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Internal combustion engine with a cylinder head having an integrated drainage channel and method for producing the internal combustion

US9194281B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

Moritz Klaus Springer · Hagen, DE
Peter Bohn · Zülpich, DE
Guenter Bartsch · Gummersbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 13, 2014
Grant date	Nov 24, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 13, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49231
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a cylinder head having a cylinder having an exhaust valve opening and an intake valve opening, an intake port in fluidic communication with the intake valve opening and configured to flow intake air to the cylinder through the intake valve opening, and a condensate drainage channel extending into a wall of the intake port and including an inlet positioned downstream of an outlet, the inlet positioned vertically above the outlet.

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