Abstract: A method for printing a three-dimensional object incorporating an image includes receiving, by a first computing device coupled to a rapid prototyping device, a two-dimensional image file, merging, by the first computing device, the two dimensional image file with a file representing a three-dimensional object, producing a three-dimensional print file and printing, by the first computing device, using the rapid prototyping device, the three-dimensional print file.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder crankcase and a cylinder head that includes an integrated exhaust manifold, wherein the cylinder crankcase, the cylinder head and the integrated exhaust manifold have a continuous water jacket that forms part of a coolant circuit of the internal combustion engine. To ensure during shut-down cooling and/or warm-up cooling of the exhaust manifold that a majority of the coolant that is fed into the water jacket reaches the exhaust manifold, while only a small portion of the coolant flows around the cylinder through the cylinder crankcase, the coolant circuit includes a collector that communicates via passage openings having reduced opening cross-sections with the water jacket, and coolant channels arranged in extension of a flow direction through the passage-openings lead to the exhaust manifold, while coolant channels branching off laterally behind the passage-openings lead to the cylinder crankcase.

Abstract: Coolant circuit, in particular a coolant circuit having a plurality of sub-circuits 1, 2, 3 of an internal combustion engine 11 includes a primary cooling circuit 1 and a heating circuit 2 as well as a coolant delivery pump 5 disposed on a rotary actuator 4, with the rotary actuator 4 having a rotary-slide housing 20 with several ports 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a through which coolant can flow, and a first and at least one second rotary slide 6 and 7 which are rotatably supported in the rotary-slide housing 20 and have each at least one rotary-slide pass-through opening 8, 9, 10 forming a flow path, wherein the ports 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a can be brought into at least partial coincidence with the rotary-slide pass-through openings 8, 9, 10 by a rotary motion of the respective rotary slide 6 and/or 7), wherein a first branch 1a of the primary cooling circuit 1 leads from the internal combustion engine 11 via a main radiator 12 to a main radiator port 8b of the first rotary slide and can be controlled by the first rotary

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder crankcase and a cylinder head that includes an integrated exhaust manifold, wherein the cylinder crankcase, the cylinder head and the integrated exhaust manifold have a continuous water jacket that forms part of a coolant circuit of the internal combustion engine. To ensure during shut-down cooling and/or warm-up cooling of the exhaust manifold that a majority of the coolant that is fed into the water jacket reaches the exhaust manifold, while only a small portion of the coolant flows around the cylinder through the cylinder crankcase, the coolant circuit includes a collector that communicates via passage openings having reduced opening cross-sections with the water jacket, and coolant channels arranged in extension of a flow direction through the passage-openings lead to the exhaust manifold, while coolant channels branching off laterally behind the passage-openings lead to the cylinder crankcase.

Abstract: Coolant circuit, in particular a coolant circuit having a plurality of sub-circuits 1, 2, 3 of an internal combustion engine 11 includes a primary cooling circuit 1 and a heating circuit 2 as well as a coolant delivery pump 5 disposed on a rotary actuator 4, with the rotary actuator 4 having a rotary-slide housing 20 with several ports 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a through which coolant can flow, and a first and at least one second rotary slide 6 and 7 which are rotatably supported in the rotary-slide housing 20 and have each at least one rotary-slide pass-through opening 8, 9, 10 forming a flow path, wherein the ports 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a can be brought into at least partial coincidence with the rotary-slide pass-through openings 8, 9, 10 by a rotary motion of the respective rotary slide 6 and/or 7), wherein a first branch la of the primary cooling circuit 1 leads from the internal combustion engine 11 via a main radiator 12 to a main radiator port 8b of the first rotary slide and can be controlled by the first rotary