Internal-combustion engines – Valve – Reciprocating valve
Patent
1999-08-11
2000-12-19
Kamen, Noah P.
Internal-combustion engines
Valve
Reciprocating valve
12318861, F02N 300
Patent
active
061615145
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a suction module for an internal combustion engine according to the preamble of the main claim.
STATE OF THE ART
It is known, for example, from the article "Plastic suction pipes --first experiences and experimental results", Axel Kamprach, from ATZ, Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift 87, 1985 (10), pages 519-528 to provide synthetic resin pipes as air suction pipes for supplying combustion air to motor vehicle motors. Here, making suction pipes of synthetic material is suggested, particularly to avoid the disadvantages of conventional aluminum die-cast parts, such as high production costs and the necessity of subsequently working rough surfaces.
The conventional production processes for shaping three-dimensional pipe structures made of synthetic resin material are, for example, a so-called core melting process or the prefabrication of half shells which after being joined together, are externally coated again with synthetic resin material.
In the core melting process, first a core (made, for example, of tin/bismuth alloy) for the pipe to be formed is cast which corresponds to the pipe's hollow interior. This core is externally coated with the synthetic resin material and subsequently melted out, so that the hollow pipe remains. This known process is disadvantageous since very high demands are made on the pressure-resistant core material, and the production process is very expensive and time-consuming. The other possible production process of prefabricating the half shells prefabrication of half shells, involves relatively high tool costs and is also disadvantageous because the required sealed connection of the two half shells necessitate additional flanges or further production steps.
STATEMENT OF OBJECT
It is the object of the invention to further develop a suction module for an internal combustion engine according to the preamble of the main claim in a simple way so that simple manufacture is possible and a well sealed suction device can be constructed therewith.
ADVANTAGES OF THE INVENTION
The suction module according to the invention solves the proposed object with the features listed in the characterizing portion of the main claim. This suction module according to the invention is advantageous in that by using a blown part of synthetic resin material for the air suction pipe, it is possible to employ a simple production process, even for more complex three-dimensional pipe structures. The required tightly sealed connection of the suction pipe to the cylinder head housing of the internal combustion engine is thereby assured in an advantageous manner in that the housing of the suction device is tightly sealed via a flange while the suction pipe is held in the housing and doesn't itself require any sealed connection to the cylinder head housing.
The assembly of the suction module is effected in a simple manner by an attachment of the suction pipe, for example by means of a leaf or clamp spring, in at least one of the half shells of the housing, by tightly joining together the half shells of the housing, and by subsequently assembling the flange of the housing of the suction module to the cylinder head housing of the internal combustion engine. Here, the housing of the suction module may advantageously be made of very temperature-resistant glass fiber-reinforced polyamide and the suction pipe may be produced as a blown tube made of polyamide.
The flexible attachment of the suction pipe makes possible in a simple manner the optimal selection of a suction pipe with respect to its geometrical form, and, in particular, the use of a suction pipe with an appropriately matched length, in a housing which remains substantially unchanged.
DRAWING
An exemplary embodiment of the suction module according to the invention is explained with reference to the drawing, which shows a cross-section through a suction pipe in a housing.
DESCRIPTION OF THE EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENT
In the FIGURE, a cross-section is shown through a housing 1 of a suction module for an internal combustion engine of
REFERENCES:
patent: 4141879 (1979-02-01), McCarroll
patent: 5003933 (1991-04-01), Rush, II et al.
Modern Plastic International, Jun. 1993, No. 6 pp. 19, 20.
Ernst Volker
Klotz Arthur
Leipelt Rudolf
Schermuly Thomas
Filterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbH
Kamen Noah P.
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