Spark plug construction for lean mixture burning internal combustion engines

Patent · Tue Feb 08 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:7328742

Baczek, T A; James, L M.L.

An internal combustion engine has a main combustion chamber defined by a cylinder bore and its associated piston and a valved intake passage for introducing a lean fuel-air mixture in the combustion chamber. A novel spark plug mounted in the engine in place of the conventional spark plug has an apertured dome portion defining a limited size spark ignition chamber about the spark gap and a valved branch passage to the ignition chamber connected to a first fuel supply, such as a rich fuel-air mixture source, to achieve ignition thereof in the ignition chamber causing a flame discharge which ensures ignition of another fuel mixture, such as a lean mixture, in the main combustion chamber. Alternatively, a conventional spark plug may be used with a special adaptor assembled on the gap end of the plug which provides the limited size spark ignition chamber and valved branch passage.

• Assignee: Baczek and James Company, Inc.
• Patent Number(s): US 4006725
• OSTI ID: 7328742
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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