Information
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Patent Grant
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6662764
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Patent Number
6,662,764
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Date Filed
Monday, May 6, 200222 years ago
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Date Issued
Tuesday, December 16, 200321 years ago
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Inventors
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Examiners
- Yuen; Henry C.
- Ali; Hyder
Agents
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CPC
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US Classifications
Field of Search
US
- 123 65 R
- 123 74 R
- 123 65 A
- 123 65 W
- 123 65 P
- 123 1936
- 123 1934
- 123 1932
- 123 65 PE
- 123 65 E
- 123 70 V
- 123 70 R
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International Classifications
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Abstract
This invention relates to an improvement of two stroke engine in which a sleeve piston is employed to move up and down in the cylinder and to control alternatively the opening and closing of the intake guide and exhaust guide and to prevent the lubricant from exuding out of the crank case in an effort to ensure an environmental-friendly clean exhaust.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to the two stroke engine, mainly an improvement to reduce the high pollution contained in the exhaust, a dominant weakness the traditional two stroke engine has ever embraced. Particularly, it requires no mixing of engine oil to be added during the refilling with gasoline.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Please refer to
FIGS. 1 and 2
. They are schematic diagrams showing the general two stroke engine where the cylinder
10
provides an intake way
11
and an exhaust way
12
at the opposed direction. A piston
13
has a piston ring
131
installed on the piston crown to choke the gasoline mixture with the cylinder
10
. A connecting rod
14
has a piston pin
15
at one end being locked in the piston
13
and the other end connected to the crankshaft
17
within the crank case
16
. When the piston
13
comes up and compresses the gasoline mixture in the combustion chamber of cylinder
10
, an explosion follows as the spark plug
18
ignites the compressed gasoline mixture, and the piston
13
is thus moved down. When the piston
13
moves down to the exhaust way
12
, the exhaust flows out right at this moment. The flowing of the exhaust through the exhaust way
12
will create a venturi effect and a negative pressure in the combustion chamber in the cylinder
10
as compared with the preset pressure in the crank case
16
, the gasoline mixture will be sucked into the cylinder
10
through the intake way
11
(with one way valve), and the piston
13
and the connecting rod
14
will continue to move up by the rotary force of the crankshaft
17
to proceed the second compress ion and explosion and so on. It is easy to learn that the two stroke engine is simple in construction, less loss in power, benefiting greater horsepower and long service time. In down movement of the piston
13
, because there exist an intake way
11
and an exhaust way
12
on both sides, there is no way to reserve the engine oil in the crank case
16
. Therefore, the engine oil has to be added to the gasoline while refilling where the engine oil will form a lubricating film along the piston after explosion, resulted in an incomplete combustion, a culprit for pollution.
FIG. 3
shows a schematic diagram of a four stroke engine, where the engine oil is stored in the crank case
16
, and intake way
20
and the exhaust way
21
are moved to the top of the cylinder
10
. When the piston
13
moves upward in the cylinder
10
, it is not necessary for the piston
13
to bring up the engine oil to the intake way
20
and exhaust way
21
, the four stroke engine entails no engine oil to be mixed with the gasoline, a complete combustion is therefore achieved and the exhaust is more environmental-friendly. However, in the four stroke engine, the intake valve
20
and the exhaust valve
21
need to be controlled by the camshaft (not shown), inefficiency caused by a complicated mechanism, heavy consumption of energy and less horsepower is unavoidable.
Comparing the merits and demerits between the two stroke engine and the four stroke engine, after many years' endeavor to the research and development, tests and experiments, the inventor has come up a practicable two stroke engine in which all merits are conserved and all demerits are removed in an attempt to upgrade the motorcycle industry and to solve the pollution the motorcycle yields.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention mainly employs a sleeve piston structure over the main piston which serves to block the engine oil from arousing to the intake way and exhaust way along the piston wall while the piston moves up. It therefore requires no adding engine oil to the gasoline to ensure a clean exhaust pursuant to the emission standard set forth by environmental protection requirements.
The invention is explained in great details with the aid of the preferable embodiments as presented in the drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1
is the schematic diagram showing the prior art of the two-stroke engine (in compression and ignition stage).
FIG. 2
is the schematic diagram showing the prior art of the two-stroke engine (in intake and exhaust stage).
FIG. 3
is a schematic diagram of four-stroke engine.
FIG. 4
is the schematic diagram showing the two-stroke engine of the invention (in compression and ignition stage).
FIG. 5
show the sleeve piston assembly is moving downward.
FIG. 6
is the schematic diagram showing the two-stroke engine of the invention (in intake and exhaust stage).
FIG. 7
is another embodiment of two-stroke engine of the invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
As shown in
FIGS. 4
,
5
, and
6
, the structure and technique of the two stroke engine of the invention are similar to the prior art of the two stroke engine, except with better improvement. In the interior of the cylinder
10
, there is a sleeve piston over wrapped on the main piston. The sleeve piston moves up and down in the cylinder
10
, which controls the opening and closing of the intake way
11
and exhaust way
12
and blocks the engine oil from exuding from the crank case
16
, so that it is no longer required to mix engine oil
19
with the gasoline while refilling to gain a better clean exhaust in accordance with the environmental protection standards. The major characteristics of the invention are as follows.
The sleeve piston comprises a main piston
30
and a sleeve piston
40
, wherein the main piston
30
has provided a piston ring
31
and an oil ring
33
serving as a seal. The lower part of the piston
30
has a taper
32
.
The sleeve piston
40
has an internal chamber
41
, a large inner diameter groove race
42
and sealing rings
43
and
44
.
When the taper
32
of the main piston
30
is inserted into the chamber
41
of the sleeve piston
40
, it forms a complete sleeve piston assembly.
To fit the sleeve piston of the invention, the cylinder
10
is hereby designed into two sections where the inner diameter of the first section
22
of the cylinder
10
is tantamount to the outer diameter of the main piston
30
, and so the diameter of the second section
23
of the cylinder equals to the outer diameter of the sleeve piston
40
. The intake way
11
and the exhaust way
12
are located at the highest place within the second section
23
. The bottom of the cylinder
10
provides a retaining ring
24
employed for holding the compression spring
25
which touches the bottom of the sleeve piston
40
and also offers a uprising force to the sleeve piston
40
.
As shown in
FIG. 4
, the piston
30
is placed in the first section
23
of the cylinder
10
, and the compressed gasoline is sealed by the piston ring
31
. The sleeve piston
40
is located at the upper dead point of the second section
23
of the cylinder
10
, the sealing rings
43
,
44
are located below the intake way
11
and exhaust way
12
to stop the engine oil
19
leaking out of the crank case
16
and entering the intake way
11
and exhaust way
12
. As shown in
FIG. 5
, immediately after the spark plug
18
ignites an explosion of the compressed mixture of gasoline and air, the main piston
30
begins to move downward and move into the chamber
41
of the sleeve piston
40
and touches the groove race
42
, so as to bring down the sleeve piston
40
together, the intake way
11
and the exhaust way are respectively opened (similar to the prior art of the tow stroke engine), and the spring
25
is compressed. When the main piston
30
arrives at the position as shown in
FIG. 6
, the rotary force from the crankshaft
17
turns the main piston
30
and the connecting rod
14
upward, and in turn the main piston
30
releases the pushing force exerted on the sleeve piston
40
. The spring
25
helps lifting the sleeve piston
40
upward along with the main piston
30
till they arrive at the position as shown in FIG.
4
. Then, the sleeve piston
40
closes the intake way
11
and exhaust way
12
, and the main piston
30
starts another compression and explosion processing.
As shown in
FIG. 7
, it is really a practicable embodiment where the exterior diameter of the sleeve piston
40
equals to that of the main piston
30
, and the inner diameter of the chamber
41
which goes through the interior of the sleeve piston
40
equals to outer diameter of the taper
32
of the main piston
30
. When the taper
32
of the main piston
30
is inserted into the chamber
41
of the sleeve piston
40
, the structure of the sleeve piston can be formed with which the main piston
30
can cause synchronized movement with the sleeve piston
40
as the main pistons
30
moves down.
Many changes and modifications in the sectional design of the cylinder and architecture of sleeve piston of the above-disclosed embodiment of the invention can, of course, be carried out without departing from the scope thereof. Accordingly, to promote the progress in science and the useful arts, the invention is disclosed and is intended to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims.
The two-stroke engine of the invention has removed the weaknesses the prior art of two-stroke engine prevails. It is a novel improvement, which promotes the product value, and is justified for a grant of a new patent.
Claims
- 1. An improvement of two stroke engine mainly comprises a sleeve piston over wrapped on the main piston, wherein the sleeve piston controls the opening and closing of the intake way and the exhaust way while the piston moves up and down in the cylinder and block the engine oil from leaking out of the crank case, it is unnecessary to mix engine oil into gasoline for the two-stroke engine of the invention, it produce the clean exhaust, which meets the emission standard, and the main characteristics are:the sleeve piston comprises a main piston and a sleeve piston; the main piston has the piston ring serving the sealing function and a taper at the lower part; the sleeve piston has a chamber with a large size groove race on the top and provides two sealing rings; the taper of the main piston is inserted into the chamber of the sleeve piston to form an integral sleeve piston assembly.
- 2. The improvement of two-stroke engine of claim 1, wherein the cylinder is designed in two sections.
- 3. The improvement of two stroke engine of claim 1, wherein the second section of the cylinder provides a retaining ring to hold a spring which supports at the internal bottom the sleeve piston so as to lift the sleeve piston by its expansion force.
- 4. The improvement of two-stroke engine of claim 1, wherein the inner diameter of the sleeve piston is tantamount to the outer diameter of the main piston and the inner diameter of the chamber is equal to the outer diameter of the taper of the main piston, after the taper is inserted into the chamber of the sleeve piston, the main piston and the sleeve piston will move synchronically up and down.
US Referenced Citations (4)
Foreign Referenced Citations (1)
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Date |
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1300556 |
Apr 2003 |
EP |