Piston Patents (Class 123/193.6)
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Patent number: 11905912Abstract: A piston of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The piston includes a piston head with a piston bowl, a ring part and an annular cooling channel arranged between the ring part and the piston bowl. A closure element is provided to close the cooling channel in a direction away from the piston bowl. At least one guiding element is arranged in the cooling channel. The at least one guiding element provides a lug facing in a direction of an inner cooling channel wall and disposed at least partially circumferentially. The lug of the at least one guiding element is structured and arranged to direct cooling oil present in the cooling channel towards an upper region of the inner cooling channel wall relative to the closure element to facilitate cooling the upper region.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventors: Frank-Peter Jung, Philipp Licht, Rainer Scharp
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Patent number: 11885257Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The piston is configured to reciprocate along a centre axis of the piston during operation in an engine. The piston comprises a number of fuel directing surfaces arranged at a distance from a top surface of the piston measured along the centre axis. Each fuel directing surface is configured to direct a fuel spray sprayed onto the fuel directing surface. The fuel directing surfaces are arranged with gaps between two adjacent fuel directing surfaces. The present disclosure further relates to an engine comprising a piston and a vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Scania CV ABInventor: Daniel Norling
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Patent number: 11866160Abstract: The present invention provides a power device generating greater propelling force and finds that traditional power devices do not include all propelling forces based on the fundamental core propelling force source problem. External pressure is guided to the traditional power devices since the inner speed is higher the outer speed, power consumption for overcoming fluid resistance is high, and mutual contradiction results are obtained. The unique difference between the present invention and general common sense lies in opposite fluid pressure directions; inner fluid channels and outer fluid channels with higher flow speeds are formed to generate pressure differences which guides the fluid pressure to the outside and serve as propelling force, thus the present invention creatively finds three propelling force sources, two lifting force or propelling force sources of helicopters or airplanes driven by propellers and two propelling force sources for sufficient burning of fuel in combustion chambers of engines.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Xiaoyi Zhu
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Patent number: 11840983Abstract: A piston may have an annular body including a crown portion defining a longitudinal axis, a radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, a plane containing the longitudinal axis and the radial direction, and a contoured combustion bowl. In the plane containing the longitudinal axis and the radial direction, the crown portion includes a radially outer squish surface, and a swirl pocket having a reentrant surface that extends axially downwardly and radially outwardly from the squish surface defining a tangent that forms a reentrant angle with the squish surface that ranges from 53.0 degrees to 57.0 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Aaron S. Ness, Andrew J. Loetz, John R. Brubaker, Christopher L. Batta
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Patent number: 11795868Abstract: This piston for a diesel engine includes: a bottom portion that has a deepest combustion chamber bottom in the combustion chamber; a circumferential protrusion that is provided around an entire circumference of a circumferential wall between the bottom portion and a top surface of the piston and protrudes toward an intersection (P0) of a center line of the piston and the top surface in a cross-sectional view that includes the center line; an inclination portion that inclines closer to the top surface toward an outer side in a radial direction from the circumferential protrusion; and a rising portion that rises from the inclination portion toward the top surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Onoda, Akira Ito, Tomohiro Shimazu, Satoru Mimura, Takashi Kuribara
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Patent number: 11739842Abstract: A compressor seal-ring assembly includes a seal formed of a nickel, cobalt or iron-based superalloy; a counterface positioned for sealing interaction with the seal; and a lubricant coating on the seal, the lubricant coating being formed of a CoCrAlY-containing material.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Pantcho P. Stoyanov, Kelly M. Harrington
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Patent number: 11680540Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine may include a piston crown, a piston body, and a ring portion. The piston body may have a radially outermost piston outer surface, which may emanate from the piston crown and extend axially and in a circumferential direction. The ring portion may be disposed axially spaced apart from the piston crown. The ring portion may extend axially and in the circumferential direction. The ring portion may include a ring carrier with a ring groove configured to receive a piston ring. The ring portion may further include a radially outer ring portion outer surface that extends in the circumferential direction. The ring portion outer surface may be disposed radially to an inside relative to the piston outer surface. The piston outer surface may extend elliptically in the circumferential direction. The ring portion outer surface may extend rotation-symmetrically in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Inventors: Peter Bechtold, Michael Biswurm
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Patent number: 11643991Abstract: A power cylinder system for a reciprocating engine includes a piston configured to move within a cylinder of the reciprocating engine. The system also includes a groove extending circumferentially about the piston and configured to support a ring. An axially-facing surface of the groove has circumferential undulations at ambient temperatures that are configured to compensate for distortions to the groove caused by operation of the reciprocating engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: AI ALPINE US BIDCO INCInventors: Richard John Donahue, James Richard Zurlo
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Patent number: 11572848Abstract: The present invention allows the air-fuel mixture to swirl in a combustion chamber to increase the power from the engine. Each engine cylinder contains a piston, a combustion chamber, and at least one intake valve, exhaust valve, and spark-plug. Also, the top of the piston head contains a hole that forms the entry point of a converging nozzle, where the air-fuel mixture is first directed downwards and then horizontally through intake nozzles onto ramps located on the inner walls of the combustion chamber that allows the air-fuel mixture to swirl in a counter-clock wise motion. This swirling effect causes a cyclone inside the combustion chamber that when ignited it results in an additional explosive force that drives the piston downwards with additional acceleration, which increase the power produced by the engine.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Inventor: Edric Darrell Culbreth
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Patent number: 11524774Abstract: The present invention provides a power device generating greater propelling force and finds that traditional power devices do not include all propelling forces based on the fundamental core propelling force source problem. External pressure is guided to the traditional power devices since the inner speed is higher the outer speed, power consumption for overcoming fluid resistance is high, and mutual contradiction results are obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventor: Xiaoyi Zhu
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Patent number: 11459977Abstract: The present disclosure provides a piston, comprising: a skirt having an upper body portion; and a crown formed on the upper body portion by an additive manufacturing process, the crown including at least one air gap formed and positioned to reduce heat transfer from combustion to at least one cooling gallery formed in the piston.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: CUMMINS INC., SCANIA CV ABInventors: Jordan E. Kelleher, Lyle E. Kocher, Dwight A. Doig, Brett A. Boas
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Patent number: 11415076Abstract: A method for producing a piston blank or a piston for an internal combustion engine, includes providing a thickened portion formed in at least one box wall in the direction of thickness approximately in the center thereof, which is at least partly flush with a cooling channel. A resulting piston blank or piston having these features can be made in a casting mold or forging die designed in a corresponding manner.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Federal-Mogul Nurnberg GmbHInventors: Ulrich Henzold, Harald Mergler, Christoffer Schmoll
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Patent number: 11371466Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of valve pockets formed in a piston rim, the valve pockets forming fluid flow paths through the piston rim. Each of the valve pockets includes a central step standing proud of a pocket floor to limit a fluid flow area through the pocket and slow combustion gas flow from a combustion bowl toward a cylinder liner and thereby reduce displacement of an engine oil film thereon.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Bradley Morgan, Jeffrey Clark Krieger
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Patent number: 11313467Abstract: A seal assembly includes a tensionable annular member and a gap seal annular member that are axially juxtaposed and configured to be carried by one of a pair of coaxially movable components for sealingly engaging another one of the pair of components. The tensionable annular member includes first and second radial surfaces, an inner surface, and an outer contact surface. Rounded bottom grooves are formed across the first radial surface from the outer contact surface to the inner surface. In another embodiment, notches are formed across the inner surface from the first radial surface to the second radial surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Inventors: Matthew Hartford, Keith A. Jones
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Patent number: 11306678Abstract: A piston includes an annular body including a crown portion defining a longitudinal axis, a radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and a circumferential direction. The crown portion includes a top squish surface, and a circumferential annular wall extending downwardly axially from the top squish surface as well as a skirt. A first piston ring receiving groove is spaced away from the top squish surface, an upper land and a lower land extend from the first piston ring receiving groove, and a bottom blend connects the lower land to the first piston ring receiving groove.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Adam Joseph Clute, Scott David Perkins, Thomas Randall McClure, Michael R. Bochart
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Patent number: 11213922Abstract: A method for producing a piston may include providing a blank of a piston base member with an outer peripheral joining face, an inner peripheral joining face which may be expanded in a direction of a base region of a combustion bowl, and a lower cooling channel portion which may extend between the outer and inner peripheral joining faces, wherein at least one of (i) at least one of the outer and inner peripheral joining faces and (ii) the lower cooling channel portion may be not subsequently processed. The method may then include providing a blank of a piston ring element with an outer annular joining face, an inner annular joining face, and an upper cooling channel portion which may extend between the outer and inner annular joining faces, wherein at least one of (i) at least one of the outer and inner annular joining faces and (ii) the upper cooling channel portion may be not subsequently processed.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Inventor: Daniel Hrdina
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Patent number: 11149854Abstract: A compressor seal-ring assembly includes a seal formed of a nickel, cobalt or iron-based superalloy; a counterface positioned for sealing interaction with the seal; and a lubricant coating on the seal, the lubricant coating being formed of a CoCrAlY-containing material.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Pantcho P. Stoyanov, Kelly M. Harrington
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Patent number: 11131269Abstract: A steel piston (10) for an internal combustion engine has a cooling channel and shaft surfaces (12, 14) with which the piston (10), in the installed state, abuts a cylinder bore or a cylinder liner on a pressure side and a counterpressure side, wherein one shaft surface (12) has a width which is 25-50% smaller than the other shaft surface (14).Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Federal-Mogul Nurnberg GmbHInventors: Ralf Meske, Lukas Merz, Michael Kraemer, Christoffer Schmoll
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Patent number: 11123615Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads with variable face geometry and material properties are described herein. Various embodiments include a golf club head comprising a body configured to receive a faceplate from a set of faceplates. The body comprises a heel region, a toe region opposite the heel region, a sole, and a crown. The faceplate is from the set of faceplates and coupled to the body. The set of faceplates comprises a heel region, a toe region, a top portion, and a bottom portion, and further comprises at least one of a varying hardness profile or a varying thickness profile. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Travis Milleman, Matthew Simone, Evan Greer
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Patent number: 11118532Abstract: A top surface of the piston includes a first region. A heat shielding film is formed on the first area. The top surface further includes a second region. There is no heat shielding film formed on the second region. Instead, the second area is mirror-finished. The top surface includes a central portion. A valve recess portion is formed on an intake side of the central portion. A squish portion is formed the intake side of the valve recess portion. The first area includes at least the central portion. The second area includes at least the squish portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shintaro Hotta
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Patent number: 10995777Abstract: A support for an eccentric of an adjusting arrangement of a connecting rod has a piston rod (18) guided by a piston (20). A seal (24) is connected to the piston (20) in a supporting cylinder (12, 14) in the connecting rod (2) and has a longitudinal axis (16). The piston (20) encloses a chamber (22) with the supporting cylinder (12, 14). The piston (20) has a lower part (30) arranged on an upper part (28) for movement along the axis (17) of the supporting cylinder (12, 14). An expanding ring (40) between the upper and lower parts (28, 30) interacts with faces (42, 44) of the lower part (30). The upper part (28) spreads the expanding ring (40) as the spacing between the faces (42, 44) is reduced, and the expanding ring (40) applies a friction force FR on an inner wall (46) of the supporting cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Inventor: Andreas Misala
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Patent number: 10968816Abstract: In a spark-ignition internal combustion engine in which a protrusion including an intake-side inclined surface and an exhaust-side inclined surface is formed on a top surface of a piston, and a cavity is formed in the protrusion at a position associated with a spark plug. The cavity includes a bottom surface and a tubular peripheral surface, and is formed in such a way that a ratio of a depth of the cavity with respect to a diameter of the cavity is 0.3 or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Shuma Aoki, Hiroaki Muranaka, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Wada
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Patent number: 10895191Abstract: A compressor comprises a first compressor piston assembly including a first compressor piston head having a bottom side and a longitudinal central axis. The compressor also comprises a first nozzle arranged to direct a first oil stream towards the bottom side of the first compressor piston head to cool the piston assembly. The compressor further comprises a second nozzle arranged to direct a second oil stream towards the bottom side of the first compressor piston head to cool the piston assembly. Each of the oil streams is substantially parallel to each other and to the longitudinal central axis to provide a flow of oil to cool the piston assembly and to reduce an oil carryover by the first compressor piston assembly by up to about fifty percent as compared to a compressor having no nozzles directing oil streams towards the bottom side of the first compressor piston head.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLCInventors: Justin R Huffman, Loren L Bruns, Scott A Hidley
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Patent number: 10890136Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine, such as a high-pressure direct injection (HPDI) diesel/gas internal combustion engine. The piston has a piston recess, in particular an omega piston recess. The piston has a piston crown face which is provided so as to extend annularly about a centre axis (M) of the piston. The piston has a plurality of piston stages, which are provided so as to extend annularly about the centre axis (M) and which are arranged between the piston crown face and the piston recess. The piston geometry can lead to an increase of the degree of engine efficiency with a simultaneous reduction of the exhaust emissions.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AGInventors: Bruno Barciela Díaz-Blanco, Dirk Peter Weberskirch, Andreas Sommermann, Marcus Stein, Tim Dressel
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Patent number: 10876495Abstract: A component of a piston may include a crown portion configured to face a flame deck surface disposed at one end of a cylinder bore in which the piston is configured to reciprocate, such that a combustion chamber is defined within the cylinder bore and between a top surface of the crown portion and the flame deck surface. The component may include an indent formed in the top surface. The indent may be aligned with a fuel jet centerline along which a fuel jet is to be injected into the combustion chamber. The indent may include a first arcuate indent portion, that curves in a first direction from a center of the crown portion, and a second arcuate indent portion that curves in a second direction from a break in a reentrant feature that overhangs the first arcuate indent portion. The component may be included in an internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Bobby John, Jonathan W. Anders
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Patent number: 10871125Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine including an upper part and a lower part connected by at least one threaded connection. The lower part includes a cutout positioned in the inner region of the piston above a peak of the pin bore extending toward the outer periphery of the piston. The lower part further includes at least one web positioned above the pin bore extending toward the outer periphery of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbHInventor: Matthias Laqua
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Patent number: 10837401Abstract: A piston crown for a combustion system is disclosed. The piston crown includes a piston bowl having a circumferential recess and a plurality of first recesses arranged spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction. The circumferential recess is disposed proximate to a circumference of the piston crown. Each recess of the plurality of the first recesses extends between a center of the piston crown and the circumferential recess, and a width and a depth of each recess of the plurality of first recesses are extended along a radial direction for an entire length of each recess of the plurality of first recesses.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: GE GLOBAL SOURCING LLCInventors: Roy James Primus, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Dattatraya Somnath Bhagoji, Kevin Scott McElhaney, Bhaskar Tamma, Ravichandra Srinivasa Jupudi, Kevin Paul Bailey
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Patent number: 10823469Abstract: A compressor (20) has a case (22) and a crankshaft (38). The case has a number of cylinders (30-32). For each of the cylinders, the compressor includes a piston (34) mounted for reciprocal movement at least partially within the cylinder. A connecting rod (36) couples each piston to the crankshaft. A pin (44) couples each connecting rod to the associated piston. Each pin has first (52) and second (53) end portions mounted to first (56) and second (57) receiving portions of the associated piston and a central portion (48) engaging the associated connecting rod. For each of the pistons a pair of first and second at least partially non-metallic plugs have respective stems received in the pin first and second end portions and respective heads facing a wall surface of the associated cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Matthew J. Mowers, Paul J. Flanigan, Russell G. Lewis
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Patent number: 10823045Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a piston. In one example, a system may comprise a plurality of first protrusions and a plurality of second protrusions working in tandem to confine an injection to a radial zone defined by the protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric Kurtz, Nan Robarge, Daniel Kantrow, Christopher Polonowski
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Patent number: 10823109Abstract: A piston for use in an internal combustion engine having a pressure side and counterpressure side. The piston includes a piston skirt having skirt wall sections and box walls connecting the skirt wall sections. A spacing between the box walls on the pressure side is 35%-51% of the piston diameter and on the counterpressure side is 26%-39% of the piston diameter. Reduced angles of the extraction angle slopes on the pressure and counterpressure sides as well as larger free spaces are achieved which provides for lower piston mass and greater distribution of stresses in the box region of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbHInventor: Klaus Lormes
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Patent number: 10787954Abstract: The present invention relates to a combustion chamber of a combustion engine. The combustion chamber comprises a single intake valve (2), a single exhaust valve (3), a fuel injector (5) and two plugs (4). According to the invention, the combustion chamber is substantially elliptical (6) and the components of the combustion chamber are arranged as follows: valves (2, 3) are located at the ends of the major axis (8) of ellipse (6), plugs (4) are located close to the minor axis (9) of ellipse (6), fuel injector (5) is located on the periphery of ellipse (6) between intake valve (2) and a plug (4).Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Didier Ambrazas, Xavier Gautrot, Olivier Laget, Julien Trost
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Patent number: 10774931Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine may include two pin bosses configured to receive a gudgeon pin. The two pin bosses may respectively include a nadir pocket of at least two nadir pockets at ?=180° and extending outward from a piston axis. The at least two nadir pockets may have a respective length that is smaller than a length of a respective pin boss of the at least two pin bosses. The piston may also include a pin boss axis that is axially offset from the piston axis by 0.1-1.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Juergen Rudi, Ralf Braig
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Patent number: 10774781Abstract: A steel piston with anti-coking design features is provided. The piston includes an upper crown portion and a lower crown portion forming an outer cooling gallery therebetween. The outer cooling gallery is substantially closed except for an oil inlet, oil outlet, and optional oil passage(s) to a central cooling gallery. According to one embodiment, at least one anti-coking insert is disposed in the outer cooling gallery and sized to prevent escaping through the oil inlet or the oil outlet. For example, the insert(s) can comprise a helical coil, a plurality of steel balls, coil springs, or chips formed of polymer with abrasive filler. Alternatively, an outer gallery floor to the outer cooling gallery includes a plurality of anti-coking openings disposed sequentially in decreasing spaced relation from one another, or anti-coking openings with varying lengths.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Tenneco, Inc.Inventors: Miguel Azevedo, Warran Boyd Lineton, Geoffrey Neil Ainsworth
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Patent number: 10774729Abstract: A porous alumina layer with a sealer (i.e., a coating layer) is formed on a top surface or a piston (i.e., a second cavity surface and a second squish surface) and a surface of a bottom surface of a cylinder which forms a cavity area CA (i.e., a first cavity surface). The porous alumina layer without the sealer (i.e., an exposed layer) is formed on a surface of the bottom surface which forms a squish area SA (i.e., a first squish surface).Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Isamu Goto
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Patent number: 10760636Abstract: A second dynamic vibration absorber is higher in resonance frequency than a first dynamic vibration absorber. At least one of the resonance frequency of the first dynamic vibration absorber or the resonance frequency of the second dynamic vibration absorber is shifted from associated at least one of the first resonance frequency or the second resonance frequency such that a peak frequency of antiresonance occurring in a higher frequency region of the first dynamic vibration absorber than the resonance frequency of the first dynamic vibration absorber is substantially different from that of antiresonance occurring in a lower frequency region of the second dynamic vibration absorber than the resonance frequency of the second dynamic vibration absorber.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kiyonori Nagato, Takuya Kikuchi, Tsunehiro Mori, Koichi Hirata, Akira Sumitani, Rumiko Yamada, Toru Morishima, Rei Enokizono, Yuichi Shirasuna
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Patent number: 10753312Abstract: A power cylinder system for a reciprocating engine includes a piston configured to move within a cylinder of the reciprocating engine. The system also includes a groove extending circumferentially about the piston and configured to support a ring. An axially-facing surface of the groove has circumferential undulations at ambient temperatures that are configured to compensate for distortions to the groove caused by operation of the reciprocating engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: AI ALPINE US BIDCO INCInventors: Richard John Donahue, James Richard Zurlo
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Patent number: 10731598Abstract: A vehicle internal combustion piston and method of construction thereof are provided. The piston includes piston body extending along a central longitudinal axis, having an upper combustion wall forming an upper combustion surface and an undercrown surface opposite the upper combustion surface. An annular ring belt region depends from the upper combustion surface, a pair of skirt panels depend from the ring belt region, and a pair of pin bosses depend from the undercrown surface to provide laterally spaced pin bores aligned along a pin bore axis for receipt of a wrist pin. The undercrown surface forms a central undercrown region, and a portion of either an open outer cooling gallery, a sealed outer cooling gallery, or an outer galleryless region. A coating including copper is applied to hot spots along the undercrown surface to mitigate the hot spots provide a more uniform temperature along the undercrown surface during operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Tenneco Inc.Inventors: Warran Boyd Lineton, Miguel Azevedo, Thomas Egerer, Gregory Salenbien, Neil Ainsworth
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Patent number: 10711773Abstract: A linear compressor is provided. The linear compressor may include a piston having a first piston groove and a second piston groove.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seongho Ha, Donghan Kim, Jaeyoun Lim, Kichul Choi, Jungwan Heo
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Patent number: 10711732Abstract: A piston includes an upper member having a crown and a combustion surface extending radially inward from the crown. The upper member includes concentrically oriented first and second upper connecting surfaces integrally formed on the bottom side of the upper member. At least one of the upper connecting surfaces includes a curvilinear and/or multi-arcuate cross-sectional profile. The piston also includes a lower member having a pair of opposing skirts, each skirt defining a bore. The lower member also includes concentrically oriented first and second lower connecting surfaces integrally formed on a top side of the lower member. The lower member is integrally connected to the upper member by friction welding. The curvilinear and/or multi-arcuate profile enables a shortened distance between the top surface of the crown and the bore centerline of the bore. Methods of manufacturing the piston are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: INDUSTRIAL PARTS DEPOT, LLCInventors: Henry Maurice Wandrie, III, HouKit Sam
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Patent number: 10704491Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine is provided. The piston includes a lower part joined to an upper part, for example by friction welding with inertia. The upper part presents a combustion surface and an undercrown surface. The piston also includes a cooling gallery surface provided by the upper part and the lower part. The cooling gallery surface surrounds a volume of space for containing a cooling media. The piston can include serrations in the cooling gallery surface and/or undercrown surface to increase surface area and thus reduce the temperature of the piston. The piston can also include shaped weld curls, instead of or in addition to the serrations, which also increase surface area and reduce the temperature of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Tenneco Inc.Inventors: Eduardo Matsuo, Gregory Rudzik
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Patent number: 10662892Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a compound piston body having a crown piece joined to a skirt piece by a circumferential weld. The skirt piece is formed of a lower temperature-capable steel such as a low alloy steel, and the crown piece is formed of a higher temperature-capable steel having a martensitic microstructure and containing about 10% wt. or greater of chromium. Related methodology for making a piston is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Michael Pollard, Indrajith Kizhakkethara, Hugh McLean
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Patent number: 10655561Abstract: A cast light metal piston for an internal combustion engine may include a piston crown and a piston skirt adjoining the piston crown. The piston skirt may include two skirt walls arranged on a pressure side and a counterpressure side, respectively. The piston skirt may have two box walls connecting the skirt walls, which conically taper towards one another in a direction of the piston crown. The piston may include an annularly encircling cooling channel. A thickness of the piston crown may amount to a maximum of 4.5 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Jochen Adelmann, Ralf Braig, Michael Marquardt
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Patent number: 10654096Abstract: A manufacturing method for a cylinder head is described. A masking member is attached to a cylinder head material, which followed by a film formation step. The masking member comprises a mask portion to mask the matching surface with the cylinder block, mask portions to mask each of the openings of intake and exhaust ports and a mask portion to mask at least one narrow region sandwiched between openings of two adjacent port holes and has the shortest distance between opening edges of the two adjacent port holes. All Mask portions are coplanar and linked directly to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Iguma, Akio Kawaguchi, Hideo Yamashita, Kazuaki Nishio
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Patent number: 10634089Abstract: A piston for a diesel engine includes a piston body having a skirt and crown. The piston body has portions defining an outer combustion bowl and an inner combustion bowl within the piston body through the crown. The outer combustion bowl has a curved annular side wall extending from the crown surface and an annular flat shelf extending from the curved annular side wall. The new stepped bowl design integrates a bottom profile with smoothly varying curvature and a sharp step at the top. The annular flat shelf is recessed a distance in the range of 2.5-4.5 millimeters from a line coplanar with the crown surface. The piston body defines an outer convex curved surface connecting the curved annular side wall to the crown surface. The outer convex curved surface has a radius of curvature in the range of 0.25-0.75 millimeter.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Ramachandra Diwakar, Vicente Domenech-Llopis, Richard C Peterson, Alberto Lorenzo Vassallo
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Patent number: 10612513Abstract: An axial piston machine may include a rotor having a shaft rotatably mounted in a housing. A plurality of cylinders may be arranged annularly around the rotor. A plurality of pistons may each be disposed within each of the plurality of cylinders and may be constructed and arranged to selectively translate within each of the plurality of cylinders. Each of the plurality of cylinders may be disposed within a cylinder head and may be in operative communication with an inlet opening defined in the cylinder head and at least one outlet opening defined in the housing. An auxiliary outlet rotary slide valve may be operatively connected to the shaft in a rotationally fixed manner. The auxiliary outlet rotary slide valve may comprises an auxiliary outlet rotary opening constructed and arranged to connect to a vent duct of one of the plurality of cylinders based on an angle of rotation, and may vent the one of the plurality of cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Michael Bucher, Christoph Fiala, Mirko Guenther, Michael Hoetger, Hannes Marlock, Falk Schneider
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Patent number: 10610984Abstract: A one-piece piston including a combustion bowl which is cast to its final form and includes at least one irregularity spaced from a central axis. The piston is initially fabricated of an upper crown member and a lower crown member, which are joined together. The piston is then chucked into a machine tool, such as a CNC lathe, which locates either the piston's top surface or a portion of the combustion bowl and establishes its location as a datum plane. It is this datum plane which serves as a reference location for subsequent machining operations of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Tenneco IncInventors: Airton Martins, Carmo Ribeiro
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Patent number: 10612489Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine may include a piston body including a piston skirt, a piston head, and a pocket. The piston head may include a cooling channel for receiving a cooling medium. The cooling channel may be open on a side facing away from a piston crown. The piston may also include at least one cooling channel cover at least partially closing the cooling channel, and a piston pin boss having a boss bore configured to accommodate a piston pin. The piston may further include a piston pin lubricating channel fluidically connected to the cooling channel and extending in a direction of the piston pin. The pocket may at least partially define the piston pin lubricating channel. The at least one cooling channel cover may have at least one lug that is offset radially inward and may, together with the pocket, define the piston pin lubricating channel.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Frank-Peter Jung, Rainer Scharp
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Patent number: 10612615Abstract: A second dynamic vibration absorber is higher in resonance frequency than a first dynamic vibration absorber. At least one of a ratio of a mass of a body of the first dynamic vibration absorber to a reciprocating inertial mass of the reciprocative rotation mechanism or a ratio of a mass of a body of the second dynamic vibration absorber to the reciprocating inertial mass of the reciprocative rotation mechanism is set such that a peak frequency of antiresonance occurring in a higher frequency region of the first dynamic vibration absorber than the resonance frequency of the first dynamic vibration absorber is substantially different from that of antiresonance occurring in a lower frequency region of the second dynamic vibration absorber than the resonance frequency of the second dynamic vibration absorber.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Kiyonori Nagato, Toru Morishima, Takuya Kikuchi, Tsunehiro Mori, Rei Enokizono, Yuichi Shirasuna, Koichi Hirata, Akira Sumitani, Rumiko Yamada
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Patent number: 10591059Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has a piston head, a pin boss with pin bores, and a piston skirt. The piston head has a combustion bowl, a ring belt with ring grooves, a circumferential cooling channel, and at least one diverter rod connected to the ring belt and extending into the cooling channel. The diverter rod diverts the spray of cooling oil within the cooling channel to achieve more uniform and efficient cooling of the piston during operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Shashank Shrikant Moghe, Scott Michael Janowiak
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Patent number: 10519854Abstract: A component for exposure to a combustion chamber of a diesel engine and/or exhaust gas, such as a cylinder liner or valve face, is provided. The component includes a thermal barrier coating applied to a body portion formed of steel. A layer of a metal bond material is first applied, followed by a gradient structure including a mixture of the metal bond material and a ceramic material, followed by a layer of the ceramic material. The ceramic material includes at least one of ceria, ceria stabilized zirconia, yttria stabilized zirconia, calcia stabilized zirconia, magnesia stabilized zirconia, and zirconia stabilized by another oxide. The thermal barrier coating is applied by thermal spray or HVOF. The thermal barrier coating has a porosity of 2% by vol. to 25% vol., a thickness of less than 1 mm, and a thermal conductivity of less than 1.00 W/m·K.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Tenneco Inc.Inventors: Warran Boyd Lineton, Miguel Azevedo, Greg Salenbien