A cylinder head cover of plastic for covering a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The cylinder head cover includes a bearing track including at least two bearing points each having a bearing opening for supporting a camshaft. A bearing ring is provided in at least one of at least one bearing point and a bearing opening. The bearing ring is injected into the plastic of the cylinder head cover. An oil duct that leads to at least one of the two bearing points and serves for bearing lubrication is arranged in the cylinder head cover.

A cylinder unit includes a piston disposed in the cylinder bore that is connected to a piston connecting frame member. The piston connecting frame member replaces a conventional connecting rod, and reciprocates exclusively along the bore axis. A crank connecting member has a linear rail at its top that is captured in a transverse gap along the bottom of the piston connecting frame member, and converts the circular movement of a crank throw to linear motion of the piston connecting frame member.

An internal combustion engine, including a pair of opposed pistons, a pair of opposed cylinders, and an output shaft, wherein each of the pistons is arranged for reciprocating motion within a respective one of the cylinders, driven by combustion, and the pistons are coupled to the output shaft by a coupling such that said reciprocating motion of the pistons drives rotation of the output shaft, wherein the coupling includes a unitary connecting rod coupled to the opposed pistons, the connecting rod having side guides for guiding a slider bearing located for reciprocating movement relative to the connecting rod, and the coupling further includes a crankshaft rotatably mounted within the slider bearing, the crankshaft having at least one guide shoulder for supporting axial location relative to the slider bearing.

An internal combustion engine is provided, which includes an engine body provided with a cylinder and a piston reciprocatably accommodated in the cylinder, a crankshaft that converts reciprocating movement of the piston into rotational movement, and a bearing member pivotally supporting the crankshaft via lubricating oil. The crankshaft includes a crank journal pivotally supported by the bearing member, and a counterweight extending radially outward from an axial end part of the crank journal. The crank journal has a recess formed in a part thereof corresponding to the extended position of the counterweight, the recess being depressed radially inwardly. The recess is deeper at the axial end part of the crank journal than an axial center part.

A transmission device, particularly for an engine with variable compression rate and/or variable displacement, includes, in a cylinder housing: a combustion piston capable of moving in a combustion cylinder of the engine and secured to a transmission member; a gear engaging with a first rack of the transmission member and providing transmission of the movement between the combustion piston and a crankshaft of the engine; a connecting rod engaging, at a first end, with the gear and, at a second end, with the crankshaft; and a control member engaging with the gear and secured to a control piston. The combustion piston and the transmission member are slidably linked with the cylinder housing in a main direction.

The invention relates to a method for post-processing a crankshaft (4), in particular in order to correct concentricity errors and/or for a length correction. Sectors (S1,S2,S3,S4,S5,S6) of the crankshaft (4) which produce and/or characterize concentricity errors are detected and/or a length deviation (ΔL1 ΔL2, ΔL3) from a target length (L1,L2, L3) is determined for at least one section of the crankshaft (4). An impact force (Fs) is then introduced into at least one defined transition radius (8) between connecting rod bearing journals (5) and crank webs (7) and/or between main bearing journals (6) and the crank webs (7) of the crankshaft (4) by means of at least one impact tool (16) in order to correct the concentricity errors and/or the length deviation (ΔL1 ΔL2, ΔL3).

The invention relates to an adjustable-length connecting rod for a reciprocating piston engine, to a reciprocating piston engine, and to a vehicle, where an effective connecting rod length of the connecting rod can be changed, and the connecting rod has a hydraulic length adjustment device which has a hydraulic working chamber, a hydraulic duct, a valve recess with a valve recess longitudinal axis, and a valve device which is arranged in the valve recess and has a valve chamber, where the valve device is configured for opening and/or shutting of a hydraulic medium outflow from the hydraulic working chamber, and the hydraulic duct opens into the valve recess at an orifice opening in an inner wall section of the valve recess. The valve device has at least one closed outer wall section which lies opposite the orifice opening and surrounds the valve chamber of the valve device, where the outer wall section of closed configuration of the valve device configures a flow duct together with that inner wall section of the valve recess, where the flow duct is configured to divert hydraulic medium, which exits from the hydraulic duct with a first flow direction and enters into the valve recess, in a second flow direction which is different from the first flow direction before the entry into the valve chamber.

An electrically-actuated variable camshaft timing (VCT) device, comprising: an input configured to receive rotational force from an electric motor; an output configured to couple with a camshaft of an internal combustion engine; a planet gear having radially outwardly extending gear teeth configured to engage ring gears and a radially-inwardly-facing surface; a planet pin, supporting the planet gear, having an outer surface and an axis of rotation about which the planet gear rotates; and a spring applying force in a substantially axial direction along the axis of rotation that moves the planet gear in a radial direction.

A piston assembly includes a piston head for reciprocating back and forth within a cylinder of an engine, an upper rod coupled to the piston head at one longitudinal end of the upper rod and fixed relative to the piston head, and a lower rod rotatably coupled to an opposite longitudinal end of the upper rod, the lower rod configured to pivot about the opposite longitudinal end of the upper rod. The lower rod is configured to couple to a crankshaft at a longitudinal end of the lower rod opposite the upper rod. Methods of forming a piston assembly and engines incorporating such piston assemblies are also disclosed.

A turbocharger includes a shaft, a compressor wheel, a turbine wheel, and a bearing assembly including an inner race, a first outer race spaced from the inner race, a second outer race spaced from the inner race, a first rolling element disposed between the first outer race and the inner race, and a second rolling element disposed between the second outer race and the inner race. The bearing assembly includes a first biasing member configured to bias the first outer race toward the second outer race and against the first rolling element, and preload the first rolling element with a preloading force, and a second biasing member configured to bias the second outer race toward the first outer race and against the second rolling element, and preload the second rolling element with a second preloading force. The first preloading force is different than the second preloading force.