Air intake system with a throttle valve for a multi-cylinder internal-combustion engine

• US 5,595,150 A
• Filed: 05/18/1995
• Issued: 01/21/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Horlacher, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Okonsky, David A.
• Application Number:
  US08/444,102
• Time in Patent Office: 614 Days
• Field of Search: 123/184.57, 123/184.59, 123/184.36
• US Class Current: 123/184.36
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 27/0221 Resonance charging combined with oscillating pipe charging
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 27/0231 Movable ducts, walls or the like F02B27/0257 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 27/0242 Fluid communication passages between intake ducts, runners or chambers
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 27/0252 Multiple plenum chambers or plenum chambers having inner separation walls, e.g. comprising valves for the same group of cylinders
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 27/0273 Flap valves
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 9/10 having pivotally-mounted flaps
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 1/221 specially adapted operating means therefor operating means per se F16K31/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

An air intake system comprises a connection pipe which is arranged between opposing resonance containers. Inside the connection pipe, a swivellable throttle valve is provided which is inserted into the connection pipe by way of an opening in the connection pipe. The opening is closed by a bearing support which is held on the connection pipe by fasteners. The throttle valve and the bearing support form a prefabricated constructional unit.

Claims

1. An air intake system of a multi-cylinder internal-combustion engine with two opposite cylinder banks and with suction pipes connecting the cylinder banks to respective resonance containers, comprising:

at least one connection pipe communicating the respective resonance containers, said connection pipe having an insertion opening and a bearing bore;

a bearing support which is fastened to the connection pipe and which closes said insertion opening, said bearing support having a bearing bore, and

a swivellable throttle valve comprising a throttle disk and a bearing shaft;

wherein the throttle valve is inserted into the connection pipe through said insertion opening in the connection pipe;

and wherein the bearing shaft extends from said bearing bore in the connection pipe to said bearing bore in the bearing support, the bearing shaft being rotatably supported by each of said bearing bore in the connection pipe and said bearing bore in the bearing support.

2. An air intake system according to claim 1, further comprising a sectional element which is arranged proximate an interior side of the bearing support in the area of the insertion opening, wherein the sectional element supplements an inner pipe wall of the connection pipe.

3. An air intake system according to claim 2, wherein free ends of the sectional element overlap interior wall areas of the connection pipe.

4. An air intake system according to claim 1, wherein the bearing support comprises spaced fastening lugs which extend to corresponding receiving lugs of the connection pipe, fasteners being operative between the fastening lugs and the receiving lugs.

5. An air intake system according to claim 1, wherein the throttle valve and the bearing support form a prefabricated constructional unit.

6. An air intake system according to claim 1, wherein a sealing body is arranged between the connection pipe and the bearing support.

7. An air intake system according to claim 2, wherein a sealing body is arranged between a first sealing surface of the section and a second sealing surface of the bearing support.

8. An air intake system according to claim 7, wherein the sealing surfaces have a generally half-hexagon shaped cross section.

9. An air intake system according to claim 1, wherein the bearing support comprises an outer boundary which has a generally half-hexagon shaped cross section.

10. An air intake system according to claim 1, wherein the bearing support comprises webs which extend transversely to the longitudinal direction of the connection pipe and which are reinforced by ribs extending in a grid-like fashion.

11. An air intake system according to claim 1, wherein the insertion opening extends transversely to the longitudinal direction of the connection pipe.

12. An air intake system according to claim 1, wherein a linkage system operably couples the bearing shaft to a pressure element which operates the throttle valve.

13. An air intake system according to claim 3, wherein the bearing support comprises spaced fastening lugs which extend to corresponding receiving lugs of the connection pipe, fasteners being operative between the fastening lugs and the receiving lugs.

14. An air intake system according to claim 13, wherein the throttle valve and the bearing support form a prefabricated constructional unit.

15. An air intake system according to claim 14, wherein a sealing body is arranged between the connection pipe and the bearing support.

16. An air intake system according to claim 15, wherein the bearing support comprises an outer boundary which has a generally half-hexagon shaped cross section.

17. An air intake system according to claim 16, wherein the bearing support comprises webs which extend transversely to the longitudinal direction of the connection pipe and which are reinforced by ribs extending in a grid-like fashion.

18. An air intake system according to claim 17, wherein the insertion opening extends transversely to the longitudinal direction of the connection pipe.

19. An air intake system according to claim 18, wherein a linkage system operably couples the bearing shaft to a pressure element which operates the throttle valve.

20. An air intake system according to claim 16, wherein a linkage system operably couples the bearing shaft to a pressure element which operates the throttle valve.