1 Cylinder arrangement
arranged in the form of a cylinder
major automotive engine-line, V-type, horizontal opposed inline type well W
(1)
the respective cylinders of the engine are arranged in a generally vertical arrangement. Simple single cylinder structure, easy to process, but the length and height of the engine is large. Usually six-cylinder engine with the use of single-row. For example Jetta, Beverly cars, red car engines are used with this in-line cylinders. Some cars in order to reduce the height of the engine, the engine is tilted at an angle.
(2) Type V
cylinders arranged in two rows, two left and right cylinder axis angle gamma; lt; 180deg ;, referred to as V-type engine, V-type engine with inline compared with the engine, the shorter body length and height, increases the rigidity of the cylinder block, reducing the weight of the engine, but the engine width increase, and the shape is complex, difficult processing, generally used for more than eight-cylinder engine, 6 cylinder engine has a cylinder block with this form.
(3) mounted on the
cylinders arranged in two rows, left and right two cylinders on the same level, i.e., left and right two cylinder axis angle gamma; = 180deg ;, referred boxer. It is characterized by a high degree of small, convenient overall layout is conducive to air cooling. Such small cylinder applications.
W-type engine is Volkswagen’s first, but it is not four banks of cylinders arranged in a W-type, four cylinder, but by a complex spatial structure of the small angle between the two V-type engine a crankshaft connected to the same. This can greatly reduce the size of the engine, such as the volume of cylinder W-type engine 12 is only equivalent to the general public or a volume slightly larger V8 V6 engine, while operating very smoothly quiet. But the complexity of the W-type engine configuration other people whom tip the scales, high manufacturing costs it can only be used in some large luxury cars, such as Volkswagen Phaeton 60.05 W12 engine and Audi brand’s flagship A8L6.0 are used.