Abstract: A crankcase supercharged four cycle engine (10) includes an outside air inlet port (22) positioned so that upon each expansion stroke of the piston (11) a discrete pulsed charge of pressurized air is fed to the crankcase (15), and hence from the crankcase through a one-way valve (26) into surge tank (28). The surge tank chamber (29) is connected through a tuning pipe (31) to a manifold volume chamber (34) leading to the air intake (20) of the engine cylinder (12). The tuning pipe is designed with the correct length and volume to provide a resonant frequency which increases engine torque at low speed. The construction provides a closed loop connection (24) between the crankcase and engine cylinder which is subjected to air pressure pulses which are directly responsive to the frequency of reciprocation of the piston. A pressure multiplier effect is obtained within the loop to substantially increase the pressure of air ultimately fed to the cylinder.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas recirculation system for an internal combustion engine, orifices disposed in a passage for recirculating the exhaust gas is made of a sheet of a bimetal or other material capable of changing from a normal shape to a deformed shape when the heat of the exhaust gas is applied, in order to prevent carbon contained in the exhaust gas from depositing on the orifices.

Abstract: A two-cycle internal combustion engine having reed valves in the fuel/air supply system is provided with an element in the flow path of the fuel/air into the reed valves, which element is shaped and positioned to promote uniformity of flow of the fuel/air mixture in the flow passage.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system for a diesel engine comprising an EGR control valve for regulating the flow of exhaust gases to be recirculated from an engine exhaust system back to an engine air intake system. When the exhaust gas recirculation is to be interrupted, the EGR control valve is closed a predetermined time after the opening of a throttle valve used in the air intake system for regulating the flow of air towards the engine. For this purpose, delay valves are utilized in association with the throttle valve and the EGR control valve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for reducing to a minimum the predominant full load noise of port-controlled, two-stroke internal combustion engines by constructing the lower suction port boundary and the lower piston boundary, so that there is a gradual port opening during the upward movement of the piston and a gradual port closing during its downward stroke.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation valve driven by an electric motor. The valve comprises a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port, a valve member disposed within said housing, an electric motor attached to the upper portion of said housing, a changing means for changing the rotation of said electric motor into the vertical movement of said valve member, said changing means being disposed between the shaft of said electric motor and a valve rod. The valve member is operated by said electric motor through the intermediary of said changing means. Therefore, the valve can be controlled delicately independent of the engine manifold vacuum. The valve may be incorporated into an electronic fuel injection system adapted to calculate the amount of fuel supply to an internal combustion engine by means of a control unit so as to obtain an optimum air-fuel mixture or air-fuel ratio.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine is provided with an exhaust gas recirculating passage for communicating the intake passage and the exhaust passage thereof. The recirculating passage is provided with a valve for controlling the amount of recirculated exhaust gas. A fundamental air-fuel ratio control value for regulating the air-fuel ratio of the intake gas to a predetermined value is corrected by an operating condition correction value according to the operating condition of the engine. The operating condition correction value is successively changed to an optimal value by comparing the actually obtained air-fuel ratio with a predetermined value. The operating condition correction value for correcting the fundamental air-fuel ratio control value when the exhaust gas recirculation is carried out is changed independently from the same for correcting the fundamental air-fuel ratio correction value when the exhaust gas recirculation is not carried out.

Abstract: In typical combustion engines the inlet valves and outlet valves are subjected to lifting mechanism and to long stroke springs for closing the valves in periodic cycles. Strong and long springs are required and their life time is limited. The invention therefore provides a valve arrangement, wherein the springs are not providing strokes, but act merely only to adjust mechanical clearances. The springs are becoming short thereby and the life time increases. The strokes of the valves are actuated by a novel cam shaft which extends through a window in the shaft of the respective valve. Further details are provided to secure a smooth operation of the valve arrangement, to reduce the weight thereof and to provide proper lubrication of the rotary cam shaft. The number of reciprocating elements is reduced.

Abstract: A lubricating system for a two-cycle outboard motor in which lubricant is mixed with the fuel prior to delivery to the fuel bowl of the carburetor in a chamber located externally of the carburetor. The lubricant is supplied by a relatively large storage tank to a relatively smaller delivery tank that is positioned in proximity to the engine. A float operated control device is provided for maintaining an adequate lubricant level in the delivery tank and an arrangement is incorporated for insuring against operation of the pump in response to momentary changes in liquid level in the delivery tank due to inertial effects.

Abstract: A two-stroke internal combustion engine of the type having separate fuel and oil pumps delivering their outputs for mixture prior to entering the carburetor, the oil pump having a variable output relative to the fuel pump output, and means responsive to the amplitude of the pressure wave in the engine crankcase to vary the output of the oil pump to optimize the fuel/oil ratio for the operating conditions.

Abstract: There is described a charging and distributing device for a piston engine, the device including a variable displacement rotary compressor delivering through one of its shafts to a coaxial rotating distribution tube (1,25), the tube being formed with ports (4,29) which sequentially coincide with inlets (7,27) to the respective cylinders of the engine. A control system (14) to regulate the displacement of the compressor is disclosed, and the use of eccentrically weighted rotary pistons (10,12) and/or distribution tube to balance the engine as a whole is envisaged.

Abstract: An engine comprising one pair of scavenge ports alternately covered and uncovered by a piston, a richer air-fuel mixture and a leaner air-fuel mixture being separately fed into the cylinder from the scavenge ports, the richer air-fuel mixture flowing into the cylinder towards the inner wall thereof, located opposite the exhaust port, and the leaner air-fuel mixture flowing into the cylinder so that it overlays the richer air-fuel mixture.

Abstract: This invention relates to electronically controlled exhaust gas recirculation valves and more particularly to systems incorporating an electrical vacuum regulator.It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an EGR system that is less susceptible to output flow changes caused by carbon build up. A further object of the invention is to provide a vacuum regulator that can be used with simple, low cost EGR valves. Simple valves can be used by virtue of the closed loop vacuum regulation feature of the present invention since the flow rate/vacuum signal relationship is not important. A further object of the present invention is to provide an EGR flow regulation system which automatically compensates for pressure variations which result in changes in the pressure differential across the EGR valve due to changes in exhaust system pressure and intake manifold pressure.Many other objects and purposes of the invention will be clear from the following detailed description of the drawing.

Abstract: For recirculating the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, a recirculation line is provided which leads from the exhaust side to the intake side of the engine. A valve for controlling the recirculation rate is disposed in the line, and in order to prevent the formation of condensates in the line on the exhaust side when the valve is closed, a flushing line is provided which leads from the line segment on the exhaust side to a location point having lower pressure as compared with the exhaust side.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are proposed for controlling the quantity of exhaust gas recirculated from the exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine to its intake side. The aspirated air quantity is compared with a set-point value formed in accordance with load and rpm, and if the deviation is greater than a minimum amount, control pulses for two magnetic valves are formed, which are triggered alternatively depending upon the polarity of the deviation and which further cause pressure to be delivered from two pressure sources having different pressure levels into the work chamber of a pneumatically functioning adjusting member of a dosing valve for exhaust gas recirculation. The opening duration of a given valve is dependent on the magnitude of the deviation from the set-point, and the valve remains completely open until a counteracting correction takes place if the deviation from the set-point exceeds a predetermined maximum amount.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation method and apparatus controls the duty cycles of a throttle valve provided in an air intake passageway leading to a diesel engine, and an exhaust gas recirculation valve provided in an exhaust gas recirculation passageway connecting the air intake passageway and an exhaust gas passage, according to a predetermined relationship. The respective valves are controlled via corresponding diaphragm actuators and electromagnetic valves for actuating the actuators by a control unit which produces duty cycle control signals for the respective electromagnetic valves in accordance with sensed operating parameter signals which represent engine speed, load and coolant temperature. The control of the throttle and EGR valves are related so that the throttle valve is held fully open when the EGR valve is not fully open. This ensures the absolute minimum emission of exhaust HC throughout the range of throttle-EGR control.

Abstract: An automotive vehicle having a diesel engine, a throttle system actuable to control the engine speed, a vacuum pump driven by the engine and forming, at least in part, a vacuum pressure source, and an EGR system. The EGR system comprises an EGR valve and a valve controller for governing the level of vacuum pressure communicated to the EGR valve from the vacuum pressure source. The valve controller has a housing defining an output port for supplying operating pressure to the EGR valve, an input port communicating with the vacuum pressure source, and an input port communicating with ambient atmospheric pressure. Regulator valving means in the housing includes a control member movable to control communication between the output port and the input ports to govern the valve operating vacuum pressure level. Throttle position responsive means exerts actuating force on the control member to alter the output pressure.

Abstract: Vacuum is applied to a pair of vacuum chambers on opposite sides of a diaphragm of an EGR valve and air flow rates from the pair of Vacuum Chambers are determined by a duty factor of an electrical control signal. A plunger driven by the diaphragm and a slit mechanism which changes its opening area in accordance with a change of stroke of the plunger are arranged in the EGR valve and the diaphragm is stopped at an equilibrium position of the pressures of the pair of vacuum chabers. The stroke of the EGR valve thus can be exactly controlled only by the control signal.

Abstract: The internal combustion engine performs the thermodynamic cycle partially inside the cylinder, with the piston connected to the crankshaft, and partially in a turbo-supercharger in which there takes place the final stage of the expansion of the burnt gases and, simultaneously, the suction and the first phase of compression of the air. The said compression is completed afterwards in the cylinder, continuously and without any partialization.

Abstract: An EGR device for an internal combustion engine, including an EGR valve body in an EGR pipe for changing the opening degree of the EGR pipe for regulating the amount of the recirculated exhaust gas, a diaphragm supported by casing of the EGR valve and connected to the EGR valve body for forming a negative pressure chamber, and a solenoid fixed to a sleeve of one of the casing for driving a spool valve in the direction to the diaphragm when the solenoid is excited. The excitation of the solenoid is controlled by a control circuit in accordance with the running conditions of the internal combustion engine.