Title of Invention	" AN EXCHAUST CONTROLLER FOR A SPARK IGNITION TWO STROKE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE"
Abstract	An exhaust controller for a spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine comprising: an exhaust passage in communication with a cylinder hole via an exhaust port formed in a cylinder block, the exhaust passage including a cylinder head side portion and a crank case side portion; an exhaust control valve mounted for reciprocating motion to be movable along said exhaust port along a center line direction of said cylinder hole for blocking at least said cylinder head side portion of said exhaust port; the cylinder head side portion of said exhaust passage including an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and formed by a lid member which closes said exhaust control valve; the crank case side portion of said exhaust passage including an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and being formed by the cylinder block; said cylinder head side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being cooled by a cooling water passage disposed adjacent to a cylinder head, said cooling water passage being formed in said lid member, and said crank case side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being directly cooled by a cylinder block cooling water passage disposed adjacent to the crank case, said cylinder block cooling water passage being formed in said cylinder block.

Title of Invention

" AN EXCHAUST CONTROLLER FOR A SPARK IGNITION TWO STROKE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE"

Abstract

An exhaust controller for a spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine comprising: an exhaust passage in communication with a cylinder hole via an exhaust port formed in a cylinder block, the exhaust passage including a cylinder head side portion and a crank case side portion; an exhaust control valve mounted for reciprocating motion to be movable along said exhaust port along a center line direction of said cylinder hole for blocking at least said cylinder head side portion of said exhaust port; the cylinder head side portion of said exhaust passage including an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and formed by a lid member which closes said exhaust control valve; the crank case side portion of said exhaust passage including an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and being formed by the cylinder block; said cylinder head side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being cooled by a cooling water passage disposed adjacent to a cylinder head, said cooling water passage being formed in said lid member, and said crank case side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being directly cooled by a cylinder block cooling water passage disposed adjacent to the crank case, said cylinder block cooling water passage being formed in said cylinder block.

Full Text	The present invention relates to an exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine capable of adjusting an exhaust timing, characterized by suppressing leakage of an exhaust gas from both side edges of an exhaust control valve to the utmost. [Related Art] Spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engines of this kind have been known, for example, from Japanese Patent Laid-open No. Hei 7-71279. This engine includes: an exhaust port and a scavenging port opened/ closed by reciprocating motion of a piston, which are opened in a cylinder hole, and an exhaust passage and a scavenging passage respectively communicated to the exhaust port and the scavenging port, wherein a new gas (unburnt gas) pre-compressed in a crank chamber is fed in the cylinder hole through the scavenging passage and a scavenging port, being compressed in the cylinder hole, and ignited by an ignition plug, and the burnt gas is exhausted into-the exhaust passage from the exhaust port, characterized in that an exhaust control valve is provided in the exhaust port for reducing the blowoff of the new., gas upon scavenging, whereby blocking an upper portion of the exhaust port by the exhaust control valve in a low speed rotational state of the engine, and opening the exhaust port in a high speed rotational state of the engine. [Problem to be Solved by the Invention] The internal combustion engine described in Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 56-54336 uses an exhaust control valve formed in a double enveloping shape capable of being brought in contact with a cylinder hole in which part of the double enveloping body is cut out in a shape corresponding to a transverse cross-sectional shape of an upper portion of the exhaust passage. In such a configuration, since the exhaust control valve is brought in line-contact with the cylinder hole, an exhaust gas tends to be leaked with a relatively low resistance in a gap between an outer peripheral wall of a piston and an outer peripheral surface of the exhaust control valve, and accordingly, since the valve is positioned to block the exhaust port upon a low load operational state (see Fig. 1 of the document), the shape of the exhaust passage becomes different from the original one to reduce the output, thus failing to sufficiently exhibit the exhaust control effect upon such a low load operational state. [0004] In the internal combustion engine shown in Figs. 2 to 4 of Japanese Patent Laid-open No. Hei 3-33426, as shown in Figs. 29 to 31 in this specification, an exhaust control valve 01 includes a flat valve main body 02, a flexible thin plate-like blocking member 03 raised upright from a leading end of the flat valve main body 02, and an arcuate edge portion 04 extending on a cylinder hole 05 side from the leading end of the flat valve main body 02 and being brought in contact with the cylinder hole 05 with a narrow gap kept therebetween. A base portion of the flat valve main body 02 is pivotably supported near an approximately vertical center portion of the exhaust passage 06 in such a manner as to be vertically rockable around a shaft 07. A cavity portion 09 allowing the flexible thin plate-like blocking member 03 to be rocked therein is formed in the cylinder block 08, so that the exhaust control valve 01 is vertically rocked depending on a rotating speed of the engine. Such a configuration, however, has the following problem. Namely, in the case where the exhaust control valve 01 is rocked downward in a low speed rotational state, when the upper edge of a piston 010 is moved up over the upper edge of an exhaust port Oil, a gas in the cylinder hole 05 is trapped in a space surrounded by a cutout portion 012 of the cylinder block 08, blocking member 03, arcuate edge portion 04, and the outer peripheral surface of the piston 010. As a result, the scavenging efficiency and the charging efficiency are reduced and the compression ratio is lowered, and further, since the exhaust passage 013 is formed in a rectangular shape in cross-section and the base portion of the flat valve main body 02 is positioned at the approximately vertical center of the exhaust passage 013, the cross-section of the exhaust gas flow passage is rapidly varied, to cause a large disturbance, thereby increasing the exhaust pressure. This fails to improve the output and the efficiency of the engine. Further, since the flexible thin plate-like blocking member 03 is curvedly slid within the cavity portion 09 having a narrow width, the sliding motion is possibly obstructed by residual solid matters contained in the exhaust gas. [Means for Solving the Problem and Effect] The present invention is intended to provide an improved spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine solved in the above problems. Concretely, the present invention having a configuration described in claim 1 provides an exhaust controller for a spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine including an exhaust passage opened in a cylinder hole via an exhaust port in the form of an elliptic shape or a rectangular shape having four rounded corners in transverse cross-section, and an exhaust control valve held in such a manner as to be reciprocatively movable along the exhaust port in the center line direction of the cylinder hole for blocking at least a cylinder head side portion of the exhaust port, characterized in that the exhaust control valve includes a bottom surface portion facing to the exhaust passage, both side surface portions raised from both side edges of the bottom surface portion, and a control surface portion additionally provided at a leading edge of the bottom surface portion in such a manner as to face to the exhaust port and to be curved along the cylinder hole, wherein the control surface portion has both side protrusion portions formed in such shapes as to be protruded sideward from the both side surface portions along the cylinder hole, and the exhaust passage is formed in a such shape that an upstream end of the exhaust passage is smoothly connected to the exhaust port and the bottom surface portion of the exhaust control valve is movable. With this configuration, even in a state in which the exhaust control valve is in a closed or open state, an exhaust gas in the cylinder block is allowed to smoothly flow from the exhaust port into the exhaust passage without any trapping in the midway; and in the state in which the exhaust control valve is closed, the gas leakage from the cylinder hole into the exhaust passage is prevented by the both side protrusion portions protruded from both the sides of the control surface portion of the exhaust control valve, to increase the scavenging efficiency and the charging efficiency, thereby improving the output and efficiency of the engine. According to the present invention having a configuration described in claim 2, it is possible to easily provide the exhaust control valve which is simple in structure and shape. According to the present invention having a configuration described in claim 3, the exhaust control valve can be effectively, easily assembled only by inserting the exhaust control valve from an opening end of the exhaust passage of the cylinder block and then mounting the lid member integrated with the exhaust passage forming portions. According to the present invention having a configuration described in claim 4, it is possible to reduce the number of parts and simplify the structure, and hence to reduce the cost. According to the present invention having a configuration described in claim 5 or 6, the control surface at the leading end of the exhaust control valve can be smoothly, easily moved in the vertical direction. According to the present invention having a configuration described in claim 7 or 8, the leakage of an exhaust gas bypassing both the edges of the exhaust control valve and passing through both side portions of the exhaust port can be prevented by the both side protrusion portions of the exhaust control valve, to certainly prevent the blowoff of the exhaust gas upon closing of the exhaust control valve, thereby further improving the output and efficiency of the internal combustion engine. Accordingly, the present invention relates to an exhaust controller for a spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine comprising: an exhaust passage in communication with a cylinder hole via an exhaust port formed in a cylinder block, the exhaust passage including a cylinder head side portion and a crank case side portion; an exhaust control valve mounted for reciprocating motion to be movable along said exhaust port along a center line direction of said cylinder hole for blocking at least said cylinder head side portion of said exhaust port; the cylinder head side portion of said exhaust passage including an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and formed by a lid member which closes said exhaust control valve; the crank case side portion of said exhaust passage including an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and being formed by the cylinder block; said cylinder head side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being cooled by a cooling water passage disposed adjacent to a cylinder head, said cooling water passage being formed in said lid member, and said crank case side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being directly cooled by a cylinder block cooling water passage disposed adjacent to the crank case, said cylinder block cooling water passage being formed in said cylinder block. [Brief Description of the/Drawings] [Fig. 1] A side view of a spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine including an exhaust controller of the present invention. [Fig. 2] A vertical sectional side view of Fig. 1 showing a state in which an exhaust control valve is rocked downward. [Fig. 3] A vertical sectional front view taken on line III-III of Fig. 2. [Fig. 4] A transverse sectional plan view taken on line IV-IV of Fig. 2. [Fig. 5] A partially vertical sectional side view taken on line V-V of Fig. 4. [Fig. 6] A partially vertical sectional front view taken on line VI-VI of Fig. 5. [Fig. 7] A partially vertical sectional side view, similar to Fig. 5, showing a state in which the exhaust control valve is rocked upward. [Fig. 8] A partially vertical sectional view taken on line VIII-VIII of Fig. 7. [Fig. 9] A side view of an essential portion showing a state in which a lid member is mounted on a cylinder block. [Fig. 10] A plan view of Fig. 9. [Fig. 11] A view seen from line XI-XI of Fig. 9. [Fig. 12] A view seen from line XII-XII of Fig. 9. [Fig. 13] A transverse sectional plan view taken on line XIII-XIII of Fig. 9. [Fig. 14] A vertical sectional front view taken on line XIV-XIV of Fig. 9. [Fig. 15] A vertical sectional side view taken on line XV-XV of Fig. 11. [Fig. 16] A transverse sectional plan view taken on line XVI-XVI of Fig. 15. [Fig. 17] A vertical sectional view taken on line XVII-XVII of Fig. 11. [Fig. 18] A vertical sectional view taken on line.XVIII-XVIII of Fig. 17. [Fig. 19] A perspective view of a lid member, with parts partially cutaway. [Fig. 20] A perspective view of an exhaust control valve. [Fig. 21] A side view of Fig. 20. [Fig. 22] A plan view of Fig. 22. [Fig. 23] A view seen along arrow XXIII of Fig. 21. [Fig. 24] A transverse sectional side view showing another embodiment. [Fig. 25] A vertical sectional side view of an essential portion showing a further embodiment. [Fig. 26] A vertical sectional view taken on line XXVI-XXVI of Fig. 25. [Fig. 27] A vertical sectional side view of an essential portion, similar to Fig. 25, showing a state in. which the exhaust control valve is closed. [Fig. 28] A vertical sectional view taken on line XXVIII-XXVIII of Fig. 27. [Fig. 29] A perspective view a related art exhaust control valve. [Fig. 3C; A plan view of Fig. 29. [Fig. 31] A vertical sectional view of an essential portion, taken on line XXXI-XXXI of Fig. 30. [Preferred Embodiments of the Invention] One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to Figs. 1 to 23. A spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine 1 including an exhaust control valve of the present invention is a single cylinder internal combustion (or multi-cylinder internal combustion engine) in which a cylinder block 3 is mounted on a motorcycle (not shown) in a posture raised upward. In this engine 1, the cylinder block 3 and a cylinder head 4 are sequentially stacked over a crank case 2 and integrally connected to each other. A piston 6 is vertically slidably fitted in a cylinder hole 5 formed in the cylinder block 3, and the piston 6 is connected to a crank shaft 8 by a connecting rod 7. The crank shaft 8 is rotated by vertical movement of the piston 6. An intake passage 10 communicated to a crank chamber 9 of the crank case 2 is formed in the crank case 2 at a position behind the cylinder block 3. A reed valve 11 is interposed in the intake passage 10, and a carburetor (not shown) is interposed in the intake passage 10 on the upstream side from the reed valve 11. Scavenging ports 12 are opened in an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder hole 5, and an exhaust port 13 is opened in the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder hole 5 over the scavenging ports 12 at a position opposed to the intake passage 10. The scavenging ports 12 are communicated to the crank chamber 9 via scavenging passages 14 formed in the cylinder block 3. The exhaust port 13 is communicated to an exhaust passage 15 formed in the cylinder block 3, and the exhaust.passage 15 is opened to the front side of the body. An ignition plug 17 is provided in a recessed portion of a combustion chamber 16 over the cylinder hole 5. A new air mixed with a fuel by the carburetor (not shown) is sucked via the reed valve 11 into the crank chamber 9 when the pressure of the crank chamber 9 becomes negative at the up stroke, and is compressed at the down stroke. The compressed new gas is supplied into the combustion chamber 16 via the scavenging passages 14 when the scavenging ports 12 are opened by downward movement of the piston 6. By such advance of the compressed new gas, part of the burnt gas in the combustion chamber 16 is exhausted into the exhaust passage 15 from the exhaust port 13. And, when the scavenging ports 12 and the exhaust port 13 are sequentially blocked by upward movement of the piston 6, the mixture gas in the combustion chamber 16 is compressed by upward movement of the piston 6, and then ignited by the ignition plug 17 near the top dead center. A containing recessed portion 18, which is formed substantially in a fan shape in a side view, is formed in an upper portion of the exhaust passage 15 at a position near the exhaust port 13 in the cylinder block 3, and it is covered with a lid member 20 including an exhaust passage 41 continuous to the downstream side of the exhaust passage 15 of the cylinder block 3. An exhaust control valve 21 disposed in the containing recessed portion 18 is, as shown in Figs. 20 to 23, formed substantially in a fan shape in a side view. A rotatably supporting portion 22 is formed at the center of such a fan shape of the exhaust control valve 21, and a spline hole 23 is formed in the rotatably supporting portion 22. A bottom wall 24 having a leading edge whose curvature is substantially identical to that of an upper edge of the cylinder hole 5 in a side view is formed on a bottom surface of the exhaust control valve 21; a side wall 25 is erected upright from each side edge of the bottom wall 24; a control wall 26 having an arcuate surface is erected upward from the leading edge of the bottom wall 24; and a protrusion portion 27 protruding sideward from the side wall 25 along the peripheral surface of the cylinder hole 5 is formed on each side of the control wall 26. A communication hole 28 is provided substantially at the center of the bottom wall 24. As shown in Fig. 4, a spline portion 30 of a valve driving shaft 29 is fitted in the spline hole 23 of the exhaust control valve 21, and a collar 35 is fitted around a small diameter portion 31 positioned near the leading end from the spline portion 30. A nut 36 is screwed with a leading end of the small diameter portion 31. Thus, the exhaust control valve 21 is connected integrally with the valve driving shaft 29. A base portion 32 of the valve driving shaft 29 has an outside diameter identical to that of the collar 35, and a pulley 37, a collar 38, and a washer 39 are sequentially fitted around a small diameter portion 33 at a base end of the base portion 32. And, a nut 40 is screwed with a threaded portion 34 near the base end of the small diameter portion 33. As shown in Figs. 11, 15 and 19, the lid member 20 includes a downward exhaust passage 41 smoothly connected to a downward portion of the exhaust passage 15 of the cylinder block 3, and it is composed of a lid main body 43 in which a cooling water passage 42 is formed in such a manner as to surround an upper half of the downward exhaust passage 41, and plate-like exhaust passage forming portions 44 each being formed in a fan shape capable of being loosely fitted in the containing recessed portion 18 of the cylinder block 3. As shown in Fig. 15, the lid main body 43 has, in an upper space surrounded by the exhaust passage forming portions 44, a fan-shaped projecting partitioning wall 45 having a center angle narrower than those of each exhaust passage forming portion 44 of the lid member 20 and each side wall 25 of the exhaust control valve 21 in a side view. The cooling water passage 42 is extended into the projecting partitioning wall 45. As shown in Figs. 11, 12, four pieces (upper, lower, right, and left) of cooling water communication ports 47 communicated to a cooling water passage 50 of the cylinder block 3 via cooling water communication ports 49 formed in a mating surface 48 of the cylinder block 3 are formed in a mating surface 46 of the lid main body 43. A cooling water passage 51 communicated to the cooling water passage 50 is also formed in the cylinder head 4. As shown in Figs. 6, 8 and 14, the exhaust passage 15 formed in the cylinder block 3 is surrounded by a passage wall 53. The passage wall 53 is partially curved in an elliptic shape in a transverse cross-section downward from stepped portions 52 brought in contact with lower surfaces of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 of the lid member 20. Consequently, the exhaust passage 15 formed in an elliptic shape having a major axis in the right and left (horizontal) direction is formed of an inner curving surface 54 of the passage wall 53, inner exhaust passage curving surfaces 55 of the exhaust passage forming portions 44, and a lower surface 56 of the bottom wall 24 of the exhaust control valve 21. Of a pair of the right and left exhaust passage forming portions 44, as shown in Figs. 11 and 17, the right side exhaust passage forming portion 44r as seen from the lid member 20 to the cylinder block 3 has a positioning through-hole 57, and as shown in Figs. 20, 21 and 23, the right side wall 25r of the exhaust control valve 21 has a positioning blind hole 58. Pivotably supporting holes 59 for pivotably supporting the valve driving shaft 29 are formed in both the lid main body 43 and the exhaust passage forming portions 44 of the lid member 20 in such a manner as to be positioned at the center of the fan shape of each of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 (see Figs. 15 to 18). After the collar 35 is fitted in the left pivotably supporting hole 591, the exhaust control valve 21 is disposed between a pair of the right and left exhaust passage forming portions 44 and a positioning rod {not shown) is inserted in the positioning through-hole 57 of the exhaust passage forming portion 44r and in the side wall 25r of the exhaust control valve 21 to thus position the exhaust control valve 21. Then, in a state in which the center of the pivotably supporting holes 59 is aligned with the center of the spline hole 23 of the exhaust control valve 21, the valve driving shaft 29 is inserted from the right pivotably supporting hole 59 into the spline hole 23 and collar 35, followed by screwing of the nut 36 with the small diameter portion 31 of the valve driving shaft 29, to thereby mount the exhaust control valve 21 on the valve driving shaft 29 in such a manner as to be vertically rockably supported by the exhaust passage forming portions 44 of the lid member 20 via the valve driving shaft 29. As shown in Fig. 3, a driven gear 62 fitted integrally with a rotating shaft 61 of a cooling water pump 60 meshes with a drive gear 63 integrated with the crank shaft 8. When the crank shaft 8 is rotated, the cooling water pump 60 is rotated. Thus, a cooling water discharged from the cooling water pump 60 flows in the cooling water passage 50 of the cylinder block 3. Part of the cooling water flows in the cooling water passage 42 through the lower ones of the openings 49, 47, being returned into the cooling water passage 50 through the upper ones of the openings 49, 47, and it flows in the cooling water passage 51 of the cylinder head 4, to thereby cool the cylinder block 3, cylinder head 4 and the lid member 20. In addition, the cooling water discharged from a cooling water discharge port 64 of the cooling water passage 51 of the cylinder head 4 is fed to a radiator (not shown), being cooled by the radiator, and is returned into a suction port 65 of the cooling water pump 60. The pulley 37 is connected to a drive pulley of a servo-motor (not shown) via a cable 66 under a specific relationship set upon positioning of the exhaust control valve. The rotation of the servo-motor is controlled by a control signal of a CPU operated to receive input signals regarding a rotational speed of the engine 1, an opening degree of a throttle valve, and an intake pressure and to calculate the rotational speed of the servo-motor on the basis of a specific control map. In a low speed operational state of the engine 1, the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked downward by the servo-motor, and in a high speed operational state of the engine 1, the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked upward by the servo-motor. According to the embodiment having the above configuration shown in Figs. 1 to 23, the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked downward as shown in Figs. 7 and 8 in a low speed operational state, for example, upon an idling operation, with a result that the starting timing of blocking the exhaust port 13 at the up stroke of the piston 6 is advanced and the starting timing of opening the exhaust port 13 at the down stroke of the piston 6 is retarded. As a result, the compression ratio is increased and the volume of a space portion 67 surrounded by the containing recessed portion 18 and the exhaust control valve 21 is enlarged. In such a low speed operational state, by the increased volume of the space portion 67 communicated via the communication hole 28 to an exhaust system composed of the exhaust passage 15, downstream exhaust passage 41 and an exhaust pipe (not shown), the substantial length of the exhaust system is extended, so that a positive pressure reflection wave of the exhaust gas in the low speed operational state reaches the exhaust port 13 in a proper timing corresponding to completion of blocking of the exhaust port 13. As a result, the blowoff of a new gas (unburnt gas) from the exhaust port 13 into the exhaust passage 15 and the downstream exhaust passage 41 can be prevented by such a positive pressure reflection wave and also the exhaust of the new gas is controlled, to thereby improve the charging efficiency in a low speed operational state, thus increasing the output and improving the fuel consumption. Further, in a state in which the exhaust control valve 21 is descended to the lower limit, a large amount of the burnt gas remains in the combustion chamber 16 and the combustion chamber 16 is kept at a high temperature, and also an actively thermal atmospheric combustion is performed near the top dead center by the increased compression ratio, thereby avoiding the significant reduction in output and preventing the amount of unburnt hydrocarbon in the exhaust gas from being increased. As the crank shaft 8 is accelerated from a low speed operational state, the control exhaust valve 21 is rocked upward as shown in Figs. 5, 6, so that the starting timing of blocking the exhaust port 13 at the up stroke of the piston 6 is retarded while the starting timing of opening the exhaust port 13 at the down stroke of the piston 6 is advanced, and also the volume of the space portion 67 is reduced. Accordingly, it is possible to smoothly perform gas exchange in a large amount and hence to achieve an exhaust pressure pulsation effect. Further, since the positive pressure reflection wave of the exhaust gas in a high speed operational state reaches the exhaust port 13 in a proper timing corresponding to completion of blocking the exhaust port 13, it is possible to suppress the discharge of the new gas from the exhaus port 13 by the positive pressure reflection wave, and hence to increase the output while keeping a desirable fuel consumption. The volume of the space portion 67 is continuously changed depending on the degree of vertical rocking of the exhaust control valve 21 and correspondingly the substantial length of the exhaust system is continuously changed, so that a high exhaust pulsation effect can be obtained in a wide range from a low speed operational region to a high speed operational region, differently from the related art spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine in which the substantial length of the exhaust system is changed only between large and small values. In the lid member 20 including the downstream exhaust passage 41, the outer periphery of the downstream exhaust passage 41 is surrounded by the cooling water passage 42, so that the outer peripheral wall of the downstream exhaust passage 41 can be sufficiently cooled, and also the lid member 20 is substantially uniformly cooled to thereby prevent occurrence of a large thermal strain in the lid member 20. As shown in Figs. 5 and 6, in a state in which the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked upward and the exhaust port 13 is full-opened, the lower half of the exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust port 13 of the cylinder block 3 flows along the exhaust passage 15 of the cylinder block 3, and as shown in Fig. 6, the upper half of the exhaust gas flows along the inner exhaust passage curving surfaces 55 of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 formed in the shape smoothly connected to the inner curving surface 54 of the exhaust passage 15 and along the lower surface of the bottom wall 24 of the exhaust control valve 21. Thus, the lower half and the upper half of the exhaust gas are smoothly collected in the downstream exhaust passage 41 without large disturbance, to thereby smoothly carry out the gas exchange in the combustion chamber 16. Further, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, in a state in which the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked downward and the exhaust port 13 is restricted, the protrusion portions 27 protruded from both the sides of the control wall 26 of the exhaust control valve 21 are brought in close-contact with the leading end surfaces of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 to cover from the front side the inner exhaust passage curving surfaces 55 of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 and the lower surface 56 of the bottom wall 24 of the exhaust control valve 21 is opposed to the inner curving surface 54 of the passage wall 53 of the exhaust passage 15, to form the upper surface of the flow passage, so that the exhaust gas smoothly flows down into the downward exhaust passage 41 without large disturbance, to thereby smoothly carry out the gas exchange in a low speed rotational state. When the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked downward and the exhaust port 13 is restricted, the upper edge of the piston 6 is positioned between the upper edge of the exhaust port 13 and the lower surface of the bottom wall 24 of the exhaust control valve 21, and in such a state, as shown in Fig. 8, a burnt gas in the cylinder hole 5 is prevented from flowing in gaps between the inner exhaust passage curving surfaces 55 of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 and the outer surfaces 59 of the side walls 25 of the exhaust control valve 21 by the protrusion portions 27 protruding to both the sides of the control wall 26 of the exhaust control valve 21 and projecting portions 68 projecting in the center direction from the edges of the protrusion portions 27 on both the sides of the exhaust port 13 of the cylinder block 3 (see Fig. 4), to prevent the leakage of the burnt gas from the cylinder hole 5 into the downstream exhaust passage 41, thereby increasing the scavenging effect and the charging effect. This makes it possible to improve the output and efficiency of the spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine 1. Further, as shown in Fig. 4, since the exhaust passage forming portions 44 are provided on the lid member 20, the exhaust control valve 21 having the protrusion portions 27 can be inserted in the exhaust passage 15 without interference of the projecting portions 68 in the exhaust port 13 of the cylinder block 3. In the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 to 23, the mating face of the lid member 20 is, as shown in Fig. 16, is a half face passing through the center of the pivotably supporting holes 59 and the valve driving shaft 29 is pivotably supported only by the pivotably supporting holes 59 formed in the exhaust passage forming portions of the lid member 20; however, as shown in Fig. 24, the mating face 48 of the cylinder block 3 and the mating face 46 of the lid member 20 may be shifted outward of the cylinder block 3 from the center of the valve driving shaft 29 so that the valve driving shaft 29 can be rockably supported by the pivotably supporting holes 59 of the lid member 20 in co-operation of a pivotably supporting hole 70 of the cylinder block 3. In this case, in order to specify a positional relationship between the side walls 25 of the exhaust control valve 21 and the exhaust passage forming portions 44 of the lid member 20, a flange portion 71 is formed on the rotatably supporting portion 22 of the exhaust control valve 21 and a peripheral cutout 72 is formed in the lid member 20. Further, in the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 to 24, the exhaust control valve 21 includes the two side walls 25 and has a recessed portion formed by the rotatably supporting portion 22, bottom wall 24, side walls 25, and control wall 26; however, as shown in Figs. 25 to 28, both the side walls 25 may be integrated with each other at the center in the width direction to be formed in a T-shape in a plan view, and further, the exhaust control valve 74 may be formed in a further simplified shape. [Reference Numerals] 1: spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine, 2: crank case, 3: cylinder block, 4: cylinder head, 5: cylinder hole, 6: piston, 7: connecting rod, 8: crank shaft, 9: crank chamber, 10: intake passage, 11: reed valve, 12: scavenging port, 13: exhaust port, 14: scavenging passage, 15: exhaust passage,, 16: combustion chamber, 17: ignition plug, 18: containing recessed portion, 20: lid member, 21: exhaust control valve, 22: rotatably supporting portion, 23: spline hole, 24: bottom wall, 25: side wall, 26: control wall, 27: protrusion portion, 28: communication hole, 29: valve driving shaft, 30: spline portion, 31: small diameter portion, 32: base portion, 33: base end small diameter portion, 34: threaded portion, 35: collar. 36: nut, 37: pulley, 38: collar, 39: washer, 40: nut, 41: downstream exhaust passage, 42: cooling water passage, 43: lid main body, 44: exhaust passage forming portion, 45: projecting partitioning wall, 46: mating surface, 47: cooling water communication port, 48: mating surface, 49: cooling water communication port, 50: cooling water passage, 51: cooling water passage, 52: stepped portion, 53: passage wall, 54: inner curving surface, 55: exhaust passage curving surface, 56: lower surface, 57: positioning through-hole, 58: positioning blind hole, 59: pivotably supporting hole, 60: cooling water pump, 61: rotating shaft, 62: driven gear, 63: drive gear, 64: cooling water discharge port, 65: intake port, 66: cable, 67: space portion, 68: projecting portion, 69: outer surface, 70: pivotably supporting hole, 71: flange portion, 72: peripheral cutout, 73: exhaust passage forming portion, 74: exhaust control valve WE CLAIM: 1. An exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine comprising: an exhaust passage in communication with a cylinder hole via an exhaust port formed in a cylinder block, the exhaust passage including a cylinder head side portion and a crank case side portion; an exhaust control valve mounted for reciprocating motion to be movable along said exhaust port along a center line direction of said cylinder hole for blocking at least said cylinder head side portion of said exhaust port; the cylinder head side portion of said exhaust passage having an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and formed by a lid member which closes said exhaust control valve; the crank case side portion of said exhaust passage having an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and being formed by the cylinder block; said cylinder head side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being cooled by a cooling water passage disposed adjacent to a cylinder head, said cooling water passage being formed in said lid member, and said crank case side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being directly cooled by a cylinder block cooling water passage disposed adjacent to the crank case, said cylinder block cooling water passage being formed in said cylinder block. 2. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cylinder block cooling water passage disposed adjacent to the crank case is communicated through cooling water openings to said cooling water passage disposed adjacent to a cylinder head which is provided in said lid member, and said cooling water openings are formed in mating faces of said cylinder block and said lid member, said mating faces extending along the center line direction of said cylinder hole. 3. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition internal combustion engine as claimed in any of the preceding claim, wherein said exhaust control valve is mounted to be rockable around the cylinder head side of a downstream portion of said exhaust passage. 4. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke inner combustion engine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said lid member is brought into contact with said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said cylinder block. 5. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke inner combustion engine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said lid member is brought into contact with said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said cylinder block. 6. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said lid member extends from said exhaust port to an exhaust pipe connection point downstream from said exhaust port. 7. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in claim 5, wherein said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said lid member extends from said exhaust port to an exhaust pipe connection point downstream from said exhaust port. 8. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in claim 6, wherein said lid member forms a downstream outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage on the cylinder head side portion and the crank case side portion thereof, further wherein said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said cylinder block extends form said exhaust port to said lid member. 9. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in claim 7, wherein said lid member forms a downstream outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage on the cylinder head side portion and the crank case side portion thereof, further wherein said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said cylinder block extends form said exhaust port to said lid member. 10. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said exhaust control valve includes a bottom wall forming a portion of said exhaust passage, said bottom wall extending from said exhaust port to the portion of said control valve which is mounted to be rockable. 11. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said exhaust control valve includes a bottom wall forming a portion of said exhaust passage, said bottom wall extending from said exhaust port to the portion of said control valve which is mounted to be rockable. 12. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke inner combustion engine as claimed in any of the preceding claim, wherein said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said exhaust passage member of said lid member is brought into contact with said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said cylinder block. 13. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in any of the preceding claim, wherein said exhaust control valve is rockably supported on said exhaust passage member of said lid member. 14. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in any of the preceding claim, wherein said exhaust passage member of said lid member is disposed on each side of said exhaust control valve. 15. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine as claimed in claim 13, wherein said exhaust passage member of said lid member is disposed on each side of said exhaust control valve. 16. An exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal combustion engine substantially as herein described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

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The present invention relates to an exhaust controller for a spark
ignition two stroke internal combustion engine capable of adjusting
an exhaust timing, characterized by suppressing leakage of an exhaust gas from both side edges of an exhaust control valve to the utmost.
[Related Art]
Spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engines of this kind have been known, for example, from Japanese Patent Laid-open No. Hei 7-71279. This engine includes: an exhaust port and a scavenging port opened/ closed by reciprocating motion of a piston, which are opened in a cylinder hole, and an exhaust passage and a scavenging passage respectively communicated to the exhaust port and the scavenging port, wherein a new gas (unburnt gas) pre-compressed in a crank chamber is fed in the cylinder hole through the scavenging passage and a scavenging port, being compressed in the cylinder hole, and ignited by an ignition plug, and the burnt gas is exhausted into-the exhaust passage from the exhaust port, characterized in that an exhaust control valve is provided in the exhaust port for reducing the blowoff of the new., gas upon scavenging, whereby blocking an upper portion of the exhaust port by the exhaust control valve in a low speed rotational state of the engine, and opening the exhaust port in a high speed rotational state of the engine.
[Problem to be Solved by the Invention]
The internal combustion engine described in Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 56-54336 uses an exhaust control valve formed in a double enveloping shape capable of being brought in contact with a cylinder hole in which part of the double enveloping body is cut out in a shape corresponding to a transverse cross-sectional shape of an upper portion of the exhaust passage. In such a configuration, since the exhaust control valve is brought in line-contact with the cylinder hole, an exhaust gas tends to be leaked with a relatively low resistance in a gap between an outer peripheral wall of a piston and an outer peripheral surface of the exhaust control valve, and accordingly, since the valve is positioned to block the exhaust port upon a low load operational state (see Fig. 1 of the document), the shape of the exhaust passage becomes different from the original one to reduce the output, thus failing to sufficiently exhibit the exhaust control effect upon such a low load operational state. [0004]
In the internal combustion engine shown in Figs. 2 to 4 of Japanese Patent Laid-open No. Hei 3-33426, as shown in Figs. 29 to 31 in this specification, an exhaust control
valve 01 includes a flat valve main body 02, a flexible thin plate-like blocking member 03 raised upright from a leading end of the flat valve main body 02, and an arcuate edge portion 04 extending on a cylinder hole 05 side from the leading end of the flat valve main body 02 and being brought in contact with the cylinder hole 05 with a narrow gap kept therebetween. A base portion of the flat valve main body 02 is pivotably supported near an approximately vertical center portion of the exhaust passage 06 in such a manner as to be vertically rockable around a shaft 07. A cavity portion 09 allowing the flexible thin plate-like blocking member 03 to be rocked therein is formed in the cylinder block 08, so that the exhaust control valve 01 is vertically rocked depending on a rotating speed of the engine. Such a configuration, however, has the following problem. Namely, in the case where the exhaust control valve 01 is rocked downward in a low speed rotational state, when the upper edge of a piston 010 is moved up over the upper edge of an exhaust port Oil, a gas in the cylinder hole 05 is trapped in a space surrounded by a cutout portion 012 of the cylinder block 08, blocking member 03, arcuate edge portion 04, and the outer peripheral surface of the piston 010. As a result, the scavenging efficiency and the charging efficiency are
reduced and the compression ratio is lowered, and further,
since the exhaust passage 013 is formed in a rectangular shape in cross-section and the base portion of the flat valve main body 02 is positioned at the approximately vertical center of the exhaust passage 013, the cross-section of the exhaust gas flow passage is rapidly varied, to cause a large disturbance, thereby increasing the exhaust pressure. This fails to improve the output and the efficiency of the engine.
Further, since the flexible thin plate-like blocking member 03 is curvedly slid within the cavity portion 09 having a narrow width, the sliding motion is possibly obstructed by residual solid matters contained in the exhaust gas.
[Means for Solving the Problem and Effect]
The present invention is intended to provide an improved spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine solved in the above problems. Concretely, the present invention having a configuration described in claim 1 provides an exhaust controller for a spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine including an exhaust passage opened in a cylinder hole via an exhaust port in
the form of an elliptic shape or a rectangular shape having four rounded corners in transverse cross-section, and an exhaust control valve held in such a manner as to be reciprocatively movable along the exhaust port in the center line direction of the cylinder hole for blocking at least a cylinder head side portion of the exhaust port, characterized in that the exhaust control valve includes a bottom surface portion facing to the exhaust passage, both side surface portions raised from both side edges of the bottom surface portion, and a control surface portion additionally provided at a leading edge of the bottom surface portion in such a manner as to face to the exhaust port and to be curved along the cylinder hole, wherein the control surface portion has both side protrusion portions formed in such shapes as to be protruded sideward from the both side surface portions along the cylinder hole, and the exhaust passage is formed in a such shape that an upstream end of the exhaust passage is smoothly connected to the exhaust port and the bottom surface portion of the exhaust control valve is movable.
With this configuration, even in a state in which the exhaust control valve is in a closed or open state, an exhaust gas in the cylinder block is allowed to smoothly
flow from the exhaust port into the exhaust passage without any trapping in the midway; and in the state in which the exhaust control valve is closed, the gas leakage from the cylinder hole into the exhaust passage is prevented by the both side protrusion portions protruded from both the sides of the control surface portion of the exhaust control valve, to increase the scavenging efficiency and the charging efficiency, thereby improving the output and efficiency of the engine.
According to the present invention having a configuration described in claim 2, it is possible to easily provide the exhaust control valve which is simple in structure and shape.
According to the present invention having a configuration described in claim 3, the exhaust control valve can be effectively, easily assembled only by inserting the exhaust control valve from an opening end of the exhaust passage of the cylinder block and then mounting the lid member integrated with the exhaust passage forming portions.
According to the present invention having a
configuration described in claim 4, it is possible to reduce the number of parts and simplify the structure, and hence to reduce the cost.
According to the present invention having a configuration described in claim 5 or 6, the control surface at the leading end of the exhaust control valve can be smoothly, easily moved in the vertical direction.
According to the present invention having a configuration described in claim 7 or 8, the leakage of an exhaust gas bypassing both the edges of the exhaust control valve and passing through both side portions of the exhaust port can be prevented by the both side protrusion portions of the exhaust control valve, to certainly prevent the blowoff of the exhaust gas upon closing of the exhaust control valve, thereby further improving the output and efficiency of the internal combustion engine.
Accordingly, the present invention relates to an exhaust controller for a spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine comprising: an exhaust passage in communication with a cylinder hole via an exhaust port formed in a cylinder block, the exhaust passage including a cylinder head side portion and a crank case side portion; an exhaust control valve mounted for reciprocating motion to be movable along said exhaust port along a center line direction of said cylinder hole for blocking at least said cylinder head side portion of said exhaust port; the cylinder head side portion of said exhaust passage including an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and formed by a lid member which closes said exhaust control valve; the crank case side portion of said exhaust passage including an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and being formed by the cylinder block; said cylinder head side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being cooled by a cooling water passage disposed adjacent to a cylinder head, said cooling water passage being formed in said lid member, and said crank case side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being directly cooled by a cylinder block cooling water passage disposed adjacent to the crank case, said cylinder block cooling water passage being formed in said cylinder block.
[Brief Description of the/Drawings]
[Fig. 1]
A side view of a spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine including an exhaust controller of the present invention. [Fig. 2]
A vertical sectional side view of Fig. 1 showing a state in which an exhaust control valve is rocked downward. [Fig. 3]
A vertical sectional front view taken on line III-III of Fig. 2.
[Fig. 4]
A transverse sectional plan view taken on line IV-IV of Fig. 2. [Fig. 5]
A partially vertical sectional side view taken on line V-V of Fig. 4. [Fig. 6]
A partially vertical sectional front view taken on line VI-VI of Fig. 5. [Fig. 7]
A partially vertical sectional side view, similar to Fig. 5, showing a state in which the exhaust control valve is rocked upward. [Fig. 8]
A partially vertical sectional view taken on line VIII-VIII of Fig. 7. [Fig. 9]
A side view of an essential portion showing a state in which a lid member is mounted on a cylinder block. [Fig. 10]
A plan view of Fig. 9. [Fig. 11]
A view seen from line XI-XI of Fig. 9. [Fig. 12]
A view seen from line XII-XII of Fig. 9. [Fig. 13]
A transverse sectional plan view taken on line XIII-XIII of Fig. 9. [Fig. 14]
A vertical sectional front view taken on line XIV-XIV of Fig. 9. [Fig. 15]
A vertical sectional side view taken on line XV-XV of Fig. 11. [Fig. 16]
A transverse sectional plan view taken on line XVI-XVI of Fig. 15. [Fig. 17]
A vertical sectional view taken on line XVII-XVII of Fig. 11. [Fig. 18]
A vertical sectional view taken on line.XVIII-XVIII of Fig. 17. [Fig. 19]
A perspective view of a lid member, with parts partially cutaway. [Fig. 20]
A perspective view of an exhaust control valve.
[Fig. 21]
A side view of Fig. 20. [Fig. 22]
A plan view of Fig. 22. [Fig. 23]
A view seen along arrow XXIII of Fig. 21. [Fig. 24]
A transverse sectional side view showing another embodiment. [Fig. 25]
A vertical sectional side view of an essential portion showing a further embodiment. [Fig. 26]
A vertical sectional view taken on line XXVI-XXVI of Fig. 25. [Fig. 27]
A vertical sectional side view of an essential portion, similar to Fig. 25, showing a state in. which the exhaust control valve is closed. [Fig. 28]
A vertical sectional view taken on line XXVIII-XXVIII of Fig. 27. [Fig. 29]
A perspective view a related art exhaust control

valve.
[Fig. 3C;
A plan view of Fig. 29. [Fig. 31]
A vertical sectional view of an essential portion, taken on line XXXI-XXXI of Fig. 30.
[Preferred Embodiments of the Invention]
One embodiment of the present invention will be
described below with reference to Figs. 1 to 23. A spark ignition type two stroke internal
combustion engine 1 including an exhaust control valve of
the present invention is a single cylinder internal combustion (or multi-cylinder internal combustion engine) in which a cylinder block 3 is mounted on a motorcycle (not shown) in a posture raised upward. In this engine 1, the cylinder block 3 and a cylinder head 4 are sequentially stacked over a crank case 2 and integrally connected to each other.
A piston 6 is vertically slidably fitted in a cylinder hole 5 formed in the cylinder block 3, and the piston 6 is connected to a crank shaft 8 by a connecting rod 7. The crank shaft 8 is rotated by vertical movement of the piston 6.
An intake passage 10 communicated to a crank chamber 9 of the crank case 2 is formed in the crank case 2 at a position behind the cylinder block 3. A reed valve 11 is interposed in the intake passage 10, and a carburetor (not shown) is interposed in the intake passage 10 on the upstream side from the reed valve 11. Scavenging ports 12 are opened in an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder hole 5, and an exhaust port 13 is opened in the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder hole 5 over the scavenging ports 12 at a position opposed to the intake
passage 10. The scavenging ports 12 are communicated to the crank chamber 9 via scavenging passages 14 formed in the cylinder block 3. The exhaust port 13 is communicated to an exhaust passage 15 formed in the cylinder block 3, and the exhaust.passage 15 is opened to the front side of the body.
An ignition plug 17 is provided in a recessed portion of a combustion chamber 16 over the cylinder hole 5. A new air mixed with a fuel by the carburetor (not shown) is sucked via the reed valve 11 into the crank chamber 9 when the pressure of the crank chamber 9 becomes negative at the up stroke, and is compressed at the down stroke. The compressed new gas is supplied into the combustion chamber 16 via the scavenging passages 14 when the scavenging ports 12 are opened by downward movement of the piston 6. By such advance of the compressed new gas, part of the burnt gas in the combustion chamber 16 is exhausted into the exhaust passage 15 from the exhaust port 13. And, when the scavenging ports 12 and the exhaust port 13 are sequentially blocked by upward movement of the piston 6, the mixture gas in the combustion chamber 16 is compressed by upward movement of the piston 6, and then ignited by the ignition plug 17 near the top dead center.
A containing recessed portion 18, which is formed substantially in a fan shape in a side view, is formed in an upper portion of the exhaust passage 15 at a position near the exhaust port 13 in the cylinder block 3, and it is covered with a lid member 20 including an exhaust passage 41 continuous to the downstream side of the exhaust passage 15 of the cylinder block 3.
An exhaust control valve 21 disposed in the containing recessed portion 18 is, as shown in Figs. 20 to 23, formed substantially in a fan shape in a side view. A rotatably supporting portion 22 is formed at the center of such a fan shape of the exhaust control valve 21, and a spline hole 23 is formed in the rotatably supporting portion 22. A bottom wall 24 having a leading edge whose curvature is substantially identical to that of an upper edge of the cylinder hole 5 in a side view is formed on a bottom surface of the exhaust control valve 21; a side wall 25 is erected upright from each side edge of the bottom wall 24; a control wall 26 having an arcuate surface is erected upward from the leading edge of the bottom wall 24; and a protrusion portion 27 protruding sideward from the side wall 25 along the peripheral surface of the cylinder
hole 5 is formed on each side of the control wall 26. A communication hole 28 is provided substantially at the center of the bottom wall 24.
As shown in Fig. 4, a spline portion 30 of a valve driving shaft 29 is fitted in the spline hole 23 of the exhaust control valve 21, and a collar 35 is fitted around a small diameter portion 31 positioned near the leading end from the spline portion 30. A nut 36 is screwed with a leading end of the small diameter portion 31. Thus, the exhaust control valve 21 is connected integrally with the valve driving shaft 29.
A base portion 32 of the valve driving shaft 29 has an outside diameter identical to that of the collar 35, and a pulley 37, a collar 38, and a washer 39 are sequentially fitted around a small diameter portion 33 at a base end of the base portion 32. And, a nut 40 is screwed with a threaded portion 34 near the base end of the small diameter portion 33.
As shown in Figs. 11, 15 and 19, the lid member 20 includes a downward exhaust passage 41 smoothly connected to a downward portion of the exhaust passage 15 of the
cylinder block 3, and it is composed of a lid main body 43 in which a cooling water passage 42 is formed in such a manner as to surround an upper half of the downward exhaust passage 41, and plate-like exhaust passage forming portions 44 each being formed in a fan shape capable of being loosely fitted in the containing recessed portion 18 of the cylinder block 3. As shown in Fig. 15, the lid main body 43 has, in an upper space surrounded by the exhaust passage forming portions 44, a fan-shaped projecting partitioning wall 45 having a center angle narrower than those of each exhaust passage forming portion 44 of the lid member 20 and each side wall 25 of the exhaust control valve 21 in a side view. The cooling water passage 42 is extended into the projecting partitioning wall 45. As shown in Figs. 11, 12, four pieces (upper, lower, right, and left) of cooling water communication ports 47 communicated to a cooling water passage 50 of the cylinder block 3 via cooling water communication ports 49 formed in a mating surface 48 of the cylinder block 3 are formed in a mating surface 46 of the lid main body 43. A cooling water passage 51 communicated to the cooling water passage 50 is also formed in the cylinder head 4.
As shown in Figs. 6, 8 and 14, the exhaust passage
15 formed in the cylinder block 3 is surrounded by a passage wall 53. The passage wall 53 is partially curved in an elliptic shape in a transverse cross-section downward from stepped portions 52 brought in contact with lower surfaces of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 of the lid member 20. Consequently, the exhaust passage 15 formed in an elliptic shape having a major axis in the right and left (horizontal) direction is formed of an inner curving surface 54 of the passage wall 53, inner exhaust passage curving surfaces 55 of the exhaust passage forming portions 44, and a lower surface 56 of the bottom wall 24 of the exhaust control valve 21.
Of a pair of the right and left exhaust passage forming portions 44, as shown in Figs. 11 and 17, the right side exhaust passage forming portion 44r as seen from the lid member 20 to the cylinder block 3 has a positioning through-hole 57, and as shown in Figs. 20, 21 and 23, the right side wall 25r of the exhaust control valve 21 has a positioning blind hole 58. Pivotably supporting holes 59 for pivotably supporting the valve driving shaft 29 are formed in both the lid main body 43 and the exhaust passage forming portions 44 of the lid member 20 in such a manner as to be positioned at the center of the fan shape of each
of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 (see Figs. 15 to 18). After the collar 35 is fitted in the left pivotably supporting hole 591, the exhaust control valve 21 is disposed between a pair of the right and left exhaust passage forming portions 44 and a positioning rod {not shown) is inserted in the positioning through-hole 57 of the exhaust passage forming portion 44r and in the side wall 25r of the exhaust control valve 21 to thus position the exhaust control valve 21. Then, in a state in which the center of the pivotably supporting holes 59 is aligned with the center of the spline hole 23 of the exhaust control valve 21, the valve driving shaft 29 is inserted from the right pivotably supporting hole 59 into the spline hole 23 and collar 35, followed by screwing of the nut 36 with the small diameter portion 31 of the valve driving shaft 29, to thereby mount the exhaust control valve 21 on the valve driving shaft 29 in such a manner as to be vertically rockably supported by the exhaust passage forming portions 44 of the lid member 20 via the valve driving shaft 29.
As shown in Fig. 3, a driven gear 62 fitted integrally with a rotating shaft 61 of a cooling water pump 60 meshes with a drive gear 63 integrated with the crank
shaft 8. When the crank shaft 8 is rotated, the cooling water pump 60 is rotated. Thus, a cooling water discharged from the cooling water pump 60 flows in the cooling water passage 50 of the cylinder block 3. Part of the cooling water flows in the cooling water passage 42 through the lower ones of the openings 49, 47, being returned into the cooling water passage 50 through the upper ones of the openings 49, 47, and it flows in the cooling water passage 51 of the cylinder head 4, to thereby cool the cylinder block 3, cylinder head 4 and the lid member 20. In addition, the cooling water discharged from a cooling water discharge port 64 of the cooling water passage 51 of the cylinder head 4 is fed to a radiator (not shown), being cooled by the radiator, and is returned into a suction port 65 of the cooling water pump 60.
The pulley 37 is connected to a drive pulley of a servo-motor (not shown) via a cable 66 under a specific relationship set upon positioning of the exhaust control valve. The rotation of the servo-motor is controlled by a control signal of a CPU operated to receive input signals regarding a rotational speed of the engine 1, an opening degree of a throttle valve, and an intake pressure and to calculate the rotational speed of the servo-motor on the
basis of a specific control map. In a low speed operational state of the engine 1, the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked downward by the servo-motor, and in a high speed operational state of the engine 1, the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked upward by the servo-motor.
According to the embodiment having the above configuration shown in Figs. 1 to 23, the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked downward as shown in Figs. 7 and 8 in a low speed operational state, for example, upon an idling operation, with a result that the starting timing of blocking the exhaust port 13 at the up stroke of the piston 6 is advanced and the starting timing of opening the exhaust port 13 at the down stroke of the piston 6 is retarded. As a result, the compression ratio is increased and the volume of a space portion 67 surrounded by the containing recessed portion 18 and the exhaust control valve 21 is enlarged.
In such a low speed operational state, by the increased volume of the space portion 67 communicated via the communication hole 28 to an exhaust system composed of the exhaust passage 15, downstream exhaust passage 41 and an exhaust pipe (not shown), the substantial length of the
exhaust system is extended, so that a positive pressure reflection wave of the exhaust gas in the low speed operational state reaches the exhaust port 13 in a proper timing corresponding to completion of blocking of the exhaust port 13. As a result, the blowoff of a new gas (unburnt gas) from the exhaust port 13 into the exhaust passage 15 and the downstream exhaust passage 41 can be prevented by such a positive pressure reflection wave and also the exhaust of the new gas is controlled, to thereby improve the charging efficiency in a low speed operational state, thus increasing the output and improving the fuel consumption.
Further, in a state in which the exhaust control valve 21 is descended to the lower limit, a large amount of the burnt gas remains in the combustion chamber 16 and the combustion chamber 16 is kept at a high temperature, and also an actively thermal atmospheric combustion is performed near the top dead center by the increased compression ratio, thereby avoiding the significant reduction in output and preventing the amount of unburnt hydrocarbon in the exhaust gas from being increased.
As the crank shaft 8 is accelerated from a low
speed operational state, the control exhaust valve 21 is rocked upward as shown in Figs. 5, 6, so that the starting timing of blocking the exhaust port 13 at the up stroke of the piston 6 is retarded while the starting timing of opening the exhaust port 13 at the down stroke of the piston 6 is advanced, and also the volume of the space portion 67 is reduced. Accordingly, it is possible to smoothly perform gas exchange in a large amount and hence to achieve an exhaust pressure pulsation effect. Further, since the positive pressure reflection wave of the exhaust gas in a high speed operational state reaches the exhaust port 13 in a proper timing corresponding to completion of blocking the exhaust port 13, it is possible to suppress the discharge of the new gas from the exhaus port 13 by the positive pressure reflection wave, and hence to increase the output while keeping a desirable fuel consumption.
The volume of the space portion 67 is continuously changed depending on the degree of vertical rocking of the exhaust control valve 21 and correspondingly the substantial length of the exhaust system is continuously changed, so that a high exhaust pulsation effect can be obtained in a wide range from a low speed operational
region to a high speed operational region, differently from the related art spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine in which the substantial length of the exhaust system is changed only between large and small values.
In the lid member 20 including the downstream exhaust passage 41, the outer periphery of the downstream exhaust passage 41 is surrounded by the cooling water passage 42, so that the outer peripheral wall of the downstream exhaust passage 41 can be sufficiently cooled, and also the lid member 20 is substantially uniformly cooled to thereby prevent occurrence of a large thermal strain in the lid member 20.
As shown in Figs. 5 and 6, in a state in which the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked upward and the exhaust port 13 is full-opened, the lower half of the exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust port 13 of the cylinder block 3 flows along the exhaust passage 15 of the cylinder block 3, and as shown in Fig. 6, the upper half of the exhaust gas flows along the inner exhaust passage curving surfaces 55 of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 formed in the shape smoothly connected to the inner curving surface 54 of
the exhaust passage 15 and along the lower surface of the bottom wall 24 of the exhaust control valve 21. Thus, the lower half and the upper half of the exhaust gas are smoothly collected in the downstream exhaust passage 41 without large disturbance, to thereby smoothly carry out the gas exchange in the combustion chamber 16.
Further, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, in a state in which the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked downward and the exhaust port 13 is restricted, the protrusion portions 27 protruded from both the sides of the control wall 26 of the exhaust control valve 21 are brought in close-contact with the leading end surfaces of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 to cover from the front side the inner exhaust passage curving surfaces 55 of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 and the lower surface 56 of the bottom wall 24 of the exhaust control valve 21 is opposed to the inner curving surface 54 of the passage wall 53 of the exhaust passage 15, to form the upper surface of the flow passage, so that the exhaust gas smoothly flows down into the downward exhaust passage 41 without large disturbance, to thereby smoothly carry out the gas exchange in a low speed rotational state.
When the exhaust control valve 21 is rocked downward and the exhaust port 13 is restricted, the upper edge of the piston 6 is positioned between the upper edge of the exhaust port 13 and the lower surface of the bottom wall 24 of the exhaust control valve 21, and in such a state, as shown in Fig. 8, a burnt gas in the cylinder hole 5 is prevented from flowing in gaps between the inner exhaust passage curving surfaces 55 of the exhaust passage forming portions 44 and the outer surfaces 59 of the side walls 25 of the exhaust control valve 21 by the protrusion portions 27 protruding to both the sides of the control wall 26 of the exhaust control valve 21 and projecting portions 68 projecting in the center direction from the edges of the protrusion portions 27 on both the sides of the exhaust port 13 of the cylinder block 3 (see Fig. 4), to prevent the leakage of the burnt gas from the cylinder hole 5 into the downstream exhaust passage 41, thereby increasing the scavenging effect and the charging effect. This makes it possible to improve the output and efficiency of the spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine 1.
Further, as shown in Fig. 4, since the exhaust passage forming portions 44 are provided on the lid member
20, the exhaust control valve 21 having the protrusion portions 27 can be inserted in the exhaust passage 15 without interference of the projecting portions 68 in the exhaust port 13 of the cylinder block 3.
In the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 to 23, the mating face of the lid member 20 is, as shown in Fig. 16, is a half face passing through the center of the pivotably supporting holes 59 and the valve driving shaft 29 is pivotably supported only by the pivotably supporting holes 59 formed in the exhaust passage forming portions of the lid member 20; however, as shown in Fig. 24, the mating face 48 of the cylinder block 3 and the mating face 46 of the lid member 20 may be shifted outward of the cylinder block 3 from the center of the valve driving shaft 29 so that the valve driving shaft 29 can be rockably supported by the pivotably supporting holes 59 of the lid member 20 in co-operation of a pivotably supporting hole 70 of the cylinder block 3.
In this case, in order to specify a positional relationship between the side walls 25 of the exhaust control valve 21 and the exhaust passage forming portions 44 of the lid member 20, a flange portion 71 is formed on
the rotatably supporting portion 22 of the exhaust control valve 21 and a peripheral cutout 72 is formed in the lid member 20.
Further, in the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 to 24, the exhaust control valve 21 includes the two side walls 25 and has a recessed portion formed by the rotatably supporting portion 22, bottom wall 24, side walls 25, and control wall 26; however, as shown in Figs. 25 to 28, both the side walls 25 may be integrated with each other at the center in the width direction to be formed in a T-shape in a plan view, and further, the exhaust control valve 74 may be formed in a further simplified shape.
[Reference Numerals]
1: spark ignition type two stroke internal combustion engine, 2: crank case, 3: cylinder block, 4: cylinder head, 5: cylinder hole, 6: piston, 7: connecting rod, 8: crank shaft, 9: crank chamber, 10: intake passage, 11: reed valve, 12: scavenging port, 13: exhaust port, 14: scavenging passage, 15: exhaust passage,, 16: combustion chamber, 17: ignition plug, 18: containing recessed portion, 20: lid member, 21: exhaust control valve, 22: rotatably supporting portion, 23: spline hole, 24: bottom wall, 25: side wall, 26: control wall, 27: protrusion portion, 28: communication hole, 29: valve driving shaft, 30: spline portion, 31: small diameter portion, 32: base portion, 33: base end small diameter portion, 34: threaded portion, 35: collar. 36: nut, 37: pulley, 38: collar, 39: washer, 40: nut, 41: downstream exhaust passage, 42: cooling water passage, 43: lid main body, 44: exhaust passage forming portion, 45: projecting
partitioning wall, 46: mating surface, 47: cooling water communication port, 48: mating surface, 49: cooling water communication port, 50: cooling water passage, 51: cooling water passage, 52: stepped portion, 53: passage wall, 54: inner curving surface, 55: exhaust passage curving surface, 56: lower surface, 57: positioning through-hole, 58: positioning blind hole, 59: pivotably supporting hole, 60: cooling water pump, 61: rotating shaft, 62: driven gear, 63: drive gear, 64: cooling water discharge port, 65: intake port, 66: cable, 67: space portion, 68: projecting portion, 69: outer surface, 70: pivotably supporting hole, 71: flange portion, 72: peripheral cutout, 73: exhaust passage forming portion, 74: exhaust control valve

WE CLAIM:
1. An exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine comprising:
an exhaust passage in communication with a cylinder hole via an exhaust port formed in a cylinder block, the exhaust passage including a cylinder head side portion and a crank case side portion;
an exhaust control valve mounted for reciprocating motion to be movable along said exhaust port along a center line direction of said cylinder hole for blocking at least said cylinder head side portion of said exhaust port;
the cylinder head side portion of said exhaust passage having an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and formed by a lid member which closes said exhaust control valve; the crank case side portion of said exhaust passage having an outer peripheral portion, an upstream portion of said outer peripheral portion smoothly connected to said exhaust port and being formed by the cylinder block;
said cylinder head side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being cooled by a cooling water passage disposed adjacent to a cylinder head, said cooling water passage being formed in said lid member, and said crank case side outer peripheral portion of said exhaust passage being directly cooled by a cylinder block cooling water passage disposed adjacent to the crank case, said cylinder block cooling water passage being formed in said cylinder block.
2. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cylinder
block cooling water passage disposed adjacent to the crank case is
communicated through cooling water openings to said cooling
water passage disposed adjacent to a cylinder head which is
provided in said lid member, and said cooling water openings are
formed in mating faces of said cylinder block and said lid member, said mating faces extending along the center line direction of said cylinder hole.
3. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition internal combustion
engine as claimed in any of the preceding claim, wherein said
exhaust control valve is mounted to be rockable around the
cylinder head side of a downstream portion of said exhaust
passage.
4. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke inner
combustion engine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said portion of
said exhaust passage formed by said lid member is brought into
contact with said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said
cylinder block.
5. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke inner
combustion engine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said portion of
said exhaust passage formed by said lid member is brought into
contact with said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said
cylinder block.
6. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said portion of
said exhaust passage formed by said lid member extends from said
exhaust port to an exhaust pipe connection point downstream
from said exhaust port.
7. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in claim 5, wherein said portion of
said exhaust passage formed by said lid member extends from said
exhaust port to an exhaust pipe connection point downstream
from said exhaust port.
8. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in claim 6, wherein said lid member
forms a downstream outer peripheral portion of said exhaust
passage on the cylinder head side portion and the crank case side
portion thereof, further wherein said portion of said exhaust
passage formed by said cylinder block extends form said exhaust
port to said lid member.
9. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in claim 7, wherein said lid member
forms a downstream outer peripheral portion of said exhaust
passage on the cylinder head side portion and the crank case side
portion thereof, further wherein said portion of said exhaust
passage formed by said cylinder block extends form said exhaust
port to said lid member.
10. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said exhaust
control valve includes a bottom wall forming a portion of said
exhaust passage, said bottom wall extending from said exhaust
port to the portion of said control valve which is mounted to be
rockable.
11. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said exhaust
control valve includes a bottom wall forming a portion of said
exhaust passage, said bottom wall extending from said exhaust
port to the portion of said control valve which is mounted to be
rockable.
12. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke inner
combustion engine as claimed in any of the preceding claim,
wherein said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said
exhaust passage member of said lid member is brought into
contact with said portion of said exhaust passage formed by said cylinder block.
13. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in any of the preceding claim,
wherein said exhaust control valve is rockably supported on said
exhaust passage member of said lid member.
14. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in any of the preceding claim,
wherein said exhaust passage member of said lid member is
disposed on each side of said exhaust control valve.
15. The exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine as claimed in claim 13, wherein said exhaust
passage member of said lid member is disposed on each side of
said exhaust control valve.
16. An exhaust controller for a spark ignition two stroke internal
combustion engine substantially as herein described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.

Documents:

1767-del-1997-abstract.pdf

1767-del-1997-claims.pdf

1767-del-1997-correspondence-others.pdf

1767-del-1997-correspondence-po.pdf

1767-del-1997-description (complete).pdf

1767-del-1997-drawings.pdf

1767-del-1997-form-1.pdf

1767-del-1997-form-13.pdf

1767-del-1997-form-19.pdf

1767-del-1997-form-2.pdf

1767-del-1997-form-3.pdf

1767-del-1997-form-4.pdf

1767-del-1997-form-6.pdf

1767-del-1997-gpa.pdf

1767-del-1997-petition-137.pdf

1767-del-1997-petition-138.pdf

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Patent Number

232813

Indian Patent Application Number

1767/DEL/1997

PG Journal Number

13/2009

Publication Date

27-Mar-2009

Grant Date

21-Mar-2009

Date of Filing

26-Jun-1997

Name of Patentee

HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Applicant Address

1-1, MINAMIAOYAMA 2-CHOME,MINATO-KU, TOKYO,JAPAN.

Inventors:

#	Inventor's Name	Inventor's Address
1	IKUO KOIKE AND TOSHIKAZU HIASA	C/O. KABUSHIKI KAISHA HONDA GIJUTSU KENKYUSHO, 4-1,CHUO 1-CHOME,WAKO-SHI, SAITAMA,JAPAN.

PCT International Classification Number

F02D 13/02

PCT International Application Number

N/A

PCT International Filing date

PCT Conventions:

#	PCT Application Number	Date of Convention	Priority Country
1	HEI-8-172520	1996-07-02	Japan