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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2012
Mahle Koenig Kommanditgesellschaft Gmbh & Co. KG, Rankweil, AT;
Franz Laimboeck, Goleta, CA (US);
Mahle Koenig Kommanditgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG, Rankweil, AT;
Abstract
An opposed piston engine has an outer piston and an inner piston, which are disposed in a cylinder and are driven in opposite directions and delimit a common combustion chamber. The inner piston drives a crankshaft via a connecting rod and the outer piston drives the crankshaft via a pair of traction connecting rods. The outer piston is supported by a connecting rod that is guided linearly in a guide block, and the connecting rod protrudes from a bridge that is connected at both end portions to a traction connecting rod. Accordingly, it is provided that each traction connecting rod contains a U-shaped curved piece of tube, preferably with parallel legs, which with its U-shaped curved portion encloses a part of the circumference of the pivot bearing supported by the bridge and is fixed, especially bolted, with its leg ends onto a traction connecting rod bearing mounted on the crankshaft.