Patent ID: 6892682

Claim:
A two-stroke internal combustion engine with longitudinal scavenging, with at least one piston reciprocating in a cylinder, with at least one exhaust valve disposed in the cylinder head floor and with at least one intake slot per cylinder which can be passed by a control edge of the piston, with at least one exhaust gas recirculation conduit for the recirculation of exhaust gas into the combustion chamber and at least one exhaust gas recirculation valve for controlling the recirculated exhaust gas quantity, with the exhaust gas recirculation conduit starting out directly from the combustion chamber and the exhaust gas recirculation valve being arranged as a stroke valve which is arranged in the region of the entrance of the exhaust gas recirculation conduit into the cylinder head floor and with the exhaust gas recirculation conduit opening into the cylinder via at least one control slot controlled by the piston, wherein the control slot is the intake slot, wherein at least one exhaust gas recirculation conduit opens into an intake flow path directly upstream of the intake slot, and wherein the intake flow path is an intake port or an intake collector.