Engine including direct injector and port injector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10344729-B2
Application number	US-201715595042-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 15, 2017
Priority date	Dec 25, 2014
Publication date	Jul 9, 2019
Grant date	Jul 9, 2019

Abstract

A cylinder block including: a plurality of cylinders; a cylinder head attached on the cylinder block and including, for each of the cylinders, an intake port extending from a combustion chamber upward and obliquely relative to an axis of the cylinder; a direct injector disposed at a position on an outer side of the intake port in a cylinder radial direction and directly injecting fuel into the combustion chamber; a port injector disposed at a position on a same side as the direct injector relative to the intake port, and injecting fuel into the intake port are provided. The intake port includes: a valve seat provided at an intake air inlet opened to the combustion chamber; and an arc portion protruding downward in a center area of the intake port on an upstream side of the valve seat, and an injection direction of the port injector is orientated in a direction in which the fuel injected from the port injector passes through a lower area of the arc portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An engine comprising:
a cylinder block including a plurality of cylinders;
a cylinder head attached on the cylinder block, the cylinder head defining, for each of the cylinders, an intake port extending from a combustion chamber obliquely in an upward direction relative to an axis of the cylinder;
a direct injector disposed at a position on an outer side of the intake port in a cylinder radial direction and directly injecting fuel into the combustion chamber;
a port injector disposed at a position on a same side as the direct injector relative to the intake port, and injecting fuel into the intake port, the port injector having a nozzle and extending into the intake port such that the nozzle is positioned at a lower inner surface side of the intake port, wherein
the intake port includes
a valve seat provided at an intake air inlet opened to the combustion chamber,
an upper inner surface of the intake port is provided with an arc portion protruding downward towards a center of the intake port, and
an injection direction of the port injector is orientated in a direction in which the fuel injected from the port injector passes through a lower area of the arc portion.

2. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein an angle between the injection direction of the port injector and a lower surface of the cylinder head is larger than an angle between a straight line, which passes through an injection position of the port injector, from which the fuel is injected, and contacts a lower most surface of the arc portion, and the lower surface of the cylinder head.

3. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein the intake port is bifurcated on a downstream side of the port injector.

4. The engine according to claim 2 , wherein the intake port is bifurcated on a downstream side of the port injector.

5. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein center axes of the direct injector and the port injector are disposed on a same plane passing through the axis of the cylinders.

6. The engine according to claim 2 , wherein center axes of the direct injector and the port injector are disposed on a same plane passing through the axis of the cylinders.

7. The engine according to claim 3 , wherein center axes of the direct injector and the port injector are disposed on a same plane passing through the axis of the cylinders.

8. The engine according to claim 5 , wherein the center axes of the direct injector and the port injector are in parallel with each other or cross each other on a front side in a fuel injection direction.

9. The engine according to claim 6 , wherein the center axes of the direct injector and the port injector are in parallel with each other or cross each other on a front side in a fuel injection direction.

10. The engine according to claim 7 , wherein the center axes of the direct injector and the port injector are in parallel with each other or cross each other on a front side in a fuel injection direction.

11. The engine according to claim 5 , wherein an angle between the center axis of the port injector and the lower surface of the cylinder head is equal to or larger than an angle between the center axis of the direct injector and the lower surface of the cylinder head.

12. The engine according to claim 5 , wherein the plane passing through the axis of the cylinder is orthogonal to an arrangement direction of the cylinders.

13. The engine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an intake manifold connected to the cylinder head and having an intake air passage, which is formed to be branched and communicates with the intake port, wherein
the port injector is fixed to the intake manifold.

14. The engine according to claim 13 , wherein
the intake port is opened to a flat surface extending in a horizontal direction on an upper surface of the cylinder head,
the intake manifold includes a joining surface which is joined to the flat surface of the cylinder head and through which the intake air passage passes, and
the port injector has a nozzle portion protruding toward the intake port beyond the joining surface.

15. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein the port injector has an injection axis oriented to a center of a valve head of an intake valve closing the intake port.

16. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the cylinder block has a V shape formed by the plurality of cylinder alternately arranged on left and right sides, and
the direct injector and the port injector are disposed on an inner side of a bank of the cylinder block.

17. The engine according to claim 16 , wherein the port injector is disposed at a position where the intake port is most protruded toward the inner side of the bank of the cylinder block.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Motors Corp
• Mitsubishi Motor Eng
• Mitsubishi kogyo kk

Inventors

• Nishidono Takehiro
• Takai Junji
• Yokoyama Toshio

Classifications

• F02D41/3094

  the fuel injection being effected by at least two different injectors, e.g. one in the intake manifold and one in the cylinder · CPC title

• F02B75/22

  with cylinders in V, fan, or star arrangement · CPC title

• F02M69/00

  Low-pressure fuel-injection apparatus {; Apparatus with both continuous and intermittent injection; Apparatus injecting different types of fuel} · CPC title

• F02M35/116

  for engines with cylinders in V-arrangement or arranged oppositely relative to the main shaft · CPC title

• F02M69/046

  for injecting into both the combustion chamber and the intake conduit · CPC title