Patent ID: 6260545
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: F02B,F23N

Abstract:
An internal combustion engine having a combustion heater operating and raising temperatures of engine related elements when said internal combustion engine is in a predetermined operating state, said engine comprising:igniting means for making a latent flame by igniting a combustion fuel of said combustion heater;a combustion chamber for growing the latent flame formed by said igniting means into a flame;an air supply passageway for supplying said combustion chamber with the air for combustion;a combustion gas discharge passageway for discharging a combustion gas out of said combustion chamber; andan air quantity control means for controlling a quantity of the air flowing within said combustion chamber in accordance with a differential pressure that occurs between the air supply passageway side of said combustion chamber and the combustion gas discharge passageway side of said combustion chamber.