US 4,814,115 AGranted

Slide and pin type carburetor

AssigneeMikuni Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsShogo Hashimoto, Hitoshi Watanabe

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Abstract

A slide and pin type carburetor using a plate-shaped slide valve in which the lower end surface of a flat plate portion is placed on the same plane as that of a column-shaped portion, the flow rate of air is controlled in the periphery of the column-shaped portion within the region in which the column-shaped portion exists and in front of the flat plate portion within the region in which no column-shaped portion exists, and a cutaway is formed, ranging from the surface located on the upstream side of the lower end of the flat plate portion to the bottom surface of the column-shaped portion, toward the downstream side, in order to make it possible to set properly the level of a negative pressure to be produced without raising abnormally the negative pressure produced in the vicinity of the exit of a main fuel nozzle and to increase the flow velocity of air, without producing any turbulence, in the vicinity of the exit of the main fuel nozzle so that the atomization of the fuel is favorably performed. The cutaway has an inclined surface descending from the upstream side toward the downstream side to shape a part of a conical surface directed to a fuel metering needle mounted on the bottom surface of the column-shaped portion.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A slide and pin type carburetor, in which a slide valve being moved in a direction transverse to a main intake passageway and thereby controlling a flow rate of air flowing through said main intake passageway comprising a flat plate portion located on the upstream side of a main fuel nozzle opened to said main intake passageway and sliding along guide grooves formed on opposite sides of the main intake passageway, and a column-shaped portion having a fuel metering needle fitted into said main fuel nozzle to constitute an annular fuel passageway and formed integral with said flat plate portion on the downstream side of said flat plate portion so that a lower end surface of said flat plate portion of said plate-shaped slide valve is flush with that of said column-shaped portion;

a cutaway for producing a preset negative pressure to the vicinity of an exit of said main fuel nozzle is formed on a bottom surface of said flat plate portion and said column-shaped portion, extending from the upstream side surface of said flat plate portion toward the downstream side;
a straight groove, connected with said guide grooves, into which the lower end of said flat plate portion is fitted and an arcuate groove, connected with said straight groove, into which the lower end of said column-shaped portion is fitted are formed on the bottom surface of said main intake passageway;
and a predetermined space is formed between the bottom surface of said flat plate portion and the bottom surface of said main intake passageway even when the lower end of said plate portion is fitted into said straight groove and the lower end of said column-shaped portion is fitted into said arcuate groove to block completely said main intake passageway.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.