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Air assist device of fuel injection type internal combustion engine

US4434766A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 23, 1982
Grant dateMar 6, 1984
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Expiry dateAug 23, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02M69/08
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In an air assist device of a fuel injection type internal combustion engine, having an air assisted injector provided close to a nozzle thereof with an adapter constituting an assist air introducing portion, in which assist air introduced into the assist air introducing portion through assist air intake ports formed in the peripheral wall of the adapter is blown out of an assist air jet formed at the bottom of the adapter together with fuel so as to facilitate the atomization of fuel, the diameter of each opening of the assist air intake ports is made smaller than the diameter of an opening of the assist air jet, the assist air intake ports are provided in a plural number, so that the total opening area of the assist air intake ports can be made larger than the opening area of the assist air jet, and/or the assist air intake ports are penetrated in directions tangential to the inner wall surface of the adapter.

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