EP3452704A1 - Two-stroke internal combustion engine - Google Patents
Two-stroke internal combustion engineInfo
- Publication number
- EP3452704A1 EP3452704A1 EP17726187.2A EP17726187A EP3452704A1 EP 3452704 A1 EP3452704 A1 EP 3452704A1 EP 17726187 A EP17726187 A EP 17726187A EP 3452704 A1 EP3452704 A1 EP 3452704A1
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- Prior art keywords
- working cylinder
- internal combustion
- combustion engine
- stroke internal
- piston
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Classifications
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
- F02B25/00—Engines characterised by using fresh charge for scavenging cylinders
- F02B25/20—Means for reducing the mixing of charge and combustion residues or for preventing escape of fresh charge through outlet ports not provided for in, or of interest apart from, subgroups F02B25/02 - F02B25/18
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
- F01L—CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES
- F01L5/00—Slide valve-gear or valve-arrangements
- F01L5/04—Slide valve-gear or valve-arrangements with cylindrical, sleeve, or part-annularly shaped valves
- F01L5/06—Slide valve-gear or valve-arrangements with cylindrical, sleeve, or part-annularly shaped valves surrounding working cylinder or piston
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
- F02B25/00—Engines characterised by using fresh charge for scavenging cylinders
- F02B25/02—Engines characterised by using fresh charge for scavenging cylinders using unidirectional scavenging
- F02B25/04—Engines having ports both in cylinder head and in cylinder wall near bottom of piston stroke
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
- F02B33/00—Engines characterised by provision of pumps for charging or scavenging
- F02B33/02—Engines with reciprocating-piston pumps; Engines with crankcase pumps
- F02B33/28—Component parts, details or accessories of crankcase pumps, not provided for in, or of interest apart from, subgroups F02B33/02 - F02B33/26
- F02B33/30—Control of inlet or outlet ports
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
- F02B—INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL
- F02B75/00—Other engines
- F02B75/02—Engines characterised by their cycles, e.g. six-stroke
- F02B2075/022—Engines characterised by their cycles, e.g. six-stroke having less than six strokes per cycle
- F02B2075/025—Engines characterised by their cycles, e.g. six-stroke having less than six strokes per cycle two
Definitions
- the invention relates to a two-stroke internal combustion engine, in particular for a motor vehicle, with direct fuel injection with at least one working cylinder in which a piston is arranged oscillating, at least one outlet channel which opens above the top dead center of the piston in the working cylinder and at least two
- Cylinder space The fresh gas pushes the exhaust gas in the same direction from the inlet to the outlet.
- inlet slots at bottom dead center and one or more outlet valves at top dead center serve for the gas exchange.
- a flushing pump introduces pressurized fresh air through the inlet slots into the cylinder. When the exhaust valve or valve is open, the exhaust gas from the cylinder is previously expelled through the pressure gradient.
- the internal combustion engine includes a cylinder provided with a first intake passage and an exhaust passage defined in the upper portion of the cylinder and a second intake passage defined at the lower portion of the cylinder; a cylindrical bushing, which is arranged in the cylinder and is provided with a third inlet channel, in the lower Area of the liner is set; a sleeve pusher, which is around the cylindrical
- Rotary sleeve is arranged rotatable around to selectively open the third inlet channel and close, wherein the sleeve valve with an integrally formed
- Rotation means for rotating the sleeve slider under the influence of electromagnetic forces acting on the permanent magnet;
- Inlet channel opening and closing means for selectively opening and closing the first inlet channel in the upper region of the cylinder; Exhaust duct opening and closing means for selectively opening and closing the exhaust duct at the top of the cylinder; Supercharging means for supplying air under pressure to the first inlet port and the second inlet port, and cycle mode selecting means for, on the one hand, actuating the rotational means to rotate the sleeve spool to rotate the third inlet port into
- Inlet and exhaust duct opening and closing means to operate the engine in four-stroke mode.
- the gas exchange takes place as pure Gleischstrom Introduceung.
- the sleeve valve does not control the actual gas exchange.
- the opening and closing of the inlet channels takes place through the upper edge of the piston.
- a control for a two-stroke internal combustion engine with DC purge is known, which is achieved in that in the bottom of the working cylinder outlet bores are provided which during the rotational movement of the working cylinder alternately opening and closing openings of an exhaust plate, and that at the inner end of the cylinder inlet slots are provided which alternately release openings of a cylinder enclosing the inlet ring and reclose, which is arranged to adjust the intake timing adjustable on the crankcase.
- the charge is changed by the rotating cylinder, whereby the outlet holes and the inlet slots are released and closed.
- the inlet ring is adjustable on the crankcase
- the inlet slide is mounted in the bore of the cylinder and the cylinder cover, pressed with its conical surface of at least three tie rods, which are mounted in the cylinder jacket, in the axial direction of the cylinder with springs against conical surfaces of the cylinder, and when moving the piston just before reaching the bottom Totchans is entrained by this, so that an annular air gap is formed, and at the same time of the three tie rods on the spring carrier opens the three exhaust valves in the cylinder head.
- Cylinder bore and inlet slide bore are the same diameter.
- the piston ring surface abuts against the inner annular surface of the inlet slide after about 9/10 of the piston stroke and opens the
- Two-stroke engines with DC flushing, with flushing or loading slots in the cylinder wall and exhaust valves in cylinder covers are well known. They are usually designed as slow-running large engines and have good efficiencies. However, they have a significant disadvantage due to their long piston and cylinder and therefore have complex dimensions and large weights.
- the present invention the object of the invention to provide a two-stroke internal combustion engine with DC flushing, in which reduced at the same power of known motor vehicle engines, the number of cylinders or the cylinder volume can be increased, the better
- such a two-stroke internal combustion engine has the features of independent claim 1.
- the dependent claims relate to advantageous developments of the invention.
- the two-stroke internal combustion engine can operate both by the diesel method and after the Ottover method, in which case a spark plug is additionally to be provided.
- the two-stroke internal combustion engine according to the invention may consist of one or more cylinders with crankcase. Above the top dead center of the piston is at least one outlet channel and above the bottom dead center of the piston, at least two inlet openings are provided. The release or closing of the
- annular sealing elements are preferably designed in the form of piston rings and provided in the direction of the crankcase below the inlet openings.
- the oscillating movement of the pipe slide during the charge exchange on the outer wall of the bushing is effected by a control device.
- This can either be designed as a desmodromic control device in the form of a cam control with an acting on the outer circumference of the pipe slide lever, which is preferably forked, as an electromagnetic or hydraulic control device.
- a spaced-apart swirl ring can be arranged on its outer wall.
- the upstream swirl ring has flow channels
- the swirl ring ensures that the air flow through the inlet opening flows in a direction tangential to the circumference of the working cylinder.
- Such unidirectional flow which is unidirectional, uniformly supplies the working cylinder with fresh air through each flushing opening during the flushing process.
- the two-stroke internal combustion engine may be designed, if this is designed in monobloc construction or if the working cylinder are designed as a blind cylinder.
- the advantages are an optimized cooling in the top dead center, the elimination of the cylinder head gasket and no distortion, since the cylinder head bolts omitted.
- Inlet openings are located in the so-called "cold" area, which reduces the
- Another advantage of the two-stroke internal combustion engine according to the invention over a four-stroke internal combustion engine is that at the same load (medium pressure), the number of cylinders can be reduced, which is associated with a reduction in engine weight and the cost of production.
- Engine power can be achieved arbitrarily by connecting the electric compressor, whereby an additional second exhaust gas turbocharger can be omitted.
- Inlet openings arranged sliders such as roller slide, are that the pipe slide is arranged to slide directly on the outer wall of the liner, resulting in a low Schadvolumen.
- the pipe slide follows the
- Piston movement covers the piston rings and at the same time is sealing element that seals the purge air to the crankcase space, and thus affects the height of the internal combustion engine.
- piston skirt can be made much shorter, similar to pistons for four-stroke internal combustion engines, since the piston skirt with its sealing rings no longer has to cover the inlet openings.
- Figure 1 Schematic representation of the working cylinder of a two-stroke internal combustion engine
- Figure 2 inlet area with pipe slide
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of the working cylinder 1 of a two-stroke internal combustion engine. For the sake of simplicity, only one will follow
- the two-stroke internal combustion engine - hereinafter referred to as two-stroke diesel engine - consists essentially of the crankcase with the crankshaft, a
- the working cylinder 1 with a blind-hole-shaped bushing has inlet openings 5 distributed over the circumference in the region of the bottom dead center.
- a pipe slide 4 is arranged with a closed jacket, which closes or releases the inlet openings 5 in an oscillating manner.
- the inlet openings 5 are arranged at a uniform distance from each other.
- sealing rings 7 are held on the outer wall of the liner of the working cylinder 1 above and below the inlet openings 5 in circumferential grooves sealing rings 7 are held. These seal the gap between liner of the working cylinder 1 and pipe slide 4 from.
- the pipe slide 4 has a closed shell and thus controls the release or closing of the inlet openings 5 by its oscillating movement by means of the control edge 4 a. This eliminates the actual control of the inlet openings 5 through the upper edge of the piston 6 and the seal toward the crankcase by a much longer piston skirt and the corresponding piston ring.
- control of the pipe slide 4 by means of a desmodromic control unit takes the form of a cam control with a on the outer circumference of the pipe slide 4 rotatably engaging and fork-shaped lever.
- the illustrated two-stroke diesel engine operates as follows:
- Outlet channels 2 completely open. The overpressure of the fresh air generated by a non-illustrated exhaust gas turbocharger and an electrically driven compressor.
- the scavenging air enters suitably in a known manner in the tangential direction in the cylinder and forms a standing on the piston crown spine, which increases by helical increase in height, forms a plug and displaces the combustion gases. These are expelled through the fully open exhaust ducts.
- Inlet openings 5 completely open.
- the pipe pusher 4 is moved in the same direction via the desmodromic control on the outer wall of the liner of the working cylinder 1 and closes the inlet openings 5.
- the fresh air is further compressed.
- the fuel is injected and ignited via the injection nozzle 9. The process begins again.
- the switchable electric compressor can also work simultaneously with the exhaust gas turbocharger.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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DE102016005538.3A DE102016005538B3 (en) | 2016-05-04 | 2016-05-04 | Two-stroke internal combustion engine |
PCT/DE2017/000120 WO2017190722A1 (en) | 2016-05-04 | 2017-04-28 | Two-stroke internal combustion engine |
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EP3452704A1 true EP3452704A1 (en) | 2019-03-13 |
EP3452704B1 EP3452704B1 (en) | 2020-06-10 |
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US (1) | US10578009B2 (en) |
EP (1) | EP3452704B1 (en) |
CN (1) | CN209742989U (en) |
DE (1) | DE102016005538B3 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2017190722A1 (en) |
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