Engine and engine-driven working machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10280827-B2
Application number	US-201615547518-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2016
Priority date	Mar 25, 2015
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

An engine is configured so that a muffler is affixed to the exhaust opening of the cylinder, and the air-cooled cylinder is cooled by a cooling fan. The engine is provided with a muffler cover for covering the muffler, and exhaust gas is discharged inside the muffler cover along the wall surface of the muffler. A second cooling air is combined with the exhaust gas flow from the upstream side thereof to be parallel thereto, and a first cooling air having been caused to flow under the muffler is caused to perpendicularly impinge against the exhaust gas flow on the downstream side thereof. Thus, the cooling airs are combined inside the muffler cover with the exhaust gas flow, and as a result the temperature of the exhaust gas is sufficiently reduced at the time when the exhaust gas is discharged from the opening of the muffler cover to the outside.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An engine comprising: a cylinder having a plurality of fins on an outer circumferential section thereof and in which a combustion chamber is formed; a cooling fan configured to generate cooling air to cool the cylinder; and a substantially rectangular parallelepiped muffler attached to the cylinder, wherein an exhaust gas outlet is installed in the muffler to discharge an exhaust gas along a first wall surface of the muffler in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the cylinder, a second wall surface is disposed at a downstream side in a discharge direction of the exhaust gas when seen from the first wall surface and extends in a direction crossing the first wall surface, a muffler cover configured to cover the muffler is provided, and first cooling air passing through and between the fins flows along the second wall surface and merges with the exhaust gas at the inside of an outer exterior edge position of the muffler cover.

2. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein an exhaust gas passage including the exhaust gas outlet and configured to determine a discharge direction of the exhaust gas is formed in the muffler, and the exhaust gas passage is disposed to be biased at an upstream side in an exhaust gas outflow direction on the first wall surface of the muffler.

3. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein the muffler cover covering the muffler forms a muffler chamber, an opening configured to discharge the exhaust gas into external air is formed in the muffler cover, and a crossing region of the first cooling air and the exhaust gas is formed to be disposed inside of the outer exterior edge position of the muffler cover.

4. The engine according to claim 3 , wherein ribs configured to guide the exhaust gas are formed in a portion of an edge of the opening of the muffler cover to extend in a direction parallel to a discharge direction of the exhaust gas.

5. The engine according to claim 3 , wherein second cooling air flowing through and between the fins flows along the first wall surface after flowing along a third wall surface disposed on an upstream side in the discharge direction of the exhaust gas from the first wall surface and non-adjacent to the second wall surface, and merges with the exhaust gas substantially in parallel from an upstream side in an outflow direction of the exhaust gas.

6. The engine according to claim 5 , wherein a crankshaft configured to extract an output of the engine is provided, the cooling fan is installed at one end of the crankshaft, the muffler is disposed on an opposite side of an axis of the cylinder when seen from the cooling fan, and the first cooling air and the second cooling air are exhausted after cooling the cylinder.

7. The engine according to claim 6 , wherein a shielding section configured to convert a flow of the second cooling air from along the third wall surface to a flow along the first wall surface is formed on the muffler cover.

8. An engine-driven working machine configured to drive a working machine using the engine according to claim 1 .

9. An engine comprising: a cylinder having a plurality of fins on an outer circumferential section thereof and in which a combustion chamber is formed; a cooling fan configured to generate cooling air to cool the cylinder; and a substantially rectangular parallelepiped muffler attached to the cylinder, wherein the muffler is biasedly disposed such that a central position in the muffler is offset in a tangential direction with respect to a central position in an outer side of the fin when seen in an axial direction of the cylinder, first cooling air exhausted after cooling the cylinder flows into a space opened by the biased disposition, and an exhaust gas outlet is configured to discharge an exhaust gas in a direction in which the exhaust gas collides with the first cooling air along a first wall surface of the muffler disposed at an opposite side when seen from the cylinder,
wherein a second wall surface extends in a direction crossing the first wall surface, a muffler cover configured to cover the muffler is provided, and the first cooling air flows along the second wall surface and merges with the exhaust gas at the inside of an outer exterior edge position of the muffler cover.

Assignees

• Hitachi Koki Kk
• Koki Holdings Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ichihashi Naoto
• Ikeda Keisuke
• Ootsuka Kazuhiro

Classifications

• F01N1/14

  by adding air to exhaust gases {(in tailpipes F01N13/082, F01N13/20)} · CPC title

• F01P1/06

  Arrangements for cooling other engine or machine parts · CPC title

• F01P2001/023

  Cooling cylinders (F01P2003/022 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F01P5/02

  Pumping cooling-air; Arrangements of cooling-air pumps, e.g. fans or blowers · CPC title

• F01N2260/022

  using air · CPC title