Patent ID: 7428813

Claim:
An internal combustion engine having two cylinder banks ( 1 a , 1 b ) with separate exhaust pipes ( 4 a , 4 b ) for supplying exhaust gas from the two cylinder banks ( 1 a , 1 b ) to an exhaust gas turbocharger, which, comprises an exhaust gas turbine ( 3 ) with a turbine wheel an which is connected to the exhaust pipes ( 4 a , 4 b ) so as to be driven by exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine ( 1 ), and a compressor ( 5 ) arranged in the intake line ( 6 ) of the internal combustion engine ( 1 ) and driven by the exhaust gas turbine ( 3 ), an exhaust gas inlet structure arranged upstream of the turbine wheel in the exhaust gas turbine ( 3 ) and comprising two exhaust gas flow passages, which each communicate with one exhaust pipe ( 4 a , 4 b ) of the exhaust line ( 4 ), each having a valve device ( 14 ) upstream of the exhaust gas turbine, for directing the exhaust gas mass from one to the other of the two exhaust pipes ( 4 a , 4 b ) or blown off into e bypass ( 17 ) bypassing the exhaust gas turbine ( 3 ), the valve device ( 14 ) being a rotary slide valve and comprising a rotatably mounted valve body ( 22 ) adjustable between an open position and a closed position and extending into a valve body outer casing with at least one communication opening ( 24 a , 24 b ), the valve body being hollow cylindrical and having two spaced communication openings extending through the wall of the hollow cylindrical body which, in the open position of the valve, are in alignment with the two exhaust gas line openings ( 23 a , 23 b ), e the bypass line ( 17 ) being axially in communication with the interior of the valve body for discharging exhaust gas through the turbine, the valve body ( 22 ) including a connecting recess ( 28 ) forming a curved passage between the two exhaust gas lines ( 4 a , 4 b ) on the outside of the hollow cylindrical body ( 22 ) for placing the two exhaust gas lines ( 4 a , 4 b ) into communication with each other when the valve body is in a position in which the connecting recess ( 28 ) is disposed over the two openings ( 23 a , 23 b ) of the exhaust gas lines ( 4 a , 4 b ), said connecting recess ( 28 ) and the communication opening ( 24 a , 24 b ) being arranged at different angular locations of the valve body ( 22 ), the connecting recess ( 28 ) being sealingly separated from the valve body interior, and having the form of a connecting trough on the valve body outer casing set back in relation to the peripheral surface of the valve body.