Abstract: An Exhaust-gas purification system for an internal combustion engine, which, as seen in the direction of flow of the exhaust gas, has a particle filter, apparatus for providing a reducing agent in the exhaust-gas flow, a catalytic converter for reducing nitrogen oxide which is present in the exhaust gas, and a downstream oxidation catalytic converter. An upstream oxidation catalytic converter is arranged upstream of the particle filter.

Abstract: A method for operating an electronic controller of a motor vehicle, in particular of an engine controller, with which signal processing is carried out in order to control the operation of the motor vehicle and/or of the engine. The signal processing of the controller includes a filtering operation, the filtering operation being carried out as a function of the operating state of the motor vehicle and/or of the engine.

Abstract: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine, and a motor vehicle to be heated by the engine coolant, wherein the internal combustion engine has a cooling circuit, a heating mode can be established in which operating parameters of the internal combustion engine, while satisfying required output set values, are set for the maximum possible introduction of heat into the coolant and the exhaust gas in order to reach or hold a desired coolant temperature.

Abstract: An exhaust-gas cleaning unit includes a particle filter and a nitrogen oxide store disposed upstream of the particle filter. A method for operating the exhaust-gas cleaning unit includes a nitrogen oxide regeneration phase and a sulphur regeneration phase for the nitrogen oxide store and a soot regeneration phase for the particle filter. A longer period is selected for the sulphur regeneration phase than for the nitrogen oxide regeneration phase. At least part of the sulphur regeneration phase and at least part of the soot regeneration phase are performed as a combined regeneration phase, in which the regeneration phases are performed in immediate succession or one regeneration phase is performed intermittently at a number of intervals during the other regeneration phase.

Abstract: In an emission control system that includes a particle filter, an arrangement is provided upstream of the particle filter, the arrangement being configured to prevent the development of ash-forming compounds of sulfur in the exhaust. The emission control system may be used with a diesel engine.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of operating a diesel engine having an engine controller which controls the operation of the diesel engine as a function of characteristic maps and permits rich/lean control of the diesel engine. The engine controller includes a computer which effects a changeover to rich or lean operation of the diesel engine as a function of predetermined changeover criteria, a sensor system which communicates with the computer and monitors parameters needed for changeover criteria, and a memory which communicates with the computer and in which the characteristic maps for operating the diesel engine are stored. The computer effects a changeover from lean to rich operation when all the changeover criteria in this respect are satisfied, and effects a change back from rich to lean operation when at least one of the changeover criteria in this respect is satisfied.

Abstract: A multi-cylinder air-compressing injection-type internal-combustion engine having a nitric oxide adsorber catalyst and an exhaust gas return device. In order to increase the hydrocarbon fraction in the exhaust gas in front of an exhaust gas aftertreatment device during a regeneration phase and to reduce the oxygen content, exhaust gas pipes of the cylinders are divided into at least two flows, which extend separately from one another at least along a distance. An increased hydrocarbon emission is generated exclusively in the cylinders of one of the flows at times. Another of the flows is connected by way of the exhaust gas return device with an air intake pipe of the internal-combustion engine.

Abstract: A system and a process for operating a diesel engine using an automatic engine control which, as a function of characteristic diagrams, automatically controls the operation of the diesel engine and permits an automatic rich/lean controlling of the diesel engine. The automatic engine control includes a computer which, as a function of predetermined change-over criteria, causes a change-over to the rich or the lean operation of the diesel engine. A sensor system communicates with the computer and monitors the parameters necessary for change-over criteria. A memory communicates with the computer, the memory storing separate characteristic diagrams for the operation of the diesel engine for the lean operation and for the rich operation.

Abstract: A method for operating a multicylinder internal combustion engine with at least one adsorber catalytic converter in the exhaust line of the internal combustion engine includes operating the adsorber catalytic converter with periodically alternating adsorption and desorption operation. The exhaust leaving the adsorber catalytic converter in desorption operation is recycled and/or an oxidation catalytic converter is provided upstream of the adsorber catalytic converter. Exhaust recycling takes place occurs selectively in only one set of the cylinders of the internal combustion engine and this set of cylinders is operated in a state of incomplete combustion during desorption operation. Rich afterburning may be performed during desorption operation of the adsorber catalytic converter in the oxidation catalytic converter connected upstream and the oxidation catalytic converter is operated at an increased temperature during short regeneration phases to remove soot.

Abstract: A cylinder head for a uniflow-scavenged two-stroke internal-combustion engine, particularly in motor vehicles, is provided with outlet valves which can be controlled by a camshaft. Outlet ducts connected with the outlet valves extend out of the cylinder head. A total of four outlet valves are provided for each cylinder, with the associated outlet ducts being guided to one side of the cylinder head. The camshaft is arranged laterally of the cylinder head opposite the outlet side of the outlet ducts. The outlet valves which are situated on the side facing away from the camshaft can be operated from the direction of the camshaft by way of operating members transversely penetrating the cylinder head.

Abstract: In an inlet system for a two-cycle internal combustion engine which includes a cylinder with a piston reciprocating therein between a top dead center position and a bottom dead center position and in which at least two rows of scavenging air flow passages are arranged in separate flow planes around the cylinder adjacent the bottom dead center position of the piston which are closed by the piston when it is remote from the bottom dead center position, each of the separate flow planes includes independent air flow control components for independently controlling the admission of scavenging air to the scavenging air passages in the different flow planes.

Abstract: In a two cycle internal combustion engine with uni-directional flow scavenging wherein a piston is disposed in a cylinder so as to be movable between top and bottom dead center end positions, the cylinder has fresh air inlet passages which are so arranged that their bottom walls are disposed below the piston top edge when the piston is in its bottom dead center position so that part of the piston top land is directly exposed to the fresh air flow through the air inlet passages and oil discharge bores extend from the air inlet passages and are in communication with the oil circulating system for the removal of oil wiped off the cylinder wall and collected in the inlet passages.

Abstract: In a port-controlled two-stroke internal combustion engine with an engine block comprising a crankcase and a cylinder block including pistons connected to a crankshaft by crosshead rods with crossheads guided for linear movement with the pistons, and connecting rods extending between the crossheads and the crankshaft a partition structure is arranged between the crankcase and the cylinder block and includes hollow cylindrical sleeves which project axially into the cylinders to a point closely adjacent the undersides of the piston tops when the pistons are in their bottom dead center positions and the sleeves are spaced from the cylinder walls to form between the sleeves and the cylinder walls annular spaces for receiving the depending skirts of the pistons.