Internal combustion engine having an elastic connecting duct

• US 8,516,989 B2
• Filed: 09/02/2009
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Andreas STIHL AG & Company KG (Stihl Holding AG & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: Andreas STIHL AG & Company KG (Stihl Holding AG & Company KG)
• Inventors: Schmidt, Olaf, Hiller, Christoph V., Friedrich, Reinhard, Joos, Michael, Kern, Jens, Schlessmann, Helmut
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamen, Noah
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hung Q
• Application Number:
  US12/552,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20090314243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,455 Days
• Field of Search: 123/198.E, 123/195.C, 123/195.A, 123/23.2, 123/36.2, 123/41.3, 123/590, 123/184.52, 123/65.R, 261/23.2, 261/36.2, 261/41.3
• US Class Current: 123/198.E
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 2075/025 two
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 25/22 by forming air cushion between charge and combustion residues
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 33/04 with simple crankcase pumps, i.e. with the rear face of a non-stepped working piston acting as sole pumping member in co-operation with the crankcase
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10032 specially shaped or arranged connecting duct between carburettor or air inlet duct and the plenum chamber; specially positioned carburettors or throttle bodies with respect to the plenum chamber
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10085 having a connecting piece, e.g. a flange, between the engine and the air intake being foreseen with a throttle valve, fuel injector, mixture ducts or the like
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/1019 Two-stroke engines; Reverse-flow scavenged or cross scavenged engines
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10321 Plastics; Composites; Rubbers
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/108 with primary and secondary intake passages
• CPC Class Codes: F05C 2225/08 Thermoplastics

Abstract

An internal combustion engine of a manually operated implement, having an elastic connecting duct between the engine and an air filter for vibration-decoupled bridging of a vibration gap between engine and the air filter. The elastic connecting duct has a first conduit for fuel/air mixture and a second conduit for largely fuel-free air. The first and second conduits are separate tubes having respective bores that are separated from one another over their entire lengths, the inlet of the engine is operatively connected to the air filter via the first conduit, and an air duct window of the engine is operatively connected to the air filter via the second conduit.

Claims

1. An internal combustion engine of a manually operated implement, wherein said engine has an inlet for the supply of fuel/air mixture and an air duct window, comprising:

an elastic connecting duct disposed between said internal combustion engine and an air filter for vibration-decoupled bridging of a vibration gap between said engine and the air filter, said elastic connecting duct having a first conduit for fuel/air mixture, wherein said first conduit has a bore extending from a first end to a second end of said first conduit, and a second conduit for largely fuel-free air, wherein said second conduit has a bore extending from a first end to a second end of said second conduit, wherein said first conduit and said second conduit are embodied as separate tubes, wherein said bore in said first conduit and said bore in said second conduit are separated from one another over their entire lengths, wherein said inlet of said engine is operatively connected to the air filter via said first conduit, and wherein said air duct window is operatively connected to the air filter via said second conduit.

2. An internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein said connecting duct is provided with a connecting flange for a connection with said internal combustion engine, and wherein said first and second conduits open out at said connecting flange.

3. An internal combustion engine according to claim 2, wherein said connecting flange is provided with a core that comprises a harder material than the conduits of the connecting duct.

4. An internal combustion engine according to claim 3, wherein said connecting flange is provided with fixing openings.

5. An internal combustion engine according to claim 4, wherein said fixing openings are embodied as sleeve-shaped receivers that extend entirely through said connecting flange, and wherein said sleeve-shaped receivers are monolithically formed with said core.

6. An internal combustion engine according to claim 5, wherein said first and second conduits open out at the connecting flange in a connecting plane and wherein said sleeve-shaped receivers are set back by a distance from said connecting plane of said connecting flange.

7. An internal combustion engine according to claim 3, wherein said core is made of a duroplastic.

8. An internal combustion engine according to claim 3, wherein said core is made of metal.

9. An internal combustion engine according to claim 3, wherein said core has a plate-shaped configuration and is curved at a plane of said connecting flange in the region of fixing openings thereof.

10. An internal combustion engine according to claim 2, wherein a sealing contour is formed on said connecting flange on a connecting plane thereof that faces said internal combustion engine.

11. An internal combustion engine according to claim 10, wherein said sealing contour is embodied as a sealing bead that is disposed in a groove.

12. An internal combustion engine according to claim 2, wherein said first and second conduits, at respective ends thereof that face away from said connecting flange, are provided with plane-parallel flange planes, wherein said flange planes of said two conduits are spaced from one another, and wherein said first conduit is shorter than said second conduit.

13. An internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein said first conduit is connected to a carburetor.

14. An internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein said first conduit has an approximately circular flow cross-section, wherein said second conduit, on an end that faces said air filter, has an approximately circular flow cross-section and at an end that faces said internal combustion engine has a flow cross-section having a minimum height, measured in the direction of a longitudinal axis of a cylinder of said internal combustion engine, that is smaller than a maximum width that is measured approximately in a peripheral direction of said cylinder, and wherein said minimum height of said second conduit, at said end that faces said internal combustion engine, is less than half of said maximum width.

15. An internal combustion engine according to claim 14, wherein said minimum height of said second conduit, at said end that faces said internal combustion engine, is less than one fourth of said maximum width.

16. An internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said conduits is provided with a reinforcement.

17. An internal combustion engine according to claim 16, wherein said reinforcement is embodied as a ridge that extends around one of said conduits.

18. An internal combustion engine according to claim 16, wherein said reinforcement is embodied as a strut that extends in a longitudinal direction of said conduits.

19. An internal combustion engine according to claim 18, wherein said strut is disposed in one of said conduits, and wherein said conduit is divided into two branches.

20. An internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein said first and second conduits have a seam-free inner wall.

21. An internal combustion engine according to claim 1 which is further more provided with a pulse duct.

22. An internal combustion engine according to claim 1, wherein said first and second conduits are made of an elastomer.

23. An internal combustion engine according to claim 22, wherein said connecting duct is embodied as an elastomeric farmed part and is provided with a duroplastic insert that is positively held in said formed part.

24. An internal combustion engine of a manually operated implement, wherein said engine has an inlet for the supply of fuel/air mixture and an air duct window, comprising:

an elastic connecting duct disposed between said internal combustion engine and an air filter for vibration-decoupled bridging of a vibration gap between said engine and the air filter, said elastic connecting duct having a first conduit for fuel/air mixture, wherein said first conduit has a bore extending from a first end to a second end of said first conduit, and a second conduit duct for largely fuel-free air, wherein said second conduit has a bore extending from a first end to a second end of said second conduit, wherein said first conduit and said second conduit are embodied as separate conduits, and wherein said bore in said first conduit and said bore in said second conduit are separated from one another over their entire lengths,

wherein said connecting duct is provided with a connecting flange that is connected to said internal combustion engine,

wherein said first conduit opens out at said connecting flange with a first mouth opening at the connecting flange,

wherein said second conduit opens out at said connecting flange with a second mouth opening separate from the first mouth opening,

wherein said inlet of said engine is operatively connected to the air filter via said first conduit, and

wherein said air duct window is operatively connected to the air filter via said second conduit.