Internal combustion engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10066546-B2
Application number	US-201615358803-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2016
Priority date	Nov 26, 2015
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

A heat shield film is formed on a bottom surface of a cylinder head and a heat shield film is formed on an inner peripheral surface of a small diameter hole portion. The film is a thermal spraying film made from the same film material. Since the film is thicker than the film, the film has higher thermal capacity than the film and thus heat retaining effect of the film is higher than that of the film. Therefore, combustion gas generated in a combustion chamber is suppressed to lose its momentum around the portion. Even if the combustion gas goes off around the portion, excessive temperature decrease of the combustion gas in the portion is suppressed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder head with an installation hole to which a sensor configured to detect pressure in a combustion chamber or an injector configured to inject fuel in the combustion chamber is mounted,
wherein the engine further comprises a heat shield film which has lower thermal conductivity than a base material of the cylinder head, the heat shield is formed on both a bottom of the cylinder head constituting a wall surface of the combustion chamber and an inner peripheral surface of the installation hole, the heat shield film on the bottom surface and the heat shield film on the inner peripheral surface are made from the same film material,
wherein the heat shield film on the inner peripheral surface is thicker than that of the heat shield on the bottom surface.

2. The internal combustion engine according to claim 1 ,
wherein the inner peripheral surface comprises a seal surface configured to contact with a part of the sensor or the injector so as to seal between the inner peripheral surface and the combustion chamber,
wherein the heat shield film on the inner peripheral surface is formed on an area nearer to the combustion chamber than the seal surface whereas the base material is exposed in an area further to the combustion chamber than the seal surface.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamashita Hideo
• Kawaguchi Akio
• Iguma Hiroki

Classifications

• F02B77/085 Primary

  with sensors measuring combustion processes, e.g. knocking, pressure, ionization, combustion flame · CPC title

• F05C2251/048

  Heat transfer · CPC title

• F02F11/002

  involving cylinder heads · CPC title

• F02F3/10

  having surface coverings (F02F3/02 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F02B77/11 Primary

  Thermal or acoustic insulation · CPC title