Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, a Subsidary of Ford Motor Company

Carsten Weber

Jan Mehring

Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach

Martin Wirth

Frank Kraemer

Bernd Steiner

Guenter Bartsch

Ludwig Stump

Clemens Maria Verpoort

Franz J Brinkmann

Stefan Quiring

Urban Morawitz

Rainer Friedfeldt

Vanco Smiljanovski

Helmut Ruhland

Kay Hohenboeken

Paul Turner

Ingo Lenz

Michael Tobergte

Bert Pingen

Joerg Kemmerling

Helmut Matthias Kindl

Hans Guenter Quix

Franz Arnd Sommerhoff

Maik Broda

Harald Stoffels

Guenter Hans Grosch

Jan Linsel

Werner Willems

Ulrich Kramer

Richard Fritsche

Norbert Andreas Schorn

Klaus-Peter Heinig

Martin Lutz

Anselm Hopf

Joachim Hansen

Dietmar Laufenberg

Jens Groeger

Andreas Tissot

Kai-Martin Mayer

Loic Wendling

Marek Behr

Bernhard Mueller

Norbert Schorn

Walter Blume

Guenther Bartsch

The disclosure relates to a clutch assembly for a manual transmission of a motor vehicle, having an axially running transmission input shaft which, by way of a clutch having a central release mechanism disposed on the transmission input shaft, is able to be coupled to a motor output shaft. The transmission input shaft has at least one ferromagnetic measuring portion. The magnetization of the ferromagnetic measuring portion is able to be influenced in a magnetoelastic manner by a torsion of the transmission input shaft. Portions of the central release mechanism surround the at least one measuring portion and has a sensor device which is specified for measuring a variable as a function of the magnetization of at least one measuring portion.

Clutch assembly for a manual transmission of a motor vehicle

Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger system. In one example, a system comprises an actuator configured to adjust a position of a plurality of guide vanes and a position of a coolant valve configured to adjust coolant flow through a turbine coolant jacket or a compressor coolant jacket.

Controlling the position of turbine guide vanes and of a coolant flow

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 coatings of a portion of an engine block shaping a combustion chamber. In one example, the engine block includes a first coating with a thermal conductivity higher than a conductivity of the engine block arranged in an upper region of the combustion chamber and a second coating with a thermal conductivity lower than the conductivity of the engine block arranged in a lower region of the combustion chamber, and where the second coating touches the first coating.

Methods and systems for engine block thermal conductivity

Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger. In one example, the turbocharger may include one or more cooling devices for cooling a compressor. The cooling devices may include a ventilation system arranged in a compressor impeller and shaft, the ventilation system configured to allow ambient air to flow into the shaft without being compressed.

Supercharged internal combustion engine with compressor

Methods and systems are provided for a ventilation arrangement. In one example, a system may include a compact ventilation arrangement arranged within a space between an intake manifold and a cylinder head. A pump of the ventilation arrangement arrange adjacent the cylinder head.

Methods and systems for a ventilating arrangement

The internal combustion engine is provided which may include a cylinder head, a turbine, and a turbine housing. The turbine housing may include an exhaust gas passage, at least one coolant fluid passage, and a wall between the passages. The wall may have a first area (A) disposed to absorb heat from an exhaust flow passing through the exhaust gas passage, and a second area (A) disposed to transfer heat from the wall to be absorbed by a coolant fluid flow passing through the at least one coolant fluid passage, wherein the following applies: A/A&#x2264;1.2.

Turbine housing

There is provided an arrangement of an internal combustion engine with a sequentially parallel twin turbocharger, in which at least one turbocharger has an electrical energy converter which can be used optionally as a motor for driving a compressor in the lower rotational speed range of the internal combustion engine or as a generator for charging a connected battery.

Twin turbo engine

A method for operating a boosted internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a first cylinder in a first cylinder group and a second cylinder in a second cylinder group, each of the first and second cylinders having two activatable outlet openings adjoined by an exhaust line, one of the outlet openings of each of the first and second cylinders coupled to a first turbocharger including a first turbine and one of the outlet openings of each of the cylinders coupled to a second turbocharger including a second turbine, the method comprising: if engine load is less than a threshold load value implementing a first operating mode that includes deactivating the second cylinder, deactivating one of the activatable outlet openings in the first cylinder, and activating one of the activatable outlet opening in the first cylinder.

Exhaust-gas-turbocharged applied-ignition internal combustion engine having at least two turbines, and method for operating an internal combustion engine of said type

A method for operating an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes during a first operating condition, operating two primary cylinders and two secondary cylinders to perform combustion, the two primary and secondary cylinders arranged in an inline configuration, the two primary cylinder adjacent to one another, the two secondary cylinders adjacent to one another, and the secondary cylinders positioned 175&#xb0;-185&#xb0; out of phase relative to the two primary cylinders and during a second operating condition, selectively deactivating the two secondary cylinders to perform combustion in only the two primary cylinders.

Four-cylinder engine with two deactivatable cylinders

An internal combustion engine has a cylinder head with at least one cylinder and a cooled turbine. Each cylinder has at least one outlet opening adjoined by an exhaust line for discharging exhaust gases from the cylinder. The exhaust line issues into an inlet region transitioning into an exhaust gas-conducting flow duct of the turbine. The turbine has at least one rotor mounted on a rotatable shaft in a turbine housing. The turbine has at least one coolant duct which is integrated in the housing and which is delimited and formed by at least one wall of the housing to form a cooling arrangement. The at least one wall of the turbine housing that delimits the at least one coolant duct is provided, at least in regions, with a thermal insulation.

Internal combustion engine with cooled turbine

A method of producing an enamel coating for a cylinder bore in a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine is provided. The method also provides for coating a cast iron gray cylinder block with an enamel coating.

Method for coating a bore and cylinder block of an internal combustion engine

The application describes a system for an engine comprising a direct injection nozzle for injecting gaseous fuel into a cylinder of an engine in a second operating mode; an intake injection nozzle for injecting liquid fuel into an intake port of the engine in a first operating mode; and a valve gear suitable to adjust timing of opening and closing of an inlet valve. Preferential injection of a gaseous fuel such as compressed natural gas directly into the cylinder increases efficiency and allows for reduced heat exposure to the lesser used liquid gas injectors mounted in the intake port, reducing coking of these injectors.

Internal combustion engine which can be operated with liquid and with gaseous fuel and a method for operating an internal combustion engine of this kind

A method for partial cylinder cutoff is provided. The method comprises operating a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with applied ignition, in which an odd number n of cylinders is arranged in line, and during partial-load operation when engine load is below threshold, enabling a partial cutoff of the cylinders, the partial cutoff comprising operating each cylinder only intermittently such that each cylinder is fired and cut off in turn at an interval of (2*720&#xb0; CA)/n.

Multi-cylinder internal combustion engine and method for operating a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine

An engine method, comprising turning off a second cylinder group in response to engine load falling below a first threshold, the second cylinder group including a first outer most cylinder and its immediately adjacent cylinder and turning on the second cylinder group in response to engine load raising above a second threshold and operating a first cylinder group constantly throughout engine operation; the first cylinder group including a second outer most cylinder and its immediately adjacent cylinder. By this method, engine efficiency may increase during partial load operating conditions from low engine loads.

Four-cylinder in-line engine with partial shutdown and method for operating such a four-cylinder in-line engine

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Carsten Weber