Abstract: A piston which has a diameter of about 70 to about 100 mm and which is preferably produced with a resistant, malleable alloy having low density (lower than about 3 g/cm.sup.3) and mechanical properties at high temperatures such that a yield stress greater than about 120 Mpa at temperatures of the order of 300.degree. C. to 350.degree. C. is obtained. In the preferred embodiment, the piston is a single piece piston, comprising a head portion of diameter D ranging from about 70 to about 100 mm and a skirt portion downwardly projected from the head portion and inside which is provided a pair of wrist pin bosses, each having a hole with a diameter d and axial extension L for bearing the articulating wrist pin of the piston.

Abstract: An articulated piston for use in heavy duty diesel engines including a piston crown having an outer surface, a peripheral pending side wall and an inner surface having a pair of pin bosses extending downwardly from the inner surface with the inner surface and the pin bosses defining a hollow cooling cavity opening downwardly and extending about a circumference of the piston crown and a piston skirt with the piston skirt including a first longitudinal plane containing a pair of diametrically opposed bores for receiving a wrist pin for connection to the bosses of the crown and defining two semi-cylindrical thrust and non thrust surfaces of the skirt with a thickness of the non thrust surface being less than a thickness of the thrust surface and a second longitudinal plane, perpendicular to the first plane thereby dividing the piston skirt into four peripheral quarters.

Abstract: An articulated piston for use in heavy duty diesel engines including a piston crown having an outer surface, a peripheral pending side wall and an inner surface having a pair of pin bosses extending downwardly from the inner surface with the inner surface and the pin bosses defining a hollow cooling cavity opening downwardly and extending about a circumference of the piston crown and a piston skirt with the piston skirt including a first longitudinal plane containing a pair of diametrically opposed bores for receiving a wrist pin for connection to the bosses of the crown and defining two semi-cylindrical thrust and non thrust surfaces of the skirt with a thickness of the non thrust surface being less than a thickness of the thrust surface and a second longitudinal plane, perpendicular to the first plane thereby dividing the piston skirt into four peripheral quarters.