Internal combustion engine including a gas pressure container assigned to the cylinders, and method for operating the engine

US7412963B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimler AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfram Schmid · Eislingen/Fils, DE
• Siegfried Sumser · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 2007
• Grant date: Aug 19, 2008
• Expiry date: Jul 13, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/40
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In an internal combustion engine having cylinders connected by means of controllable brake valves to a common gas pressure container which is in communication, by way of an outflow line with an outflow valve, with the exhaust strand of the internal combustion engine, an inlet gas pressure container is connected to the intake tract of the internal combustion engine and is in communication with the common pressure container by means of a recirculation line having a controllable check valve arranged therein permitting the establishment of various engine operating and control features.