Well, it has been a useless year. One has to wonder if OEC will...

Well, it has been a useless year. One has to wonder if OEC will ever go anywhere. However, the J/V Synerject is looking very good and business is building. The patents below, just some of them, show that Honda are taking OCP seriously and OCP equipped outboards are in use in Japan.

Happy New Year to all.

Regards


This is a Honda 3 VALVE OCP ENGINE

CYLINDER INJECTION OF FUEL-TYPE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

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Patent number: EP1589201
Publication date: 2005-10-26
Inventor: HANAWA KAORU (JP); UEDA HIROYA (JP); ISHIDA SHUICHI (JP)
Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO LTD (JP)
Classification:
- international: (IPC1-7): F02B23/10; F02F1/24; F02F3/28; F02M61/14;
F02M67/02
- european: F02B23/10C; F02B61/02; F02B75/16; F02F1/42B
Application number: EP20040703900 20040121
Priority number(s): JP20030024446 20030131; WO2004JP00445 20040121

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Abstract of EP1589201

A fuel injection valve 60 of a fuel direct injection internal
combustion engine E injects an air-fuel mixture into a cavity 51 of
a piston 5 so that an outer periphery 63a of an injection flow 63 is
in the cavity 51 during the compression stroke. By cooperation of a
squish area 54 formed on a peripheral portion 53 of the piston 5 and
a squish area 34 formed on a ceiling surface 30 of a cylinder head 3
to define a combustion chamber 8, an oblique squish 20 is generated
which is directed obliquely upward above the peripheral portion 53
toward an injection center axis L4 and which flows along an opposed
portion 30a of the ceiling surface 30, which is located upward of
and opposes the opening of the cavity 51. Due to the above
structural feature, improvement in specific fuel consumption and
exhaust emission is achieved by preventing or suppressing diffusion
and separation of the air-fuel mixture due to a squish effect.


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This one has to do with injection timing of OCP engines:

FUEL INJECTION EQUIPMENT OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

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Patent number: JP2005105827
Publication date: 2005-04-21
Inventor: UEDA HIROYA
Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
Classification:
- international: (IPC1-7): F02D41/34; F02D41/02; F02M51/00;
F02M51/02; F02M69/04
- european:
Application number: JP20030336022 20030926
Priority number(s): JP20030336022 20030926

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Abstract of JP2005105827

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel injection equipment of an
internal combustion engine, in which the combustion stability can be
improved as compared with the conventional one and the fuel
consumption can be improved further.

SOLUTION: The fuel injection
equipment is provided with sensors 182, 184 to detect the operating
state of the engine E, a crank angle sensor 186 to detect the
rotation angle of a crankshaft 16, and a controller 180 to control
the injection of an air-fuel mixture with an air-fuel injection
injector 100. The controller 180 decides an injection starting crank
angle which is the rotation angle of the crankshaft 16 corresponding
to the injection starting timing of the air-fuel mixture with the
air-fuel injection injector 100 depending on the operating state
(for example, a throttle opening and engine rotational speed) of the
engine E detected with the sensors 182, 184, and starts the
injection of the air-fuel miture with the air-fuel mixture injection
injector 100, when the crank angle detected with the crank angle
sensor 186 reachs the injection starting angle.

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A further refinement of their OCP engine(s):

FUEL DIRECT INJECTION INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

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Patent number: JP2005105826
Publication date: 2005-04-21
Inventor: UEDA HIROYA; TAKIZAWA TAKESHI
Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
Classification:
- international: (IPC1-7): F02D41/34; F02D15/00; F02D41/20;
F02M51/00; F02M51/02; F02M69/04; F02N17/00
- european:
Application number: JP20030336021 20030926
Priority number(s): JP20030336021 20030926

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Abstract of JP2005105826

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an engine from causing the stop
even when a throttle opening sharply increases in the state where
the rotational speed of a crankshaft is low at the time of starting
and at the time of idling of an internal combustion engine.

SOLUTION: The internal combustion engine is provided with an air-
fuel mixture injection injector 100 to inject a pressurized air-fuel
mixture into a combustion chamber 11 by opening and closing an air
injection valve 116, an operating state detection means (a throttle
opening sensor 182 and a rotational speed sensor 184) to detect the
operating state of the engine E, and a controller 180 to conduct the
injection of air-fuel mixture with the air-fuel mixture injection
injector 100. The controller 180 controls the opening of the valve
(the air injection valve 116) in the air-fuel injection injector 100
during the predetermined time after it ends the fuel injection into
the combustion chamber 11 with the air-fuel injection injector 100
corresponding to the operating state of the engine E detected with
the operating state detection means.

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Another refinement:

AIR-FUEL MIXTURE SUPPLY DEVICE FOR DIRECT INJECTION TYPE INTERNAL
COMBUSTION ENGINE

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Patent number: JP2004301113
Publication date: 2004-10-28
Inventor: HANAWA KAORU; ISHIDA SHUICHI; UEDA HIROYA; SHIMIZU SATOSHI
Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
Classification:
- international: (IPC1-7): F02M67/02; F01N7/00; F02B23/10; F02F1/24;
F02F1/36
- european:
Application number: JP20030278323 20030723
Priority number(s): JP20030077001 20030320; JP20030278323 20030723

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Abstract of JP2004301113

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten and simplify the structure of an
air passage among an air pump, an air-fuel mixture injection valve,
and an air compression regulator by devising a mounting position of
the regulator in an air-fuel mixture supply device for a direct
injection type internal combustion engine with the injection valve
for supplying the mixture of compressed air and fuel to a combustion
chamber.

SOLUTION: The regulator for stabilizing pressure
difference between the compressed air pressure and atmospheric
pressure is mounted to a cylinder head part in the air inlet port
side of the engine.

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Four-stroke i.c. engine with more than one inlet port to each
combustion chamber has spark plug offset from centre of chamber and
air guide wall round one port

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Patent number: FR2845124
Publication date: 2004-04-02
Inventor: HANAWA KAORU; UEDA HIROYA; KURIBARA HIROSHI
Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO LTD (JP)
Classification:
- international: (IPC1-7): F02B17/00; F02B23/10
- european: F02B17/00D; F02B23/10C
Application number: FR20030050604 20030924
Priority number(s): JP20020282851 20020927

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Abstract of FR2845124

The engine, in which the end of a spark plug (26) projects into a
combustion chamber (19) from a cylinder head with more than one
inlet port (20, 21), has the plug fixed to the cylinder head in a
position offset from the centre of the combustion chamber and
juxtaposed to the inlet ports. The cylinder head also has a guide
wall (142) for air entering the combustion chamber through one of
the ports (21). In addition, the cylinder's piston has a cavity in
its face exposed to the combustion chamber and facing an injection
valve nozzle (108a) that delivers fuel in fine particles.




Air fuel injection engine

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Patent number: BR0302537
Publication date: 2004-07-20
Inventor: HANAWA KAORU; ISHIDA SHUICHI; UEDA HIROYA; KURIBARA
HIROSHI
Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO LTD (JP)
Classification:
- international: (IPC1-7): F02B27/00
- european: F01L1/14D; F01L1/18B; F02F1/24B; F02F7/00D; F02M61/14;
F02M67/02; F02M67/10; F02M69/08
Application number: BR20030002537 20030729
Priority number(s): JP20020223716 20020731; JP20020223717 20020731

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US6877491 (B2)
US2004065295 (A1)





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Abstract of corresponding document: EP1387080

An air fuel injection engine including an injector composed of a
fuel injection valve for injecting fuel and an air fuel injection
valve for directly injecting fuel together with compressed air into
a combustion chamber and an injector housing for holding and
securing the injector to an engine body. The injector is supported
on a head cover, and at least part of a compressed air supply
passage for supplying compressed air to the injector is provided
directly in the head cover. Further, an injector housing is formed
integrally with a head cover which forms part of an engine body.
With this configuration, the scale of the engine, the complication
of the structure around the engine, and the number of part required
can be kept to a minimum.




Engine fuel injection apparatus

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Patent number: US2004094135
Publication date: 2004-05-20
Inventor: HANAWA KAORU (JP); UEDA HIROYA (JP)
Applicant:
Classification:
- international: (IPC1-7): F02M23/00
- european: F02M67/02; F02M69/08; F02M69/46
Application number: US20030627766 20030728
Priority number(s): JP20020223715 20020731

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JP2004060609 (A)
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Abstract of US2004094135

In an engine fuel injection apparatus including an injector having a
fuel injection valve for injecting fuel and an air fuel injection
valve that is mounted to a cylinder head so as to inject fuel
directly into a combustion chamber with compressed air an increase
in the size of the engine and the complexity of the structure around
the engine are avoided and the pumping efficiency of a compressed
air pump is improved. At least part of the compressed air supply
route for supplying compressed air to the injector is provided
directly in the cylinder head while passing the area in the vicinity
of an exhaust port.




FUEL INJECTION DEVICE FOR ENGINE

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Patent number: JP2004060611
Publication date: 2004-02-26
Inventor: HANAWA KAORU; UEDA HIROYA; KURIHARA HIROSHI; ISHIDA
SHUICHI
Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
Classification:
- international: (IPC1-7): F02M67/02; F02F7/00; F02M61/14
- european:
Application number: JP20020223717 20020731
Priority number(s): JP20020223717 20020731

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Abstract of JP2004060611

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel injection device for an
engine with an injector consisting of a fuel injection valve for
injecting a fuel and an air fuel injection valve for directly
injecting the fuel together with compressed air into a combustion
chamber, avoiding increasing the size of the engine and complicating
the construction of peripheral portions of the engine.

SOLUTION:
The injector 25 is supported by a head cover 15, and at least part
of a compressed air supply passage 126A for supplying the compressed
air to the injector 25 is provided directly on the head cover 15.

COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO