Compression ignition internal combustion engine with auxiliary swirl combustion chamber

Claim 1

A compression ignition internal combustion engine having a piston, associated cylinder, a cylinder head and a fuel injection nozzle, comprising: (a) a primary combustion chamber defined by the piston, associated cylinder and cylinder head, (b) an auxiliary swirl combustion chamber having a wall on which fuel from said injection nozzle impinges, an upper half of said auxiliary swirl combustion chamber being formed in the cylinder head and a lower half of said auxiliary swirl combustion chamber being formed by a swirl chamber forming member, said swirl chamber being substantially in the form of a sphere, (c) a primary communicating passage connecting the primary combustion chamber and the auxiliary swirl chamber for indroducing compressed air from the primary combustion chamber to the auxiliary swirl chamber during the compression stroke of the piston and thereby forming a main swirl along the inner periphery of the swirl chamber, (d) a pair of second communicating passages connecting the primary combustion chamber and the auxiliary swirl chamber for supplementally introducing compressed air from the primary combustion chamber to the auxiliary swirl chamber during the piston compression stroke, said passages being directed to the central portion of the swirl chamber and being formed in the side walls of the swirl chamber so as to introduce air in a direction substantially normal to the main swirl flow from opposite sides of the swirl chamber for introducing air under a small influence of the swirl flow into the central portion of the swirl chamber, and (e) a recess portion being provided in the wall onto which the fuel is injected to thereby produce a plurality of small swirls.