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In a camless engine, electromechanical actuators (a set of electromagnets), placed directly on the valves, replace the camshaft. This technology makes it possible to optimise the circulation of gases in the engine, both for intake and exhaust, and to deploy operating modes that improve fuel consumption, clean exhaust technology and performance.
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on a traditional engine, the opening and closing of the valves is commanded by the camshaft. During its rotation, the cams push the valves. Although this process is effective and has been in use since the invention of the four-stroke engine, it nonetheless has its limits. The periods of valve lift are conditioned by the geometrical profile of the cams, which is fixed no matter how the engine is operating. This mechanical system is therefore a compromise that takes account of the different conditions of engine running, a difficult trade-off between fuel consumption, performance and clean running. To better adapt the intake and gas exhaust phases, there are now systems that make it possible to deliver a level of clean engine technology acceptable to the market such as the camshaft angle variator (see sheet), which permits a level of flexibility by varying the angle of the entire camshaft. However, the different specific properties of air intake and gas exhaust processes in the engine require better flexibility for each cylinder, even each valve, if performance is to continue to improve. The camless system offers all this, and more...
tHE opEning And cloSing oF tHE vAlvES iS commAndEd by ElEctromEcHAnicAl ActuAtorS tHAt rEplAcE tHE cAmSHAFt. tHEy givE tHE vAlvES grEAt FlExibility in opEning And cloSing, wHicH in turn mAkES it poSSiblE to AdApt tHE intAkE And ExHAuSt EmiSSionS to EAcH pHASE oF EnginE opErAtion And to optimiSE itS running.
December 2008