Bank angle of a V-type 12-cylinder engine

Ito, N Nakagawa, A Kitamura, R

N. Ito et al., Bank angle of a V-type 12-cylinder engine, JSME C, 44(3), 2001, pp. 643-649

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Mechanical Engineering

JSME INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL SERIES C-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS MACHINE ELEMENTS AND MANUFACTURING

1344-7653 → ACNP

44

3

2001

643 - 649

ISI

1344-7653(200109)44:3<643:BAOAV1>2.0.ZU;2-S

As the automobile engine advances towards higher performance and higher pow er, the increase in displacement and the number of cylinders in the engine has led to larger engines. As a result, the need for rigidity countermeasur es and reductions in size and weight have brought about the switch from in- line type engines to V-type engines. Currently, most of the V-type automobi le engines produced have six or eight cylinders, and some large passenger c ars produced in Europe and America have V-type engines with 10 or 12 cylind ers. The bank angles of engines in these passenger are almost fixed based o n the cylinder number. Therefore, the form of the V-type engine is limited according to the number of cylinders. The present study examines the bank a ngle of a V-12 engine by performing a detailed analysis of the relationship between the cylinder arrangement and the exciting moment. The goal of the present study is to find a bank angle that has as of yet not been applied t o the V-type engine so that the layouts of the absorption and exhaust syste ms, as well as the attached apparatuses, can be reconfigured.