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Title: Air-scavenged two-cycle internal combustion engine

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5550465

A two-cycle internal combustion engine is described comprising a crankcase including a rotatable crankshaft, a cylinder extending from the crankcase and including a combustion chamber having a head end, an exhaust port in the cylinder communicating with the combustion chamber, a fuel intake port in the cylinder communicating with the combustion chamber, an air intake port in the cylinder communicating with the combustion chamber at a location closer to the exhaust port than the fuel intake port, a piston operably connected to the crankshaft and mounted for reciprocative movement in the cylinder through a compression stroke to cover all of the ports and through an expansion stroke to uncover all of the ports, an air inlet in the crankcase, a fuel inlet in the crankcase, dividing means located interiorly of the crankcase and defining an air crankcase portion which communicates with the crankcase air inlet and with the air intake port and further defining a separate fuel crankcase portion which communicates with the crankcase fuel inlet and with the fuel intake port, means for admitting a fuel-air mixture into the crankcase fuel inlet, and means for admitting air into the crankcase air inlet.

Assignee:
Outboard Marine Corp., Waukegan, IL
Patent Number(s):
US 4598673
OSTI ID:
5550465
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 06 Feb 1985
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English