Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Rover Group Limited

Klaus Bourdon

Gerd Kraemer

Heiko Konrad

Hubert Graf

Martin Roy Haggett

Helmut Eichlseder

Andrew Peter Woolley

Axel Rose

Deiter Meisberger

An exhaust tract for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes a first exhaust gas line, which conducts exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine to an exhaust-gas treatment device, and a second exhaust gas line, which forms a bypass line bypassing the exhaust gas treatment device. In order to ensure sufficient treatment of the exhaust gas even in the lean operating mode of an internal combustion engine, at least one first valve and one second valve are provided in series in the bypass line. An exhaust line is provided between the first valve and the second valve to reduce the pressure between the first and second valves. The pressure upstream of the second valve and the pressure downstream of the second valve, or the ambient pressure of the motor vehicle, are determined and negative pressure is applied to the exhaust line such that an exhaust gas flow via the second valve to the outside into the environment of the motor vehicle is prevented.

Exhaust tract for an internal combustion engine

A control device for controlling an internal combustion engine with a variably controlled valve stroke and with a butterfly valve in an air intake tract is provided. The control device is equipped with devices with which the even running of the internal combustion engine is monitored and through which the butterfly valve is actuated in the closing direction when a defined uneven running threshold value has been exceeded and when the valve stroke is smaller than a specified threshold until the value drops below the uneven running threshold value again.

Control device for controlling an internal combustion engine with a variably controlled valve stroke

Powertrain control system

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Hettenshausen, Germany

Klaus Bourdon