Patent ID: 6684827
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: F01P

Abstract:
liquid-cooled, particularly water-cooled internal-combustion engine, particularly a water-cooled diesel engine, having a number of a number of cooling ducts, which are constructed in the internal-combustion engine and are assigned to different cooling circuits of the internal-combustion engine which carry a cooling liquid, and having one or several liquid radiators for cooling the cooling liquid carried in the cooling circuits,characterized by a cooling-liquid guide housing having a number of first flow cross-sections connected with the cooling ducts constructed in the internal-combustion engine and assigned to the various cooling-liquid circuits, and having a distributor housing having a number of second flow cross-sections connected with the liquid radiator or radiators, the first flow cross-sections and the second flow cross-sections being constructed on mutually corresponding surfaces of the cooling-liquid guide housing and of the distributor housing respectively and being assigned to one another in the sense of establishing different possible flow connections between the cooling circuits of the internal-combustion engine and the liquid radiator or radiators, and by an intermediate element arranged between the cooling-liquid guide housing and the distributor housing, which intermediate element has open passage cross-sections establishing a number of flow connections corresponding to a certain configuration of several possible configurations of the cooling circuits of the internal-combustion engine and to one or several liquid radiators, between the first flow cross-sections constructed in the cooling-liquid guide housing and the second flow cross-sections constructed in the distributor housing, and blocks other possible flow connections between the first and the second flow cross-sections, the intermediate element being is selected from a number of intermediate elements which have different arrangements of open passage cross-sections corresponding to different possible configurations of the cooling circuits and the liquid radiators, and which intermediate elements can be exchanged for one another.