Abstract:
To alleviate or eliminate a problem of unburned fuel discharged to the outside of a cylinder in a case in which an air fuel mixture is insufficiently combusted in a combustion chamber. During the expansion stroke in which a high voltage is applied to an ignition plug via an ignition coil, and a spark discharge is caused to occur at the ignition plug, thereby the air fuel mixture in the combustion chamber is ignited and combusted, in a case in which deterioration of combustion state is detected, a microwave electric field is created in the combustion chamber prior to an opening timing of an exhaust valve at an end stage of the expansion stroke, thereby plasma is generated and enlarged in the combustion chamber.
Abstract:
The problem to be solved by the present invention is to reduce the emission of the unburned fuel and to improve fuel efficiency of the internal combustion engine in a spark ignition type internal combustion engine that allows an electric field created in a combustion chamber to react with a spark discharge by an ignition plug and generates plasma, thereby igniting fuel air mixture. The present invention is directed to the spark ignition type internal combustion engine that allows the spark discharge by the ignition plug to react with the electric field created in the combustion chamber and generates the plasma, thereby igniting the fuel air mixture including: an electromagnetic wave emission device that emits an electromagnetic wave in the combustion chamber when the fuel air mixture is combusted; and a protruding member protruding from a partitioning surface that partitions the combustion chamber, wherein at least a part of the protruding member is made of a conductor.
Abstract:
[Problem] To provide a measuring equippment which can be easily mounted to an internal combustion engine. [Solution] A measuring equippment (30) is equipped with: a measurement container (31) having formed therein a chamber (34) to be measured, into which a gas to be measured enters, and an inlet passage, through which the gas to be measured is introduced into the chamber (34) to be measured; and a connection structure (32) which, when a plug is not mounted to a plughole (25) that opens into a combustion chamber (24) in an internal combustion engine (20), connects the inlet passage to the plughole(25). The measurement container (31) may be provided with a plasma generation device (45), which generates plasma in the chamber (34) to be measured, or a mounting structure for mounting a heating device, which heats the gas to be measured in the chamber (34) to be measured.
Abstract:
It is configured such that plasma generated at a time of ignition should diffuse over an entire combustion chamber in a spark ignition type internal combustion engine in order to improve fuel efficiency. An ignition device for a spark ignition type internal combustion engine is provided including an ignition plug and a transmission antenna provided in the vicinity of the ignition plug and adapted to transmit an electromagnetic wave to a combustion chamber. The ignition device allows a spark discharge generated between a central electrode and a ground electrode of the ignition plug to react with an electric field created via the transmission antenna in the combustion chamber so as to generate plasma and ignite fuel air mixture. A receiving antenna is arranged on a combustion chamber -facing surface of at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve, and is adapted to receive the electromagnetic wave transmitted from the transmission antenna.