Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Anselm Hopf

Klaus-Peter Heinig

Guenter Bartsch

Wilbert Hemink

Hans Guenter Quix

Guenter Hans Grosch

Frank Kraemer

Franz Weber

Florian Huth

Bas Van Den Heuvel

Jan Mehring

Bernd Steiner

Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach

Stefan Quiring

Carsten Weber

Rainer Lach

Paul Turner

Jens Dunstheimer

Joerg Bonse

Kai-Martin Mayer

Sebastiaan Lambertus Van Den Heuvel

Loic Wendling

Marek Behr

Methods and systems are provided for an oil gallery of a piston. In one example, a system for a piston comprising an internal oil gallery. The internal oil gallery comprises one or more of a funnel shaped inlet, a funnel shaped outlet, and a plurality of tongues extending along a circumference of the internal oil gallery.

218-0266 volcano-shaped inlet of piston oil-cooling gallery

Methods and systems are provided for an oil heater of a hybrid electric vehicle. The oil heater comprises a metal foam comprising a plurality of pores. The oil heater is activated during a regenerative braking event where an oil temperature is less than a predefined temperature.

Methods and systems for a hybrid electric vehicle

The application relates to internal combustion engines, cylinder heads, exhaust passages, and shapes and configurations of the exhaust passages. The exhaust passage may have cross-sectional shapes formed by two limbs. The cross-sectional shape of the exhaust passage may change as the passage extends. The exhaust passage may also merge with other exhaust passage. The exhaust passage may be part of a cylinder head or an exhaust manifold.

Internal combustion engine with cylinder head, and method for producing a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine of said type

An internal combustion engine with coolant jackets is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head coupled to a cylinder block to form a first cylinder, an upper head-associated coolant jacket including a coolant conduit traversing the cylinder head, a lower head-associated coolant jacket fluidly separated from the upper cylinder head coolant jacket and including a coolant conduit traversing the cylinder head vertically below the upper head-associated coolant jacket, and a block-associated coolant jacket including, a first coolant passage having an inlet in fluidic communication with a coolant pump outlet and an outlet in fluidic communication with an inlet of the lower head-associated coolant jacket, and a second coolant passage having an inlet in fluidic communication with an outlet of the lower head-associated coolant jacket and an outlet in fluidic communication with a heat exchanger.

Liquid-cooled internal combustion engine

An engine line is described herein that includes a first engine including a front end accessory drive system and a second engine including a greater number of cylinders than the first engine and a front end accessory drive system. The engine line further includes a generator, in different manufacturing arrangements, mounting to each of the front engine accessory drive systems in the first and second engines in a common location.

Direct-injection internal combustion engine with two valves per cylinder

Systems are provided for exhaust gas passages in integrated and conventional exhaust manifolds. In one example, a system may include an exhaust gas passage that has a cross section which features curved limb shapes. This passage may also feature other shapes of cross sections at other points along the passage.

Internal combustion engine with cylinder head

Methods and systems are provided for separately providing liquid-cooling to a cylinder head and a cylinder block. In one example, a method includes selectively pumping coolant with a single pump to each of a first cylinder head coolant jacket and a cylinder block coolant jacket based on engine temperatures. The method further includes discharging coolant from the first cylinder head coolant jacket to a heating circuit line including a vehicle interior heater and discharging coolant from the cylinder block cooling jacket and back to the single pump.

Method and system for an internal combustion engine with liquid-cooled cylinder head and liquid-cooled cylinder block

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Anselm Hopf