US 12,000,353 B2
Intake system
Jun Nakano, Tokyo (JP); Noriyuki Suzuki, Tokyo (JP); Akihiko Matsukawa, Tokyo (JP); Yoshikazu Goto, Tokyo (JP); Kenichi Sano, Tokyo (JP); Akihiro Kanoe, Tokyo (JP); and Takeo Kato, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/124,903.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-058056 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0313745 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. F02D 9/10 (2006.01)
CPC F02D 9/1065 (2013.01) [F02D 9/109 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intake system provided to intake passages of an internal combustion engine with parallel cylinders, the intake passages extending from combustion chambers of the cylinders, the intake passages comprising a first intake passage and a second intake passage, the intake system comprising:
a first throttle body being provided to the first intake passage, the first throttle body being configured to adjust flow rates of intake air;
a second throttle body being provided to the second intake passage, the second throttle body being configured to adjust flow rates of intake air;
a first throttle shaft being provided to the first throttle body;
a second throttle shaft being provided to the second throttle body;
a first throttle valve being rotatably and axially supported by the first throttle body while being fixed to the first throttle shaft, the first throttle valve being configured to open and close the first intake passage of the first throttle body so as to control flow rates of intake air flowing into the cylinders;
a second throttle valve being rotatably and axially supported by the second throttle body while being fixed to the second throttle shaft, the second throttle valve being configured to open and close the second intake passage of the second throttle body so as to control flow rates of intake air flowing into the cylinders; and
a power transmission mechanism being configured to transmit power from a power source to the first throttle shaft and the second throttle shaft so as to synchronize and simultaneously turn the plurality of the first throttle valve and the second throttle shaft for opening or closing the first intake passage and second intake passage,
wherein the second throttle valve is an angled throttle valve having a first angle at an open position relative to the first throttle valve, and
wherein the second intake passage communicates with the cylinder in which output is low when a vehicle is idling.