Multicylinder internal combustion engine
AssigneeMitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorBonnosuke Takamiya
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Abstract
An automotive multicylinder internal combustion engine is liable to emit noxious gases under medium and low load conditions. Such air-polluting emissions as hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen are effectively reduced by supplying a rich mixture with air-fuel ratio of approximately 12 to 14 to a group of its cylinders, and a lean mixture with air-fuel ratio of approximately 17 to 20 to the remaining cylinders. While under high load conditions, substantially the same mixture with air-fuel ratio of approximately 13 to 15 is supplied to all the cylinders to prevent a drop in engine output and improve fuel economy.
Claims6
A multicylinder internal combustion engine comprising cylinders to which rich air-fuel mixture is supplied, cylinders to which lean air-fuel mixture is supplied, a rich mixture intake manifold supplying mixture from a rich mixture forming device to said rich mixture cylinders, a lean mixture intake manifold supplying mixture from a lean mixture forming device to said lean mixture cylinders, a manifold connecting port through which said two manifolds communicate with each other, an open-and-close valve installed in said connecting port, a pressure-responsive device that has a first and a second movable diaphragms vertically spaced in casing and comprises a first chamber defined by said first movable diaphragm and casing and a second chamber defined by said second movable diaphragm and casing, a rod that connects said first movable diaphragm to said open-and-close valve to actuate the valve, a mixed vacuum passage through which a mixture of vacuum in a first vacuum passage communicating with an intake passage upstream of a throttle valve in the perfectly closed position and vacuum in a second vacuum passage communicating with an intake passage downstream of the throttle valve in the perfectly closed position, a third vacuum passage connecting said second chamber to at least either of said rich and lean mixture intake manifolds, a conduit connecting said first chamber to said mixed vacuum passage, a first spring that always urges said open-and-close valve toward the closing position, and a second spring that always urges said open-and-close valve toward the opening position with greater force than said first spring.
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