Evaporative cooling system for internal combustion engines

US4584971A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg · DE

Inventors

• Alfred Neitz · Wendelstein, DE
• Wolfgang Held · Emmendingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 18, 1984
• Grant date: Apr 29, 1986
• Expiry date: Oct 18, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F01P2060/04
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An evaporative cooling system for internal combustion engines for protecting such a cooling system against exhaust steam losses and corrosion and, furthermore, to adapt this system to the use in internal combustion engines of a relatively great length (such as for commercial vehicles or contractors' machinery--irrespective of any inclined positions which these vehicles assume). The system includes a flexible bladder provided in the surge tank which contacts the inner surfaces of the tank in the cold condition and the cooling jacket of the internal combustion engine is subdivided into several units in each of which a desired coolant level is maintained by appropriate control elements.