Patent ID: 9670828
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: F01N,F02B,F02D,F02M,Y02T

Claim:
1. A mixture charged gas engine, comprising: at least one cylinder having a cylinder head and a cylinder wall; a piston movably arranged in said at least one cylinder, said piston, said cylinder head, and said cylinder wall delimiting a combustion chamber which includes a main combustion chamber; an inlet valve connected to said main combustion chamber, wherein said inlet valve admits an air-/combustion gas mixture into said main combustion chamber during an intake stroke of said piston; at least one pre-chamber including at least one firing channel that is fluidically connected with said main combustion chamber; a separate combustion gas supply provided for said at least one pre-chamber; at least one sensor configured to sense a volumetric efficiency parameter of said at least one cylinder; at least one valve arranged in a fluid path for combustion of said separate combustion gas supply and configured to allow an adjustable gas volume to be admitted into said at least one pre-chamber; and a controller coupled to said at least one sensor and said at least one valve, said controller including non-transitory executable instructions to: