In-vehicle internal combustion engine
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuichi Miyazaki, Yuya Horii
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Abstract
An engine is a V-type engine including two banks of a right bank and a left bank. The engine includes a head cover to which a fuel supply device that supplies fuel to a cylinder is fitted in each bank. In the engine, a rotational axis direction of a crankshaft is a front-rear direction of the engine, and a direction parallel to a reference plane that is a horizontal plane in a posture of the engine while the engine is mounted on a vehicle and orthogonal to the front-rear direction is a left-right direction of the engine. The engine is provided with a protrusion on the head cover that is located outward of a delivery pipe that is a portion exposed from the head cover in the fuel supply device, in a left-right direction.
Claims5
A V-type in-vehicle internal combustion engine comprising two banks that are a first bank including a plurality of cylinders disposed along a rotational axis direction of a crankshaft and a second bank including a plurality of cylinders disposed along the rotational axis direction of the crankshaft, the in-vehicle internal combustion engine being provided with an intake manifold outward of each of the banks, wherein:
- a head cover to which a fuel supply device supplying fuel to the cylinders is fitted is provided in each of the banks;
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- when the rotational axis direction of the crankshaft is defined as a front-rear direction of the in-vehicle internal combustion engine, and a direction parallel to a reference plane and orthogonal to the front-rear direction is defined as a left-right direction of the in-vehicle internal combustion engine, the reference plane being a horizontal plane in a posture of the in-vehicle internal combustion engine while the in-vehicle internal combustion engine is mounted on a vehicle, a protrusion is provided on the head cover, the protrusion being located outward of a portion of the fuel supply device that is exposed from the head cover, in the left-right direction.
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