Multicylinder engine intake system

• US 7,267,099 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2006
• Issued: 09/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Keihin Corporation (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Kuniaki, Mitobe, Masaaki, Wakamori, Seiji, Oonuma, Michio
• Primary Examiner(s): Wolte; Willis R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hoang; Johnny H.
• Application Number:
  US11/410,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20060260586A1
• Time in Patent Office: 503 Days
• Field of Search: 123/336, 123/337, 123/361, 123/399, 123/184.21, 123/585, 251/308
• US Class Current: 123/336
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 31/005 by controlling a throttle by-pass
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0085 Balancing of cylinder outputs, e.g. speed, torque or air-fuel ratio
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 9/1055 having a fluid by-pass
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 9/1095 Rotating on a common axis, e.g. having a common shaft
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 13/026 Common functional groups for several carburettors, e.g. common idling system

Abstract

A multicylinder engine intake system includes: first and second throttle bodies; bypasses provided in the first and second throttle bodies and having downstream ends opened to intake paths on downstream sides of throttle valves; and a common bypass control valve which opens and closes the bypasses. The bypass control valve is mounted on the first throttle body. Downstream ends of the bypasses opened in the first and second throttle bodies are formed as throttle holes. The diameter of the throttle hole on the side of the first throttle body is smaller than the diameter of the throttle hole on the second throttle body. Thus, it is possible to equalize amounts of first idling air supplied to a plurality of cylinders irrespective of arrangement of the cylinders in an engine even if lengths of a plurality of bypass downstream paths are not equal to each other, while the bypass control valve is mounted on any of the throttle bodies.

Claims

1. A multicylinder engine intake system comprising:

a plurality of throttle bodies having intake paths communicating with intake ports of a multicylinder engine, and throttle valves for opening and closing the intake paths;

a plurality of bypasses provided in the throttle bodies, having upstream ends opened to atmosphere or the intake paths on upstream sides of the throttle valves, and having downstream ends opened to the intake paths on downstream sides of the throttle valves; and

a common bypass control valve which opens and closes the bypasses,

wherein the bypass control valve is mounted on any of the plurality of throttle bodies;

downstream ends of the bypasses opened in the throttle bodies are formed as throttle holes; and

the diameter of the throttle hole on a side of the throttle body on which the bypass control valve is mounted is smaller than diameters of the throttle holes on other throttle bodies.

2. The multicylinder engine intake system according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of bypasses on the upstream side of the bypass control valve comprise a single common bypass upstream path;

among bypass downstream paths, on the downstream side of the bypass control valve, of the plurality of bypasses, the bypass downstream paths on the side of the throttle body on which the bypass control valve is mounted are formed in the same throttle body;

some of other bypass downstream paths comprise communication pipes which provide connections between the bypass control valve and the other throttle bodies.

3. The multicylinder engine intake system according to claim 1, wherein the bypass control valve is mounted in a control block joined to some of the throttle bodies.

4. The multicylinder engine intake system according to claim 2, wherein the bypass control valve is mounted in a control block joined to some of the throttle bodies.