Internal combustion engine

US6321698A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Erhard Rau · Weilheim, DE
• Wilhelm Huettner · Waiblingen, DE
• Joerg Abthoff · Schorndorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 5, 1999
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2001
• Expiry date: Aug 5, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F02B75/22
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An internal combustion engine having four individual cylinder banks, in each case two cylinder banks being arranged in a V-shape with respect to one another in such a way that the cylinder banks forming a V are disposed on both sides of one engine plane E defined by a vertical axis H that symmetrically divides the internal combustion engine and by a longitudinal axis L of the internal combustion engine, one cylinder bank of the cylinder banks that are associated with one another in a V-shape being configured closer to the engine plane E or the vertical axis H than the cylinder bank that is diametrically opposed with respect to the engine plane E. The present invention is intended for use in mixture-compressing internal combustion engines having externally supplied ignition, but also for air-compressing, self-ignition internal combustion engines.