Internal combustion engine with aggregate units arranged in an automotive vehicle

US4309970A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Joachim H. Sorsche · Stuttgart, DE
• Erich Ableitner · Waiblingen, DE
• Ernst Gobien · Waiblingen, DE
• Manfred Minning · Eßlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 10, 1979
• Grant date: Jan 12, 1982
• Expiry date: May 10, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16H55/36
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An internal combustion engine arranged in an automotive vehicle with optionally driven units or the like, for example, units driven by way of pulleys. The units extend toward a front if the internal combustion engine is arranged in a front compartment of the automotive vehicle and extend toward the rear beyond the internal combustion engine if the engine is disposed in a rear compartment. The units and optionally their drive elements are fashioned in such a way and/or are mounted to the internal combustion engine in such a manner that, in case of a collision, impact energy is absorbed at the units and/or their fasteners or mounting by the performance of deformation work, by overcoming frictional resistances, and/or by a displacement of viscous substances against a resistance.