Abstract: A supercharger set for internal combustion engines comprising two turboblowers the two axes of which being mutually perpendicular. The high-pressure turbine is mechanically coupled to the high-pressure compressor, whereas the low-pressure turbine is mechanically coupled to the low-pressure compressor. A single casing is used for the egress of the gases from the high-pressure turbine and their ingress into the low-pressure turbine.

Abstract: A method and a device for stopping a fuel-injection internal combustion engine, in which the injection pump is of the multi-cylinder single-housing type, comprising in supplying the housing of the pump with pressurized gas for separating the pump plungers and tappets from their actuating cams.

Abstract: The invention provides a mushroom valve housing comprising a cage (1) and a guide (2), Cage (1) comprises legs (3, 4, 5, 6) supporting a valve seat (7) containing an annular space (8). Guide (2) has an annular cavity (9) with two sections (9a, 9b) communicating with space (8) by passages (11 to 14). One passage (12) among the two passages (11, 12) connected to a same section (9b) freely opens into this section whereas the other passage (11) communicates directly with the other section (9a), the passages (11, 13) of two diametrically opposite legs (3, 5) communicating with a same section (9a).

Abstract: In a device for injecting liquid fuel in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, a pressure accumulator chamber connected through a narrow passage with an injection conduit between an injection pump and an injector and intended to suppress or reduce the pressure oscillations appearing in the injection conduit at the end of an injection stage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mushroom-type valve cooled by cooling fluid circulation for an internal combustion engine wherein the terminal face of the end portion of the stem is aligned flush with the corresponding face of the valve head and forms the central portion thereof, and the assembling of the head is carried out by brazing on the stem along the whole of their interface.

Abstract: A method for determining the degree of the wear condition of a piston ring in sliding contact with a cylinder wall of an internal combustion engine. The piston ring has a defined magnetic property which property in sliding contact with the wall may be varied by a chromium plating. The reluctance of a magnetic field of an inductive sensor located in the cylinder wall is varied as the piston ring reciprocates and wears. The reluctance variation is compared with a predetermined reference level of the magnetic property for an acceptable degree of wear for the ring.

Abstract: A device for and process of pre-heating the intake air of a supercharged, low-compression ratio Diesel engine when operating at low loads, comprising the apparatus for and steps of taking the heat required for said pre-heating from at least one portion of the exhaust gases of said engine and conveying it to at least one part of the intake air. The device includes heat exchange apparatus having a heating fluid inlet connected to the diesel engine exhaust line through a three-way valve, a heating fluid outlet, a heated fluid inlet, a heated fluid outlet connected to the intake air duct of the engine, and a heat conveying means moving in a closed path between the heating fluid and the heated fluid. A temperature sensor in the air intake duct controls the three-way valve to apportion the flow of exhaust gases between the heating fluid inlet and the atmosphere to maintain a predetermined minimum intake air temperature.

Abstract: A device for injecting water into one cylinder of an internal combustion engine, in order to reduce the temperature of said cylinder and thus to avoid the nitrogen compounds (NOx) in the exhaust gases; said device comprising a pump connected to an injector which opens into said cylinder and an actuating mechanism for said pump coupled to a selected point of the intake control position of the engine valve actuating system.

Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine fit-up device, according to which each intake manifold is arranged at a level lower than that of the associated cylinder head, a walkway is mounted above each intake manifold, and the engine pipes are mounted in the space between the said walkway and the said intake manifold.

Abstract: A fluid-tight pipe coupling for interconnecting two pipe sections, comprising two flanges integral with said pipe sections, respectively, and clip means for clamping said flanges against each other, the engaging faces of said flanges being flat, one of said flanges having a frusto-conical shape whereas the other flange has a cylindrical shape and said clip is formed with a clamping groove of complementary or mating cylindro-conical shape.

Abstract: A method of and means for conditioning a substantially highly supercharged, low-compression ratio Diesel engine at start and low-load or idling speed operation wherein the improvement consists in the step of temporarily preheating the air supply before it enters or is pressure fed into the combustion chambers of the engine cylinders.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for obviating the risk of injection fuel leakage into the cooling system of Diesel engine injectors in the region of the glazed mating surfaces of the injector nozzle body and nozzle holder traversed by a fuel intake passage and by at least one liquid coolant inlet passage and one liquid coolant return passage, wherein is provided, at the plane defined by said glazed surfaces, leakage-fuel recovery passages drilled between the said fuel intake passage and the said cooling passages and having no communication therewith.

Abstract: A means of damping cyclic fuel injection pressure drop in a constant-stroke, variable delivery flow rate injection jerk-pump for an internal combustion engine, consisting in slowing down fuel pressure drop at the end of every injection cycle by increasing the added pressure head losses of fuel backflow by a reduction of the free passageway cross-sections through which the fuel flows successively on its return path from the pump working chamber to the spill port.

Abstract: Device for providing a flexible coupling between a driving member and a driven member, comprising a plate integral with the driving member, a plate integral with the driven member and a resilient assembly consisting of elements with wire loops arranged between said plates so as to become deformed under the action of a force or a torque so that the device will deform itself in parallel relation to the direction of a dimension or angularly without the other dimensions having been changed, the system assuming again its initial shape when the forces are no longer applied thereto.

Abstract: A method and a device for pneumatically braking and re-starting in the reverse direction a Diesel engine, comprising stopping the fuel supply to the engine, locking starting valves of the engine in an open position during the braking period, and then opening a main starting valve and the exhaust ports of the starting valves when the engine has slowed down to a rotary speed of a predetermined value.

Abstract: An electric power generating device recovering the energy of the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, comprising a speed-reducer mounted between the engine and a transmission shaft and a turbo-alternator set driven by the energy taken from said exhaust gases and the turbine of which is operatively connected to said reducer through a reversible transmission system with variable speed keyed in follow-up relationship to the speed variations of said transmission shaft.

Abstract: Method and device for removing the crank-shaft of an internal combustion engine, wherein the frame of the engine is tilted on one side about an axis parallel with the center-line of the crank-shaft, and said crank-shaft is extracted from below.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for lubricating the guiding system of an internal combustion engine valve having at least one valve stem mounted in a guide. A first upper cavity communicates permanently with a second lower annular cavity through a conduit. The first cavity is selectively interconnected to a lubricant intake duct through a sliding valve comprising an annular groove on the valve stem. A third cavity between the intake duct and the slide valve provides lubrication of the upper portion of the valve guide.

Abstract: A safety control method for limiting the temperature of a fluid to a given upper value comprising the sensing of the fluid temperature and the control of a servo-motor keyed in follow-up relationship to said temperature and acting upon a member controlling a parameter conditioning said temperature, wherein the improvement consists in the steps of effecting the detection so as to cause the displacement of a movable element through the expansion of a liquid heated up to a temperature varying in the same direction as the sensed temperature and transmitting said displacement through a hydraulic circuit relay to a hydraulic ram actuator forming said servo-motor.

Abstract: An integrally moulded overhead valve chest for an internal combustion engine, comprising a cage having several arms and formed with an annular valve seat cooling chamber and a valve stem guide formed with an annular guide cooling chamber which communicates with said seat cooling chamber through at least one duct formed within one arm, wherein the improvement consists in at least one hole extending through the radially outer wall of one of said cooling chambers and stopped or closed off by a welded or brazed plug.