Patent ID: 7284532

Claim:
An intake module for an internal combustion engine having at least one intake tract which has at least two intake pipe openings, a first one of said at least two intake pipe openings having an essentially constant cross section leading to the internal combustion engine and a second one of said at least two intake pipe openings of the same intake tract having a variable flow cross section, wherein said intake tract is formed in a housing in which a partition is provided for separating the intake pipe openings of the same intake tract from one another in a certain section and supporting a movable component on the partition so that the flow cross section of the second intake pipe opening is variable, wherein the movable component is constructed as a flap valve mounted at one end to pivot about an axis A; the flap valve is supported by journal bearings received in bearing openings in the partition, and one of the journal bearings on the flap valve and the bearing opening in which said one journal bearing is received have a different diameter from the other journal bearing and the bearing opening in which said other journal bearing is received.