Volkswagen Ag

Kai Bohnstedt

Ekkehard Pott

Michael Zillmer

Georg Kruse

Marc Hladun

Marcel Zirwes

Klaus Uphoff

Mathias Dehmke

An internal combustion engine drives, via a belt drive, a first and a second auxiliary unit embodied respectively as a water pump and an air-conditioning compressor and drives a starter-generator operating as a starter and as a generator depending on the operating mode. The belt drive is connected through a clutch element, which has a freewheel, to the internal combustion engine such that, when the internal combustion engine is at standstill, only the two auxiliary units, but not at the same time the internal combustion engine, are driven by the starter-generator. The clutch element which has a freewheel allows a stepless transition of the drive mode from the internal combustion engine to the starter-generator. In order to start the internal combustion engine, the clutch element is engaged only for a short time, so that the drive power of the starter-generator is transmitted to the internal combustion engine.

Drive unit with an internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine includes an exhaust-gas system with n&#x3e;1 exhaust-gas flow configurations, wherein n is an integer. The exhaust-gas flow configurations are at least partly separated from one another and each of the exhaust-gas flow configurations includes at least one catalytic converter. The internal combustion engine includes a secondary air supply system with at least one secondary air pump and at least one secondary air valve. The at least one secondary air pump is connected, via the at least one secondary air valve, to at most n&#x2212;1 of the exhaust-gas flow configurations upstream of the at least one catalytic converter of the at most n&#x2212;1 of the exhaust-gas flow configurations. The remaining ones of the exhaust-gas flow configurations are separated from the secondary air supply system.

Internal combustion engine having a secondary air pump

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Braunschweig, Germany

Kai Bohnstedt