Patent ID: 6508226
Filing Date: 2003-01-21
Classification: F02B,F02F,F05C,Y02T

Abstract:
An internal combustion engine combustion chamber defined by a cylinder bore closed at one end by a cylinder head combustion chamber surface and at the other end by a piston reciprocating in said cylinder bore, said cylinder head combustion chamber surface having a pair of angularly related surface portions formed on diametrically opposite sides thereof, at least one intake port formed in one of said cylinder head combustion chamber angularly related surface portions, at least one exhaust port formed in the other of said cylinder head combustion chamber angularly related surface portions, said piston having a head portion with an upper combustion chamber surface, said piston head portion including an inclined planar surface facing said one cylinder head combustion chamber angularly related surface portions and inclined toward said other of said cylinder head combustion chamber angularly related surface portions, and a fuel injector mounted in said engine on the side of said combustion chamber formed by said one of said cylinder head combustion chamber angularly related surface portions and spraying toward said piston head portion inclined planar surface, said piston head portion inclined planar surface being offset from the cylinder bore axis toward said fuel injector such that at least a part of the fuel injected therefrom will be directed toward said exhaust port.