Abstract:
Several embodiments of an automotive engine camshaft deactivator that smoothly disconnect and reconnect a camshaft from the engine driveshaft with a low level impact force between the parts, the connection being made through a slippage friction clutch type mechanism that engages the two members in a manner providing slippage therebetween while the camshaft is being brought up to speed, whereby the camshaft lags behind the drive sprocket allowing the drive sprocket to cam a locking pin into a positive engagement relationship between the camshaft and crankshaft.
Abstract:
An automotive type fuel injection engine has for each cylinder a single intake manifold runner or log connected by siamesed flow passages to multiple side-by-side intake ports in the cylinder head. A fuel injector is installed in the runner upstream of the dividing portion of the runner. A single constant diameter bore is provided through the cylinder head close to the intake ports intersecting the siamesed flow passages at right angles. The bore contains a one-piece rotatable paddle-like valve with a thin plate in a flow passage, the valve being variable rotatable to close off the passage for fuel economy and power control. The valve is self-contained with sealing and guidance disks.
Abstract:
A rocker arm construction suitable for high-speed operation with low-friction consisting of a one-piece essentially U-shaped rocker arm having a bottom portion continuous in material from end to end with an upraised cylindrical surface portion constituting a fulcrum engaged with a stationary lash adjuster mounted in a housing secured to the rocker arm cover, the housing also including a rib portion straddling a roller cam follower rotatably mounted on one end of the rocker arm, the rib portion having a recess, the surface of which defines an epicyclic curve generated by a point on the roller cam follower as it rolls about a cam lobe on the chamshaft, the latter curve providing a pure rolling motion of the cam follower on the cam lobe and assuring a pure rolling motion of the rocker arm on the fulcrum line contact with the lash adjuster, the opposite end of the rocker arm engaging the end of a valve stem for reciprocation thereof.
Abstract:
A fuel injection pump includes a number of plungers of the fill/spill port control type, the plungers being hydraulically connected in pairs and through a single shuttle valve to a single fuel spill port controlled by a single solenoid controlled spill valve, the plungers being operable in sequence and in succession to condition one plunger at a time for fuel pressurization while the remaining plungers are in various other phases of operation refilling their fuel chambers with fuel or preparing the air fuel chamber for pressurization.
Abstract:
A compact four valve per cylinder overhead camshaft valve train arrangement for use with small cylinder bore engines is made possible by the mounting of a single overhead camshaft at a position high over the cylinder head and laterally offset from the cylinder bore centerline and adjacent a rocker arm shaft that is mounted on the cylinder bore centerline diagonally beneath the camshaft and in turn mounts a single forked lever type rocker arm for the simultaneous actuation of two exhaust valves, and a pair of individual axially spaced rocker arms directed to the opposite side of the rocker arm shaft for actuating a pair of intake valves, roller type cam followers being used to reduce friction, the arrangement providing access to the center of the cylinder bore for the mounting of a spark plug below and beneath the rocker arm shaft and between the intake valve rocker arms and the intake valves.
Abstract:
A compact fuel injection pump of the radial plunger type having a plunger barrel that integrates the plunger and a delivery valve in a common bore along with a fuel inlet-spill port in the wall of the barrel, the port being controlled by a ball valve actuated by a solenoid to a closed position to permit pressurization of the fuel for injection past the delivery valve, the ball valve being self-aligning.