Apparatus for liquid supply in internal combustion engine
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsUrataro Asaka, Akira Suzuki, Kiyoshi Kimura
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Abstract
An apparatus for liquid supply in an internal combustion engine having a liquid chamber containing a liquid such as fuel, lubrication oil or the like and located at one side of an intake passage of the internal combustion engine, which liquid chamber is in communication with the intake passage through a delivery passage having a metering throttle interposed therein; and a heating means provided proximately to the throttle portion of the delivery passage.
Claims7
An apparatus for supplying a liquid in an internal combustion engine, said engine having an intake passage, said apparatus comprising:
- a liquid chamber containing a liquid having a level, said chamber having an inlet supply opening and an interior,
- a float in said chamber,
- a float valve connected to said float and arranged to open and close said inlet supply opening depending on said level,
- a delivery passage which is open at one end to said intake passage and at its opposite end to said interior of said liquid chamber below said level,
- a restricted metering jet portion in said delivery passage having an upstream end lying in or protruding through the plane of said opposite end for metering liquid passing therethrough from said liquid chamber, said restricted metering jet portion being made of ceramics, and
- means for electrically heating said restricted metering jet portion, said means for heating including a battery of said engine, a key switch of said engine, an electric heater in said restricted metering jet portion, and means for electrically interconnecting said battery, key switch, and electric heater.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.