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US 9,410,513 B2Granted
Engine configured to drive a diaphragm fuel pump using pressure fluctuation in a crank chamber of the engine
AssigneeMakita Corporation
InventorsMasaki Sugiyama, Tetsuya Hasegawa
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Abstract
An engine includes a crank chamber in which pressure fluctuation occurs and a carburetor including a diaphragm fuel pump. The diaphragm fuel pump includes a pump chamber configured to suck in and eject fuel and a diaphragm chamber to which a pressure that drives the pump chamber is supplied. The diaphragm chamber and the crank chamber communicate with one another in a state in which a negative pressure is created in the crank chamber.
Claims9
An engine having a structure of a four-stroke engine, the engine comprising:
- a piston configured to reciprocally move;
- a crank chamber in which pressure fluctuation occurs by the piston moving reciprocally in the crank chamber;
- a carburetor including a diaphragm fuel pump, the diaphragm fuel pump including:
- a pump chamber configured to suck in and eject fuel;
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- a diaphragm chamber to which a pressure that drives the pump chamber is supplied;
- a single communicating path configured to allow communication between the diaphragm chamber and the crank chamber;
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- an opening of the communicating path in the crank chamber side, the opening being formed near a position in which a termination portion of a skirt part of the piston is located when the piston is located at a top dead center such that the piston opens and closes the opening, wherein
- the piston closes the opening of the communicating path when a positive pressure is created in the crank chamber and opens the opening to supply substantially only a negative pressure from the crank chamber to the diaphragm chamber via the communicating path, and
- the opening is not open in a combustion chamber formed by a cylinder part and an upper portion of the piston.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.