Daimler-Benz Ag

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Daimler Chrysler Ag

Michael Kuhn

Horst Hanauer

Jorg Abthoff

Ludwig Fricker

Michael Kramer

Manfred Fortnagel

Roland Schwegler

Walter Buck

Gunther Bubeck

Immanuel Kutschera

In an internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection, which comprises a number of operating elements each including a combustion chamber delineated by an internal wall of a cylinderhead and a piston movably disposed in a cylinder, an injector mounted in the cylinderhead has a fuel injection nozzle which injects fuel into the combustion chamber in a cone-like pattern wherein an ignitable fuel/air mixture is formed and a spark plug is mounted on the cylinderhead within a spark plug sleeve which extends into the combustion chamber and forms, adjacent the spark plug electrodes, an ignition chamber which is in communication with the interior of the cone-like fuel spray pattern so as to receive therefrom an easily ignitable relatively rich fuel mixture which, upon ignition by the spark plug, generates a flame beam igniting the fuel mixture within the cone-like spray pattern.

Internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection

In a variable valve timing mechanism for an internal combustion engine with exhaust valves operated by an exhaust camshaft and intake valves operated by two intake camshafts of which one is driven by the exhaust camshaft by way of a phase controller disposed at one end of one of the intake camshafts and controls the valve openings time and the other is driven by the one intake camshaft by way of a coupler drive which is disposed at the opposite end of the one intake camshaft and controls the valve closing times.

Variable valve timing mechanism for an internal combustion engine

An arrangement for adjusting the boost pressure in an internal-combustion engine, supercharged by an exhaust-gas turbocharger with adjustable turbine diffuser, to a predetermined desired boost-pressure value dependent on the operating point. To improve the efficiency of the internal-combustion engine in the non-steady-state mode, especially after a positive load change out of low load and speed ranges, or, after a positive load change during the non-steady-state mode, below a predetermined threshold value for the exhaust-gas counterpressure upstream of the turbine the boost pressure is regulated according to a first characteristic corresponding to the instantaneous true deviation of the actual boost-pressure value from the desired boost-pressure value. After this threshold value has been exceeded, the exhaust-gas counterpressure is regulated predetermining hypothetical control deviations for the boost-pressure control circuit according to a special characteristic.

Arrangement for controlling the boost pressure in an internal-combustion

A process for adjusting the boost pressure in an internal-combustion engine, supercharged by an exhaust-gas turbocharger with adjustable turbine diffuser, to a predetermined desired boost-pressure value dependent on the operating point. To improve the efficiency of the internal-combustion engine in the non-steady-state mode, especially after a positive load change out of low load and speed ranges, or, after a positive load change during the non-stead-state mode, below a predetermined threshold value for the exhaust-gas counterpressure upstream of the turbine the boost pressure is regulated according to a first characteristic corresponding to the instantaneous true deviation of the actual boost-pressure value from the desired boost-pressure value. After this threshold value has been exceeded, the exhaust-gas counterpressure is regulated predetermining hypothetical control deviations for the boost-pressure control circuit according to a special characteristic.

Process for controlling the boost pressure in an internal-combustion

Meander-shaped exhaust gas ducts pass through a soot burn-off filter made of porous ceramic filter material. Catalytically coated blind ducts branch from each of the outer bends to receive and combust solid combustion residues from the exhaust gases. The residual gases produced in the blind ducts by the oxidation of the combustion residues pass through the filter material into adjacent discharge ducts and are transported from there to the outside of the filter. In this way the exhaust gas ducts remain largely free of solid combustion residues, display no clogging phenomena and therefore keep the exhaust gas backpressure low. This improves the starting behavior of an engine, achieves more favorable warm-up behavior and has a positive influence upon the response behavior of an exhaust gas turbocharger.

Soot burn-off filter for diesel engines

The invention relates to a direct fuel injection method for a diesel engine in which a preset quantity of fuel is introduced into a combustion space via a fuel injection nozzle in a preinjection and in a main injection which is separate from the preinjection. To achieve a short ignition delay with lowest possible specific fuel consumption during this process, the beginning of the preinjection occurs within the range of 10.degree.-16.degree. or of 20.degree.-30.degree. crank angle before top dead center, depending on speed, and the beginning of the main injection occurs within the range of 2.degree. after top dead center to 15.degree. before top dead center, the interval between the end of the preinjection and the beginning of the main injection being within the range of 3.degree. to 14.degree. or of 3.degree. to 26.degree. crank angle before top dead center and the preinjection quantity is 10% to 20% or 1% to 5% of the quantity of fuel preset in each case, depending on load.

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Filderstadt, Germany

Michael Kuhn