Two-cycle engine and engine work machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10260453-B2
Application number	US-201515504019-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2015
Priority date	Aug 29, 2014
Publication date	Apr 16, 2019
Grant date	Apr 16, 2019

Abstract

The disclosure provides a two-cycle engine and an engine work machine. When a piston is located on the side of a bottom dead center, at a part corresponding to a notch part in the piston, an inner surface of the crank case protrudes toward an interior side to form a crank case first protruding part penetrating through the notch part toward the interior side. Meanwhile, the crank case at a part corresponding to a part without the notch part in the piston is not in a shape protruding toward the interior side. By assembling the piston and the crank case in such shapes, the piston is able to reciprocally move up and down without interfering with the crank case. In this case, by disposing the crank case first protruding part, the volume in the crank case is able to be reduced.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A two-cycle engine, comprising a structure where, through descending of a piston, a mixed gas guided into a crank case is guided into a combustion chamber formed on an upper side of the piston through a scavenging passage, wherein the crank case is disposed to a lower side of the piston performing a reciprocal up-down movement in a cylinder, wherein in the two-cycle engine,
a notch part is formed locally from a lower end side on a sidewall part of the piston sliding along an inner surface of the cylinder, the notch part is connected to the scavenging passage when the piston is located at a bottom dead center, a crank case protruding part is disposed in the crank case, and the crank case protruding part is located on a lower side of the scavenging passage and penetrates through the notch part and protrudes toward a central axis side of the cylinder when the piston is located at the bottom dead center,
wherein an uppermost part of the notch part is disposed closer to the upper side than a lower portion of a piston pin boss where a piston pin is installed in the piston, and the piston pin boss is an entire circular area supporting the piston pin.

2. The two-cycle engine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the notch part is disposed that a center of the piston pin boss is interposed in a circumferential direction of the piston, and two sides of the notch part where the center of the piston pin boss is disposed therebetween are respectively connected with other adjacent scavenging passages.

3. The two-cycle engine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
an area of an inlet of the scavenging passage formed by the crank case protruding part and the notch part is 1.2 times to 4 times of an area of an opening of the scavenging passage in the combustion chamber when the piston is located at the bottom dead center.

4. The two-cycle engine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
an extent to which the crank case protruding part protrudes from an outer circumference of the piston toward a central axis side of the piston is within a range of 10% to 35% of an outer diameter of the piston.

5. The two-cycle engine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
a counter weight is fixed to a crank shaft, the crank shaft is disposed in the crank case and rotationally driven by the reciprocal up-down movement of the piston, and the crank case protruding part is formed by protruding toward an upper side of the counter weight when the piston is located at the bottom dead center.

6. The two-cycle engine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
an opening part not connected to the notch part is formed in the sidewall part, and when the piston is located at the bottom dead center, the opening part is connected with the scavenging passage.

7. The two-cycle engine as claimed in claim 6 , wherein:
the opening part is foimed closer to the upper side than an uppermost part of the notch part.

8. An engine work machine, wherein:
the two-cycle engine as claimed in claim 1 is used as a power source.

9. The engine work machine as claimed in claim 8 , wherein:
the engine work machine is a mower.

10. A two-cycle engine, comprising a structure where, through descending of a piston, a mixed gas guided into a crank case is guided into a combustion chamber formed on an upper side of the piston through a scavenging passage, wherein the crank case is disposed to a lower side of the piston performing a reciprocal up-down movement in a cylinder, wherein in the two-cycle engine,
a notch part is formed locally from a lower end side on a sidewall part of the piston sliding along an inner surface of the cylinder, the notch part is connected to the scavenging passage when the piston is located at a bottom dead center, a crank case protruding part is disposed in the crank case, and the crank case protruding part is located on a lower side of the scavenging passage and penetrates through the notch part in a manner that a position in the axis direction of the cylinder is overlapped with the notch part and protrudes toward a central axis side of the cylinder when the piston is located at the bottom dead center,
a connection part of the crank case protruding part connecting a surface of the crank case protruding part on a central side of the cylinder and an upper surface of the crank case protruding part is formed to be gentle curved surface.

Assignees

• Hitachi Koki Kk
• Koki Holdings Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yoshizaki Yosuke
• Ichihashi Naoto

Classifications

• F16J1/09

  with means for guiding fluids (F16J1/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• A01D34/412

  having rotating cutters · CPC title

• F02B25/16

  the charge flowing upward essentially along cylinder wall opposite the inlet ports {(F02B25/145 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• A01D34/68

  with motor driven cutters or wheels · CPC title

• F02B25/14

  using reverse-flow scavenging, e.g. with both outlet and inlet ports arranged near bottom of piston stroke · CPC title