INTAKE MANIFOLD AND ENGINE INCLUDING INTAKE MANIFOLD

• US 20170204819A1
• Filed: 12/27/2016
• Published: 07/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: AMAMOTO, Yuki, GOTO, Takahiro, SUMI, Norihiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,964,079 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10026 Plenum chambers
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10091 characterised by details of intake ducts: shapes; connections; arrangements ducts within or on the plenum chamber F02M35/10039
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10222 Exhaust gas recirculation [EGR]; Positive crankcase ventilation [PCV]; Additional air admission, lubricant or fuel vapour admission
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10281 Means to remove, re-atomise or redistribute condensed fuel; Means to avoid fuel particles from separating from the mixture apparatus for re-atomising condensed fuel or homogenising fuel-air mixture F02M29/00; other apparatus for treating combustion-air, fuel or fuel-air mixture F02M33/00
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10295 Damping means, e.g. tranquillising chamber to dampen air oscillations intake silencers F02M35/12
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/104 Intake manifolds

Abstract

An intake manifold includes a surge tank, and an intake passage part. An inner surface of the intake passage part includes: an inner peripheral region which is located inner side of the intake passage part in a curvature radius direction; an outer peripheral region which is located outer side of the intake passage part in a curvature radius direction; a first lateral region; and a second lateral region. The outer peripheral region includes a first inclined region, a second inclined region, and a bottom region. When seen in the section orthogonal to a center axis of the intake passage part, the first and second inclined region are curved so as to be convex outward from the intake passage part at a curvature radius. The bottom region has a shape convex outward from the intake passage part in the direction of the curvature radius.

Claims

1. An intake manifold of an engine including an engine main body, the intake manifold comprising:

a surge tank having an intake introduction port that is configured such that intake air is introduced through the intake introduction port, and a gas introduction port that is configured such that blowby gas is introduced from the engine main body through the gas introduction port; and

an intake passage part communicating with the surge tank, the intake passage part extending so as to be curved around the surge tank, and the intake passage part being configured to be connected to a cylinder head of the engine main body, wherein

an inner surface of the intake passage part includes;

an inner peripheral region being on an inner side in a curvature radius direction of the intake passage part;

an outer peripheral region being apart at a distance from the inner peripheral region outward in the curvature radius direction, the outer peripheral region facing the inner peripheral region;

a first lateral region and a second lateral region being located at a distance from each other in a orthogonal direction that is orthogonal to the curvature radius direction, the first lateral region and the second lateral region continuing from the inner peripheral region;

a first curved-region being convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part, the first curved-region connecting the first lateral region and the outer peripheral region; and

a second curved-region being convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part, the second curved-region connecting the second lateral region and the outer peripheral region,

the outer peripheral region includes a first inclined region,a second inclined region, and a bottom region, the first inclined region and the second inclined region extend so as to approach each other, the first inclined region and the second inclined region extend respectively from the first curved-region and the second curved-region,

when seen in a section orthogonal to a center axis of the intake passage part, the first inclined region has one of two shapes that are a linear shape, and a curved shape that is convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part at a curvature radius larger than a first curvature radius of the first curved-region,

when seen in the section, the second inclined region has one of two shapes that are a linear shape, and a curved shape that is convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part at a curvature radius larger than a second curvature radius of the second curved-region,

the bottom region is located between the first inclined region and the second inclined region, and

when seen in the section, the bottom region has one of two shapes that are a linear shape orthogonal to the direction of the curvature radius, and a shape convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part in the direction of the curvature radius.

2. The intake manifold according to claim 1, wherein, in a state of the intake manifold being installed on the engine main body, a bottom zone of the intake passage part includes a lowest position in a vertical direction in the section, and in the state of the intake manifold being installed on the engine main body, the outer peripheral region includes the first inclined region, the second inclined region, and the bottom region in a zone including the bottom zone of the intake passage part that is located further on a lower side in the vertical direction than the surge tank.

3. The intake manifold according to claim 1, wherein, in a state of the intake manifold being installed on the engine main body, a bottom zone of the intake passage part includes a lowest position in a vertical direction in the section, in the state of the intake manifold being installed on the engine main body, the outer peripheral region includes the first inclined region, the second inclined region, and the bottom region in a zone of the intake passage part on an upstream side from the bottom zone, including the bottom zone.

4. The intake manifold according to claim 1, wherein, in a state of the intake manifold being installed on the engine main body, a bottom zone of the intake passage part includes a lowest position in a vertical direction in the section, the outer peripheral region in the bottom zone is configured such that, when 10 cm³ of a fluid is accumulated in the bottom zone of the intake passage part in the state of the intake manifold being installed on the engine main body, a level of a surface of the fluid is 3 mm or higher.

5. An engine comprising:

an engine main body;

and intake manifold including

a surge tank having an intake introduction port through which intake air is configured to be introduced, and a gas introduction port through which blowby gas is configured to be introduced from the engine main body, and

an intake passage part communicating with the surge tank, the intake passage part extending so as to be curved around the surge tank, and the intake passage part being configured to be connected to a cylinder head of the engine main body, wherein

an inner surface of the intake passage part includes

an inner peripheral region being on an inner side in a curvature radius direction of the intake passage part,

an outer peripheral region being apart at a distance from the inner peripheral region outward in the curvature radius direction, the outer peripheral region facing the inner peripheral region,

a first lateral region and a second lateral region being located at a distance from each other in a orthogonal direction that is orthogonal to the curvature radius direction, the first lateral region and the second lateral region continuing from the inner peripheral region,

a first curved-region being convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part, the first curved-region connecting the first lateral region and the outer peripheral region, and

a second curved-region being convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part, the second curved-region connecting the second lateral region and the outer peripheral region,

in a state of the intake manifold being installed on the engine main body, a bottom zone of the intake passage part includes a lowest position in a vertical direction in a section orthogonal to a center axis of the intake passage part, the outer peripheral region includes a first inclined region,a second inclined region, and a bottom region, the first inclined region and the second inclined region extend so as to approach each other, the first inclined region and the second inclined region extend respectively from the first curved-region and the second curved-region,

when seen in the section, the first inclined region has one of two shapes that are a linear shape, and a curved shape that is convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part at a curvature radius larger than a first curvature radius of the first curved-region,

when seen in the section, the second inclined region has one of two shapes that are a linear shape, and a curved shape that is convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part at a curvature radius larger than a second curvature radius of the second curved-region,

the bottom region is located between the first inclined region and the second inclined region, and

when seen in the section, the bottom region has one of two shapes that are a linear shape orthogonal to the direction of the curvature radius, and a shape convex outward from the inner side of the intake passage part in the direction of the curvature radius.

an intake passage connected to the intake introduction port; and

a blowby gas reduction device provided between the gas introduction port and a crankcase of the engine main body.