Daimler Ag

Ruediger Weiss

Tilmann Roemheld

Johannes Ernst

Christian Lorenz

Jochen Hufendiek

Hardy Weymann

Franz Huber

Frank Strauss

An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle includes a crankshaft, a camshaft, a cylinder, a piston movably disposed in the cylinder and coupled to the crankshaft for driving the crankshaft, a first gas exchange valve which is assigned to the cylinder, a first valve clearance compensation device, where via the first valve clearance compensation device the first gas exchange valve is displaceable between a first open position and a first closed position by a first cam of the camshaft, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to align the camshaft such that the first valve clearance compensation device is pressure-loaded in the idle state of the crankshaft by a plateau area assigned to the first cam to hold the first gas exchange valve in the first open position.

Internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, having a control unit for aligning a camshaft and method for operating such an internal combustion engine

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Winnenden, Germany

Ruediger Weiss