Engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11225930-B2
Application number	US-202016899126-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2020
Priority date	Sep 27, 2019
Publication date	Jan 18, 2022
Grant date	Jan 18, 2022

Abstract

An engine includes a cylinder head, an intake manifold, and a partition wall. The cylinder head includes an intake port communicating with a combustion chamber. The intake manifold is fixed to the cylinder head and includes an intake passage communicating with the intake port. The partition wall that separates at least part of the intake port into a first channel and a second channel. The partition wall includes a partition wall member extending from the intake port to the intake passage and fixed to an inner wall of the intake port and an inner wall of the intake passage.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An engine, comprising:
a cylinder head comprising an intake port communicating with a combustion chamber;
an intake manifold fixed to the cylinder head and comprising an intake passage communicating with the intake port;
a partition wall separating at least a part of the intake port into a first channel and a second channel, the partition wall comprising a partition wall member extending in an extending direction from the intake port to the intake passage and fixed to an inner wall of the intake port and an inner wall of the intake passage;
a first opposing pair of grooves formed on an inner surface of the intake port and extending along the extending direction; and
a second opposing pair of grooves formed on an inner surface of the intake passage and extending along the extending direction,
wherein, in an orthogonal direction to the extending direction, a width of the partition wall member is equal to or more than a width of the intake passage, and
wherein the partition wall member fits into the first opposing pair of grooves and the second opposing pair of grooves at both ends in the orthogonal direction.

2. The engine according to claim 1 , wherein the partition wall member comprises:
a first pair of support members support member disposed on the both ends of the partition wall member in the orthogonal direction; and
a second pair of support members disposed on the both ends of the partition wall member in the orthogonal direction,
wherein the first pair of support members fits into the first opposing pair of grooves and the second pair of support members fits into the second opposing air of grooves.

3. The engine according to claim 2 , wherein the first and second pair of support members comprise an elastic body.

4. The engine according to claim 1 , further comprising an intake control valve configured to control a flow rate of an intake gas to pass through each of the first channel and the second channel.

5. The engine according to claim 4 , wherein the intake control valve is configured to change a vortex flow generated in the combustion chamber.

6. An engine, comprising:
a cylinder head comprising an intake port;
an intake manifold attached to the cylinder head and comprising an intake passage communicating with the intake port; and
a partition wall separating at least a part of the intake port into a first channel and a second channel, the partition wall comprising a partition wall member extending in an extending direction from the intake port to the intake passage;
a first opposing pair of grooves formed on an inner surface of the intake port and extending along the extending direction; and
a second opposing pair of grooves formed on an inner surface of the intake passage and extending along the extending direction,
wherein, in a width direction orthogonal to the extending direction, an end portion of the partition wall member fits into the first opposing pair of grooves and the second opposing pair of grooves.

7. The engine according to claim 6 , wherein the partition wall member comprises:
a pair of support members support member disposed on the both ends in the width direction of the partition wall member; and
a second pair of support members disposed on the both ends in the width direction of the partition wall member,
wherein the first pair of support members fits into the first opposing pair of grooves and the second pair of support members fits into the second opposing pair grooves.

8. An engine, comprising:
a cylinder head comprising an intake port, the intake port extending in a first direction;
an intake manifold attached to the cylinder head and comprising an intake passage communicating with the intake port, the intake passage extending in a second direction;
a first opposing pair of grooves formed on an inner surface of the intake port and extending along the extending direction;
a second opposing pair of grooves formed on an inner surface of the intake passage and extending along the extending direction; and
a partition wall member including a first plate portion located in the intake passage and a second plate portion located in the intake port, the first plate portion extending along the first direction, the second plate portion being integrally formed with the first plate portion and extending along the second direction,
wherein the first plate portion fits into the first opposing pair of grooves and the second plate portion fits into the second opposing pair of grooves.

9. The engine according to claim 8 , wherein the partition wall member defines a position of the intake passage with respect to the intake port by:
the first plate portion being fitted into the first groove portion and the second groove portion; and
the second plate portion being fitted into a third groove portion and a fourth groove portion.

10. The engine according to claim 9 , wherein the first plate portion separates at least a part of the intake port into a first channel and a second channel, and the second plate portion separates at least a part of the intake passage into a third channel and a fourth channel, and
wherein the first channel is continuous to the third channel and the second channel is continuous to the fourth channel.

11. The engine according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a first pair of elastic bodies disposed on both ends of the first plate portion in a width direction orthogonal to the first direction; and
a second pair of elastic bodies disposed on both ends of the second plate portion in a width direction orthogonal to the second direction,
wherein the first plate portion fits into the first opposing pair of grooves at the first pair of elastic bodies and the second plate portion fits into the second opposing pair of grooves at the second pair of elastic bodies.

Assignees

• Subaru Corp

Inventors

• Naito Tetsu
• Sakamoto Shigeru

Classifications

• F02M35/10255 Primary

  Arrangements of valves; Multi-way valves (F02M35/10032 takes precedence; valves in the plenum chamber F02M35/10065; check valves F02M35/10275) · CPC title

• F02F1/4242

  with a partition wall inside the channel · CPC title

• F02B31/08

  having multiple air inlets · CPC title

• F02M35/108

  with primary and secondary intake passages · CPC title

• F02M35/1047

  characterised by some cylinders being fed from one side of engine block and the other cylinders being fed from the other side of engine block · CPC title