Daimler Ag

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Mercedes-benz Group Ag

Dietmar Bertsch

Uwe Schaupp

Martin Bezner

Helmut Schorn

J&ouml;rg Sievert

Arnold Kaden

Werner Holly

Harald Ott

A prechamber spark plug for a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine includes a prechamber, a first connecting conduit, and a second connecting conduit. The prechamber is fluidically connectable to the combustion chamber via the first and second connecting conduits such that a mixture of fuel and air is introducible out of the combustion chamber and into the prechamber. The first connecting conduit has, on an end opposite the prechamber and via which the mixture of fuel and air is introducible into the first connecting conduit, a first partial region extending in a peripheral direction of the first connecting conduit and having a bevel, and has a second partial region connected to the first partial region in the peripheral direction and extending in the peripheral direction of the first connecting conduit and in which the first connecting conduit is free of a bevel.

Prechamber spark plug for an internal combustion engine and internal combustion engine

A method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, where the internal combustion engine includes a combustion chamber and a prechamber spark plug which is assigned to the combustion chamber and which has a prechamber which is fluidically connected to the combustion chamber via a plurality of openings. The method includes operating the internal combustion engine in a catalytic converter heating operation in which an ignition time, at which an ignition spark for igniting a fuel-air mixture in the combustion chamber is generated in the prechamber within a particular operating cycle of the internal combustion engine, is shifted later compared to a normal operation. An injection time, at which a last direct fuel injection into the combustion chamber is carried out within the particular operating cycle, is a same in the catalytic converter heating operation and in the normal operation.

Method for operating an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, in particular a motor car

A pre-chamber spark plug for a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine has a pre-chamber which has a plurality of openings and which is fluidically connectable to the combustion chamber via the openings. Two spark gaps are arranged in the pre-chamber via which respective sparks can be formed. The spark gaps are arranged symmetrically distributed in the pre-chamber and a first of the spark gaps is arranged further outwards than the second spark gap along a direction extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the pre-chamber spark plug.

Pre-chamber spark plug for a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, in particular of a motor vehicle, and an internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle

An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle has at least one cylinder for accommodating a piston and at least one pre-chamber spark plug allocated to the combustion chamber of the cylinder. The engine also has a pre-chamber, fluidically connected with the combustion chamber via several openings, in which at least one ignition spark is generable by the pre-chamber spark plug. At the induction stroke of the internal combustion engine, a rinsing of the pre-chamber with inlet gas including at least fuel and air occurs, so that, at the ignition point, an ignitable mixture of fuel and air is accommodated in the pre-chamber.

Internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle

A method for operating a combustion engine is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes: generating several sparks to ignite a fuel-air mixture in a combustion chamber by an ignition device of the combustion engine, determining a combustion duration of at least one of the sparks, detecting a deviation of an actual operation from a target operation of the combustion engine at least depending on the combustion duration, compensating for the deviation by implementing at least one measure which influences a combustion of the fuel-air mixture in the combustion chamber, determining the combustion duration of the chronological first of the sparks, allocating the first spark to a first spark type or to a second spark type depending on the combustion duration, and implementing the at least one measure if at least one value which characterizes a frequency of one of the spark types exceeds a threshold value.

Method for operating an internal combustion engine and internal combustion engine

In an internal combustion engine with at least one cylinder in which a combustion space is delimited between a piston and a cylinder head, with a fuel injector having an outwardly opening injection nozzle arranged in the combustion space for injecting fuel in the form of a hollow cone into the combustion space, and a spark plug mounted in the cylinder head and having electrodes arranged outside the hollow fuel cone generated by the injection nozzle, into which the electrodes of the spark plug project, the cylinder has a bore diameter (D) dimensioned such that, at an ignition time point of the internal combustion engine, a ratio dmR/D of the mean diameter (dmR) of the fuel boundary vortex () to the cylinder bore diameter (D) is in a range of 0.08 to 0.2, in particular of 0.1 to 0.12.

Internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection

A cylinder head for an internal combustion engine includes a spark plug , provided in combustion chamber , and an injection nozzle that has a housing end face and a closure element which is movable by an actuator and has a closure member , the housing end face of the injection nozzle forming a common, planar surface with the closure member in the closed state of the injection nozzle

Injection nozzle and a method for forming a fuel-air mixture

A method for the formation of a combustible fuel/air mixture in a combustion chamber of a direct-injection internal combustion engine with an injection nozzle, which has a closure body includes the steps of injecting at least two partial quantities of fuel into the combustion chamber and moving the closure body of the injection nozzle into its closed position after the injection of each of the partial quantities of fuel.

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Aspach, Germany

Dietmar Bertsch