Daimler Ag

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimer Ag

Tilmann Roemheld

Thomas Stolk

Alexander Von Gaisberg-Helfenberg

Kai Lehmann

Matthias Eppinger

Marc Maronde

Bernd Neubauer

Michael Wagenplast

Willy Treyz

Dieter Nowak

Johannes Ernst

Christian Lorenz

Jochen Hufendiek

Hardy Weymann

Franz Huber

Martin Mutterer

Eckhart Nitzschke

Ruediger Weiss

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

A casting component, in particular for a combustion engine of a motor vehicle, having at least one cavity formed by a lost casting core, where a porous metal body molded in the cavity is formed by the casting core, is disclosed. Furthermore, the casting core for such a casting component is formed by casting a metal, in particular an aluminum alloy, together with a salt. Finally, a method for the production of such a casting component or of such a casting core is also disclosed.

Casting component having at least one porous metal body formed by a casting core

A device for adjusting a motor vehicle valve train includes at least one camshaft with at least four cam elements arranged in an axially displaceable manner. In each case two of the cam elements that are adjacently situated are formed as a cam element group to be switched together.

Internal combustion engine valve train adjustment device

In a motor vehicle valve train adjustment device comprising at least one camshaft with at least two axially displaceable cam elements wherein at least one cam element has a cam track with a valve lift and a cam track with zero valve lift for a deactivation of at least one cylinder, and at least one other cam element of the at least two axially displaceable cam elements has a cam track with a first valve lift and a cam track with a second valve lift by which a cylinder which remains fueled during a partial cylinder deactivation is adapted to the at least one cylinder deactivation by special valve lift characteristics.

Motor vehicle valve train adjustment device

A piston arrangement for a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine having a variable compression ratio. A piston includes a device for the variable adjustment of the compression ratio associated with the combustion chamber, and a piston pin is coupled to the piston via respective connecting regions, via which piston pin the piston can be coupled to a connecting rod of the internal combustion engine. The device includes the piston pin having at least one eccentric element, which is eccentrically arranged with respect to the connecting regions of the piston pin and via which the piston pin can be coupled to the connecting rod.

Piston arrangement for a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, having a variable compression ratio

A cast cylinder head for an internal-combustion engine, in which the charge cycle ducts have a fluctuating duct offset relative to the valve opening caused by the casting technique. Proximate the opening, the charge cycle ducts are provided with a machining allowance which increases toward the duct end and are machined there in a cutting manner so that the interior surface of the charge cycle ducts changes in each case without an offset into the valve opening. In order to achieve a simple tool guiding and nevertheless a machining which is advantageous to the flow, a compensating groove is arranged in the machining allowance of the charge cycle ducts which has a flat V-shaped cross-section and extends in the circumferential direction, specifically--relative to the flow direction--at least in the area of a convex course of the duct wall. The groove flanks have a convex cross-section and are curved to be as free of flow separations as possible. The compensating groove extends at a distance above the upper edge of the valve seat ring which corresponds to approximately 20 to 30% of the inside diameter of the valve opening. The groove base is situated outside the ideal course of the duct surface. The compensating groove extends at least approximately in a plane which is situated approximately at a right angle relative to the duct center line. The depth of the groove measured to the duct tangent corresponds approximately to the maximal core offset.

Cylinder head for internal-combustion engines

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Waiblingen, Germany

Tilmann Roemheld