CA2270732A1 - Inlet manifold - Google Patents

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CA2270732A1
CA2270732A1 CA 2270732 CA2270732A CA2270732A1 CA 2270732 A1 CA2270732 A1 CA 2270732A1 CA 2270732 CA2270732 CA 2270732 CA 2270732 A CA2270732 A CA 2270732A CA 2270732 A1 CA2270732 A1 CA 2270732A1
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Frank Wehner
Jakob Widrig
Wolfgang Sterzl
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3A Composites International AG
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02MSUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M35/00Combustion-air cleaners, air intakes, intake silencers, or induction systems specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
    • F02M35/10Air intakes; Induction systems
    • F02M35/104Intake manifolds
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02MSUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M35/00Combustion-air cleaners, air intakes, intake silencers, or induction systems specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
    • F02M35/10Air intakes; Induction systems
    • F02M35/10314Materials for intake systems
    • F02M35/10327Metals; Alloys
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02MSUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M35/00Combustion-air cleaners, air intakes, intake silencers, or induction systems specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
    • F02M35/10Air intakes; Induction systems
    • F02M35/1034Manufacturing and assembling intake systems
    • F02M35/10347Moulding, casting or the like
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02MSUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M35/00Combustion-air cleaners, air intakes, intake silencers, or induction systems specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
    • F02M35/10Air intakes; Induction systems
    • F02M35/1034Manufacturing and assembling intake systems
    • F02M35/10354Joining multiple sections together
    • F02M35/1036Joining multiple sections together by welding, bonding or the like
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02MSUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF
    • F02M35/00Combustion-air cleaners, air intakes, intake silencers, or induction systems specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines
    • F02M35/10Air intakes; Induction systems
    • F02M35/10373Sensors for intake systems

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Abstract

Inlet manifolds such as intake manifolds, collector tanks, intake pipes, oscillatory intake passages, systems with variable-tract intake manifolds etc., for internal combustion engines operating on the principle of the diesel or Otto engine, where the inlet manifold comprises two or more dish-shaped parts that are permanently joined to each other, and the dish-shaped parts are formed sheet parts, castings and/or extruded sections of metal. The permanent joining of the dish-shaped parts may be effected e.g. by adhesive bonding and/or welding.

Description

Inlet Manifold The present invention relates to an inlet manifold for internal combustion engines functioning on the principle of Otto-engine or diesel-engine.
It is known that internal combustion engines feature on the intake side inlet manifolds for transportation and distribution of air and fuel mixtures. Depending on the arrangement of the component and the preparation of the fuel-air mixture the inlet manifolds may be intake manifolds, collector tanks, intake passages, intake pipes, collector intake pipes, collectors and individual intake runners, oscillatory intake passages, intake runners, resonance chambers and resonance intake pipes, variable-configuration intake manifolds and systems with variable-tract intake manifolds etc.
Known inlet manifolds such as the intake channel of a variable-configuration intake manifold according to DE-A 195 04 256 are made of polyamides. Generally known are also inlet manifolds of cast metal. In general, inlet manifolds are made by sand casting metal or are made of plastic, in each case using the lost-wax core principle. These parts and the methods of manufacture exhibit disadvantages. Sand casting results in components with widely vary-ing wall thickness e.g. with thickness limits of 2.5 to 4.5 mm.
Consequently, castings are heavy and the surfaces are rough. Rough inner surfaces impair the flow behaviour of the fluids passing through the component, rough outer surfaces are detrimental to the appearance and haptik of the part. Also, residual amounts of the shape-forming core may remain in the component, and the component may have to be worked further by chip-forming processes. Some of these disadvantages may be overcome by using plastics.
However, because of the ever increasing thermal load on engine components it is necessary to employ suitably heat-resistant plastics. These heat-resistant plastics are expensive and e.g.
polyamides which are particularly suitable are difficult to recycle.
The object of the present invention is to propose an inlet manifold which can be manu-factured simply and in a cost-favourable manner, is light, exhibits a smooth inner surface and is easy to recycle.
That objective is achieved by way of an inlet manifold according to the invention which is made up of two or more dish-shaped parts which are permanently joined together, and the dish-shaped parts are shaped sheet parts, castings and /or extruded sections of metal.
case 2179-02 The inlet manifold may advantageously be made up of two dish-shaped parts. It is also possible to manufacture e.g. more complex inlet manifolds from two or more dish-shaped parts e.g. from three, four, five or six dish-shaped parts.
A weld seam or adhesively bonded seam may be provided between the individual dish-shaped parts at the points of contact between them. The dish-shaped parts may exhibit shoulders with shoulder areas that run around the whole of the outer edge of the parts in question. On fitting the dish-shaped parts together to form an inlet manifold the dish-shaped parts touch at the shoulders. The shoulders may be omitted at openings such as e.g. the intake and outlet openings or recesses for devices for regulating and measuring purposes.
The shoulder regions may be joined by weld seams or adhesively bonded seams in order to provide a perm-anent joint there. One of the dish-shaped parts may also feature a grooved section running round the edge or a recess in the shoulder, while the other dish-shaped part features a peripheral connecting projection or rib. On fitting the dish-shaped parts together, the rib engages in the grooved section or fits onto the shoulder recess. The connecting rib and the grooved section or the recess in the shoulder may form a weld joint region.
Accordingly, a weld seam may be created at that place in question. Joining with adhesive to make an adhes-ive join is likewise possible. The connecting rib and the grooved section or shoulder recess may be designed as a self-locking clip joint.
The dish-shaped parts are of metal. Suitable metals are aluminium and its alloys ~ or magnesium and its alloys. Examples thereof are alloys of the AISi, AISiMg or AISiCu type.
Preferred are alloys of the AISi and AISiCu type.
The dish-shaped parts are made e.g. by pressing or stamping or by stamping and pressing sheet material. Complicated shapes - in particular the inner contours of dish-shaped parts can also be made by laying pre-shaped parts in the press-forming die. Further, the dish-shaped parts may be manufactured by casting. For example, they may be made by pressure diecasting or by casting blanks with thixotropic properties. The methods used lead to the desired smooth surfaces on the stamped, press-formed or cast shaped parts.
Subsequent chip-forming treatment of the part can generally be omitted.
The premanufactured dish-shaped parts are then permanently joined to each other. For that purpose, the two or more dish-shaped parts are assembled to form an inlet manifold. For example one dish-shaped part forms a lower dish and a second dish-shaped part forms an case 2179-02 upper dish. In another version the inlet manifold may exhibit a lower dish made of one single part or two such parts and an upper dish of one or two parts. Both the upper and the lower dish may exhibit shoulders with shoulder areas at the edge of the dish.
In some cases the shoulders are interrupted by openings that are necessary for technical reasons e.g.
openings for intake or outlet of gases, and openings to allow parts of measuring and control devices to be inserted. The shoulder areas making contact with each other are joined together by means of a weld seam or adhesively bonded seam. Instead of, or in addition to the welding or adhesive bond-ing, the parts may be joined by clipping them together, by riveting, screwing, clamping or flanging them together. In the latter cases a seal or sealing mass is usefully provided along the shoulder areas.
The weld seam may be made by arc welding under inert gas such as TIG or MIG
welding, using plasma welding, electron beam welding, laser welding such as ruby, YAG, neodinium or COZ laser welding, friction welding etc. The dish-shaped parts are preferably joined IS together by weld seams made by laser welding or friction.
The adhesively bonded seam may be created using an adhesive. Examples of adhesives are -apart from the physically bonding adhesives - the particularly suitable chemically bonding adhesives which include reaction-type adhesives such as the two-component adhesives with epoxy resins and acidic anhydrides, epoxy resins and polyamines, poly-isocyanates and polyols or single component adhesives cyanacrylates or methacrylates, two-component adhesives of unsaturated polyesters and styrene or methacrylates, single component adhes-ives of pheno-plastics and polyvinylacetates or nitril-caoutchoucs, two-component adhesives of pyro-mellite-acidic-anhydride and 4.4 diamino-diphenyl-ether forming polyimides, or of polybenzimide-azoles Plastics that form duroplastic or elastic compounds are to be given preference.
The surfaces of the inlet manifold may be smooth, matt or embossed. It is also possible to provide functional or decorative shapes in the dish-shaped parts. Inlet manifolds may be given optically attractive shapes and/or created with writing, logos or patterns - this in addition to their functional shape.
The inlet manifolds according to the present invention may be employed e.g. as intake manifolds, collector tanks, intake passages, intake pipes, collector intake pipes, collectors and individual intake runners, oscillatory intake passages, intake runners, resonance case 2179-02 chambers and resonance intake pipes, variable-configuration intake manifolds and systems with variable-tract intake manifolds depending on the type of engine viz., naturally aspirated, turbo-charged or compressor type engines, engines with a carburettor, with single or mufti-point injection, as a rule situated in the inlet tract, or engines with direct injection.
The inlet manifolds here are suitable for engines operating on the principle of the diesel or Otto engine.
The weight of the inlet manifolds according to the invention is about 50% less than that of known inlet manifolds made of sand-cast aluminium. The production of pressed sheet parts and die castings is simple. The metals employed are highly valued secondary raw materials and the inlet manifolds can be readily recycled. The metals used exhibit a high strength at elevated temperatures. The inlet manifolds can be manufactured by stamping or press-forming or as cast dish-shaped parts without chip-forming after-treatments.
Figures 1 to 4 illustrate the present invention further by way of example .
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a lower dish and figure 2 a perspective view of an upper dish-shaped part of an inlet manifold according to the present invention. Figure 3 shows in front elevation a view of the upper dish in figure 2 and figure 4 a plan view of the lower dish in figure 1.
Shown in figure 1 is the lower dish 10 which, together with the upper dish 11 in figure' 2, essentially forms the inlet manifold. The intake pipe comprising the halves 12 and 13 joins up with the collector tank comprising halves 24 and 25. The recesses 23 form the intake manifolds. Instead of the recesses 23 it is possible to provide pipe-shaped projections, as desired winding or winding and featuring a valve-type mechanism to extend or shorten the through-flow route. The sucked-in or blown-in air or fuel mixture leave the inlet manifold via the openings 18 which are flush with inlets in the combustion chambers in the engine block (not shown here). The openings 19 are holes through which e.g. screws pass securing the inlet manifold to the engine block. Surrounding the lower dish 10 is the peripheral shoulder 15, 21, 27. When mounted into place, the shoulders make contact with each other around the whole periphery region e.g. in region 15 and 16, or 21 and 22, or 26 and 27. Parts 10 and 11 are joined over the whole shoulder region, in particular gas-tight, advantageously by adhesive bonding or welding. A flange 14 is attached, pressed into, adhesively bonded or welded to the end of the intake pipe 12, 13. This flange is for joining up e.g. by screws, rivets etc. to the facilities for feeding gas or air or for preparing the gas mixture, to the air case 2179-02 filter or measuring and control devices for preparation of the gas mixture etc. Opening 29 allows a measuring device to be introduced there.
Figure 3 shows in front elevation the upper dish 10. Flange 14 is attached to one end of the intake pipe. The shoulder areas 15 and 27 are in contact - in some cases via an adhesive with the shoulder areas 16 and 26 resp. Of the lower dish in figure 4. In figure 4 can be seen the intake pipe 13 and the recesses 23 with openings 18 for passage of the gas or fuel mix ture. The openings 19, in particular drilled holes 19, may accommodate attachment screws.
case 2179-02

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1. Inlet manifold for internal combustion engines functioning according to the principle of the Otto engine or the diesel engine, characterised in that, the inlet manifold is made up of two or more dish-shaped parts (10, 11) that are permanently joined together and the dish-shaped parts (10, 11) are formed sheet parts, castings and/or extruded sections of metal.
2. Inlet manifold according to claim 1, characterised in that this is made up of two dish-shaped parts (10, 11).
3. Inlet manifold according to claim 1, characterised in that a weld seam or an adhesively bonding seam is provided at the places where the dish-shaped parts (10, 11) contact each other.
4. Inlet manifold according to claim 1, characterised in that a laser weld seam or a friction weld seam is provided at the places where the dish-shaped parts (10, 11) contact each other.
5. Inlet manifold according to claim 1, characterised in that an adhesively bonding seam is provided at the places where the dish-shaped parts (10, 11) contact each other, this using a chemically bonding adhesive.
6. Inlet manifold according to claim 1, characterised in that the dish-shaped parts (10, 11) are of metal preferably aluminium or its alloys or magnesium or its alloys.
7. Inlet manifold according to claim 1, characterised in that the dish-shaped parts (10, 11) feature functional or decorative shaping or lettering, logos or patterns.
8. Use of the inlet manifold according to claim 1 as be intake manifolds, collector tanks, intake passages, intake pipes, collector intake pipes, collectors and individual intake runners, oscillatory intake passages, intake runners, resonance chambers and resonance intake pipes, variable-configuration intake manifolds and systems with variable-tract intake manifolds on naturally aspirated, turbo-charged or compressor type engines with a carburettor, with single or multi-point injection or with direct injection operating on the principle of the diesel or Otto engine.
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