Engine device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10961948-B2
Application number	US-201816498927-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2018
Priority date	Mar 29, 2017
Publication date	Mar 30, 2021
Grant date	Mar 30, 2021

Abstract

An engine device having gas injectors attached to an intake manifold fixed to a side surface of a cylinder head. A fuel gas injected from the gas injectors is premixed in the intake manifold, and the resulting gas is supplied to a plurality of cylinders and ignited by ignition devices. The intake manifold has a configuration in which a plurality of intake branch pipes communicating with the cylinders are branched from an intake collecting pipe at an air supply side. The intake branch pipes include bent portions. In the bent portions of the intake branch pipes, inside inner walls near the cylinder head are bent at an acute angle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An engine device including:
a cylinder head;
an intake manifold fixed to a side surface of the cylinder head; and
a gas injector attached to the intake manifold, the engine device being configured such that a fuel gas injected from the gas injector is premixed in the intake manifold, supplied into a plurality of cylinders, and ignited by an ignition device,
wherein:
the intake manifold has a configuration in which a plurality of intake branch pipes configured to communicate with the cylinder are branched from an intake collecting pipe at an air supply side, each of the intake branch pipes having a bent portion;
the bent portion of each of the intake branch pipes is defined at least in part by an inside inner wall and an outside inner wall, the outside inner wall interposed between the inside inner wall and an atmosphere; and
at least a portion of the inside inner wall defines an acute angle.

2. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the cylinder head is fixed to an upper surface of a cylinder block; and
in the intake manifold, the intake collecting pipe is disposed at a side of the cylinder block, the intake branch pipes extend upward from the intake collecting pipe, and have the bent portion of each of the intake branch pipes at a side of the cylinder head, and a gas injecting port of the gas injector is inserted in the bent portion.

3. The engine device according to claim 2 , wherein
in the intake manifold, a gas injection direction in which a fuel gas is injected from a gas injecting port of the gas injector is a direction toward a location which is on an upper surface of an inside inner wall of the bent portion and is closer to the cylinder head than a bent point.

4. The engine device according to claim 2 , wherein in the intake manifold, a projection projecting toward the inside inner wall is disposed on the outside inner wall of the bent portion at a location closer to the cylinder head than the gas injecting port.

5. The engine device according to claim 2 , wherein:
a gasoline injector is disposed on the cylinder head;
a fuel injection port of the gasoline injector is inserted to an intake port in the cylinder head; and
a portion of the cylinder head in which the fuel injection port is inserted projects inward of the intake port.

6. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein the intake manifold is formed by aluminum die casting.

7. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein in the intake manifold, the plurality of the intake branch pipes are arranged in a front-rear direction of the intake manifold, and an intake air taking portion protruding in a direction opposite to a direction toward the cylinder head is provided at a center of the intake collecting pipe in the front-rear direction.

8. The engine device according to claim 7 , wherein:
the intake manifold includes a pair of front and rear coupling seats near a foremost one and a rearmost one of the intake branch pipes extending from front and rear ends of the intake collecting pipe;
the gas injector includes a plurality of gas injectors; and
a fuel gas supply rail for supplying a fuel gas to each gas injector of the plurality of gas injectors is fixed to the pair of front and rear coupling seats so as to thereby extend in the front-rear direction above the intake manifold.

9. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the inside inner wall includes a first surface and a second surface;
the first surface faces away from the cylinder head; and
the second surface is coupled to the first surface and faces away from the intake collecting pipe.

10. The engine device according to claim 9 , wherein the first surface and the second surface define the acute angle.

11. The engine device according to claim 9 , wherein the first surface and the second surface define a corner, the corner including the acute angle.

12. The engine device according to claim 1 , further comprising a gasoline injector coupled to the cylinder head.

13. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein a fuel injection port of a gasoline injector is configured to be in fluid communication with the cylinder head via an intake port of the cylinder head.

14. The engine device according to claim 13 , further comprising the gasoline injector disposed on the cylinder head.

15. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein the cylinder head is configured to define an intake port configured to receive a gasoline injector.

16. The engine device according to claim 15 , wherein the intake port is configured to receive a fuel injection port of the gasoline injector.

17. The engine device according to claim 15 , further comprising the gasoline injector, the gasoline injector including a fuel injection port.

18. The engine device according to claim 1 , wherein an intake port of the cylinder head faces away from the side surface of the cylinder head, the intake port configured to receive a fuel injection port of a gasoline injector.

19. The engine device according to claim 18 , wherein:
the cylinder head includes a second side; and
the cylinder head is interposed between the second side and the side surface.

20. The engine device according to claim 19 , wherein the intake port of the cylinder head faces towards the second side.

Assignees

• Yanmar Co Ltd
• Yanmar Power Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sugimoto Masato
• Takamatsu Kota

Classifications

• Y02T10/30

  Use of alternative fuels, e.g. biofuels · CPC title

• F02B31/04

  by means within the induction channel, e.g. deflectors · CPC title

• F02F1/24 Primary

  Cylinder heads · CPC title

• F02M35/1045 Primary

  characterised by the charge distribution between the cylinders/combustion chambers or its homogenisation · CPC title

• F02M69/00

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