Patent ID: 8468987

Claim:
An internal combustion engine, comprising: eight cylinders in a V-configuration, wherein a first, a second, a third and a fourth cylinder arranged side-by-side in series form a first cylinder bank, and wherein a fifth, a sixth, a seventh and an eighth cylinder arranged side-by-side in series form a second cylinder bank lying opposite the first cylinder bank; a cross-plane crankshaft, the internal combustion engine having an ignition interval of 90° crank angle from cylinder to cylinder; each cylinder bank having an intake camshaft and an exhaust camshaft in order to actuate at least one intake gas exchange valve and one exhaust gas exchange valve for each cylinder; wherein the intake gas exchange valves of the cylinders forming each cylinder bank actuated according to a 90° crank angle in the same cylinder bank have a larger valve lift than the intake gas exchange valves in the same cylinder bank actuated immediately prior thereto; and wherein the intake gas exchange valves in the same cylinder bank actuated immediately prior thereto have a smaller valve lift than all of the remaining intake gas exchange valves of both cylinder banks.