Internal combustion engine ignition device
AssigneeGE Jenbacher GmbH & Co OHG
InventorsFriedrich Gruber, Markus Kraus
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Abstract
The invention relates to an arrangement including an internal combustion engine ignition device having a spark plug and a spark plug seat (in which the spark plug can be fastened in a fastening zone), and a cylinder head in which the spark plug is or can be mounted via the spark plug seat. The cylinder head has a cylinder head cooling cavity. The spark plug seat includes a temperature control medium chamber which is separate from the cylinder head cooling cavity and has a cooling medium feed line and a cooling medium discharge line. The temperature control medium chamber and the cylinder head cooling cavity are connected to separate medium temperature control devices and form separate medium systems.
Claims28
An engine arrangement comprising:
- a cylinder head having a cylinder head cooling cavity;
- a first cooling medium temperature control device for controlling a flow of cooling medium through said cylinder head cooling cavity;
- an internal combustion engine ignition device including a spark plug mounting and a spark plug fastened in a fastening region of said spark plug mounting, said spark plug being mounted in said cylinder head via said spark plug mounting, said spark plug mounting having a temperature control medium chamber separate from said cylinder head cooling cavity and having a cooling medium feed conduit and a cooling medium discharge conduit;
- a second cooling medium temperature control device for controlling a flow of cooling medium through said temperature control medium chamber;
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- a regulating unit for controlling both said first cooling medium temperature control device and said second cooling medium temperature control device.
An engine arrangement comprising:
- a cylinder head having a cylinder head cooling cavity;
- a first cooling medium temperature control device for controlling a flow of cooling medium through said cylinder head cooling cavity;
- an internal combustion engine ignition device including a spark plug mounting and a spark plug fastened in a fastening region of said spark plug mounting, said spark plug being mounted in said cylinder head via said spark plug mounting, said spark plug mounting having a temperature control medium chamber separate from said cylinder head cooling cavity and having a cooling medium feed conduit and a cooling medium discharge conduit;
- a second cooling medium temperature control device for controlling a flow of cooling medium through said temperature control medium chamber;
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- a regulating unit for regulating at least one of a temperature and a quantitative through-put of the cooling medium in said temperature control medium chamber based on engine load or an engine operating condition.
An internal combustion engine ignition device comprising:
- a spark plug mounting;
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- a spark plug fastened in a fastening region of said spark plug mounting, said spark plug configured to be mounted in a cylinder head via said spark plug mounting, said spark plug mounting having a temperature control medium chamber having a cooling medium feed conduit and a cooling medium discharge conduit;
- wherein said temperature control medium chamber is formed as a helically-shaped passage in said spark plug mounting, said helically-shaped passage extending from a first end of said spark plug mounting remote from a combustion chamber toward a second end of said spark plug mounting closest to the combustion chamber, and said helically-shaped passage extending with opposite helicity from said second end of said spark plug mounting back to said first end of said spark plug mounting.
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