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US 11,174,826 B2Granted
Engine
AssigneeIHI Corporation
InventorsYutaka Masuda, Yoshiyuki Umemoto, Jun Teramoto
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Abstract
Provided is an engine, including: a cylinder; a piston accommodated in the cylinder; a combustion chamber facing the piston; a sliding portion (large-diameter portion) configured to perform a stroke motion together with the piston; a hydraulic surface of the sliding portion facing a side opposite to the combustion chamber; a hydraulic chamber, which the hydraulic surface faces; and an auxiliary hydraulic chamber, which communicates with the hydraulic chamber, and has a volume changeable in accordance with a hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic chamber.
Claims8
An engine, comprising:
- a cylinder;
- a piston accommodated in the cylinder;
- a combustion chamber facing the piston;
- a sliding portion configured to perform a stroke motion together with the piston;
- a hydraulic surface of the sliding portion facing a side opposite to the combustion chamber;
- a hydraulic chamber, which the hydraulic surface faces;
- and
- an auxiliary hydraulic chamber, which communicates with the hydraulic chamber, and has a volume changeable in accordance with a hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic chamber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.