Patent ID: 6973897

Claim:
Cylinder head comprising a water jacket limited by a flame deck and an oil deck at a water cooled reciprocating engine with cylinders that are arranged in series, each of said cylinders comprises at least one intake valve with an intake duct and two exhaust valves, which exhausts open into an exhaust duct, with a receptacle for a fuel injector or a spark plug, that is located between the intake valve and the exhaust valves, characterized in that for conducting a coolant in the water jacket an arrangement of channels is provided at least in the region of an exhaust side of each cylinder, through which in an inflow the coolant supply is conducted from an exterior on one side of the exhaust duct inwards towards the receptacle and is conducted from an interior in a reflux to the exterior on the other side of the exhaust duct and in that an overflow channel is provided, conducting a return flow path, as viewed with respect to the direction of flow, to a channel arrangement which forms a supply flow path of a channel arrangement of the consecutive cylinder head region.