Engine with exhaust gas sensing

• US 4,831,820 A
• Filed: 12/11/1987
• Issued: 05/23/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: BRP US Incorporated (Bombardier Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Outboard Marine Corporation (Bombardier Incorporated)
• Inventors: Lassanske, George G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hart, Douglas
• Application Number:
  US07/131,449
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 60/276
• US Class Current: 60/276
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 77/085 with sensors measuring combustion processes, e.g. knocking, pressure, ionization, combustion flame
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/1439 characterised by the position of the sensor

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a two-stroke internal combustion engine comprising an engine block including therein a combustion chamber, a piston, an exhaust passage communicable with the combustion chamber for conducting gas away from the combustion chamber, and structure for sensing a condition present in the combustion chamber gas at a time near the end of the power stroke and including a passage communicable between the combustion chamber and the exhaust passage and having therein a sensor for sensing a condition present in the gas flow in the passage.

Claims

1. A two-stroke internal combustion engine comprising an engine block including therein a combustion chamber having an exhaust port, an exhaust passage extending from said exhaust port for conducting combusted air-fuel mixture away from said combustion chamber, and means for sensing a condition present in the combusted air-fuel mixture flow and including passage means extending between said combustion chamber and said exhaust passage in by-passing relation to said exhaust port, and having therein a sensor for sensing a condition present in the flow of combusted air-fuel mixture in the passage means.

2. A two-stroke internal combustion engine with an apparatus to sense a condition present in the combusted air-fuel mixture, said engine comprising an engine block including therein a combustion chamber, a piston, an exhaust pipe communicable with said combustion chamber, means for supplying fuel and air to said combustion chamber, and passage means for conducting combusted air-fuel mixture from said combustion chamber to said exhaust pipe, said passage means including means for sensing a condition in the combusted air-fuel mixture, and means for restricting gas flow into said passage means prior to closure by said piston of said passage means from said combustion chamber to thereby prevent the introduction of air-fuel mixture present in the combustion chamber during the compression stroke to said condition sensing means.

3. A two stroke internal combustion engine in accordance with claim 2 wherein said passage means comprises a passage with opposite ends, one end opening into said combustion chamber at a location above the exhaust pipe, the other end communicating with said exhaust pipe.

4. A two stroke internal combustion engine in accordance with claim 3 wherein said means for sensing a condition present in the combusted fuel-air mixture is a device for sensing the presence of oxygen in the gas in said passage means.

5. A two stroke internal combustion engine in accordance with claim 2, wherein said means for sensing a condition present in the combusted fuel-air mixture in said passage means is a device for sensing the presence of oxygen in the combusted fuel-air mixture in said passage means.