A control device for an engine is provided. A cavity formed in a crown surface of a piston of the engine includes a first cavity part disposed in a radially center area, a second cavity part disposed radially outward of the first cavity part, and a connecting part connecting these two parts. The control device causes a fuel injection valve to perform a first injection in which fuel is injected at a timing when the piston is located at an advancing side of CTDC and an injection axis thereof intersects with the connecting part, a second injection in which fuel is injected toward the first cavity part at a retarding side of the first injection, and a middle injection in which fuel is injected at a timing between the first and second injections, for a period shorter than each of the first and second injections.

A piston for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The piston comprises a number of fuel directing surfaces for directing a fuel spray sprayed onto the fuel directing surface. At least one of the fuel direction surfaces is/are inclined relative to a tangential direction of the piston. The present disclosure further relates to an engine comprising a piston and a vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine.

Method, control unit, and target arrangement of a leading vehicle for triggering a follower vehicle, which is situated at a lateral distance from the leading vehicle, to coordinate its movements with the leading vehicle. The target arrangement comprises a target configured to be placed at a lateral distance from to the leading vehicle. The target is also configured to be recognized by at least one forwardly directed sensor of the follower vehicle.

Systems are provided for cooling combustion chamber gasses and increasing an amount of air entrained in an injected fuel spray. In one example, a cooling passage may be included in an internal combustion engine, the cooling passage positioned exterior to a cylinder bore of the engine and coupled to the cylinder bore at a first opening and a second opening. The cooling passage may receive gasses from the cylinder bore via the first opening, and may cool the gasses as they travel through the cooling passage before returning the gasses to the cylinder bore via the second opening.

A method for controlling combustion in a diesel engine includes: premixing ambient air, EGR gas and vaporized diesel fuel in a combustion chamber during an intake stroke of each cylinder of the diesel engine; and sequentially performing, by an injector, pilot injection, main injection, and post injection during a compression stroke occurs after the intake stroke.

A piston for a diesel engine includes a piston body having a skirt and crown. The piston body has portions defining an outer combustion bowl and an inner combustion bowl within the piston body through the crown. The outer combustion bowl has an upper annular side wall extending from the crown surface and an annular flat shelf extending from the upper annular side wall. The inner combustion bowl is recessed with respect to the annular flat shelf of the outer combustion bowl. The inner combustion bowl has a curved annular side wall and a plurality of protruding lips extending from the curved annular side wall toward a central axis of the piston body.

In a diesel engine, a crown surface of a piston is formed with a cavity which is recessed toward an opposite side of a cylinder head, and which has a circular shape in planar view, and a wall surface forming the cavity includes a lip which is formed on a peripheral edge of the cavity, and which is protruded radially inward, and the lip is formed with a plurality of notches which are recessed radially outward from the peripheral edge of the cavity, and a fuel injector is arranged at a center of the cylinder head, and formed with a plurality of injection holes oriented toward an inside of the cavity so as to radially spray fuel within the cavity, and each of the plurality of the notches is arranged between oriented directions of two adjacent injection holes.

A control system of an engine is provided, which includes a piston formed with a cavity and configured to reciprocate in a cylinder along a center axis of the cylinder, and a fuel injector disposed facing a top surface of the piston and configured to inject fuel along an injection axis. When the piston is located near a top dead center of compression stroke, the fuel injector performs a first injection so that the fuel flows from the fuel injector toward the cavity along the injection axis, collides with an inner surface of the cavity, then flows back toward the fuel injector along the inner surface of the cavity from a position offset from the injection axis. The fuel injector performs a second injection toward the cavity at a timing after the first injection and at which the fuel of the first injection flows back.

The diesel engine is provided with a cylinder, a cylinder head, a fuel injection valve, and a piston. The piston has a cavity, and a notch formed in a circumferential edge of the cavity. The notch includes a first recessed portion which is recessed radially outward from an inner circumferential wall surface of the cavity, and a second recessed portion which is recessed from a crown surface of the piston toward a bottom side of the cavity and continuously extends radially outward from an end, on the crown surface side, of the first recessed portion. A vertical wall, on a downstream side of a swirl flow, of the second recessed portion is formed to extend, in an arched manner, radially inward and toward the downstream side of the swirl flow from a position corresponding to a radially outer side end of the second recessed portion in a plan view.

The control device that controls fuel injection of a diesel engine includes a split injection control module that causes a fuel injection valve to execute pre-injection and post-injection, a setting module that sets a fuel injection amount or a fuel injection timing in the pre-injection so that a target heat release rate characteristic, by which a ratio between a first peak and a second peak, which are peaks of an increase rate of combustion pressure accompanying the pre- and post-injection, becomes a target value set in advance, can be obtained, a prediction module that predicts an occurrence time or a peak value of the first peak based on the injection amount or injection timing and a parameter related to a combustion environmental factor, and a correction module that corrects the fuel injection amount or the fuel injection timing set by the setting module.