F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 02 – B
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
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F02B 25/10 (2006.01) F02B 19/04 (2006.01) F02B 19/06 (2006.01) F02B 75/02 (2006.01) F02B 1/04 (2006.01) F02B 3/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2099446
An internal combustion engine has first and second cylinders (12, 14), the first cylinder (12) having a larger swept volume than the second cylinder (14) and the second cylinder being formed in the crown of the first cylinder. First and second pistons (16, 18) are reciprocable respectively in the first and second cylinders (12, 14), the second piston (18) being formed as a protrusion on the crown of the first piston (16). The first cylinder has an air inlet (25) and an exhaust outlet (27) whilst a first fuel source (34) provides fuel to the second cylinder (14). The second piston has a crown (35) which is spaced from and connected to the crown (36) of the first piston and which has an edge (37) which is relatively thin in the axial direction compared to the spacing of the first piston crown from the second piston crown. This defines a combustion space (20) between the piston crowns and a side wall (14a) of the second cylinder (14) when the pistons are substantially at the inner dead centre position. The combustion space (20) communicates with both cylinders (12,14) during part of the expansion stroke. A spark plug (52) is provided communicating with the combustion space. Inhibiting means is also provided for inhibiting ingression prior to the pistons (16,18) arriving at or adjacent the inner dead centre position. This can take the form of a gap (128) between the second piston crown (35) and the second cylinder side wall (14a) with a peripheral groove (39) in the second cylinder wall at its upper end to enable the fuel/air mixture in the second cylinder (14) above the crown (35) to bypass the piston crown when the latter is at its inner dead centre position and enter the combustion space (20). The geometrical compression ratio of the engine, being the ratio of the volumes within the cylinders available for occupation by gas at the piston outer and inner dead centre positions, is chosen to ensure that the pressure and temperature reached in said combustion space near the end of the compression stroke are insufficient to cause spontaneous compression ignition of the fuel used. The ignition process is started with a spark and allowed to continue by compression ignition. After the spark ignition process begins, the flame raises the pressure and temperature of the gas in the combustion space sufficiently to cause compression-ignition of the remainder of the vaporised fuel as it ingresses into the combustion space under the action of the smaller piston and mixes with more air.
Bereskin & Parr
Coventry University
Merritt Dan
LandOfFree
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