Abstract:
A hydraulic camshaft-adjusting device of the rotary piston type having a drive gear (2) and an impeller. The drive gear (2) has a cavity formed from a perimeter wall and two side walls (5, 6) inside of which at least one hydraulic working chamber is formed from at least two boundary walls (8). The impeller has a wheel hub (10) with at least one vane that extends into a working chamber, dividing the chamber into two associated hydraulic pressure chambers. The pressure medium feed to and from the pressure chambers is done using a pressure medium tap (16) on the side facing a camshaft as well as using pressure medium channels (17) incorporated into the axial sides (14, 15) of the wheel hub (10) of the impeller, which are connected to the pressure medium tap through a pressure medium distributor (20). The pressure medium tap (16) and the pressure medium distributor (20) are encircled at the head (19) and the outer surface (21) by a respective penetration (22, 23) in the side walls (5, 6) of the drive gear (2). The gaps between the head (19) of the pressure medium distributor (20) at the penetration (22) of the one side wall (5) of the drive gear (2) and between the outer surface (21) of the pressure medium tap (16) and the penetration (23) at the other side wall (6) of the drive gear (2) are sealed off through wear-resistant sealing media against pressure medium leakage
Abstract:
A device for varying the control times of gas-exchange valves of an internal combustion engine, which has between the impeller (8) and the drive wheel (2) an additional angle-limiting device (26) with the aid of which the maximum pivoting angle of the impeller, which is limited per se by the lateral surfaces (15, 16) of the bounding walls (13) in the drive wheel (2), can be reduced with respect to the drive wheel (2) to a smaller pivoting angle.
Abstract:
A device (1) for adjusting valve timing in an internal combustion engine, disposed within a control gear of at least one camshaft on a drive pinion (3) which is in driving relationship with this camshaft, said device (1) comprising an adjusting piston (2) which is axially displaceable by a hydraulic medium and whose first and second end faces (11,12) delimit a first and a second pressure chambers (13,14) while a peripheral surface (15) of the adjusting piston (2) bears sealingly against a housing (16) which delimits the first and the second pressure chambers (13,14) radially outwards, the adjusting piston (2) comprising two oppositely oriented helical gear sections, (6,7) and first (6) of said two helical gear sections cooperates with a corresponding gear (5) of a driving element (4) connected to the drive pinion (3), while second (7) of said two helical gear sections cooperates with a gear (8) of a driven element (9) connected to the camshaft, a stop element (18,19) or an end portion of the housing being arranged in an axially outer portion of each of the two pressure chamberss (13,14) to define a position of maximum displacement of the camshaft, characterized in that the stop element (18) or the end portion of the housing of the first pressure chamber (13), towards which the adjusting piston (2) is displaced on starting of the engine, and/or the first end face (11) of the adjusting piston (2) facing this pressure chamber (13) comprises a hydraulic and/or pneumatic end position damping means for the adjusting piston (2).
Abstract:
A pressure pulse source for generating acoustic pressure pulses in an acoustic propagation medium has a foil arrangement formed by a number of electrically contacted piezoelectric foils stacked directly on top of one another with no interstices between the foils, and employs a drive system for driving the individual foils in succession according to the traveling wave principle.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a device for varying valve timing of gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine, particularly a hydraulic camshaft adjusting device of a rotary piston type, said device comprising a drive pinion (2) connected in driving relationship to a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and a winged wheel (3) connected rotationally fast to a camshaft of the internal combustion engine. The drive pinion (2) comprises a hollow space formed by a circumferential wall (4) and two side walls (5, 6), at least one hydraulic working chamber (10) being formed in the hollow space by at least two limiting walls (8, 9). The winged wheel (3) comprises at least one radial wing (12), and with each wing (12) it divides one hydraulic working chamber (10) into two hydraulic pressure chambers (13, 14) which, when pressurized by a hydraulic pressure medium effect a pivoting or a fixing of the winged wheel (3) relative to the drive pinion (2). When the internal combustion engine is switched off, the camshaft is rotated into a preferred basic position for starting the internal combustion engine, and in this position, the winged wheel (3) can be mechanically coupled to the drive pinion (2) by a lock. The novel lock is configured as a cage-guided free-wheel (16) arranged between the winged wheel (3) and the drive pinion (2) and comprises at least one clamping body (17) that blocks the direction of rotation of the winged wheel (3) opposed to the basic position of the camshaft. The cage (18) of the free-wheel (16) is configured at least partly as a pressure application surface (19) for the hydraulic pressure medium for unlocking the free-wheel (16).
Abstract:
A valve control device for an internal combustion piston engine adjusts positions of rotation of a camshaft relative to a crankshaft. This device comprises a hydraulic cylinder (1) comprising a piston (2) and at least one first feed duct (4). Between the cylinder (1) and a hydraulic pump (8), there is disposed a hydraulic valve arrangement (6) by which a hydraulic connection can be established between the first feed duct (4) and a first outlet duct. To assure a reliable prevention of rattling noises during the starting operation, it is proposed that the first outlet duct (10) open into a fluid reservoir (7) below the level of liquid therein.
Abstract:
Apparatus for adjusting a rotational relation between a camshaft and a timing pulley of an internal combustion engine of a type having a crankshaft for driving the timing pulley and a cylinder head for rotatably supporting the camshaft, includes a housing receiving a double-acting piston for displacement in an axial direction between two axially spaced end positions and defining with the housing two pressure compartments. Secured to the piston is a control bushing which is geared to the timing pulley via a first gearing and operatively connected to the camshaft via a second gearing. A hydraulic regulating unit is fluidly connected to the pressure compartments via fluid-carrying passageways for alternately supplying a pressure fluid to the pressure compartments to effect an axial displacement of the piston and thereby a positional adjustment of the control bushing, with the fluid-carrying passageways including, for movement of the piston into one of the end positions, two axially spaced distribution spaces which are fluidly connected to each other by transition zones arranged in angularly offset disposition.
Abstract:
A method of variable valve timing in an internal combustion engine in which the valve opening and closing timing of the actuated gas exchange valves of the internal combustion engine can be varied as a function of engine speed by adjusting means for adjusting at least one camshaft relative to a crankshaft, said internal combustion engine comprising hydraulic valve lash adjusters for adjusting a valve lash of the gas exchange valves, said lash adjusters being configured at least on one of an inlet side and an outlet side as idle stroke elements which, when actuated, at first produce an engine speed-dependent idle stroke and to provide a method of variable valve timing for internal combustion engines comprising a camshaft adjustment and a hydraulic valve adjustment with an idle stroke function that guarantees favorable valve timing in all operational situations of the internal combustion engine and, at the same time, improves the thermodynamic exploitation of such internal combustion engines, at each adjustment of the at least one camshaft, the respective idle stroke of the valve lash adjusters is taken into account.
Abstract:
A method of variable valve timing in an internal combustion engine in which the valve opening and closing timing of the actuated gas exchange valves of the internal combustion engine can be varied as a function of engine speed by adjusting means for adjusting at least one camshaft relative to a crankshaft, said internal combustion engine comprising hydraulic valve lash adjusters for adjusting a valve lash of the gas exchange valves, said lash adjusters being configured at least on one of an inlet side and an outlet side as idle stroke elements which, when actuated, at first produce an engine speed-dependent idle stroke and to provide a method of variable valve timing for internal combustion engines comprising a camshaft adjustment and a hydraulic valve adjustment with an idle stroke function that guarantees favorable valve timing in all operational situations of the internal combustion engine and, at the same time, improves the thermodynamic exploitation of such internal combustion engines, at each adjustment of the at least one camshaft, the respective idle stroke of the valve lash adjusters is taken into account.
Abstract:
A system for the rotation of a camshaft relative to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, which includes a drive pulley connected to the crankshaft of the engine through a chain, belt, or sprocket drive, and includes an electric motor that transfers torque to the camshaft of the engine. The electric motor is flanged directly to one end of the and is a primary drive unit of the camshaft as well as a servomechanism to adjust and maintain a controlled camshaft angular shift, whereas the drive pulley is fastened to and moves about the other end of the camshaft within a defined range of rotation and is provided as a forced synchronization instrument for the electric motor within the range of rotation, as well as being a secondary drive unit of the camshaft. Further, the electric motor (7) is connected to an RPM controller (10) that synchronizes and modifies the RPM of the electric motor (7) relative to the RPM of the drive pulley (4).