Abstract: A variable valve control arrangement for a lift valve of an internal combustion engine has a longitudinally adjustable coupling assembly disposed between a cam and the lift valve including an outer cup plunger and an inner plunger on the lift valve side and a hydraulic working space formed between the plungers. During the flanks of the valve lift curve, communication is established at times between the hydraulic working space and a pressure medium supply through the cup plunger so that at sufficiently high pressure the coupling assembly will increase its length. During the valve closing phase, the pressure in the working space is reduced through a throttle aperture in the cup plunger.

Abstract: A variable cam arrangement for a lift valve includes a cam having a rigid part which is movable on a camshaft in a radial direction between a retracted and an extended position, the movable part being guided on the camshaft, and stops on the camshaft and the movable part to limit the motion of the part.

Abstract: A hydraulic tappet-clearance compensating arrangement having no check valve includes an outer cylinder formed with a cup tappet and a piston axially displaceable in the outer cylinder and forming a pressure chamber therein. The outer cylinder is formed with a through-hole and a channel axially positioned so that a flow connection for the pressure medium is provided between the pressure chamber and a reservoir only during the base circle phase of the valve-operating cam and a flow connection is provided between the reservoir and a pressure medium supply only outside the base circle phase of the cam.

Abstract: A force-transmitting arrangement to effect opening of a lift valve includes a central plunger responsive to the action of a main cam and a valve-engaging piston enclosing a pressure chamber. In addition, another pressure chamber surrounding the plunger and within a displaceable cup plunger communicates with a pressure medium line having a control valve. The cup plunger is responsive to an additional cam having a different lift curve from the main cam. When the control valve is closed, the lift curve of the additional cam is transmitted to the lift valve by way of both pressure chambers. When the control valve is open, the lift curve of the main cam is transmitted to the lift valve.

Abstract: In the embodiment described in the specification a combustion chamber for an internal combustion engine has intake and exhaust valves arranged to scavenge the combustion chamber with fresh gas. The valve control for the intake valve is arranged so that the intake valve closing time is delayed with decreasing load and, to avoid a corresponding reduction of the compression ratio, the combustion chamber has a variable volume annex which reduces the combustion chamber volume with decreasing load.

Abstract: In the embodiments described in the specification, a mixture-compressing internal combustion engine has intake and exhaust valve opening and closing times arranged to permit scavenging of the combustion chamber with fresh gas and a valve control is provided to advance the intake valve closing time as a function of engine load in order to increase the compression stroke under partial load conditions. The intake valve opening time and the exhaust valve opening and closing time may also be changed in accordance with the load.

Abstract: For the purpose of attaining good sealing of a rotary slide valve under the action of gas forces in a pressure chamber adjacent to the valve, the sealing surface of a sliding ring bearing on the rotary slide valve, taking into account the gas-dynamic pressure forces, is dimensioned approximately double the size of the end face of the sliding ring facing the pressure chamber and acted on by the gas pressure.

Abstract: A profiled seal which is subjected to the influence of gas pressure forces in a pressure chamber associated with a rotary slide valve is provided with an enlargement, facing the slide valve, of its inner cross section in order to prevent an inadmissibly large increase of the contact pressure forces between the profiled seal and the slide valve, with an enlargement.

Abstract: In order to reduce the required diameter of a rotary valve, there are combined in one cross section, also containing a housing-side fresh gas and, respectively, exhaust gas opening, fresh gas and, respectively, exhaust gas ducts leading to adjacent combustion chambers, so as to form a common conduit extending in the plane of the fresh gas and, respectively, exhaust gas opening.

Abstract: In order to produce a rotary valve with short and small cross-sectional dimensions, fresh gas or exhaust gas ducts of the rotary valve are associated with adjacent cylinders and extend in some regions in a common cross-sectional plane, in different halves of the cross section of the rotary valve outside the longitudinal axis thereof, the plane also contains two diametrically opposite fresh gas and, respectively, exhaust gas openings in the rotary valve housing.

Abstract: An internal-combustion engine includes an engine block, a plurality of parallel cylinders and oil chambers defined in the engine block; intake valves, exhaust valves, overhead valve controls and crankshaft bearings supported in the engine block as well as a pump supported in the engine block for delivering oil through the oil chambers for cooling the engine. The engine block is a single-piece cast component in which the oil chambers extend adjacent and parallel to the cylinders and are accessible from opposite sides of the engine block where the crankshaft bearings and the valve controls are supported.

Abstract: In the specific embodiment described herein, a rotary valve for the gas exchange of an internal combustion engine has a rotary member and a housing and a series of circumferential dry-bearing gas-sealing rings and dry surface seals arranged to block leakage between adjacent passageways in the valve member and the housing.

Abstract: A valve operating mechanism for an internal combustion engine for an automobile in which friction is decreased without an increase in the mass to be moved by the valve closing spring. The valve operating mechanism has a roller arranged on an actuation spindle. The roller cooperates with a bearing surface on a component of the mechanism that is connected to the valve, at least during valve opening, so that deviations of the valve lift curve from the desired valve lift curve are eliminated. Connection between the actuation spindle, through the roller, and the valve is maintained only during the valve-open cycle.

Abstract: A mixture compressing internal-combustion engine having a combustion chamber, an intake conduit for introducing a combustible mixture into the combustion chamber, a throttle valve for controlling the flow of the mixture in the intake conduit and apparatus for reducing knocking in the engine. The knock reducing apparatus includes a knocking sensor coupled to the combustion chamber, control means coupled to the sensor and an adjustable full-load stop positioned within the intake conduit adjacent the throttle valve. The stop is controlled by the control means to vary the full-load opening angle of the throttle by an amount corresponding to the output signal from the control means, a reduction in the full-load opening angle reducing knocking of the engine.

Abstract: An internal-combustion engine includes an oil reservoir, a lubricating oil circuit, a lubricating oil pump drawing oil from the oil reservoir and driving the oil in the lubricating oil circuit and a cooling oil circuit coupled to the lubricating oil circuit. There is further provided a cooling oil pump drawing oil from the oil reservoir and driving the oil in the cooling oil circuit. The cooling oil pump has a lower output pressure than the lubricating oil pump.

Abstract: In a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine, with a first crankshaft part and a second crankshaft part, a device for coupling the crankshaft parts at a predetermined relative angular position is provided. A friction clutch for pre-coupling the crankshaft parts and for attaining substantially the same speed of rotation has a first thrust element coupled to the first crankshaft part wherein the thrust element is rotatable over an angle relative to the first shaft between a first angular position and a second angular position. A clutch plate is coupled to the second crankshaft part for engaging the thrust element. Means are provided for actuating the first friction clutch wherein the thrust element is maintained in the first angular position during initial actuation of the friction clutch, and moves to the second angular position in response to a reversal in torque transmitted between the crankshaft parts.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders arranged in two rows extending in the longitudinal direction of the engine at opposite sides of a longitudinal center plane of the engine, inlet and outlet valves arranged in two rows and having longitudinal axes which extend obliquely to the longitudinal center plane of the engine, and a common camshaft operatively associated with the valves and having a longitudinal axis disposed at least approximately in the longitudinal center plane of the engine, the valves are disposed and oriented in a manner such that the longitudinal axes of the valves at least approximately intersect the longitudinal axis of the camshaft, and the valves are constructed and positioned to be directly actuated by the camshaft.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine having a rotating crankshaft mounted on at least one main bearing is provided with an oil pump having at least one gear surround the crankshaft and rotationally driven by the crankshaft. The pump gear surrounds the main bearing so that the main bearing and the oil pump occupy a common axial space on the crankshaft.

Abstract: A V-type internal combustion engine including a plurality of pistons and cylinders acting on a crankshaft and having a common cylinder head. The pistons and cylinders are arranged in two banks, the cylinders of the first bank arranged interstitially with the cylinders of the second bank in a longitudinal direction. Each of the cylinders and/or pistons is provided with recesses facing the adjacent cylinder or cylinders which extends partially along the cylinder and/or piston from the crankshaft-side thereof.

Abstract: A water tank for a transverse flow radiator which tank is of the type including an overflow chamber separated from a main coolant stream collecting chamber by means of a substantially vertical partition, openings for permitting a secondary stream of coolant to flow through the overflow chamber and a fill tube opening into the overflow chamber and adapted to be provided with a pressure relief valve. The water tank is made in one piece as a cast or die-cast member with an overflow chamber which is disposed coaxially below the fill tube and which has a cross-sectional area which is equal to or less than that of the fill tube.