With Supercharging Means For Engine Patents (Class 60/598)
  • Patent number: 4766729
    Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting power obtained by converting the exhaust energy of an engine. An exhaust port is connected to an output turbine via a turbine intake port. The turbine drives an output shaft via a fluid compressor, which in turn is connected via an outlet port to an intake port of a rotary piston type expansion engine having an eccentrically rotating triangle shaped rotor with a double jointed trochoidal shaped rotor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: Asahi Malleable Iron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidenobu Miyajima
  • Patent number: 4722309
    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 blower 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Assignee: Laerte Guidoboni
    Inventors: Enzo Guidoboni, Paolo Guidoboni, Sergio Guidoboni
  • Patent number: 4700542
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine apparatus and method of operation includes the monitoring of the exhaust gas temperature and air-fuel ratio on a continuing basis. The exhaust gas temperature is compared to a stored value and compression of the input air is varied to cause the exhaust gas temperature to equal the stored value. By minimizing the exhaust gas temperature increased engine efficiency can be realized. The invention may be embodied in a variety of engine configurations, including piston and turbine systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1987
    Inventor: Lin-Shu Wang
  • Patent number: 4630444
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine is connected to a supercharger operated by exhaust energy for the compression and transport of an air charge. The supercharger has at least one exhaust chamber and one air chamber which are separated from each other by a partition. The exhaust chamber is equipped with an exhaust inlet and an exhaust outlet, and the air charge chamber with an air charge inlet and an air charge outlet. In the gas circuit connected to the exhaust inlet is a system for the timed introduction of exhaust into the exhaust chamber. The supercharger is also powered by a linkage responsive to rotation of the engine crankshaft. The linkage permits changing the phase relationship between the partition and the engine crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Inventor: Oskar Schatz
  • Patent number: 4482024
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a V-type multi-cylinder internal combustion engine mounted on the middle portion of a vehicle body having front and rear wheels. The internal combustion engine has a supercharger comprising an exhaust turbine provided in an exhaust passage of the engine and a compressor provided in an intake passage of the engine and arranged to be driven by the turbine. In the present invention, an expansion chamber is interposed in the intake passage so as to be positioned between an outlet opening of the compressor and respective intake pipes extending from respective intake ports of the cylinders of the engine. The expansion chamber is placed in a space defined by a V bank of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1984
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Matsuda, Takashi Shinozaki, Kentaro Kato
  • Patent number: 4480712
    Abstract: A two wheel vehicle comprising a vehicle body having a front wheel and a rear wheel with an internal combustion engine mounted on the mid portion of the frame is provided. The engine is provided with a supercharger having an exhaust turbine provided on an exhaust passage side thereof and a compressor provided on an intake passage side thereof and arranged to move with the turbine. The supercharger is positioned in a space defined by the engine and a supporting frame which supports the engine and is interposed between the engine and the front wheel. The defined space is remote from the driver so that the driver is not affected by the supercharger. The supercharger may be mounted on the supporting frame so that it is protected against external frontal or lateral forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1984
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Inoue, Minoru Matsuda, Takashi Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 4475340
    Abstract: A power system is provided which consists of an internal combustion engine, a compressor to compress the air used in operating the engine, a pair of heat exchangers wherein the fuel for operating the engine is preheated by exhaust gases wherein the fuel is contacted indirectly, first in a low temperature zone with exhaust gas from a high temperature zone then contacted indirectly with the exhaust gases in the high temperature zone, wherein the exhaust gases are preferably boosted in velocity between the high temperature zone and the low temperature by a screw type booster fan and wherein the exhaust gases recovered from the low temperature zone are then preferably passed through one or more turbines to further recover energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1984
    Inventor: Ching-Ho Tseng
  • Patent number: 4446940
    Abstract: A speed control system of a motor vehicle for constantly maintaining a selected speed having an internal combustion engine which includes a turbocharger having a compressor wheel and electronically controlled fuel injectors which includes a vacuum actuator provided with a vacuum chamber having a first inlet port for inducting vacuum pressure, a second inlet port for inducting atmospheric air and further including a throttle valve and diaphragm which controls the throttle valve in accordance with vacuum pressure in the vacuum chamber, a member for generating a signal in accordance with the difference between the selected speed of the motor vehicle and actual speed of the motor vehicle, a modulating valve for controlling the first inlet port and the second inlet port by the signal delivered from the signal member to thereby modulate the vacuum pressure within the vacuum chamber, an intake manifold, a first passage communicated with the first inlet port and the intake manifold, a second passage communicated with
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoji Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 4427087
    Abstract: A motorcycle provided with an engine having a supercharger wherein the engine integrally formed with an engine body and a transmission case is mounted on a body frame, said transmission case having an upper case and a lower case integrally connected with each other, which are separable into upper and lower portions, and a supercharger for compressing suction air of said engine is mounted on the rear surface of said transmission case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Inoue, Tsuneo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 4367662
    Abstract: A vacuum pressure regulator for an automatic transmission for use with an internal combustion engine having an air compressor on the intake side of the engine intake manifold whereby the signal made available by the regulator for the automatic transmission regulator is varied to provide transmission torque capacity proportional to engine torque throughout all engine operating modes regardless of whether the compressor is operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventor: Thomas L. Greene
  • Patent number: 4341070
    Abstract: A method of performing work and an apparatus for performing the method utilizing the following thermodynamic cycle. Ambient air is isothermally compressed to a predetermined degree (A-B) and then heat is added to the air at constant pressure (B-C). This is followed by isentropic compression (C-D) which in turn is followed by heat addition at constant volume (D-E). Thereafter follows isentropic expansion (E-F-H-G) then finally heat recovery (G-A). The recovered heat (G-A) is preferably utilized for the initial heat addition (B-C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Assignee: Caterpillar Tractor Co.
    Inventor: John M. Clarke
  • Patent number: 4089173
    Abstract: A diesel engine is supercharged by a compressor driven by a turbine which receives the exhaust gas of the engine. A bypass pipe permits the air delivered by the compressor and not taken by the engine to flow to the turbine. Means for impressing to the air flow in the by-pass a pressure drop which is substantially independent of the rate of flow and increases when the output pressure of the compressor increases comprises an air balanced throttle member in the by-pass and separate control means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Etat Francais
    Inventors: Jean Melchior, Thierry Andre
  • Patent number: 4064696
    Abstract: Live-gas conduit system for turbocharged, six-cylinder, serially connected internal-combustion engines, linked between the suction inlets of the cylinders and the turbocharger, comprising two separate resonance tanks, each attached to the suction inlets of three adjoining engine cylinders, a resonance tube for each resonance tank, and a damping tank that links the inlet openings of the resonance tubes with the pressure side of the turbocharger. Special proportions and placements are suggested to attain a space-saving arrangement that reduces the space requirement, and particularly the length, of the conduit system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: Autoipari Kutato Intezet
    Inventor: Gyula Cser
  • Patent number: 4023365
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine having a turbine-compressor combination connected with the outlet duct for pressure filling by the thrust system; the invention has for its object to improve the shape of the high and steep peak of the exhaust pulse occurring particularly in engines having a high mean effective pressure so that the abrupt gas pulse is smoothed down so that the turbine is capable of operating with higher efficiency, and provides a combustion engine with pressure filling by the thrust system, the exhaust duct of which includes at least one restriction narrowing the passage area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1977
    Assignee: Stork-Werkspoor Diesel B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes A. J. van Ginhoven
  • Patent number: 3978671
    Abstract: A dual air-oil separator which separates two air-oil mixtures of differing proportions in a single unit having first and second chambers for the separate mixtures. The two chambers are separated by a perforated partition wall. The air-oil mixture, high in air is separated as it passes from the first chamber through the perforated wall and into the second chamber. The second chamber directly receives the air-oil mixture, low in air, for separation and combination in its sump with the oil from the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Assignee: The Cessna Aircraft Company
    Inventor: Cesar Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 3961484
    Abstract: Greater overall power is obtained from an internal combustion engine utilizing a power recovery turbine operated by the exhaust gases from the engine cylinders by dimensioning the stacks connecting the exhaust valve flow areas to the turbine such that each stack has a cross sectional flow area less than the cross sectional flow area of the exhaust valve when fully opened. While there results a slight increase in frictional losses in the stack and pumping losses to the piston, such losses are more than made up by the substantial decreases in throttling losses across the exhaust valve flow area during the valve opening process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1976
    Inventor: James L. Harp, Jr.