A thermal fuel delivery system includes an insertion assembly and a fuel device. The insertion assembly includes a housing defining a cavity for housing the fuel device. The housing is disposed above and coupled to a pair of frame members via a plurality of connecting members. The frame members extend laterally away from the housing. The insertion assembly further includes an intake manifold coupled to the housing via a tube. A plurality of runner tubes extend laterally away from the intake manifold and pass through the frame members at an inner portion of the frame members and terminate at an outer portion of the frame members.

A method and a system to restrict the flow of accumulated liquid water from the intake manifold into the cylinders of an internal combustion engine by reducing the velocity of contained liquid water as it moves through the containment feature during vehicle maneuvering are disclosed. The body of the intake manifold includes a water containment feature having a water containment reservoir having an open upper portion and water-restricting interior walls. A water passageway is provided in each interior wall. The water passageway may be of any of several shapes, including a V-shape notch extending from the top of the wall. The interior wall is a central interior wall and the containment reservoir further includes an intermediate interior wall between the side walls that intersects the central interior wall. The water passageway is formed in at least one of the interior walls and may be formed in all of the walls.

A fuel supply device may include an intake manifold having both ends thereof respectively connected to intake openings of cylinder heads of each of the cylinders in a V-type two-cylinder general-purpose engine, a throttle body connected to a connection portion of the intake manifold, a fuel injection valve disposed in the throttle body and having nozzles for uniformly injecting fuel to inside of the intake port or to an inner wall surface of the intake port of each of the cylinders through the connection portion of the intake manifold, and a throttle valve disposed to the throttle body upstream of the fuel injection valve.

A fuel supply device may include an intake manifold having both ends thereof respectively connected to intake openings of cylinder heads of each of the cylinders in a V-type two-cylinder general-purpose engine, a throttle body connected to a connection portion of the intake manifold, a fuel injection valve disposed in the throttle body and having nozzles for uniformly injecting fuel to inside of the intake port or to an inner wall surface of the intake port of each of the cylinders through the connection portion of the intake manifold, and a throttle valve disposed to the throttle body upstream of the fuel injection valve.

A method and a system to eliminate the flow of accumulated liquid water from the intake manifold into the cylinders of an internal combustion engine are disclosed. Particularly, the disclosed inventive concept provides a negative draft to the top of a water containment feature in the form of opposed baffles. The baffles increase the minimum angle the water has to reach to overflow out of the intake manifold and into the cylinders. The angle required to overflow is a composition of gravity and the acceleration of the vehicle. If the maximum acceleration (and thus maximum water angle) is less than the designed negative draft overflow protection, there will not be expected overflow. The water containment reservoir includes two opposed side walls, a front wall, a back wall, and a base. Each side wall has an upper end. The baffle extends from the upper end of at least one side wall.

An air intake apparatus includes an air intake apparatus body including a surge tank, a valve body rotatably attached to the surge tank and configured to rotate between an open position and a closed position to open and close a fluid passage formed at a partition wall dividing an inside of the surge tank into two parts, the valve body being out of contact with the partition wall at the open position and being in contact with the partition wall at the closed position, the air intake apparatus body being formed by a first member to which the valve body is attached and a second member joined to each other, and the first member including a jig-receiving portion arranged in a vicinity of the fluid passage and configured to receive a jig holding the first member when the first member and the second member are being joined to each other.

An air intake apparatus includes an air intake apparatus body including a surge tank, a valve body rotatably attached to the surge tank and configured to rotate between an open position and a closed position to open and close a fluid passage formed at a partition wall dividing an inside of the surge tank into two parts, the valve body being out of contact with the partition wall at the open position and being in contact with the partition wall at the closed position, the air intake apparatus body being formed by a first member to which the valve body is attached and a second member joined to each other, and the first member including a jig-receiving portion arranged in a vicinity of the fluid passage and configured to receive a jig holding the first member when the first member and the second member are being joined to each other.

The dual pass intercooled supercharger includes a supercharger and intercooler. The system is configured such that air leaving the supercharger traverses the intercooler from one side to an opposing side two or more times.

Even in the case where a crankshaft extends in a substantially vertical direction, it is possible to reduce a situation that sprays of fuel injected from injectors may adhere to inner wall surfaces of intake passages, and it is possible to make the fuel supply to combustion chambers stable. Provided is a vertical engine including: a pair of intake passages (911a and 911b) which are arranged in an up and down direction with the interposition of a central axis of a cylinder (241) therebetween; a pair of intake valves (41L.sub.1 and 41L.sub.2) which open and close the pair of intake passages; and fuel injectors (70L.sub.1 and 70L.sub.2) which inject fuel to the pair of intake passages; wherein: the fuel injectors are arranged so that fuel injection directions by the fuel injectors can go not toward valve stems (411) of the intake valves provided in the upper and lower intake passages respectively but toward the backs of valve heads of the intake valves on a central axis (C1) side of the cylinder and the fuel injectors are disposed so that a central axis (FC2) of injection of the fuel injector into the lower intake passage can be closer to the central axis side of the cylinder than a central axis (CF1) of injection of the fuel injector into the upper intake passage.

Even in the case where a crankshaft extends in a substantially vertical direction, it is possible to reduce a situation that sprays of fuel injected from injectors may adhere to inner wall surfaces of intake passages, and it is possible to make the fuel supply to combustion chambers stable. Provided is a vertical engine including: a pair of intake passages (911a and 911b) which are arranged in an up and down direction with the interposition of a central axis of a cylinder (241) therebetween; a pair of intake valves (41L.sub.1 and 41L.sub.2) which open and close the pair of intake passages; and fuel injectors (70L.sub.1 and 70L.sub.2) which inject fuel to the pair of intake passages; wherein: the fuel injectors are arranged so that fuel injection directions by the fuel injectors can go not toward valve stems (411) of the intake valves provided in the upper and lower intake passages respectively but toward the backs of valve heads of the intake valves on a central axis (C1) side of the cylinder and the fuel injectors are disposed so that a central axis (FC2) of injection of the fuel injector into the lower intake passage can be closer to the central axis side of the cylinder than a central axis (CF1) of injection of the fuel injector into the upper intake passage.