Not exact matches
The
air fuel mixture is
compressed by the rising piston.
Crankshaft forces the pistons, via the connecting rods, upward to
compress the
air /
fuel mixture prior to combustion.
In simple terms, the Atkinson cycle uses less energy to
compress fuel and
air together, and makes relatively more energy when that
mixture explodes.
By keeping an intake valve open during part of the compression stroke, some of the volume of unburned
air /
fuel mixture in the cylinder moves back inside the intake manifold and lowers the volume being
compressed, or «pumped.»
Finally, the compression stroke closes the valves simultaneously,
compressing the
fuel and
air mixture until the spark plug ignites the
mixture, beginning the entire process again.
SKYACTIV - X is the world's first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition, in which the
fuel -
air mixture ignites spontaneously when
compressed by the piston
Instead, the piston
compresses the
fuel and
air mixture... Read More