Patent ID: 6382179
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: F02B,F02F,F02M,Y02T

Abstract:
A cylinder and fuel injector combination for a direct injection combustion engine, wherein the combination comprises:an engine cylinder having a longitudinal direction and a center line along the longitudinal direction; an engine piston in and movable through the cylinder in the longitudinal direction; at least one inlet valve to the cylinder and at least one exhaust valve from the cylinder, both communicating into the cylinder above the piston; each of the valves including a valve disk which is in the cylinder and each valve disk being in a respective plane; a fuel injector having a plurality of fuel injecting nozzles disposed in the cylinder; the nozzles being positioned and oriented so that each nozzle delivers a respective spray of fuel in a respective direction in the cylinder, the nozzles being so oriented in the cylinder that the projection of the direction of a spray of fuel from every nozzle, as viewed in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction center line of the cylinder, crosses a projection in the same plane as the valve disk of one of the valves.