Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Exhaust structure for multi-cylinder engine
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Application No.: US15428170Application Date: 2017-02-09
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Publication No.: US10280825B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Taku Kuramashi , Ryota Joya , Tomonori Nishida
- Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Hiroshima
- Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hiroshima
- Agency: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2016-047854 20160311
- Main IPC: F01N13/10
- IPC: F01N13/10 ; F01N3/24 ; F01N3/10 ; F01N13/08 ; F02B75/20 ; F02B75/18

Abstract:
A multi-cylinder engine exhaust structure disclosed herein includes: four branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with four cylinders classified into two groups, each being comprised of two of the four cylinders with discontinuous exhaust strokes; two intermediate collecting pipes, each being formed by combining associated two of the four branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with the two cylinders in an associated one of the two groups; a last collecting pipe formed by combining these intermediate collecting pipes; and an exhaust gas purifier coupled to an exhaust gas downstream end of the last collecting pipe. Two of the four branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with two of the four cylinders to be activated as two active cylinders while the engine is performing a cylinder-cutoff operation are shorter than the two other branched exhaust pipes respectively communicating with the two other cylinders to be deactivated as two idle cylinders during the cylinder-cutoff operation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170260891A1 EXHAUST STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-CYLINDER ENGINE Public/Granted day:2017-09-14
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