Control device for an internal combustion engine

A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising:

• an intake channel comprising an all around cross-sectional extension in a downstream area;
• an exhaust gas recirculation channel which enters into the intake channel;
• a control element;
• a mixing housing in which the intake channel is formed, the mixing housing comprising a mouth of the exhaust gas recirculation channel in a lower area in relation to the ground surface, an outlet, a mixing housing section, and a bowl-shaped recess, the all around cross-sectional extension being formed via the mixing housing so as to provide an axial stop face;
• a connection element which is configured to abut against the axial stop face, the connection element being radially limited by an axially opposite inner wall surface on the stop face;
• a downstream compressor comprising a connection nozzle which is configured to limit the inlet channel so that the inlet channel, limited by the connection nozzle, is in a fluid communication with the outlet of the mixing housing;
• a shaft which serves as a rotation axis on which the control element is eccentrically fixed, the shaft being mounted in the intake channel upstream of the mouth of the exhaust gas recirculation channel in the mixing housing,
• wherein,
• the control element is movable, by rotating the shaft, between a first end position, in which the control element throttles the intake channel, and a second end position, in which the control element closes the exhaust gas recirculation channel, and
• the mixing housing section comprises a recess which is arranged at least at the lowest point of the mixing housing section in relation to the ground surface and with respect to a cross-sectional shape of the connection element, and below the axially opposite inner wall surface, the recess being arranged to enter into the bowl-shaped recess of the mixing housing.