Patent ID: 9638134
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: F02M

Claim:
1. A carburetor comprising: a carburetor body; an aspirating channel disposed in the carburetor body; a butterfly throttle valve disposed in the aspirating channel, the butterfly throttle valve opening or closing the aspirating channel, the throttle valve including a valve stem being rotatably supported by the carburetor body, the valve stem extending in up and down direction; a main nozzle disposed in the carburetor body and being opened to the aspirating channel; an air bleed chamber disposed at an outer periphery of the main nozzle and communicating to an interior of the main nozzle via a plurality of bleed holes; a first bleed air passage disposed in the carburetor body and remaining in an opened state, the first bleed air passage being connected to the air bleed chamber, the first bleed air passage including an upstream end thereof being opened to a portion of the carburetor body located on an upstream side of the aspirating channel; a second bleed air passage disposed in the carburetor body and opened or closed by a control valve, the second bleed air passage being connected to the air bleed chamber, the second bleed air passage including an upstream end thereof being opened to a portion of the carburetor body located on the upstream side of the aspirating channel; and a float chamber connected to the carburetor body and storing storage fuel capable of being sprayed into said aspirating channel through said main nozzle, wherein the control valve is a rotary valve including an end portion of the valve stem, the end portion of the valve stem including a grooving portion on an outer surface thereof such that the end portion opening and closing the second bleed air passage according to an opening degree of said throttle valve, the end portion of the valve stem is an upper end portion of the valve stem, in a projection plane orthogonal to an axis of said aspirating channel, the first bleed air passage is arranged on one side of said valve stem, the second bleed air passage includes an upstream-side passage portion defined by a portion of the second bleed air passage located on an upstream side of the control valve, the upstream-side passage portion being disposed above said aspirating channel, the second bleed air passage includes a downstream-side passage portion defined by a portion of the second bleed air passage located on a downstream side of the control valve, the downstream-side passage portion being disposed on the one side of the valve stem, and a downstream end of said downstream-side passage portion is connected to a midway portion of said first bleed air passage.