Abstract: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine comprises a fuel metering means operative to meter and adjust the flow of fuel to the engine in accordance with the operating conditions of the engine, fuel injection nozzles disposed in respective intake ports of engine cylinders, a fuel distributor operative to distribute the metered and adjusted flow of fuel to the respective injection nozzles, an advancer responsive to the increase in the speed of the engine operation to advance the fuel distribution timing of the distributor, and a fuel distribution timing varying means responsive to the variation in the load on the engine to vary the fuel distribution timing of the distributor.

Abstract: The invention disclosed is an internal combustion engine of the type having a main combustion chamber for combustion of the lean mixture; a trap chamber for trapping therein the rich mixture; a spark plug for igniting the rich mixture in the trap chamber; and a fuel injection system including a first fuel injection nozzle opening at an intake passage to each cylinder for injecting the fuel toward the trap chamber during the suction stroke, a second fuel injection nozzle opening at a throttle body or an intake manifold for injecting the fuel during any one of strokes, and a fuel injection control device for controlling the injection timing and period of the first and second fuel injection nozzles.

Abstract: The invention discloses an internal combustion engine wherein each cylinder includes a main combustion chamber, an intake port opening into the main combustion chamber, an intake valve for opening and closing the intake port, an intake passage communicating with the main combustion chamber through the intake port for charging the lean mixture into a main combustion chamber, a trap chamber with a spark plug, and a fuel injection nozzle disposed in the intake passage and actuatable in response to a signal from a control system to inject a fuel at least one time during the suction stroke, thereby causing a rich mixture to be trapped in a trap chamber to ensure the positive ignition. The fuel is also injected during another stroke other than the suction stroke in which the fuel is completely vaporized, so that the lean mixture, may be charged into the main combustion chamber during the next suction stroke. Thus, the HC emission may be substantially reduced.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a fuel to be supplied to a reforming means in accordance with an air flow passing through an auxiliary air fuel mixture supplying pipe by providing an auxiliary air fuel mixture supplying pipe parallelly to a main air fuel mixture supplying pipe connected to a combustion chamber of a cylinder, interposing the fuel reforming means having a combustion chamber in the supplying pipe for said auxiliary air fuel mixture, injecting the fuel into said reforming means and then reforming said fuel together with the mixture through igniting and burning.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine which includes a main combustion chamber defined by a cylinder, a reciprocating piston in the cylinder and a cylinder head mounted on the cylinder, and a trap chamber having a suction and a discharge aperture is disclosed. The trap chamber is supplied with an air-fuel mixture. The volume of the trap chamber is selected so as to range between 0.03 and 0.13 times the total volume of the main combustion and trap chambers which is defined when the piston is at its top dead center. The size of the suction aperture is selected to be within the range between 0.03 and 0.15 square centimeters per each cubic centimeter of the volume of the trap chamber, and the size of the discharge aperture is selected so as to be within the range between 0.024 and 0.12 square centimeters per each cubic centimeter of the volume of the trap chamber. The ratio of the size of the suction aperture to that of the discharge aperture is preferably selected so as to be within the range between 0.8 and 2.2.

Abstract: A diesel engine characterized in that a part of fuel is reformed into a mixture containing decomposition and oxidation products in a system separate from that of a fuel injection in which a fuel is injected into a compressed air introduced into the cylinders under a high pressure and ignited, and said mixture is introduced into said cylinders during the suction stroke of the engine, and the method for improving the combustion efficiency thereof.

Abstract: A stratified internal combustion engine has a trap chamber for a rich mixture having suction and discharge apertures communicating the trap chamber with the main combustion chamber. A separating wall is provided between the suction and discharge apertures and also a fuel injection nozzle is arranged, as a means to trap the rich mixture in said trap chamber, for supplying fuel to said suction aperture by discharging the fuel at a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure when an intake valve is opened, for thereby facilitating the introduction of the rich mixture into the trap chamber and scavenging the residual gases in the trap chamber and improving the trapping effect of the trap chamber with a resultant improvement in stratified combustion in the engine.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification apparatus for a vehicle in which exhaust gases from an internal combustion engines are subject to a catalytic reaction in a reducing catalyst bed and an oxidizing catalyst bed to remove nitrogen oxides and combustible constituents in the engine exhaust gases. In the device, the reducing catalyst bed and oxidizing catalyst bed are disposed in series in the flowing direction of exhaust gases within a cylindrical casing mounted integrally to a joining portion of exhaust manifold, and secondary air supplying means is provided when the exhaust gas temperature at a point downstream of the catalyst beds is lower than a predetermined setting.

Abstract: A fuel supply installation is disclosed, which is constructed so that a novel means having an electric-spark ignition plug is provided underneath the intake manifold for generating a fuel vapor containing partially oxidized fuel components, and a connecting means between the fuel vapor generating means and the carburetor is also provided, which allows the produced fuel vapor to be sucked into the carburetor thereby mixing said fuel vapor with the mixture having a very large air-fuel ratio pre-established by the carburetor.

Abstract: A mixture heating unit for internal combustion engines in which the heater body having a wick wetted by fuel is provided in the intake manifold and the mixture of fuel evaporated from said wick and air supplied thereto is heated and ignited by an ignition device, such mixture being further expedited in its combustion by a catalyst layer, with the resultantly produced combustible gas being introduced into the intake manifold.

Abstract: A stratified internal combustion engine has a trap chamber for rich mixture having suction and discharge apertures communicating the trap chamber with the principal combustion chamber. A separating wall is provided between the suction and discharge apertures to divide a portion of the trap chamber into two spaces or pockets, one communicating with the suction aperture and the other communicating with the discharge aperture, for thereby facilitating the introduction of rich mixture into the trap chamber and scavenging the residual gases in the trap chamber and improving the trapping effect of the trap chamber with a resultant improvement in stratified combustion in the engine.

Abstract: An exhaust gas cleaning device purifier for use in an internal combustion engine of a multicylinder type, comprising a housing to be disposed between exhaust ports of a cylinder head and an exhaust pipe in which housing a catalyst container is enclosed, the catalyst container consisting of two cylinders between which catalyst is filled, a control valve being provided on the catalyst container for passing a part of exhaust gas through the catalyst, thereby a part of the exhaust gas is passed or not through the catalyst in accordance with the conditions of the engine.

Abstract: A fuel reforming system for use in an intake system of an internal combustion engine operable with a hydrocarbon fuel has a spark plug or plugs for intermittently producing spark discharges to cause imperfect combustion of a rich air-fuel mixture so that a part of the fuel is reformed into intermediate combustion products and the large portion of the remainder of the fuel is vaporized by the heat produced by the imperfect combustion, whereby the reformed mixture is made optimum for combustion to thereby enable the engine to perform an optimum operation.