Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Damian Percari
  • Masking for engine blocks for thermally sprayed coatings and method of masking same
    Patent number: 6589605
    Abstract: A masking for an engine block to be thermally sprayed with a coating includes a head deck mask portion adapted to engage a head deck of an engine block to prevent over-spray of a thermally sprayed coating on the head deck. The masking also includes a crankcase mask portion adapted to be disposed in a crankcase chamber of the engine block and engage a lower end of a cylinder bore cavity of the engine block to prevent over-spay of the thermally sprayed coating into the crankcase chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Barry Edwin Shepley, Keith Raymond Bartle, Oludele Olusegun Popoola, Patrick John Hilton, Robert Edward Dejack