Exhaust device of engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018258826-A1
Application number	US-201815905410-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 26, 2018
Priority date	Mar 10, 2017
Publication date	Sep 13, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

An arc-shaped recess part is provided at a collective pipe of an exhaust manifold, whereby a flow of exhaust gas from one end side of cylinders is uniformized and then introduced into an exhaust-gas purifying device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An exhaust device of an engine, comprising:
an exhaust manifold connected to plural exhaust ports of an in-line multi-cylinder engine comprising an engine body provided with plural cylinders; an exhaust-gas purifying device connected to a downstream side, in an exhaust-gas flowing direction, of the exhaust manifold, wherein said exhaust manifold comprises plural independent exhaust pipes which are connected to the plural exhaust ports of the engine body, a collective pipe which is provided on one end side, in a cylinder row direction, of the engine body and extends downward from a tip portion of one of the plural independent exhaust pipes which is positioned on said one end side in the cylinder row direction, a guide pipe which extends in the cylinder row direction so as to introduce exhaust gas flowing down through the rest of the plural independent exhaust pipes toward said one of the plural independent exhaust pipes and guide the exhaust gas to said collective pipe, an L-shaped bent part which is provided at a lower portion of said collective pipe and configured to be bent in an L shape in a lateral direction such that the exhaust gas is directed toward an upstream-side end face of said exhaust-gas purifying device, and an arc-shaped recess part which is provided on a lower-face side of said L-shaped bent part of the collective pipe and configured to have a larger radius than an outlet of the L-shaped bent part which opens toward the exhaust-gas purifying device so as to promote a swirl of the exhaust gas such that the exhaust gas flowing down through the collective pipe along a wall face which is configured to be continuous downward from a tip side of said one of the plural independent exhaust pipes of the collective pipe flows into the exhaust-gas purifying device, swirling around an axial center of said exhaust-gas purifying device.

2 . The exhaust device of the engine of claim 1 , wherein a protrusion part which protrudes outward is provided at a wall face of said collective pipe which is positioned on said one end side in the cylinder row direction so as to change a flow of the exhaust gas fling into the collective pipe from said guide pipe toward a central portion of the upstream-side end face of said exhaust-gas purifying device.

3 . The exhaust device of the engine of claim 1 , wherein said guide pipe has a curved part which is configured to be curved in a protrusion direction of said one of the plural independent exhaust pipes protruding from the engine body and be continuous to the tip portion of said one of the plural independent exhaust pipes on said one end side in the cylinder row direction.

4 . The exhaust device of the engine of claim 2 , wherein an oxygen concertation detector is provided at a portion of said collective portion which is positioned below said protrusion part.

5 . The exhaust device of the engine of claim 1 , further comprising a downstream-side exhaust-gas purifying device which is provided on the downstream side, in the exhaust-gas flowing direction, of said exhaust-gas purifying device, wherein the exhaust-gas purifying device and said downstream-side exhaust-gas purifying device are provided such that respective central axes thereof are substantially perpendicular to each other and a downstream portion of the exhaust-gas purifying device is configured to overlap a portion of an upstream-side end face of the downstream-side exhaust-gas purifying device, when viewed in an axial direction of the downstream-side exhaust-gas purifying device.

6 . The exhaust device of the engine of claim 2 , wherein said guide pipe has a curved part which is configured to be curved in a protrusion direction of said one of the plural independent exhaust pipes protruding from the engine body and be continuous to the tip portion of said one of the plural independent exhaust pipes on said one end side in the cylinder row direction.

7 . The exhaust device of the engine of claim 6 , wherein an oxygen concertation detector is provided at a portion of said collective portion which is positioned below said protrusion part.

8 . The exhaust device of the engine of claim 7 , further comprising a downstream-side exhaust-gas purifying device which is provided on the downstream side, in the exhaust-gas flowing direction, of said exhaust-gas purifying device, wherein the exhaust-gas purifying device and said downstream-side exhaust-gas purifying device are provided such that respective central axes thereof are substantially perpendicular to each other and a downstream portion of the exhaust-gas purifying device is configured to overlap a portion of an upstream-side end face of the downstream-side exhaust-gas purifying device, when viewed in an axial direction of the downstream-side exhaust-gas purifying device.

Assignees

• Mazda Motor

Inventors

• Kuramashi Taku
• Kitabatake Keishi
• Takamure Tamotsu
• Kamo Toshiaki

Classifications

• F01N13/10 Primary

  of exhaust manifolds {(with cooling jacket F01N3/046)} · CPC title

• F01N3/10

  by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust · CPC title

• F01N2560/025

  for measuring or detecting O2, e.g. lambda sensors · CPC title

• F01N2470/18

  the axis of inlet or outlet tubes being other than the longitudinal axis of apparatus · CPC title

• F01N2490/00

  Structure, disposition or shape of gas-chambers · CPC title