Abstract: A system for the regeneration, by oxidation, of the particulates deposited in a particulate filter trap of an internal cumbustion engine provided for purifying the engine exhaust gas, in which the thickness of the particulates deposited in a given area in the trap is determined relative to a predetermined thickness in excess of which the filter trap will operate inefficiently, and the excess thickness being reduced by regeneration.

Abstract: For a combustion procedure for internal combustion engines, in which a fuair mixture with back-fed exhaust gas is introduced into a combustion chamber, a highly-combustible fuel-air mixture without back-fed exhaust gas in introduced into at least one precombustion chamber, which is connected by means of at least one opening with the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A process for the oxidation of a concentration of internal combustion engine emission particulates collected in a particulate filter trap by supplying secondary energy to the deposit at the inlet surface of the filter and/or to the particulate/exhaust gas mixture, includes adjusting the particulate concentration to a value which lies within the explosive range of the particulate/exhaust gas mixture by briefly adding, or recycling, combustible particulates to the exhaust gas flow in the filter, especially in front of the inlet face of the filter.

Abstract: A process and system for the regeneration of at least a pair of side-by-side particulate filter traps for purifying the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, particularly a motor vehicle diesel engine, by oxidation of particulates collected in the traps, combustion of the particulates being carried out during engine operation by fuel burners respectively associated with the traps, in which a flame jet at high velocity flow is directed from one of the burners for a short duration transversely to the inflow direction of the exhaust gas to be purified directly into an associated trap without mixing with the exhaust gas flow, such that the exhaust gas in the vicinity of the one burner is diverted by the one flame jet to flow into and through the other trap while the one flame jet initiates combustion of the particulates collected in its associated trap.

Abstract: A process for the regeneration of engine emission particulates collected in particulate filter traps associated with each of the engine cylinders, or with groups of such cylinders, includes the selective elevation of the emission temperature of at least one of the cylinders or groups to the extent required for regeneration, by oxidation, of the filter trap or traps associated therewith, by supplying engine fuel to such cylinder or cylinders in a predtermined amount to produce the elevated emission temperature, and supplying the remaining of the cylinders with amounts of engine fuel less than such predetermined amount as required to sustain the given engine power output.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for unthrottled load control of an internal combustion engine by means of exhaust gas. The method requires entirely freely adjustable opening and closing times for the inlet and exhaust valves. Starting at full load with the minimum of exhaust gas in the cylinder the amount of exhaust gas in the cylinder is increased thereby reducing the available combustion chamber volume for receiving fresh mixture mass thereby reducing the load. The fresh mixture mass and the exhaust gas mass are controlled exclusively by coordinating the opening and closing times of the intake and exhaust valves.

Abstract: For a combustion procedure for internal combustion engines, in which a fuair mixture mixed with back-fed exhaust gas is introduced into a combustion chamber, a highly-combustible fuel-air mixture without back-fed exhaust gas in introduced into at least one precombustion chamber, which is connected by means of at least one opening with the combustion chamber.

Abstract: In a particle filter device containing porous filter material adapted for the exhaust flow of a diesel engine to filter particles from the exhaust gasses discharged from the engine, a system for the removal of filtered particles collected on the filter material, wherein the removal is effected by oxidation, includes a housing containing the filter material and having a flow control nozzle, the cross-section of which is reduced in the direction of the filter material for directing the gas stream to be purified toward the porous filter material in such a manner that described purification zones of the filter material are preferentially impacted by the through-flowing gas to be purified.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for starting and regulating valve systems for displacement-type machines such as fuel-regulated internal combustion engines wherein a valve can be held in at least two final operational positions. The valve systems are each designed as an oscillating spring/mass system such that periodic force components or travel path excitations can be communicated to the spring/mass system in its original starting position or in a static home position. The pulse characteristics or frequency of the force components or excitations are close or equal to the natural frequency of each spring/mass valve system, so that the valve system is caused to oscillate with an increasing amplitude and is thus excited into one of the two final operational positions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for introduction of a fluid or liquid medium into working or operating chamber of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. For the purpose and object of reduction of nitric oxide emission as well as for an improvement of the efficiency there is proposed with a method and apparatus for introduction of the fluid or liquid medium into the working or operating chamber of an internal combustion engine operated with gaseous fuels to admix the fluid continuously or intermittently as to the gaseous fuel and subsequently to blow-in the fuel or power gas/fluid or liquid mixture into the working or operating chamber of the internal combustion engine under the pressure of the fuel or power gas. Hereby there can be utilized or employed advantageously besides the water also alcohol and alcohol/water mixtures, which means media with bound OH-groups.

Abstract: An arrangement for an electromagnetically operated actuator for a displacement-type engine having a spring-mass valve actuating oscillatory system which includes a valve having an armature thereon and a pair of electromagnets for maintaining the valve in at least first and second final operational positions of the maximum amplitude of vibration, the armature and at least one of the electromagnets comprising a contact dampener for the armature, at least one of the electromagnets being mounted in the housing by a hydraulic length-compensating element such that the distance between the valve seat and the pole area of the electromagnet is adjusted to correspond to the distance between the valve head and the pole area of the armature, so that the desired amount of dampening is consistently effected as the armature approaches the electromagnet and the valve approaches its seat.

Abstract: An air-compressing, self-igniting combustion engine for liquid fuels, in an arrangement that includes a combustion chamber depression in a piston for receiving injected fuel predominantly in the vicinity of the wall thereof and for receiving rotating combustion air at the time of fuel injection. Oxygen-containing fuel that is reluctant to ignite is injected through a first injection device into the combustion chamber depression; through a second injection device there is injected fuel that is willing to ignite, for instance oil fuel, gas oil or Diesel fuel, for initiating and/or maintaining the fuel combustion in the combustion chamber depression. Furthermore, the injection times of the fuel that is willing to ignite and the oxygen-containing fuel that is reluctant to ignite overlap each other. The first and second injection nozzles each are arranged with an injection pump and are rigidly coupled and have a common injection adjuster. Both injection nozzles are combined in a single-nozzle body.

Abstract: An electromagnetically operating actuator for control elements capable of making oscillatory movements in displacement machines, more particularly for flat slide shut-off valves and lift valves, includes a spring system and a pair of electrically operating switching elements, over which the control element is movable in two discrete opposite operating positions and is retained thereat by either switching magnet, the locus of the position of equilibrium of the spring system lying between the two operating positions. The invention is characterized by the provision of a compression device in engagement with the spring system for relocating the locus of the position of equilibrium of the spring system upon actuation of the compression device.

Abstract: A method of operating an air-compressing, self-igniting combustion engine for liquid fuels, in an arrangement that includes a combustion chamber depression in a piston for receiving injected fuel predominantly in the vicinity of the wall thereof and for receiving rotating combustion air at the time of fuel injection. Oxygen-containing fuel that is reluctant to ignite is injected through a first injection device into the combustion chamber depression; through a second injection device there is injected fuel that is willing to ignite, for instance oil fuel, gas oil or Diesel fuel, for initiating and/or maintaining the fuel combustion in the combustion chamber depression. Furthermore, the injection times of the fuel that is willing to ignite and the oxygen-containing fuel that is reluctant to ignite overlap each other. The first and second injection nozzles each are arranged with an injection pump and are rigidly coupled and have a common injection adjuster.

Abstract: A device for feed control of valve-controlled internal combustion engines, with the combustion chamber capable of being closed off by an intake valve toward the intake passage, and with a further shutoff element being provided in the intake passage. This further shutoff element is a slotted flat slide valve which is movable in an oscillating manner and cooperates with counter slots. The counter slots are formed by vanes arranged in the housing. The flat slide valve is drivable by a cam.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for single or multiple cylinder internal combustion engines comprises two fuel injection valves for each cylinder of an engine. One fuel injection valve operates to inject a principal volume of fuel and the other a secondary volume of fuel into said cylinder. The two injection valves are fed by a plunger which is reciprocable in the working chamber of a pump body. The working chamber of the pump body communicates with a fuel admission duct, a delivery duct for the delivery of a principal fuel volume to the one fuel injection valve and a delivery duct for the delivery of a secondary fuel volume to the other fuel injection valve in such a manner that the duct for the delivery of the principal fuel volume is covered by the plunger after the same has completed a predetermined part of its stroke.