IP Library Granted Patent US 8,701,634
Granted Patent B2
US 8,701,634 · App. 13/139,556 · Granted Apr 22, 2014

Zero-governor fitting configuration in gas engine

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Patent No.
US 8,701,634
App. No.
13/139,556
Granted
Apr 22, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A zero-governor fitting structure for a gas engine, configured in such a manner that the lower half of a fuel tank for a gasoline engine is utilized as a support box for supporting the zero-governor in which a gas supply inlet pipe and a zero governor can be reliably mounted with vibration and heating of the zero-governor avoided. A zero-governor mounting structure for a gas engine equipped with a zero-governor is provided with a support box fixed to the upper part of the gas engine. The support box is formed as a box having two depths. The zero-governor is supported, through a vibration insulation gasket, on the bottom plate of the shallower depth space of the support box. A gas supply inlet pipe and an elbow joint which is connected to the gas supply inlet pipe and can be bent the direction of the gas flow at a right angle toward the zero-governor are received in the deeper depth space, and the elbow joint is connected to the bottom inlet of the zero-governor.

Claims (8)

1. A zero-governor fitting structure for fitting the zero-governor to a gas engine, comprising

at least one main chamber formed in a cylinder head so that air-fuel mixture of main fuel gas and air that are pre-mixed in an air-fuel mixer is burnt in the main chamber, and

a zero-governor which establishes or regulates suitably a pressure of a fuel gas supplied to the air-fuel mixer,

wherein a fuel tank which serves as a support box for supporting the zero-governor is provided to be fastened to an upper part of the gas engine, the support box being formed into a box body having two spaces of different depths, so that the zero-governor is fitted to a bottom plate of the shallower depth space of the support box via a vibration insulation gasket, and a gas supply inlet pipe and an elbow joint connected to the gas supply inlet pipe are housed in the deeper depth space of the support box, the direction of the gas flow from the gas supply inlet pipe is bent orthogonally toward the zero-governor at the elbow joint which is connected to a fuel gas inlet at the bottom of the zero-governor.

2. The zero-governor fitting structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the zero-governor is tightened and fastened to an upper surface of the bottom plate of the shallower depth space of the support box via the vibration insulation gasket by a plurality of bolts that are inserted into the shallower depth space from below of the bottom plate, and the zero-governor is also supported from the bottom side by the gas supply inlet pipe and the elbow joint that are housed in the deeper depth space of the support box.

3. The zero-governor fitting structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the support box for supporting the zero-governor is composed by use of a base structure of a box-shaped fuel tank having two spaces of different depths T 1 and T 2 where the depth T 2 is deeper than the depth T 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 18, 2018
From: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MEIKI ENGINES CO., LTD.
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