Abstract: A multi-part piston for an internal combustion engine has an upper piston part having a piston crown, and a lower piston part having pin boss supports and pin bosses connected with them. The upper piston part and lower piston part each have an inner and an outer support element, which delimit an outer circumferential cooling channel. The inner support elements delimit a cavity that is open toward the pin bosses, and the cavity is provided with a separate cooling oil collector that has at least one cooling oil opening. In a method for producing a piston, the upper and lower piston parts are manufactured, the cooling oil collector is inserted into one of the upper and lower piston parts in a region of the cavity, and the upper and lower piston parts are connected together at their support elements.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-part piston (10, 110) for an internal combustion engine, having an upper piston part (11, 111) having a piston crown (13), and a lower piston part (12), whereby the lower piston part (12) has pin boss supports (32) and pin bosses (18) connected with them, whereby the upper piston part (11) and the lower piston part (12) each have an inner (21, 25) and an outer (22, 26) support element, which elements delimit an outer circumferential cooling channel (29). According to the invention, it is provided that the inner support elements (21, 25) delimit a cavity (31) that is open toward the pin bosses (18), and that the cavity (31) is provided with a separate cooling oil collector (35, 135) that has at least one cooling oil opening (37, 38). The present invention furthermore relates to a method for the production of such a piston.

Abstract: A multi-part piston for an internal combustion engine has an upper piston part having a piston crown, and a lower piston part. The lower piston part has pin boss supports and pin bosses connected with them and the upper piston part and the lower piston part each have an inner and an outer support element, which elements delimit an outer circumferential cooling channel. The inner support elements delimit a cavity that is open toward the pin bosses. The cavity has a separate cooling oil collector that has at least one cooling oil opening. The piston is produced by manufacturing the upper piston part and lower piston part, inserting the cooling oil collector into the upper piston part or lower piston part, and joining the upper and lower piston parts together by friction welding.

Abstract: A piston of an internal combustion engine has a piston crown provided with a ring zone and adjoining a piston skirt encompassing a piston interior, the skirt having two load-bearing skirt wall segments and two pin bosses. Each pin boss encompassing a boss hole is connected to a boss base body by a boss support, the base body having ribs to increase stiffness, which are aligned to the extent possible in the direction of the boss holes continuously connecting the pin bosses. The curved or arched ribs thereby cover a pivoting range of a connecting rod.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a combustion chamber, at least one intake port for directing intake air into the combustion chamber with no/low swirling; a piston with piston bowl, an injector with plurality of orifices arranged to inject fuel with high injection pressure to form spray plumes, each of the plurality of orifices having a central axis oriented at a positive spray angle sufficient to cause the spray/flame to impinge on a piston outer bowl section and a curvilinear shape of the outer bowl section is such that a reflection angle of the impingement of the central axis is positive during at least start of injection in order to increase balance between vertical upwardly directed and tangential movements of the spray/flame and to preserve mixing energy late in the combustion cycle for increased soot oxidation.

Abstract: A piston and a reciprocating expansion engine with a piston having a piston head, a piston neck, and a piston shaft are described. The piston head has at least one groove which runs in a circumferential direction suitable for receiving a piston ring, and the piston shaft has a pin boss and, at its outer circumference, a guide surface which is suitable for guiding the piston along a cylinder inner wall. An outer diameter of the piston neck is smaller than an outer diameter of the piston head and/or of the piston shaft, and the length of the piston neck approximately corresponds to the travel of the piston in the installed state.

Abstract: A piston crown for a diesel engine in which the crown has an annular recess coaxial with an injector injecting fuel in a radiated, non-swirl pattern. The recess has an internal central crown portion approximately parallel to the angle of the fuel injected and a curved outer section to curve air compressed by the piston significantly enough that it is directed back toward the central axis and mixes with the fuel injected along the internal central crown portion to promote mixing and reduction in soot formation.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has at least one cylinder, wherein in the cylinder there is a piston, which has a recess. Furthermore, the internal combustion engine has a cylinder head, which has the shape of a roof complementary to the roof-shaped geometry of the piston with a first and second side converging in the shape of a gable, with the piston and the cylinder head defining a top side and a bottom side of a combustion chamber. The internal combustion engine has an ignition device, which is arranged at least approximately in the center in the roof shape. The cylinder further has preferably two inlet valves, which are arranged in the first side, and also preferably two outlet valves, which are arranged in the second side. The recess extends past both sides, wherein the recess includes at the side approximately vertically descending sides and a base. The piston further has at least two, preferably four quench zones, which are at least partially separated from each other by valve pockets for valves.

Abstract: The present invention reduces weight while assuring required rigidity of a piston reduces cost of the piston. A piston includes first and second pin bosses supporting a piston pins, a first side wall coupling the first pin boss and a piston skirt, a second side wall coupling the second pin boss and the piston skirt, and a pair of bridges coupling the first and second side walls and forming upward spaces just above. First and second through holes are formed in the first and second side walls. The first and second through holes and the upper spaces are formed by a single punching process using a punch and, simultaneously, the bridges are formed.

Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a piston crown (2) and a cylindrical side wall (4), an annular piston ring groove (8) being formed in the side wall (4) which accommodates an annular spring (14). The spring (14) includes an annular radially extending portion (16) and first (20) and second (22) projections. The radially extending portion (16) divides the annular groove into two chambers in the axial direction of the piston. The upper chamber closest to the piston crown accommodates an annular compression ring (10). The lower chamber furthest from the piston crown accommodates an annular oil scraper ring (12). The first projection (20) is arranged to contact the upper surface closest to the piston crown of the annular groove (8). The second projection (22) is arranged to contact the inner surface of the oil scraper ring (12) to urge it outwardly.

Abstract: A piston top surface (23) has a depression. A center region (28A) is formed at the center of the depression to secure the diameter of a center tumble flow to be large. A side region (28B) is formed on both sides of the piston top surface to generate a side tumble flow that is not influenced by a cylinder bore inner wall and has a flow line generally parallel to that of the center tumble flow.

Abstract: A method for producing a cast part using a casting machine which comprises a least one casting mould that can be filled with a casting melt. According to the method, the casting is filled with a casting melt, the melt is left to completely solidify and the cast part is then removed from the casting. The casting is filled with melt by the casting machine without the use of pressure at a fill speed of less than 10 m per second in the gating and is then squeezed in the casting mould at a casting pressure greater than 100.

Abstract: A piston 2 includes a piston upper body 8 made up of a crown portion 3 for receiving combustion pressure and a land portion 7 having piston ring grooves 4, 5, and 6, as well as a skirt portion 9 formed on the lower side of the piston upper body 8, and a pin boss portion 11 for supporting a piston pin 10. The land portion 7 also includes an outer peripheral surface 16 of the aforementioned piston upper body 8. The land portion 7 is referred to as the outer peripheral surface 16 of the piston upper body 8. In the piston 2, reference numeral 12 denotes a thrust side, and reference numeral 13 denotes an anti-thrust side. The piston 2 is formed such that the piston upper body 8 is off-centered toward the anti-thrust side 13 with respect to a center line 14 of the piston 2.

Abstract: The two-stroke engine includes an engine head, a cylinder block, and a lower block. The lower block is sealed from the engine head except for a cylinder bore in the cylinder block. A piston in the cylinder block has at least one compression ring groove for a compression ring to seal the lower block from the engine head. The piston also includes an oil control ring groove for an oil control ring to provide appropriate lubrication to the compression ring during each stroke of the piston. The piston further includes at least one drainage opening providing fluid communication between the outer circumference of the piston and an interior surface of the piston.

Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has an upper crown with a top and a bottom surface, and a lower crown with a top and a bottom surface. The upper crown and the lower crown are fixedly attached to each other using welds, with the bottom surface of the upper crown and the top surface of the lower crown forming a mating surface. The piston also has at least one centrally located air gap formed on the mating surface. The air gap is sealed to prevent substantial airflow into or out of the air gap.

Abstract: Disclosed is an internal combustion engine, which has a geometric compression ratio of 13.0 or greater, and a combustion chamber (4) configured to satisfy a condition of S/V2?0.12 (mm?1) when a radius r of a hypothetical sphere (IS) with its center at an ignition point (CP) of a spark plug (3) is set to satisfy a condition of V2=0.15×V1, where: S (mm2) is an area of an interference surface between the hypothetical sphere (IS) and an inner wall of the combustion chamber (4) in a state when a piston (30) is at its top dead center position; V1 (mm3) is a volume of the combustion chamber 4 in the state when the piston (30) is at the top dead center position; and V2 (mm3) is a volume of a non-interference part of the hypothetical sphere (IS) which is free of interference with the inner wall of the combustion chamber (4) when the piston (30) is at the top dead center position. The internal combustion engine of the present invention can more reliably improve fuel economy.

Abstract: In an opposed piston engine, a pair of pistons are disposed in opposition in the bore of a cylinder. The cylinder includes first liquid coolant grooves having a first cooling capacity to cool a portion of the cylinder extending from a central portion toward an exhaust port, and second liquid coolant grooves having a second cooling capacity, less than the first cooling capacity, to cool a portion of the cylinder extending from the central portion toward an inlet port. Each piston includes a cylindrical skirt with a crown and an open end opposite the crown, a piston rod with a bore, a first end attached to a back surface of the crown, and a second end extending through the open end of the skirt, a radial array of liquid coolant flow passages in communication with the bore and disposed between the first end and the back surface of the crown, and a single wristpin retained on the second end section of the piston rod and positioned externally to the piston.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a piston (10) for an internal combustion engine having a piston head (11) and a piston skirt (16) with piston hubs (17) which are each connected to a hub bore (18) for receiving a piston bolt, wherein the piston hubs (17) are in the shape of a trapezoidal or step-shaped support in which the inner faces (19) of the piston hubs (17) include an acute angle (?a) with the central axis (M) of the piston. The invention provides that each hub bore (18) is embodied as a shaped bore which is widened at least in its inner area in such a way that the widened portion increases in size in the direction of the inner end (18?) of the hub bore (18) forming facets (120, 220) on the lateral surface (18) of the hub bore (18), and that the facets (120, 220) include an acute angle (?a, ?) with the central axis (M) of the piston.

Abstract: A method for producing a piston for internal combustion engines includes the following steps: a first part is pre-fabricated by hot forging and a recess which has an undercut is formed in the first part during pre-fabrication by forming on the first part a projection, to which projection a lateral force is applied to form the undercut; a second part is pre-fabricated by hot forging and a projection is formed on this second part whose dimensions are matched to the dimensions of the recess; the two parts are joined together so that the projection on one part engages in the recess in the other part; and a compressive force is applied to the two parts which is sufficiently large and so aligned that the material of the projection on one part flows into the recess in the other part and completely fills it to connect the parts by positive fit.

Abstract: A pressure reactive piston for an internal combustion engine includes an axially directed central bore formed within a piston ring portion of the piston, which houses a slidably mounted crown which cooperates with the central bore to define a gas chamber which is closed off from the environment by means of a flexible gas seal interposed between the crown and the ring portion of the piston.

Abstract: A piston assembly and method of assembly thereof, a wrist pin, a piston, a connecting rod, and methods of construction thereof is provided. The assembly includes a piston body having a pair laterally spaced pin bosses with a feature to prevent relative rotation of a first wrist pin member. The assembly has a connecting rod with a small end bore extending along a central axis and allowing relative rotation of the first wrist pin member and a feature with the small end bore to prevent relative rotation of a second wrist pin member. The first and second wrist pin members are moveable relative to one another, wherein the first and second members extend substantially parallel to the central axis through the small end bore.

Abstract: In a direct fuel injection diesel engine equipped with a pentroof-shaped piston, a collision angle (?) at which fuel injected in a direction in which the height of the top face of a piston (13) is high collides with a cavity (25) is set larger than a collision angle (?) at which fuel injected in a direction in which the height of the top face of the piston (13) is low collides with the cavity (25).

Abstract: A piston cooling apparatus of an engine may include a combustion chamber formed between a piston disposed in a cylinder block and a cylinder head disposed on the cylinder block, wherein a surface area-enlarging portion is formed inside the piston on bottom surface of a crown of the piston.

Abstract: A multipart piston for an internal combustion engine has a top piston part and a bottom piston part. The top piston part is provided with an externally threaded head at the end facing the bottom piston part while the bottom piston part is equipped with a support plate at the end facing the top piston part. The support plate encompasses a plate member and an internally threaded element into which the threaded head is screwed. The plate member is joined to the bottom piston part via a connection zone in such a way that the bottom end of the threaded element lies below the bottom end of the connection zone relative to the longitudinal axis of the piston.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine comprising an annular cooling channel embodied in the edge area of the piston head and closed on a rod side with a cover consisting of two semicircular half-shells which are oriented with the internal sides thereof towards the piston and provided with a circular groove for arranging the half-shells on a projection embodied on the external side of the piston. The half-shells are provided on the abutting surfaces thereof with rest connections for easily connecting the half-shells to each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston (10, 110, 210, 310, 410) for an internal combustion engine, comprising a piston head (11) with at least one piston crown (12) which is exposed to at least one jet of combustion gases, and a piston shaft (17), the piston head (11) and the piston shaft (12) being configured as interconnected individual components including a peripheral outer cooling channel (27). The invention is characterized in that an annular partition wall (35, 135, 235, 335, 435) is provided in the cooling channel (27) in parallel to the piston crown (12) and has one or more nozzle-type openings (37, 45, 137, 237, 337, 437) that are arranged in such a manner that their respective outlet jet is directed against the underside (12a) of the piston crown (12).

Abstract: A durable piston is applied in a cylinder of an engine to output internal exploding power and has a piston head and a durable ring unit. The piston head is mounted in the cylinder of the engine, is driven for outputting kinetic energy and has a ring unit mount. The durable ring unit is mounted around the ring unit mount and has a distal ring and a proximal ring. The rings are mounted around the ring unit mount. An inner edge of the distal ring and the proximal ring are separated from the piston head of the piston so forming a first airway and a second airway. When the engine operates, high-pressure air fills the airways and presses the rings against the cylinder. Consequently, the airways maintain contact between the durable ring unit and the cylinder tight to prevent air leakage.

Abstract: Proposed is a piston (1) for an internal combustion engine having a closed annular duct (4) which is arranged close to the piston head (5) and radially at the outside, which annular duct (4) has, at the piston head side, an annular opening (21) which, in section, has the shape of a trapezium with limbs which taper conically in the direction away from the piston head, and which is closed off by an annular closure element (3) which, in section, has the same trapezium shape as the opening (21), with the closure element (3) being fastened in the opening (21) by means of friction welding.

Abstract: A piston for internal combustion engine includes a piston body, and a low thermal conductor. The piston body has a top that faces a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The low thermal conductor is disposed in the top of the piston body. Moreover, the low thermal conductor has a superficial portion, and an interior portion. The superficial portion faces the combustion chamber. The interior portion is disposed on a more inner side in the low thermal conductor than the superficial portion is. In addition, the superficial portion exhibits a first porosity. The interior portion exhibits a second porosity. The first porosity is smaller than the second porosity. Moreover, the low thermal conductor's superficial portion has a combustion-chamber-side surface that faces the combustion chamber and is subjected to shot peening.

Abstract: A member for an internal combustion engine, such as a piston, a valve and a fuel injection valve. The member includes a substrate. A carbon-based coating film is formed on the substrate to cover at least a part of a region of the substrate to which region fuel for the internal combustion engine is contactable. The carbon-based coating film contains fluorine and has a thickness of 10 ?m or less.

Abstract: A piston for in-cylinder fuel-injection type internal combustion engine includes a piston body, a low thermal conductor, and a piston head. The low thermal conductor is disposed on the top of the piston body. The low thermal conductor includes a low thermally-conductive substrate, and a coating layer. The low thermally-conductive substrate has opposite surfaces. The coating layer includes alumina fine particles (Al2O3). The coating layer is adhered on at least a part one of the opposite surfaces of the low thermally-conductive substrate that makes a cast-buried or enveloped surface to be cast buried or enveloped in the piston head.

Abstract: An engine that is lighter in weight includes a crankcase, a crankshaft, a body cylinder, a head cylinder, a piston, a piston ring and a cylinder fixing bolt. The piston ring is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the piston. One end portion of the cylinder fixing bolt extends toward the head cylinder and an other end portion of the cylinder fixing bolt extends toward the crankcase. The cylinder fixing bolt connects the head cylinder, the body cylinder and the crankcase to one another. A lower section of the body cylinder is located within the crankcase. The piston ring abuts on the lower section when the piston is located at a bottom dead center.

Abstract: A two-piece piston for an internal combustion engine has an upper piece and a lower piece, the lower piece having an upper base part with an opening lying coaxial to the piston axis into which a pin on the upper piece is inserted. The upper piece is connected to the lower piece with a hexagonal nut screwed onto the pin. A resilient sleeve is arranged between the upper piece and the lower piece comprising an inwardly directed collar on the against which the upper face of the hexagonal nut lies and in the region facing away from the piston crown, a contact surface facing the piston crown lying on a surface on the inner side of the opening. An economically produced two-piece piston results with a resilient sleeve between both screwed piston pieces which exerts a pre-tensioning and thus provides security for the screw connection.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling duct piston for an internal combustion engine comprising heat pipes. In order to improve dissipation of heat from the thermally loaded piston areas while preventing thermal tensions, liquid-filled heat pipes that are provided with an evaporator end and a condenser end are disposed in bores of the cooling duct which are oriented towards the bottom of the piston. The heat pipes are arranged such that the evaporator ends terminate at the end of the bores which faces the piston bottom while the condenser ends terminate in the closed cooling duct.

Abstract: With regard to a surface hardening method that a surface of an engine member is coated with an alloy layer having high abrasive resistance so as to improve life of the member and a production method of a piston or the like that abrasive resistance of the member is improved by the hardening method, a surface of a metal base material is coated uniformly with mixture including metal powder, a binder and solvent so as to form a coat, and the coat is dried and applied thereon with laser or electron beam so as to be sintered and dispersed for forming an alloy layer on a surface of the metal base material and for bonding the alloy layer to the metal base material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine comprising an annular cooling channel embodied in the edge area of the piston head and closed on a rod side with a cover consisting of two semicircular half-shells which are oriented with the internal sides thereof towards the piston and provided with a circular groove for arranging the half-shells on a projection embodied on the external side of the piston. The half-shells are provided on the abutting surfaces thereof with rest connections for easily connecting the half-shells to each other.

Abstract: A power assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a piston housed within a cylinder, with the cylinder having a welded cylinder head, with the cylinder also including a one-piece piston scraper which is welded to the cylinder head, as well as to the cylinder, with a common weld bead.

Abstract: An engine having a cylinder with a bore opposed pistons disposed for reciprocation in the bore includes compliant members that allow for angular adjustment of piston structure with respect to the cylinder in response to an imbalance in forces coupled to the pistons by connecting rods.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine according to the invention comprises at least one cylinder and at least one valve provided for a gas exchange and having a first end comprising a valve head, and a second end, characterized in that a valve bearing has a length of a guidance area arranged for the guidance of a valve stem of at most 25%, preferably between 10 and 20%, and particularly preferably of less than 10% of a valve length.

Abstract: A piston compressor includes a crankcase having an interior space. The compressor also includes a crankshaft, at least one connecting rod having a connecting rod head that interacts with the crankshaft. The at least one connecting rod and crankshaft are arranged in the crankcase and the crankcase and the at least one connecting rod are of a non-split configuration to permit assembly of the at least one connecting rod on the crankshaft by a threading into the interior space of the crankcase.

Abstract: A coolable piston for internal combustion engines is disclosed herein. The coolable piston includes a head portion with a crown and an annular wall. First and second shoulders are defined in annular wall adjacent to one another. A collar is formed on a distal end of the annular wall and flanged over to project radially inwardly from the distal end. An annular rib extends from the crown and within the annular wall to thereby define an annular cavity with the annular wall. The annular cavity extends along the longitudinal axis from a first end closed by the crown to a second end at the distal end of the annular wall. The coolable piston also includes first and second pin bosses disposed at a distal end of the annular rib. The coolable piston also includes an annular notch formed in the annular rib and substantially opposing the first shoulder. The coolable piston also includes a ring member closing the second end of the annular cavity.

Abstract: A reciprocating fluid machine (2) includes pistons (32) reciprocated in respective cylinder bores (40). Each piston includes, as a lateral surface (32a) thereof, a cylindrical section (64) disposed in sliding contact with the corresponding cylinder bore with a coating layer (66) therebetween, ring groove sections (68) fitted with respective piston rings (34), and tapered sections (70) each formed between the cylindrical section and the corresponding ring groove section and inclined from the cylindrical section toward the ring groove section so as to be gradually set apart from the cylinder bore. The coating layer is also formed on each tapered section in such a manner as to be gradually set apart from the cylinder bore.

Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine, has a lower piston part and an upper piston part disposed on the lower piston part. The upper piston part has a top land that runs around its circumference, and a ring belt that runs around its circumference. At least the upper piston part consists of a sintered material.

Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The piston body has two pin bores for receiving a piston pin. At least one rib is disposed on the second side and extends outwardly therefrom. The at least one rib is aligned laterally between the two pin bores in a direction along the piston pin axis. The at least one rib has a longitudinal axis extending generally perpendicular to both the reciprocation axis of the piston and the piston pin axis. A piston having a boss extending approximately within the piston pin radius of the piston pin axis, and a piston having a boss generally following the contour of the piston pin are also disclosed. An engine having the piston is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a steel piston for internal combustion engines, comprising at least one piston upper part (12) provided with a combustion cavity (11) and an annular wall (5), and a piston lower part (13) provided with a connecting rod bearing (8). The steel piston is cast as a single component from a reduced-density steel alloy or a special steel alloy in the same material by means of a low-pressure casting method.

Abstract: Wireless remote control system for engine piston with in-piston circuit (50) and an external processing unit mounted on the exterior of the crank case (51). A carrier signal generated in the external processing unit is fed to a primary coil (P) located within the crank case and the secondary coil (S), loosely coupled to coil (P) and tuned for resonance therewith is located in the skirt of the piston. The secondary coil picks up a carrier signal from the primary coil and the carrier signal is rectified, smoothed and regulated to provide DC power to a micro controller in the piston circuit. The micro controller may use data from a number of sensors to modulate the signal in the secondary coil, which modulation is picked up by the primary coil and thus sensor data is transmitted to the external processing unit where it is filtered and decoded.

Abstract: An engine comprising a cylinder including a piston and piston rod combination; a rotational hub; a crankshaft, connected at one end to the piston and piston rod combination and at a second end to the rotational hub; a gear train including an orbital gear, a stationary gear and a plurality of intermediary gears; and a crankshaft gear, located on an end of the crankshaft, the crankshaft gear meshing with the gear train so that movement of the crankshaft can drive a drive shaft.

Abstract: A double-layer lubrication coating composition is made up of an upper-layer coating composition and a lower-layer coating composition. The upper-layer coating composition is made up of 50 to 70 wt % of an epoxy resin or a polyamide-imide resin, 5 to 20 wt % of boron nitride, and 15 to 30 wt % of silicone nitride or alumina. The lower-layer coating composition is made up of 50 to 70 wt % of an epoxy resin or a polyamide-imide resin, 15 to 30 wt % of polytetrafluoroethylene and 5 to 20 wt % of molybdenum disulfide and may include graphite as required.

Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has a piston upper part which has a ring field having a plurality of ring grooves, and a piston lower part wherein there is provision for the ring field to have precisely two ring grooves with at least the upper ring grooves having a ring carrier.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a piston (10) for an internal combustion engine, having at least two hub bores (18) for holding a piston pin, wherein the hub bores (18) have at least one geometric deviation from a cylindrical inner contour. It is provided according to the invention that the hub bores (18) are formed from bores (21) with a cylindrical inner contour, that the bores (21) are provided with a coating (22) comprising a resin with solid lubricant particles embedded therein, and that the coating (22) forms the at least one geometric deviation from the cylindrical inner contour of the hub bores (18).