Intake device for a W-12 reciprocating piston internal combustion engine

US6978743B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AUDI AG · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Werner Polzl · Bad Wimpfen, DE
• Xaver Stemmer · Reichertshofen, DE
• Clemens Bandel · Ingolstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 14, 1994
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2005
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In an intake device for a W-12 reciprocating piston internal combustion engine with three rows of cylinders of four cylinders each, a structurally favorable and functionally advantageous arrangement is achieved with two intake distributors, each of which is connected to only two cylinders of each row of cylinders via lines which are separate for each row of cylinders.