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Internal combustion engine with combustion chambers which create a squish and swirl of an air-fuel mixture

US4162661A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 22, 1977
Grant dateJul 31, 1979
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Expiry dateAug 22, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02T10/12
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An internal combustion engine with combustion chambers which create a squish and swirl of an air-fuel mixture is disclosed. In the disclosed engine an inner wall of a cylinder head and a top end of a piston are provided with at least two projected regions defining gaps for creating the squish and swirl of the air-fuel mixture toward the end of the compression stroke of the piston.

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