Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimler Ag

Mercedes-Benz Aktiengesellschaft

Daimler-Benz Ag

Wolfram Schmid

Siegfried Sumser

Alfred Küspert

Helmut Finger

Michael Stiller

Peter Joppig

Stephan Krätschmer

Friedrich Schmid

Lionel Le Clech

Christian Onnen

Harald Wedler

Rolf Hutmacher

Stephan Krätschrner

Fritz Scherer

Wolfgang Sladek

Siefried Sumser

Eduard Heinz

In a turbocharger for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, comprising a turbine housing having first and second spiral passages, each of which is connected to at least one exhaust gas line of an exhaust train of the internal combustion engine and a turbine wheel disposed within a rotor chamber of the turbine housing and connected to a compressor impeller via a drive shaft for rotation with the impeller, the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine can be routed through the spiral passages for admission to the turbine wheel via the first and second spiral passages which have different wrap angles around the turbine wheel.

Turbocharger for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle

In an internal combustion engine comprising an exhaust gas turbocharger, which includes a compressor with a compressor wheel arranged in an inlet tract of the internal combustion engine and a turbine with a turbine wheel coupled rotationally to the compressor wheel and arranged in an at least two-path exhaust gas tract of which is connected to an exhaust gas guide section of the turbine including at least a first spiral channel coupled to the first exhaust path and a second spiral channel coupled to a second exhaust gas path, two guide vane elements are arranged upstream of the turbine wheel and downstream of respective spiral channels which are formed corresponding to a first degree of asymmetry Adetermined as a quotient &#x398; of a first mass flow parameter and a second mass flow parameter which is between 0.4 and 0.8.

Method for controlling an engine braking device of an internal combustion engine and internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle

In a method for operating an internal combustion engine including inlet valves with variably adjustable opening curves, during part-load operation, the closing time of the inlet valves and the fuel injection time are controlled as a function of the cylinder internal temperature so as to maintain the cylinder internal temperature relatively low in a controllable manner for reducing NOemissions.

Method for operating an internal combustion engine, and associated internal combustion engine

In an internal combustion engine comprising an exhaust gas turbocharger, including a turbine with at least two inlet passages arranged in the exhaust gas tract of the internal combustion engine, via which exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine can be supplied to a turbine wheel of the turbine, and a valve arrangement being arranged in to the exhaust gas tract to the turbocharger to control the supply of exhaust gas to the inlet passages of the turbine, a valve and turbine inlet passage configuration is selectable providing for a maximum braking power with low thermal load.

Internal combustion engine comprising an exhaust gas turbocharger

In a turbine wheel of an exhaust gas turbine comprising a turbine wheel with a hub and a plurality of turbine wheel blades which are arranged on the turbine wheel hub and which extend axially between a turbine wheel inlet and a turbine wheel outlet, the turbine wheel blades are constructed in such a way that the ratio of the hub contour thickness to the external contour thickness of each turbine wheel blade follows a defined function.

Turbine wheel in an exhaust gas turbine of an exhaust gas turbocharger

In a supercharged internal combustion engine having an intake duct and an exhaust gas recirculation system and comprising an exhaust gas turbine with two separate flow passages of different flow cross-sections arranged upstream of a turbine rotor of the exhaust gas turbine, each flow passage being in communication with a respective engine exhaust line for supplying it with exhaust gas and an exhaust gas recirculation line extending from one of the engine exhaust lines to the engine intake duct, a bypass line bypassing the exhaust gas turbine is provided and a common control element is arranged in the recirculation line of the exhaust gas recirculation system and in the bypass line for controlling the exhaust gas flow from the recirculation line selectively to none or any of the intake duct and the turbine bypass line.

Internal combustion engine having an exhaust gas turbocharger and an exhaust gas recirculation system

In an internal combustion engine provided with two exhaust gas turbochargers which each comprise a turbine in an exhaust line and one compressor in an intake section of the engine, two exhaust lines are provided which are each assigned to at least one of the exhaust gas turbines, an exhaust gas recirculation device being arranged between an exhaust line upstream of an exhaust gas turbine and the intake section downstream of a compressor and the two exhaust lines including bypass lines with a control valve for selectively permitting the exhaust gas to bypass the turbine closer to the engine.

Internal combustion engine having two exhaust gas turbocharger

In an exhaust gas turbocharger for a reciprocating internal combustion engine comprising an exhaust gas turbine in the exhaust line and a compressor in the inlet line of the engine, the exhaust gas turbine has two exhaust gas flow passages, by way of which exhaust gas is fed to the turbine rotor, the ratio of the turbine rotor diameter to the compressor wheel diameter being set by a function, which is dependent on the displacement volume of the internal combustion engine.

Exhaust gas turbocharger for a reciprocating internal combustion engine and corresponding reciprocating internal combustion engine

In an internal combustion engine having cylinders connected by means of controllable brake valves to a common gas pressure container which is in communication, by way of an outflow line with an outflow valve, with the exhaust strand of the internal combustion engine, an inlet gas pressure container is connected to the intake tract of the internal combustion engine and is in communication with the common pressure container by means of a recirculation line having a controllable check valve arranged therein permitting the establishment of various engine operating and control features.

Internal combustion engine including a gas pressure container assigned to the cylinders, and method for operating the engine

In an exhaust gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine including a compressor arranged in the intake duct and a turbine arranged in the exhaust duct of the engine, wherein the turbine includes in its housing an exhaust collection chamber from which the exhaust gas is directed via turbine inlet passage to the turbine wheel, the housing also includes a bypass arrangement for conducting part of the exhaust gas to the turbine exhaust structure in a turbine wheel bypass line which includes an ejector structure forming a gas pumping device.

Exhaust gas turbocharger for an internal combustion engine

In an internal combustion engine which includes in the intake section a compressor with an impeller that is mounted rotatably in a compressor intake passage, the compressor includes an additional passage which opens out into the compressor intake passage and through which a mass flow of exhaust gas can be transferred from the exhaust section into the intake section via an exhaust-gas recirculation device, the exhaust gas recirculation line of the exhaust-gas recirculation system of the engine being connected to the additional passage extending directly to the compressor.

Internal combustion engine comprising a compressor in the induction tract

In an internal combustion engine having an exhaust system with a turbocharger including an exhaust gas turbine disposed in the engine exhaust duct, a bypass line connected to the exhaust duct upstream of the turbine including a valve for diverting exhaust gas flow and bypassing the turbine, the valve includes a valve body having first and second exhaust gas flow control openings of different flow cross-sections and being adjustable between a first position in which the first flow control openings is in communication with the exhaust gas duct, a second position in which the second flow control opening is in communication with the exhaust gas duct and a blocking position in which exhaust gas bypass flow through the valve is blocked.

Internal combustion engine having an exhaust-gas turbocharger

In an exhaust gas turbocharger including a compressor wheel, the compressor wheel is cooled by at least one nozzle which is arranged in close axial proximity to the axis of rotation of the compressor wheel for spraying the backside of the compressor wheel near the center thereof with coolant whereby the coolant, utilizing the centrifugal forces of the rotating compressor wheel, is completely distributed over the entire wheel back surfaces.

Exhaust-gas turbocharger

In a method for diagnosis of an exhaust turbocharger for an internal combustion engine, at least one value which characterizes the load on the exhaust turbocharger is determined and compared with a reference value, an event signal being generated in the event of the reference value being exceeded. A wear characteristic number which characterizes the alternating load on the exhaust turbocharger is formed by addition of load signals, in each case one change signal being generated whenever the charger speed of the exhaust turbocharger exceeds a maximum.

Method and appliance for diagnosis of an exhaust turbocharger for an internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine with an exhaust turbocharger and an exhaust-gas recirculation device comprises a turbine, assigned to the exhaust turbocharger, in the exhaust section and a compressor in the intake duct, the turbine having at least two flow passages, via which exhaust gas can be fed to the turbine rotor. For the purpose of dimensioning the two flow passages, an asymmetry factor is determined as a function of the displacement of the internal combustion engine.

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Nürtingen, Germany

Wolfram Schmid