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Camless Variable Valve Actuator with Two Discrete Lifts
Technical Paper
2015-01-0324
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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Camless Variable Valve Actuation (VVA) technologies have been known for improving fuel economy, reducing emissions, and enhancing engine performance. VVA can be divided into electro-magnetic, electro-hydraulic, and electro-pneumatic actuation. This paper presents an electro-hydraulic VVA design (called GD-VVA-2) that offers continuously variable timing and two discrete lifts (low lift S1 and high lift S2). The lift control is achieved through a lift control sleeve, which is hydraulically switched between two mechanically defined positions to provide accurate lifts. The low lift S1 has a wide design range, anywhere between zero and the high lift S2, i.e., 0 < S1 < S2. If S1 ≥ 0.5*S2, engine valves may operate at the low lift during most of a typical drive cycle. Operation at the low lift reduces energy consumption significantly. The GD-VVA-2 design offers compact package size and reasonable energy consumption. One of the prototype samples has passed 400 hours of 6000-rpm durability test on a test bench.
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Lou, Z., Wen, S., Qian, J., Xu, H. et al., "Camless Variable Valve Actuator with Two Discrete Lifts," SAE Technical Paper 2015-01-0324, 2015, https://doi.org/10.4271/2015-01-0324.Also In
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