Patent ID: 8776760

Claim:
A combustion chamber for a fuel injected internal combustion engine, said combustion chamber being at least one at least partially defined by a cylindrical circumferential wall, a cylinder head, and the crown of a piston reciprocatably movable within said combustion chamber, and having disposed therein a fuel injector with a nozzle through which fuel is injected in a predefined direction into said combustion chamber, said combustion chamber further comprising: at least one flume disposed within said combustion chamber, said flume having at least one passageway extending through the flume in substantial alignment with said predefined direction of the injected fuel, at least a portion of said injected fuel being conveyed through said passageway and subsequently conducted to a predetermined portion of the combustion chamber; wherein the nozzle of said fuel injector has a plurality of ports through which the fuel is injected into said combustion chamber in separately directed spray jets, and said combustion chamber comprises a plurality of flumes each of which is aligned with a respective one of said spray jets.