Gas separation – Combined or convertible – Involving shielding apparatus
Reexamination Certificate
2003-08-18
2004-12-14
Chiesa, Richard L. (Department: 1724)
Gas separation
Combined or convertible
Involving shielding apparatus
C055SDIG002, C123S280000, C123S19800E, C261S001000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06830601
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
A carburetor is provided in internal combustion engines for driving work apparatus such as chain saws, blower/vacuum apparatus, brushcutters or the like. The carburetor has an intake channel via which combustion air is inducted. In the carburetor, an air/fuel mixture is prepared and, in two-stroke engines, is supplied to the crankcase of an internal combustion engine. The intake operation is discontinuous because the intake stroke of an engine lies only approximately in the region smaller than a half crankshaft rotation. During this time, the piston of a two-stroke engine clears an inlet window via which the air/fuel mixture flows into the crankcase. After the end of the intake operation, the piston closes the inlet window so that the intake operation is interrupted. Comparable conditions arise in a four-stroke engine because of the opening and closing of the connection between the cylinder and the intake channel by means of a valve.
A pressure wave develops reflecting at the closed inlet window because of the inertial and elasticity forces of the column of the air/fuel mixture which is accelerated in the intake direction in the intake channel. The pressure wave runs opposite to the intake direction through the intake channel. This pressure wave can run up to the intake opening of the intake channel at the air filter end especially for a fully open position of the throttle flap in the carburetor and can propagate, for example, in the interior space of an air filter housing connected ahead. Fuel droplets of the air/fuel mixture, which is formed in the carburetor, can be entrained by this pressure wave opposite to the intake direction and be transported out of the intake channel. The fuel portion, which reaches the interior space of the air filter, leads there to coking which restricts the capacity of the air filter or leads to a deposit of solid particles on the outer side of the filter material. The intake opening of the intake channel forms an open, likewise reflection capable end for the vapor column in the intake channel. The vapor column can oscillate in the intake channel and, at a specific rpm, resonance can occur which amplifies the unwanted effect of the fuel discharge.
To avoid the intake of fuel into the air filter housing, carburetor arrangements are known wherein a baffle wall is mounted at a spacing ahead of the intake opening. The baffle wall covers at least a portion of the intake opening. The pressure wave, which exits from the intake opening, is partially reflected by the baffle wall and is thrown back into the intake channel together with the entrained fuel droplets. These droplets cannot be braked without deceleration because of the relatively high specific weight of the fuel droplets compared to air whereby a portion of the fuel droplets impinges upon the baffle wall and there runs down. However, it has been shown that the impinging fuel droplets tend to burst upon impact and the resulting smaller fuel droplets are entrained by a part of the pressure wave past the baffle wall and into the interior space of the air filter housing.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the invention to improve a known carburetor arrangement so that the entry of fuel into the air filter housing is minimized.
The carburetor arrangement of the invention is for an internal combustion engine driving a work apparatus. The carburetor arrangement includes: a carburetor; an intake channel defining a longitudinal axis and being formed in the carburetor and having an end facing away from the engine; the intake channel having an intake opening at the end; a baffle wall at least partially covering the intake opening; the baffle wall being mounted transversely to the longitudinal axis and being disposed at a distance from the intake opening; the baffle wall delimiting a baffle enclosure disposed between the baffle wall and the intake opening; the baffle enclosure having an inflow opening for combustion air and the inflow opening lying rotated by approximately 90° to the intake opening; the inflow opening having an edge lying away from the intake opening; and, a protective wall provided at the edge and the protective wall extending partially over the baffle enclosure.
For this purpose, at least a first component piece of the baffle wall or the baffle wall as a whole is inclined into the baffle enclosure or receptacle at an angle of inclination with respect to the longitudinal axis of the intake channel. To prevent fuel droplets, which burst on the baffle wall notwithstanding the selected inclination, from a partial exiting from the inflow opening, a protective wall is provided at the edge of the inflow opening which lies facing away from the intake opening. This protective wall partially engages over the baffle space. A fuel entry into the air filter housing can largely be avoided.
The protective wall extends essentially in the plane of the inflow opening. The free end section of the protective wall advantageously lies closer to the intake opening than the edge of the inclined component piece which edge lies inside the baffle space. The free end section is especially bent over in the direction toward the intake opening into the baffle enclosure.
The angle of inclination is advantageously so selected that the fuel droplets, which exit from the intake channel and are entrained by the reflected pressure wave, hardly burst upon impact and deposit as a fuel film on the baffle wall. This film of fuel can be conducted away in a defined manner from the baffle wall and again be introduced into the intake channel. In this way, a coking of the air filter is avoided and, at the same time, via the return of the fuel film from the baffle wall into the intake channel, a loss of fuel is avoided.
In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, an end wall is provided which connects the lower edge of the baffle wall to a further lower edge of the intake opening. The end wall is, relative to the direction of gravity of the work apparatus (held in the usual operating position), disposed below the baffle wall. As a consequence of the above, the film of fuel can flow off from the baffle wall to the end wall supported by gravity. At the end wall, the film of fuel is transported back into the intake channel by the intake air flow which flows by. Suitably, the above-mentioned first component part of the baffle wall is inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis in the direction toward the end wall in such a manner that the cross section of the baffle space expands from the longitudinal axis in the direction of the end wall. Because of this kind of an alignment of the inclination angle, the kinetic energy of the fuel droplets, which exit from the intake opening, operates upon impact on the baffle wall with a component in the direction of the end wall. This force component acts supportively on the fuel film in the direction of gravity so that an improvement of the conveyance of the fuel film in the direction of the end wall and from there into the intake channel is given without additional assisting means. The transition between the end wall and the baffle wall is configured so as to be rounded, whereby a defined air flow can form in the round which, in this region too, makes possible a clean conveyance of the fuel film to avoid unwanted collection locations. The end wall extends advantageously uniformly and especially as a straight line into the lower channel wall of the intake channel whereby the fuel film can be carried into the intake channel with little resistance. Furthermore, the flow resistance for the inducted air is reduced in this manner.
In an advantageous further embodiment of the invention, a further wall is provided on each side of the baffle wall and the end wall and these walls conjointly define a baffle receptacle having an inflow opening lying opposite to the end wall. With a baffle receptacle of this kind, precisely defined flow conditions are given with simple means for the intake operation as well as for the reflection operation. As a consequence thereof, th
Bähner Andreas
Benholz Martin
Maier Georg
Neumann Philipp
Wolf Günter
Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
Chiesa Richard L.
Ottesen Walter
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