Exhaust manifold of gasoline engine

• US 6,263,669 B1
• Filed: 12/29/1999
• Issued: 07/24/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Han-Sang
• Primary Examiner(s): Denion, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, DIEM T
• Application Number:
  US09/474,730
• Time in Patent Office: 573 Days
• Field of Search: 603/21, 603/23, 603/24
• US Class Current: 60/323
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 13/10 of exhaust manifolds with cooling jacket F01N3/046
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2240/20 a flow director or deflector
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 27/04 in exhaust systems only, e.g. for sucking-off combustion gases
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

An exhaust manifold of an internal combustion gasoline engine includes first, second, third and fourth runners and mixing pipe, one end of each runner being connected to a cylinder head and another end of each runner being connected to the mixing pipe wherein the runners are connected to the mixing pipe in a longitudinal direction such that exhaust gases are introduced into the mixing pipe without colliding into an inner wall of the mixing pipe.

Claims

1. An exhaust manifold for an internal combustion engine comprising:

first, second, third, and fourth runners, each runner having upper and lower ends, wherein the runners are secured at their upper ends to a cylinder head;

a mixing pipe surrounding the lower ends of the runners;

the lower ends of the runners being connected to the mixing pipe in a substantially longitudinal direction such that exhaust gases are introduced into the mixing pipe without colliding with the inner walls of the mixing pipe;

the first and second runners being joined to each other over a connecting portion at their lower ends prior to connection with the mixing pipe;

the third and fourth runners being joined to each other over a connecting portion at their lower ends prior to connection with the mixing pipe;

at least one crescent shaped exhaust flow guider formed integrally with the connecting portion where the first runner joins the second runner and where the third runner joins the first runner; and

the runners having an oval cross section at their upper ends and transitioning to a circular cross section at their lower ends.

2. The exhaust manifold of claim 1, where in the first and second runners and the third and fourth runners are symmetrically connected to the mixing pipe.

3. The exhaust manifold of claim 1, wherein each runner is bent at an angle of about 95 degrees to about 120 degrees.