Patent · US Expired

Exhaust system of an internal combustion engine

US5134850A · kind A · utility

12Cited by
3References
5Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateJan 28, 1991
Grant dateAug 4, 1992
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 28, 2011

Classification

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

Abstract

An internal combustion engine having a valve overlapping period control device for controlling a valve overlapping period during which both the intake valve and the exhaust valve are open, and an equivalent length adjustment device for controlling an equivalent length of an exhaust passage necessary to cause an exhaust gas pulsation to return to an exhaust port in the form of a vacuum during the valve overlapping period, to thereby reduce the equivalent length as an engine speed increases when the valve overlapping period is longer than a predetermined period, and for stopping a control of the equivalent length when the valve overlapping period is shorter than the predetermined period.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.