US6053154A
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Exhaust gas recycling arrangement with individual cylinder throttling
Assignee: Volkswagen AG
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Filing: 1998-07-20
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Granted: 2000-04-25
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Expires: 2018-07-20
Abstract
Abstract Selective rich operation of an individual cylinder of an engine is accomplished by returning exhaust gas into an intake duct specific to the individual cylinder and providing an individual throttle flap in the intake duct. The exhaust gas is supplied either from a common exhaust duct or from a specific cylinder exhaust duct for the cylinder having a throttled intake duct.
Inventors
- 👤 Ekkehard Pott
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 13:59
CPC Classifications
F; F02; F02D; F02D41/00; F02D41/02; F02D41/14; F02D41/1438; F02D41/1444; F02D41/1446; B; B01; B01D; B01D53/00; B01D53/34; B01D53/74; B01D53/86; B01D53/8696; B01D53/92; B01D53/94; B01D53/9495; B01D53/96; F01; F01N; F01N3/00; F01N3/08; F01N3/0807; F01N3/0828; F01N3/0842; F01N3/0871; F01N3/0885; F02D41/0025; F02D41/0047; F02D41/0065; F02D41/008; F02D41/1439; F02D41/1441; F02M; F02M26/00; F02M26/13; F02M26/22; F02M26/23; F02M26/24; F02M26/38; F02M26/39; F01N2250/00; F01N2250/12; F01N2570/00; F01N2570/04; F02B; F02B1/00; F02B1/02; F02B1/04; F02D41/021; F02D41/0235; F02D41/027; F02D41/0275; F02D41/028; F02M26/17; F02M26/20; Y; Y02; Y02C; Y02C20/00; Y02C20/10; Y02T; Y02T10/00; Y02T10/10; Y02T10/40
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
75 words
A method for selective rich operation of individual cylinders in an internal combustion engine having exhaust gas return comprising providing an individual throttle flap in an intake duct specific to one of the cylinders, and returning exhaust gas directly to the intake duct for the cylinder having the individual throttle flap for mixing with combustion gas supplied through the intake duct to control the proportion of oxygen in the combustion gas supplied to the cylinder.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
75 words
A method for selective rich operation of individual cylinders in an internal combustion engine having exhaust gas return comprising providing an individual throttle flap in an intake duct specific to one of the cylinders, and returning exhaust gas directly to the intake duct for the cylinder having the individual throttle flap for mixing with combustion gas supplied through the intake duct to control the proportion of oxygen in the combustion gas supplied to the cylinder.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
A method according to claim 1 comprising taking the exhaust gas to be returned from a common exhaust duct for all of the cylinders of the engine.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
27 words
A method according to claim 1 comprising taking the exhaust gas to be returned from an exhaust duct specific to the cylinder having the individual throttle flap.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
22 words
A method according to claim 1 further comprising returning exhaust gas additionally into a common intake duct for all of the cylinders.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
12 words
A method according to claim 1 comprising cooling the returned exhaust gas.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
74 words
An internal combustion engine arrangement comprising an engine having at least one cylinder provided with an individual cylinder intake duct having an individual throttle flap, an exhaust gas return line connected to the individual cylinder intake duct, and a valve in the exhaust gas return line to control mixing of exhaust gas with combustion gas supplied through the intake duct to control the proportion of oxygen in the combustion gas supplied to the cylinder.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
74 words
An internal combustion engine arrangement comprising an engine having at least one cylinder provided with an individual cylinder intake duct having an individual throttle flap, an exhaust gas return line connected to the individual cylinder intake duct, and a valve in the exhaust gas return line to control mixing of exhaust gas with combustion gas supplied through the intake duct to control the proportion of oxygen in the combustion gas supplied to the cylinder.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
26 words
An arrangement according to claim 6 wherein the exhaust gas return line is connected to receive exhaust gas from a common exhaust duct from the engine.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
37 words
An arrangement according to claim 6 wherein the exhaust gas return line is connected to receive exhaust gas from an exhaust gas duct specific to the cylinder having an individual intake duct with an individual throttle flap.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
15 words
An arrangement according to claim 6 including cooling means in the exhaust gas return line.
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