Internal-combustion engines – Multiple cylinder – Cylinders in-line
Patent
1990-04-17
1991-08-06
Kamen, Noah P.
Internal-combustion engines
Multiple cylinder
Cylinders in-line
123579, F02B 7520
Patent
active
050368052
ABSTRACT:
An in-line multicylinder outboard engine for an outboard engine unit including a vertical array of cylinders, a vertically extending crankshaft, a flywheel mounted on the upper end of the crankshaft, and a camshaft driver unit positioned between the flywheel and an upper surface of an engine block. The engine also includes a vertical array of intake/fuel supply devices connected respectively to pipes of an intake manifold. The uppermost intake/fuel supply device has at least a portion of it positioned below a plane in which the flywheel is rotatable and within a region defined laterally of the camshaft driver unit. The pipes of the intake manifold have equal lengths.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3030819 (1962-04-01), Edelbrock, Jr.
patent: 4532904 (1985-08-01), Osawa et al.
patent: 4846124 (1989-07-01), Suzuki et al.
Itai Yasushi
Suzuki Hitoshi
Yamamoto Hiroshi
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Kamen Noah P.
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