Patent ID: 11885256
Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS SE
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  Y | IPC F

Claim 17:
18. An internal combustion engine configured to perform the steps of:
compressing supplied air in a main combustion chamber and a prechamber of the internal combustion engine by moving a piston in the main combustion chamber to a top dead center position of a piston movement of the piston;
feeding a pilot quantity of gas fuel into the prechamber before the piston reaches the top dead center position;
autoignition of the pilot quantity of gas fuel in the prechamber;
feeding a main quantity of gas fuel into the prechamber after the autoignition; and
ignition of the main quantity of gas fuel by the conditions in the prechamber that are brought about by the autoignited pilot quantity.