Uniflow scavenging two-cycle engine

A uniflow scavenging two-cycle engine that includes an exhaust port formed on a first end of a cylinder in which a piston is reciprocating and a scavenging port formed on a second end of the cylinder, and that switches between at least two operation modes of a low compression ratio mode and a high compression ratio mode in which top dead center and bottom dead center of the piston are positioned to be closer to the exhaust port than in the low compression ratio mode,

• wherein the scavenging port has:
• a swirling guide portion that includes an opening in a direction inclined with respect to a radial direction of the cylinder, and that extends in the direction inclined with respect to the radial direction of the cylinder, and which guides scavenging gas from an outside to an inside of the cylinder in the direction inclined with respect to the radial direction of the cylinder, and
• a center guide portion that is located closer to the second end of the cylinder than the swirling guide portion, that includes an opening toward a center of the cylinder, and that extends in the radial direction of the cylinder, and which guides the scavenging gas further toward the center of the cylinder than the swirling guide portion, and
• wherein at least a part of the center guide portion faces the piston in a case where the piston is positioned at bottom dead center during the high compression ratio mode, and the center guide portion and the piston do not face each other or an area of facing the piston is smaller than that during the high compression ratio mode in a case where the piston is positioned at bottom dead center during the low compression ratio mode.