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AssigneeSaab Automobile AB
InventorMartin Ekenberg
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A multicylinder internal combustion engine with an exhaust-driven turbocompressor and with a divided exhaust gas flow has at least two exhaust valves (2,3) and one intake valve per cylinder. A first exhaust valve (2) is connected to a first exhaust manifold which leads to the turbine of the compressor, while a second exhaust valve (3) is connected to a second exhaust manifold which opens downstream of the turbine. The charging pressure in the engine can be regulated by virtue of the opening periods of the exhaust valves (2,3) being varied in relation to one another in order to adapt the flow through the exhaust turbine to a value which provides the desired charging pressure in the engine. By opening the second exhaust valve (3) increasingly earlier, an increasingly lower charging pressure can be achieved.
A method for controlling the charging pressure in an exhaust-driven turbocompressor which is connected to an internal combustion engine, where the engine has at least one cylinder, an intake valve per cylinder, a divided exhaust gas flow and at least two exhaust valves including a first exhaust valve connected via a first exhaust manifold to an exhaust-driven turbine of the turbocompressor and a second exhaust valve connected via a second exhaust manifold to an exhaust system of the engine downstream of the exhaust driven turbine, the method comprising varying opening periods of the exhaust valves in relation to one another in order to adapt the exhaust gas flow through the exhaust turbine to a value which provides a desired charging pressure in the engine and opening the second exhaust valve increasingly earlier as the desired charging pressure is lowered.
An internal combustion engine comprising a plurality of cylinders, a turbocompressor for supercharging the engine including an exhaust driven turbine having an inlet;
An internal combustion engine comprising a plurality of cylinders, a turbocompressor for supercharging the engine including an exhaust driven turbine having an inlet;
The internal combustion engine as claimed in 11, wherein the second exhaust valve has a closing point which is unchanged for different charging pressures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.