Engine
AssigneeYanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorsKatsuhiro Nishimura, Koichi Hirose
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Abstract
An engine operable in a premixed combustion system and a diffusion combustion system. The engine includes a main fuel injection valve, a pilot fuel injection valve, a liquid fuel tank, a main fuel supply path, a pilot fuel supply path, a pilot fuel filter, a pilot fuel high-pressure pump, a pilot fuel tank, and a pilot fuel supply pump. The pilot fuel tank stores pilot fuel sent from the pilot fuel high-pressure pump and not injected by the pilot fuel injection valve. This pilot fuel is sent to an automatic backwash filter and a pilot fuel filter while not passing through the liquid fuel tank.
Claims3
An engine operable in a premixed combustion system in which gaseous fuel is mixed with air is caused to flow into a combustion chamber the engine comprising:
- a pilot fuel injection valve that supplies liquid fuel as pilot fuel to the combustion chamber in order to ignite gaseous fuel during combustion in the premixed combustion system;
- a liquid fuel tank that stores liquid fuel;
- a pilot fuel supply path that supplies liquid fuel stored in the liquid fuel tank as pilot fuel to the pilot fuel injection valve;
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- at least two pilot fuel filters disposed in an intermediate portion of the pilot fuel supply path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.