Abstract: Exemplary pistons and methods are disclosed. A piston may include a piston body defining a piston axis, the body including radially inner and outer body mating surfaces, and an annular ring cooperating with the piston body to form a continuous upper combustion bowl surface having a radially inner portion defined by the piston body and a radially outer portion defined by the annular ring. The annular ring includes a radially inner ring mating surface and a radially outer ring mating surface, wherein at least one of the annular ring mating surfaces is joined with the corresponding piston body mating surface. The annular ring and piston body cooperate to define an annular gap therebetween configured to thermally insulate the piston body from the annular ring.

Abstract: The present invention provides a laser processing method comprising the steps of attaching a protective tape 25 to a front face 3 of a wafer 1a, irradiating a substrate 15 with laser light L while employing a rear face of the wafer 1a as a laser light entrance surface and locating a light-converging point P within the substrate 15 so as to form a molten processed region 13 due to multiphoton absorption, causing the molten processed region 13 to form a cutting start region 8 inside by a predetermined distance from the laser light entrance surface along a line 5 along which the object is intended to be cut in the wafer 1a, attaching an expandable tape 23 to the rear face 21 of the wafer 1a, and expanding the expandable tape 23 so as to separate a plurality of chip parts 24 produced upon cutting the wafer 1a from the cutting start region 8 acting as a start point from each other.

Abstract: A method for the production of a piston made of steel, for an internal combustion engine, in which the upper piston part is produced using the forging method, and the lower piston part is produced using the forging or casting method, and they are subsequently welded to one another. To simplify the production method and make it cheaper, the upper piston part is forged using the method of hot forming and of cold calibration, to finish it to such an extent that further processing of the combustion bowl and of the upper cooling channel regions can be eliminated.

Abstract: A monobloc piston body for an internal combustion engine is provided. The piston body includes a first piece which includes a pair of skirt portions and a pair of pin bosses and a second piece which includes a crown portion with an upper combustion surface and an at least partially enclosed oil gallery. The first and second pieces are joined together at a joint that is located on a side of the oil gallery opposite of the upper combustion surface. The firs piece is made through casting or forging, and the second piece is made through an additive manufacturing process, such as direct metal laser sintering.

Abstract: A method for producing piston for an internal combustion engine which has a piston head that has a circumferential cooling channel as well as a combustion bowl having a circumferential bowl wall that makes a transition into a piston crown by way of a bowl edge region. The combustion bowl is formed at least in part by a piston base body and the bowl wall is formed at least in part from an insert. The insert is connected with the piston base body by means of beam welding. A lower weld. seam is configured in the bowl wall, which seam encloses an acute angle with the piston center axis (M) and ends in the lower half of the cooling channel. An upper weld seam runs from the cooling channel ceiling to the piston crown and is disposed centered or radially offset toward the outside, with reference to the clear width of the cooling channel.

Abstract: A method for producing a piston for an internal combustion engine, composed of first and second piston components, has the following steps: (a) providing a blank of the first piston component composed of a tempered or precipitation-hardened steel, having at least one joining surface, (b) providing a blank of the second piston component composed of a tempered or precipitation-hardened steel, having at least one joining surface, (c) tempering or precipitation-hardening the blanks, (d) friction-welding the joining surfaces of the blanks to produce a piston blank, with the formation of at least one friction-welding seam and a heat influence zone in the region of the at least one friction-welding seam, (e) annealing or low-stress annealing of the piston blank, thereby obtaining the heat influence zone(s), (f) re-machining and/or finishing the piston blank to produce a piston. A piston so produced is also provided.

Abstract: A method for the production of a piston for an internal combustion engine, composed of at least two components, each of which has at least one corresponding joining surface, has the following steps: a) pre-working the at least two components, at least in the region of the joining surfaces; b) coating at least a part of the surface of at least one component with a covering medium containing at least one phyllosilicate; c) assembling the at least two components; d) connecting the at least two components along their corresponding joining surfaces, by means of beam welding, to produce a piston blank; e) removing the covering medium and any excess weld material adhering to it; and f) machining the piston blank to produce a finished piston.

Abstract: A method for the production of a piston for an internal combustion engine, composed of at least two components, each of which has at least one corresponding joining surface, has the following method steps: a) pre-working the at least two components, at least in the region of the joining surfaces; b) covering at least a part of the surface of at least one component with at least one covering medium; c) assembling the at least two components; d) connecting the at least two components along their corresponding joining surfaces, by means of beam welding, to produce a piston blank; e) removing the at least one covering medium and any excess weld material adhering to it; and f) machining the piston blank to produce a finished piston.

Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has a piston head that has a circumferential cooling channel as well as a combustion bowl having a circumferential bowl wall that makes a transition into a piston crown by way of a bowl edge region. The combustion bowl is formed at least in part by a piston base body and the bowl wall is formed at least in part from an insert. The insert is connected with the piston base body by means of beam welding. A lower weld seam is configured in the bowl wall, which seam encloses an acute angle with the piston center axis (M) and ends in the lower half of the cooling channel. An upper weld seam runs from the cooling channel ceiling to the piston crown and is disposed centered or radially offset toward the outside, with reference to the clear width of the cooling channel.

Abstract: A method for the production of a piston for an internal combustion engine, composed of at least two components, each of which has at least one corresponding joining surface, has the following steps: a) pre-working the at least two components, at least in the region of the joining surfaces; b) coating at least a part of the surface of at least one component with a covering medium containing at least one phyllosilicate; c) assembling the at least two components; d) connecting the at least two components along their corresponding joining surfaces, by means of beam welding, to produce a piston blank; e) removing the covering medium and any excess weld material adhering to it; and f) machining the piston blank to produce a finished piston.

Abstract: An axial piston intended for an axial piston machine and comprised of at least two components forming a driving part and a compressing part. To enable manufacture of the axial piston in an easy and inexpensive way while simultaneously reducing the weight, the components are manufactured by a solid forming process and joined together by a capacitor discharge welding process.

Abstract: Exemplary piston assemblies and methods of making the same are disclosed. An exemplary piston assembly may include a piston crown and a piston skirt that is received in a central opening of the crown. The piston crown may include a ring belt portion defining, at least in part, a cooling gallery. The crown and skirt may each further include corresponding mating surfaces that extend about a periphery of the crown and skirt. The skirt mating surface and crown mating surface may generally be secured to each other that the crown and the skirt cooperate to form a continuous upper combustion bowl surface. The skirt and crown may cooperate to define a radially outer gap about a periphery of the piston crown.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an internal combustion engine piston which is provided with at least one cooling channel (12) and at least one reinforced piston ring groove (14) consisting in producing a piston blank (1), in forming a groove (10) provided with a cooling channel (12) and an external ring (11) in said piston blank (1), in filling the cooling channel (12) with are movable material (2), in filling the external ring with a reinforcing material (3) in removing the removable material (2) and in finish-machining the piston. A piston made of aluminum alloy and produced according to the inventive method is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a piston for a combustion engine comprising a combustion recess, during which an annular fiber preform for reinforcing the edge of the combustion recess is firstly fastened inside the casting mold. Afterwards, a low-silicon aluminum/copper melt is introduced into the casting mold by which the fiber preform is infiltrated and molded into the recess edge within the scope of the casting process. The piston blank produced in this manner is then subsequently compacted by a high-temperature isostatic pressing before the piston is completed by means of a machining completion process. The flanks and the base areas of the second and third annular groove are coated by means of anodic oxidation, and the hub boreholes are smoothed and hardened by roller-burnishing. This results in a very high-quality and heavy-duty piston.

Abstract: An exemplary piston assembly and method of making the same are disclosed. A piston assembly may include a piston crown and piston skirt. The crown may include a ring belt portion defining at least in part a cooling gallery, as well as radially inner and outer crown mating surfaces. The skirt may be received in a central opening of the crown such that the crown and skirt cooperate to form an upper combustion bowl surface. The skirt also may include radially inner and outer skirt mating surfaces that are abutted with the inner and outer crown mating surfaces, respectively, such that the cooling gallery is generally enclosed by the skirt.

Abstract: A device for machining and assembling a piston, comprising, a piston upper part; and a piston lower part; an upper work spindle and a lower work spindle, wherein the upper and lower work spindles are arranged coaxially to one another and are at least one of -actuated independently of one another and actuated together, such that one work spindle supports the piston upper part and the other work spindle supports the piston lower part; and a first and second tool carriage, wherein the tool carriages are actuated independently of one another, such that one tool carriage supports a tool for machining the piston upper part and the other tool carriage supports a tool for machining the piston lower part, wherein the device is configured such that both of the piston upper and lower parts are machined independently of one another, aligned with regard to one another, and joined to one another such that the piston parts remain clamped to the tool carriages in the interim.

Abstract: Disclosed is an internal combustion engine component (1) which is made of an aluminum alloy and comprises at least one area (2) that is subjected to a great thermal load during operation of the internal combustion engine. Said area (2) that is subjected to a great thermal load is small compared to the entire component (1) and is provided with an alloy composition which is modified in relation to the entire component (1) in such a way that the area (2) that is subjected to a great thermal load has a greater breaking elongation than the entire component (1).

Abstract: A piston having a head includes a circumferential compression ring groove having a top surface, a bottom surface and an inset rear wall extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, wherein a confined area of the compression ring groove is hardened.

Abstract: A method of producing a coolable annular support for internally cooled piston rings and comprising an annular body, a cooling channel plate and respective tubular bodies or plate-shaped bodies disposed on or in openings of the plate. End portions of legs of the cooling channel plate with edge portions of the annular body via laser beams of at least one laser in a continuous wave operation, accompanied by an inert gas and metal powder as an additive, such that guiding the laser beams at least predominately onto the annular body a first weld seam is produced by partial melting or fusing of the annular body, partial melting or fusing of the cooling channel plate, and melting or fusing of applied metal powder. The path of movement of the annular support or laser beams is greater than 360°. A wall of a respective tubular body or plate-shaped body is interconnected with a rim portion of one of the openings via at least one second weld seam.

Abstract: A method for the production of pistons having depression edge armoring for internal combustion engines, in which a more heat-resistant armoring ring, in comparison with a forged piston blank having a combustion depression, is connected with the piston blank in the region of the depression edge. The method comprises the following steps: a first piston blank is set on a projection of the armoring ring in the region of the depression edge; the armoring ring is connected with the first piston blank by friction-welding; a second piston blank is set onto the projection of the armoring ring, in such a manner that the two piston blanks do not touch; the second piston blank is connected with the armoring ring by means of friction-welding; a the armoring ring is cut between the piston blanks, and the pistons are given their final shape by a cutting work method.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a piston for a compressor and a piston manufacturing machine, with which a hollow piston that can remain light while in operation after being built into a compressor can be produced, are provided. A piston assembly 51 comprising a body part and cup parts is accommodated in a housing recess 50 of a cassette jig 48 and are conveyed. When the cassette jig 48 is positioned just under a welding chamber 45, the housing recess 50 communicates with the welding chamber 45 and is isolated from the outside air by a sealing material 53. The pressure in the welding chamber 45 is reduced to nearly a vacuum by an exhaust pump 46, and electron beam welding is applied to the coupling portion 67 of the piston assembly 51 in a near vacuum atmosphere. After the electron beam welding, a hollow space 68 in the piston assembly is sealed hermetically and contains a near vacuum atmosphere.

Abstract: A method for reducing the incidence of piston pin failure by providing a retainer assembly for piston pin plugs such that the plugs cannot be removed or shaken lose during operation. A plastic rod is inserted into the piston pin, and the rod is ultrasonically welded to the stems of mushroom-shaped plastic piston plugs such that the plugs cover the open ends of the pin and are held in place by the cooperation of structure between the plugs and the rod. In an alternate embodiment, the stem of each pin plug is hollow and a respective internally threaded brass insert is disposed in the stem and ultrasonically welded therein. An externally threaded rod is then engaged with the two internally threaded inserts to hold the plugs on the piston pin.

Abstract: An anode lead 17 extending from a capacitor body 18 of a capacitor element 14 is mounted on a connecting portion 21 of an anode terminal 12 and the anode lead 17 and the connecting portion 21 are welded together by laser light B. The welding operation is performed by laser light B in a state where the anode lead 17 is urged to the connecting portion 21 in a region between said anode lead and said connecting portion. Alternatively, the welding operation is performed by laser light B in a state where a reflection plate having a slot and functioning to reflect reflected laser light is arranged in a region between the connecting portion and the capacitor body while the anode lead is received in said slot.

Abstract: Variable displacement pistons are produced wherein hollow piston bodies are integrally formed with associated actuator arms to ensure proper alignment of the bodies and rods. The process utilizes a two-axis press to first form a pair of actuator arms by working a blank of metallic material along a first axis between opposing members of a die assembly. With the die assembly still closed after formation of the actuator arms, a pair of hollow piston bodies are formed by extruding the remainder of the blank of metallic material along a second axis. The hollow piston bodies are axially aligned and integrally formed with respective ones of the actuator arms. A piston head is welded to the end of each hollow piston body which is then machined. By separating the actuator arms from one another, a pair of variable displacement compressor pistons having hollow piston bodies axially aligned and integrally formed with respective actuator arms are thus formed.