the combustion chamber from the accumulation chamber to create a strong swirl motion in the combustion chamber. In the latter half of the compression stroke, the air in the combustion chamber flows into the accumulation chamber where the air is accumulated under high pressure, which air is then spouted from the accumulation chamber into the combustion chamber at the next cycle.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, the combination of a cylinder head with a plane lower surface and a cavity, a piston with a plane upper surface and a cavity, the plane surfaces of the piston and the cylinder head cooperating to form a squish area on one side of the cylinder bore, and a spark plug protruding into the combustion chamber defined by the cavities so that its igniting tip lies substantially in the squish plane on the other side of the cylinder bore.

Abstract: A combustion chamber is formed between a cylinder head, which has a central recess and planar surfaces on each side of it, and a juxtaposed piston, which has a central recess and planar surfaces on each side of it. Inlet and outlet ports are formed in the head with the axes of the ports on one side of a phantom plane that includes the axis of the cylinder. The juxtaposed planar regions of the cylinder head and piston define a first squish area between those planar portions on the same side of the phantom plane as the axes of the ports, and a second squish area, which is smaller than the first, between those planar surfaces of the head and piston on the other side of the phantom plane. A spark plug is mounted in the head so that its igniting tip is on the other side of the phantom plane from the axes of the ports but is close to the axis of the cylinder bore and to the planar region in which the squish areas are formed.

Abstract: In an air compressing, internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection, a rotation-symmetrical combustion chamber is positioned in a piston. Combustion air circulates around the longitudinal axis of the combustion chamber at the moment of fuel injection. An injection nozzle is provided from which the fuel is injected in at least two fuel jets into the combustion chamber. The engagement points of the fuel jets on the circumferential wall of the combustion chamber are evenly distributed over said wall. In addition, the engagement points are in different planes disposed normal to the longitudinal axis of the combustion chamber while being spaced from each end thereof. In one embodiment, the injection nozzle is coaxially disposed and emits three fuel jets, the engagement points of which are located in different planes evenly spaced from one another. In another embodiment the injection nozzle is offset with respect to the axis of the combustion chamber with the fuel jets being of substantially equal length.

Abstract: 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 sparking plug electrodes with minimal wetting of the cylinder walls and of the plug electrodes. The piston head is formed with an asymmetrically located combustion chamber surrounded by extensive "squish" areas arranged to promote the formation of a fuel vortex in which charge stratification occurs centrifugally.

Abstract: An injection nozzle for an air-compressing direct injection internal combustion engine which has a combustion chamber in the shape of a body of revolution in the piston head or in the cylinder head, and in which a rotary air movement occurs in the combustion chamber about its longitudinal axis while a portion of the injected liquid fuel is being deposited as a thin film on the wall of the combustion chamber. The injection nozzle has a slot-shaped discharge opening which is so located with regard to the combustion chamber that the fuel spray emitted through this discharge opening, when viewed over its entire width, at nearly the same time impinges upon the combustion chamber wall and spreads thereon in the form of a wide surface film, the cross section of the discharge opening corresponding to the cross section of a one-bore injection nozzle customarily employed for the mixture formation and combustion method under the same conditions.

Abstract: A direct injection type diesel engine including a piston having a toroidal combustion chamber wherein the ratio of the diameter of the opening of the combustion chamber to the diameter of the piston, the ratio of the diameter of the opening of the combustion chamber to the depth of the combustion chamber, the ratio of the distance between the top of a toroid of the combustion chamber and the surface of the opening of the combustion chamber to the depth of the combustion chamber and the angle of inclination of a peripheral wall of the combustion chamber with respect to the axis of the piston are each in a predetermined range of values. By these features, the problems with regard to noise and coloring of the exhaust emissions can be obviated without adversely affecting the performance of the engine.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine having intake and exhaust valves and a companion piston therefor in a cylinder block is proposed, the piston being provided with several depressions of varying depth and area and interconnected by a guide groove to control flow of the gaseous mixture from one depression to another. A first of the depressions in the piston is located at a distance from the longitudinal axis of the piston and one of the valves has a flat face which is substantially received in the depression. The other depression in the piston also has an axis that is spaced from the longitudinal axis of the piston with the guide groove which communicates with the first depression having a mouth that extends substantially tangentially into said second depression so that the vortex gaseous flow rotates approximately parallel to said piston top about the central longitudinal axis of the second depression toward the end of the compression stroke.

Abstract: An arrangement for air-compressing, direct-injection internal combustion engine having fuel ignition, at least one piston with a combustion chamber having a constricted throat and a pertaining cylinder having a pertaining cylinder head is disclosed. In this arrangement, the fuel injector and the combustion chamber of the piston are in communication with one another, the point of intersection of the longitudinal central axis of the fuel stream with the plane of the pertaining cylinder head which limits the upward movement of the piston is positioned within an imaginary circle having a diameter which is at most 1.1 times the greatest diameter of the combustion chamber, and the fuel injector is adapted to be located from the combustion chamber at a distance of up to about 30% of the greatest diameter of the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A compression ignition, direct injection internal combustion engine which includes at least each one cylinder, with an associated piston and injection nozzle, the piston having a combustion chamber in its head in the form of a body of rotation. The combustion chamber includes below the crown of the piston a constriction which divides the chamber in an upper part and a lower part. The connecting passage formed by the constriction between the upper part and the lower part of the chamber includes a number of additionally connecting canals in the region of the circumference of the chamber, which are groovelike and open to the chamber.Based on the specific forms and arrangements of the connecting canals, a marked micro turbulence of the cylinder charge, a better mixture formation and an improved combustion process, with lower amounts of unburnt hydrocarbons and soot in the exhaust, is achieved.

Abstract: An air-compressing direct injection internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber in the shape of a body of revolution which combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke contains nearly the entire necessary amount of combustion air which by suitable means is circulated about the cylinder axis of the respective pertaining cylinder of the engine. In this engine, a substantial portion of the liquid fuel is in the form of a thin film applied to the combustion chamber wall where it is processed so as to be picked up by and intermixed with the combustion air, whereupon the fuel air mixture is burnt. For purposes of facilitating the processing of the above mentioned fuel film and/or the realization of a pre-oxidation of the fuel, and for facilitating the pick-up of the fuel in the direction of the rotation of the air, additional means are provided and arranged in or on the combustion chamber wall and, when viewed in the direction of rotation of the air are located ahead of the fuel film.