Internal combustion engine
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorOtto Bernauer
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Abstract
An internal combustion engine with walls delimiting the working space or spaces of the internal combustion engine, in which a hydrogen-impervious, encapsulated metal hydride storage device is provided which is in heat-conducting contact with these walls; the interior of the encapsulation is adapted to be selectively connected to a source of hydrogen and/or to a separate further hydrogen storage device.
Claims8
An internal combustion engine having cylinder wall means adapted to be cooled and delimiting at least one working space means of an internal combustion engine, characterized in that a hydrogen-impervious enclosed metal hydride storage means having an enclosure means is provided in direct heat-conducting contact within the cylinder wall means forming a pre-heat storage means, and in that an interior of the enclosure means of the metal hydride storage means is operable to be selectively connected with at least one of a hydrogen source and a separate further hydrogen storage means.
An internal combustion engine having an engine block means adapted to be cooled, said engine block means comprising cylinder wall means delimiting at least one working space means of the internal combustion engine, and outwardly disposed wall means, said cylinder wall means and said outwardly disposed wall means delimiting a water jacket means, characterized in that a hydrogen-impervious enclosed metal hydride storage means having an enclosure means is provided in direct heat-conducting contact within at least a part of the outwardly disposed wall means, and in that an interior of the enclosure means of the metal hydride storage means is operable to be selectively connected with at least one of a hydrogen source and a separate further hydrogen storage means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.