Exhaust structure in engine for automobile
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHideo Matsuzawa
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Abstract
A connection of the exhaust emission control device, to which a collecting portion of an exhaust manifold extending rearwards and downwards from a rear face of a cylinder block is connected, is eccentric toward an engine block by a distance with respect to an axis of a cylindrical main casing. Therefore, the exhaust manifold can be located as close as possible to a rear face of the engine block to ensure that travel wind is difficult to collide with the exhaust manifold, thereby preventing a drop in temperature of an exhaust gas to early raise the temperature of the exhaust emission control device. Moreover, since the exhaust manifold is disposed closer to the rear face of the engine block, a collision stroke permitting the retraction of the engine upon frontal collision can be expanded.
Claims5
An exhaust structure in an engine for an automobile, the engine comprising a cylinder head which includes exhaust ports in its rear face, an engine block, and a crankshaft disposed in a lateral direction of a vehicle body;
- the exhaust structure comprising an exhaust manifold which is connected to the exhaust ports and which includes a collecting portion, and a substantially cylindrical exhaust emission control device which is disposed in the rear of the engine block and which includes a connection at its upper end;
- the collecting portion is connected to the connection;
- wherein the position of the connection of the exhaust emission control device is eccentric toward the engine block with respect to an axis of the exhaust emission control device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.