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patent · US7117830

System and method for direct injection of gaseous fuel into internal combustion engine

10 October 2006

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Abstract

A method for an engine capable of burning gaseous fuel, the engine also including a combustion chamber, at least one intake valve, and at least one exhaust valve, an injector to directly inject pressurized gaseous fuel into the combustion chamber, and a variable valve timing system coupled to the intake valves and exhaust valves, the method comprising closing the exhaust valve before top dead center of piston position to increase combustion chamber pressure achieved at top de...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2005-11-23
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2006-10-10
Inventors
Brad Boyer; William Stockhausen; Ford Global Technologies LLC