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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2013
Mahle International Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Simon Buck, Metzingen, DE;
Wolfgang Gueth, Weinstadt-Beutelsbach, DE;
Burkhardt Mayer, Waiblingen, DE;
Mahle International GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
An internal combustion engine may include a cylinder head having a plurality of intake channels which lead to combustion chambers. A fresh gas distributor may be included for feeding fresh gas to the intake channels. The fresh gas distributor may have a flap arrangement including a flap shaft, which bears at least one flap for controlling the intake channels. The flap shaft may be mounted such that the flap rotates about a flap rotation axis. The fresh gas distributor may have a housing flange securing the fresh gas distributor to the cylinder head. The flap arrangement may be arranged in a region of the housing flange in a distributor housing of the fresh gas distributor. The cylinder head may have a recess, into which the fresh gas distributor is inserted in a region of the flap arrangement.