Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Johannes Hoehl

Gert Fischer

Hubert Graf

Florian Traub

Thomas Steinle

Norbert Gatzka

Michael Bidlingmaier

Josef Miritsch

Stefan Kallich

Bertram Zapp

Manfred Maier

Rainer Baeumel

An air supply device for an internal combustion engine may include at least one air chamber and at least two intake pipes, which are connected to the at least one air chamber. The intake pipes may each be designed to supply air to respective cylinders of the internal combustion engine, and they each may have intake pipe end portion assigned to a corresponding inlet opening. Via the inlet openings, air can move from an air chamber interior of the at least one air chamber into respective intake pipe interiors of the at least two intake pipes and also via the intake pipe interiors to the cylinders. The intake pipe end portions may end in the air chamber interior and overlap in at least one direction, which is oriented perpendicularly to at least one center axis of at least one of the intake pipe end portions at a common overlapping region.

Air supply device with intake pipes that overlap in an air chamber, internal combustion engine with an air supply device, and motor vehicle

An electric motorcycle includes a housing for housing an electric motor and/or a transmission. The housing is positioned at the center of the electric motorcycle in a front view. An internal cooling device and/or an electronic component and two cooling elements extend outward from opposite sides of the housing. Exterior cooling ribs are arranged on the cooling elements. The cooling ribs extend in the longitudinal direction of the electric motorcycle, such that the cooling elements and the cooling ribs are directly in contact with the air surrounding the electric motorcycle. The cooling device and/or the electronic component is, at least in portions, housed in and thermally connected to at least one of the cooling elements.

Electric motorcycle

A reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine includes first, second, and third cylinders, and a crank drive having a crankshaft rotatably mounted in a crank housing. The crankshaft has first and second crank pins, wherein a first and a second connecting rod for a first and a second piston are assigned to the first crank pin, and a third connecting rod for a third piston is assigned to the second crank pin. The first and the second cylinder together with the first and the second piston are arranged in a V-shape, wherein the third cylinder together with the third piston is arranged in the V.

Reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine

A drive device for a motorcycle is provided. The drive device includes an internal combustion engine having an adapter assembly arranged on a first end face of the internal combustion engine. The adapter assembly on a connection face opposite the first end face at least two connection geometries for different electrical drive units.

Drive device for a motorcycle

A reciprocating piston internal combustion engine includes at least one first, one second and one third cylinder and has a crank mechanism having a crankshaft, which is rotatably mounted in a crankcase, having a first, a second and a third crankpin. A first connecting rod having a first piston for the first cylinder is allocated to the first crankpin. A second connecting rod having a second piston for the second cylinder is allocated to the second crankpin. A third connecting rod having a third piston for the third cylinder is allocated to the third crankpin. The crankpins are arranged successively in an axial direction of the crankshaft, wherein the cylinders are arranged in a fan shape.

Reciprocating piston internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine has a crankcase, a crankshaft and at least one crankshaft bearing that can be loaded with lubricant for the purpose of mounting the crankshaft in the crankcase. The at least one crankshaft bearing has at least two separate lubricant feed systems.

Internal combustion engine

A valve timing gear of an internal-combustion engine is provided, in the case of which a camshaft acts by a timing cam upon a valve by way of a tappet whose cam-side contact path can be changed by a control device for changing the valve opening period. For achieving a small-sized control device, this control device comprises a slider rocker guided in the valve lifting direction by way of a first sliding hinge joint arranged on an engine section side and an additional sliding hinge joint provided on the tilting segment side, with a control opening penetrated with play by a timing-cam-free section of the camshaft. An element, which can be operated in a controlled manner, of an adjusting device is arranged in/on the camshaft, while rotating with it, and being applied such to the circumference of the control opening that the adjustable slider rocker, while the camshaft is rotating, carries out for each valve lift a periodic rocking movement which is used for forcibly controlling the tilting segment.

Valve timing system for an internal combustion engine

Piston engine having a hypocycloidal piston stroke transmission with a

An internal combustion engine has a camshaft with control cams which act on respective valves through a transmission member whose contact path on the cam side is variable in its position relative to the control cam via a control device for changing the valve opening period with a valve lift that is essentially constant. To achieve exact control, the contact path is formed on a roller, which is forcibly controlled relative to the drag lever in synchronization with the camshaft, as an intermediate element between the control cams and the drag lever.

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