Avl Gesellschaft Fur Verbrennungskraftmaschinen Und Messtechnik M.b.h.

Gunter K Fraidl

Walter Piock

Martin Wirth

Helmut Melde-Tuczai

Johann Wagner

Hendrik P Hazeu

Friedrich Quissek

Christian Fuchs

A four-stroke internal combustion engine with a gabled combustion chamber d at least two intake valves and at least two intake conduits per cylinder, of which a first intake conduit is embodied as unthrottled and a second intake conduit has a throttle device. To attain a stable radial mixture layering, it is provided that the fuel injection valve is disposed in the second intake conduit, and the throttle device in the closed state produces a defined minimum flow rate of between about 5% and about 20%, preferably about 10%, of the maximum flow rate, and that viewed in the direction of the crankshaft axis the center line of the first intake conduit in the intake valve region has a greater radius of curvature than does the center line of the second intake conduit.

Four-stroke internal combustion engine

A device for introducing fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, includes a unit for fuel delivery and an injection valve for withdrawing compressed gas from the cylinder and injecting the gas together with the delivered fuel into the cylinder, and a mixing space in the front part of the valve for the purpose of gas storage, the injection valve being provided with a valve for control of the gas exchange between the combustion chamber and the mixing space in the front part of the valve. To obtain reproducible operating conditions and an optimum closing time (E.sub.0) for the injection valve, the mixing space is connected to one or more sensor elements for measuring the pressure and/or temperature of the mixing space, and that the valve is closed in dependence on the physical quantity measured by the at least one sensor element.

Device for introducing fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal

In a method for introducing fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine wherein compressed gas is drawn from the combustion chamber during the compression phase of a working cycle, mixed with fuel, and injected into the combustion chamber together with the fuel during the subsequent working cycle, an ignitible mixture must be provided at the point where ignition is initiated. To keep together the spray cloud of the fuel-air mixture injected into the combustion chamber while moving it to the point of ignition, the proposal is put forward a complex air flow is generated during the compression phase of the engine which includes first, second and third streams that rotate about rotational axes normal to the cylinder axis and are directed approximately towards the center of combustion in the area of the top of the combustion chamber, the first stream being approximately normal to the second and third streams forming a vortex pair, and the fuel-air mixture is injected into the first stream in the direction of the ignition point.

Method for introducing fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal

A device for introducing fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, includes an injection valve for withdrawing compressed gas from the cylinder and injecting the gas together with the fuel into the cylinder, a mixing chamber in the front part of the valve for the purpose of gas storage and into which mixing chamber fuel is introduced via one or more flow passages opening into the mixing chamber, the injection valve being provided with a lifting valve for control of the gas exchange between the combustion chamber and the mixing chamber in the front part of the valve, and an orifice where the flow passage opens into the mixing chamber located in the area of the seat of the lifting valve. To improve mixture preparation in the mixing chamber the fuel flow passage is constituted, at least in part, by a longitudinal bore in the valve stem of the lifting valve, the fuel being introduced into the valve stem in an area of the lifting valve distant from the valve seat, and the flow passage can be closed against the direction of fuel delivery by means of a check valve positioned in the area of the orifice opening into the mixing chamber.

Device for introducing fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal

In an internal combustion engine with two or more inlet valves for each engine cylinder and roof-shaped boundary surfaces of the combustion chamber in the cylinder head--the main flow directions of the partial streams admitted into the combustion chamber by the inlet valves each forming an acute angle with the plane defined by the cylinder axes of a cylinder bank, i.e., the symmetry plane--, a strong torque of the charge in the combustion chamber is obtained at partial load without impairing the intake of charge at full load due to a deterioration of flow characteristics, by providing that the angle of at least one partial stream on one side of a plane going through the cylinder axis and being normal to the symmetry plane, be made larger by 10 to 40 degrees than the angle of at least one corresponding partial stream on the other side of this normal plane.

Internal combustion engine with two or more inlet valves per engine

An intake system for internal combustion engines, comprising suction pipes of different lengths, which can be connected individually--preferably in accordance with the engine speed--to the intake passage in the cylinder head leading to the intake valve. The main intake pipe is connected to each intake passage by means of a connecting piece, and three suction passages of different lengths departing from the main intake pipe open into this connecting piece either in the direction of its axis or on opposite sides thereof, the connecting piece containing a butterfly control valve which is centrally mounted on a shaft parallel to the longitudinal axis of the engine, and which--in its two extreme positions and in its center position--establishes the flow connection between one of the suction passages and the intake passage.

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Pirka, Austria

Gunter K Fraidl