Cylinder housing of an internal combustion engine
AssigneeAVL List GmbH
InventorsStefan Feichtinger, Stefan Stocker-Reicher, Günter Häusl
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a cylinder housing of an internal combustion engine. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the cylinder housing includes at least two adjacently arranged cylinders, each of which includes a wet cylinder liner, a support structure, and a coolant jacket arranged between the support structure and the cylinder liner. The cylinder housing further including at least one screw receptacle for a cylinder head screw, and is positioned between at least two adjacently arranged cylinders in a region of at least one engine transverse plane.
Claims19
Cylinder housing of an internal combustion engine, the cylinder housing comprising:
- at least two adjacently arranged cylinders, each of which includes
- a wet cylinder liner,
- a support structure which receives the wet cylinder liner, and
- a coolant jacket is arranged between the support structure and the wet cylinder liner, the coolant jacket including a closed deck forming a cylinder head sealing surface;
- at least one screw receptacle, configured and arranged to receive a cylinder head screw, and is positioned between the at least two adjacently arranged cylinders in a region of at least one engine transverse plane;
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- wherein the support structures are free from each other in an intersection region of the at least one engine transverse plane, with an engine longitudinal plane containing a cylinder axes;
- wherein the support structure, in a region adjoining the coolant jacket in a direction of a crankcase, has a conically shaped transition region, and wherein the conically shaped transition region tapers in the direction of the closed deck.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.