Patents Assigned to Federal-Mogul Corporation
  • Publication number: 20150226153
    Abstract: A cylinder head gasket including at least three functional layers and at least two stoppers is provided. The first functional layer includes a first full bead extending around a combustion chamber opening and axially aligned with a second full bead of the second functional layer. The first stopper extends along the first functional layer between the combustion chamber opening and the first full bead for preventing over-compression of the first full bead. The second stopper is located beneath the second full bead of the second functional layer for increasing load on the second full bead, reducing head lift, and promoting an even distribution of the load. The second stopper is not attached to the second functional layer along and adjacent the second full bead, and thus an air gap is present between the second stopper and the second full bead when the gasket is not compressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Federal Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler Haberer, Takashi Okano, Daniel J. Vialard
  • Publication number: 20150226152
    Abstract: A cylinder head gasket including a first functional layer, a second functional layer, a first stopper, and a second stopper is provided. The first functional layer includes a first full bead extending around a combustion chamber opening and axially aligned with a second full bead of the second functional layer. The first stopper extends along the first functional layer between the combustion chamber opening and the first full bead for preventing over-compression of the first full bead. The second stopper extends along the second full bead of the second functional layer for increasing load on the second full bead, reducing head lift, and promoting an even distribution of the load. The second stopper includes a third full bead matching the second full bead of said second functional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: FEDERAL MOGUL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tyler Haberer, Takashi Okano, Daniel J. Vialard
  • Patent number: 9103441
    Abstract: A piston assembly including a piston body pivotally connected to a connecting rod by a wrist pin. The wrist pin includes a sealed cavity therein partially filled with a heat transfer medium. The heat transfer medium may be composed of a fusible alloy. The sealed cavity may be comprised of discrete compartments. The wrist pin may be integrated with the connecting rod and share a conjoined sealed cavity therewith so that heat transfer medium can draw heat effectively away from the piston body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Miguel Azevedo, William Zdeblick, Kai Wang
  • Patent number: 9091345
    Abstract: A piston ring formed of cast iron provides improved machinability and exceptional performance and minimum costs. The cast iron includes 2.2 to 2.9 wt. % carbon, 3.2 to 4.2 wt. % silicon, 0.75 to 1.25 wt. % copper, 1.0 to 1.5 wt. % manganese, 0.09 to 0.15 wt. % sulfur, not greater than 0.2 wt. % phosphorous, and an average carbon equivalent of 3.8. The cast iron preferably includes a matrix of martensite with MnS and carbides dispersed therein. The matrix is also preferably free of ferrite, austenite, and steadite. The cast iron is formed by casting, autenitizing, quenching, and tempering the alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventor: Heron Gekonde
  • Patent number: 9086150
    Abstract: An elastomeric seal (20), such as a shaft seal for automotive vehicle applications, includes an elastomeric compound (22) chemically coupled to a metal sealing ring (24) and is formed without an oven post curing step. The elastomeric seal (20) provides exceptional physical properties, similar to those of elastomeric seals of the prior art formed with an oven post curing step. The elastomeric seal (20) has an elastic modulus of 6.0 MPa to 13.0 MPa and a tensile strength of 11.1 MPa to 14.8 MPa. The elastomeric compound (22) includes 52.0 to 68.0 wt. % fluoroelastomer, 20.0 to 35.0 wt. % calcium silicate, and 5.0 to 15.0 wt. % diatomite. The elastomeric compound (22) is fully cured and chemically coupled to the metal sealing ring (24) during the compression or injection molding step, and thus an oven post curing step is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Junfeng Bian, Roger Holliday, Bhawani Tripathy
  • Patent number: 9068531
    Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine and method of construction thereof is provided. The piston includes a piston body having an upper combustion surface with a combustion bowl depending from the upper combustion surface. The piston body has a ring belt region configured for receipt of at least one piston ring adjacent the upper combustion surface. A cooling gallery is configured in radial alignment with the ring belt region. An annular combustion bowl rim region extends between the upper combustion surface and the combustion bowl, and a bonded seam extends from the combustion bowl rim region radially outwardly to the cooling gallery. The bonded seam has material properties exhibiting an enhanced ability to withstand the extreme temperature, pressure, stress and highly corrosive and erosive effects of the combustion gases relative to the surrounding material of the piston body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Florin Muscas, Michael Weinenger
  • Patent number: 9062774
    Abstract: A radial shaft seal configured for receipt in a housing and about a shaft to sealingly isolate an air-side of the shaft seal from an oil-side of the shaft seal is provided. The seal includes an annular mounting portion; an elastomeric seal body connected to the mounting portion, and a seal lip connected to the seal body. The seal lip has an annular inner sealing surface extending axially between an oil-side end and a free air-side end. The inner sealing surface has a first groove region and a circumferentially continuous annular static band. The first groove region is spaced axially from the static band and extends between the static band and the oil-side end to pump lubrication toward the oil-side of the seal. The static band prevents the lubrication from leaking from the oil-side to the air-side of the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Brent R. Sedlar, David M. Toth
  • Patent number: 9062773
    Abstract: A radial shaft seal configured for receipt in a housing and about a shaft to sealingly isolate an air side of the seal from an oil side of the seal is provided. The seal includes a mounting portion and a seal lip having a sealing surface extending between an oil side end and a free air side end. An annular bridge is connected to the oil side end of the seal lip by a first hinge and to the mounting portion by a second hinge. The bridge extends in radially overlying relation to the seal lip. A projection extends from the first hinge away from the bridge. A plurality of ribs extend radially inwardly from the projection. The ribs minimize friction between the seal and the shaft during installation and prevent the seal lip from inverting during the oil-side installation assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Brent R. Sedlar, David M. Toth
  • Patent number: 9062768
    Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine and method of construction thereof are provided. The piston includes a piston body having an upper combustion surface and an annular cooling gallery surrounding an undercrown region. An outer wall depends from the upper combustion surface. An annular ring belt region is formed in the outer wall adjacent the upper combustion surface. The ring belt region has at least one ring groove formed therein. At least one oil passage extends from the at least one ring groove to the cooling gallery. The oil passage has a first portion depending radially inwardly from the ring groove and a second portion ascending radially inwardly from the first portion to the cooling gallery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Miguel Azevedo, Keith Hampton
  • Patent number: 9046053
    Abstract: A piston with a piston body extending along a longitudinal central axis and having a crown portion and a pair of pin bosses is provided. The crown portion includes a combustion wall with a combustion bowl formed therein and a pair of ribs depending from the combustion wall. One of the ribs depends from the combustion wall directly below the combustion bowl, and the other rib is radially spaced from the combustion bowl. As such, one of the ribs depends lower along the longitudinal central axis than the other of the ribs. The ribs provide support to the crown portion and also act as a heat sink to extract heat from the combustion wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Kurt Will, Marc Brandt, Mike Tebbe
  • Patent number: 9027935
    Abstract: A multi-layer gasket including first and second functional layers, each having an opening. Each of the functional layers includes a compression bead, and the compression beads contact and seal against one another when the gasket is compressed between a cylinder head and an engine block. At least one of the functional layers includes a stopper disposed between the compression bead and the opening. The stopper has a gear-like shape including a plurality of circumferentially spaced teeth. Each tooth extends upwardly from a plane by a distance which is less than the combined height of the compression beads. When the gasket is compressed between the cylinder head and engine block, the stopper ensures that the compression beads remain elastically biased against one another and maintain a gas-tight seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Marcin Fracz, Jim Zwick, Edward Lesnau, IV
  • Patent number: 9004037
    Abstract: A piston assembly includes a piston having a crown with an upper combustion surface with a cylindrical outer surface extending downwardly from the upper combustion surface. A pair of pin bosses depends from the crown to a pair of pin bores having generally cylindrical bearing surfaces aligned along a pin bore axis with a top wall portion extending between the pin bosses. The top wall portion has a concave bearing surface forming a continuous concave bearing surface with the pin bores. A separate skirt is fixed to the piston against relative movement. At least one rib extends upwardly from the top wall portion of the piston on opposite sides of the pin bore axis to a lower wall surface of the crown. The at least one rib joins the crown to the top wall portion to provide structural support to the top wall portion against unwanted deflection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventor: Floin Muscas
  • Patent number: 8997304
    Abstract: A windscreen wiper device for cleaning a windshield of a vehicle is provided. The windscreen wiper device includes a longitudinally extending wiper strip and at least one carrier element in engagement with the wiper strip for operatively supporting and biasing the wiper strip into a predetermined configuration. A base is non-removably coupled to the at least one carrier element and has an opening that extends therethrough to provide access to the at least one carrier element through the base. A connection device is removably secured directly to the at least one carrier element through the opening of the base for attachment with a wiper arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Oslizlo, Dennis E. Cox
  • Patent number: 8991829
    Abstract: A non-contact labyrinth seal assembly, bearing assembly therewith, and method of construction thereof, has an outer rigid carrier and an inner sleeve. The carrier has an outer cylindrical flange and a radially inwardly extending leg and the sleeve has a cylindrical wall and a radially outwardly extending flange. A body is attached to at least one of the leg and the flange, wherein the body provides, at least in part, a purely non-contact labyrinth passage extending between the carrier and the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: The Timken Company, Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Scott B. Lattime, Kevin M. Dillon, Alicia Black, Richard Borowski, Roger Trentman, Stephen E. Brister, Carl F. Meadows, Brian M. Hupp, David G. Toth
  • Patent number: 8984750
    Abstract: A static gasket configured for establishing a seal between a cylinder head and an engine block including at least one layer having an opening and at least one compression bead. The compression bead extends circumferentially about the opening and projects out of a plane for deforming elastically when the gasket is compressed between the cylinder head and the engine block. A compression limiter which is formed from a metal wire is disposed radially between the opening and the compression bead for preventing the compression bead from being fully flattened, even if the cylinder head is overloaded onto the engine block. The compression bead is preferably induction and/or resistance welded to at least one of the layer(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Swasey
  • Publication number: 20150069718
    Abstract: A metal gasket for establishing a seal between a first member and a second member is provided. The metal gasket includes at least one functional layer with an inner periphery which surrounds an opening. The functional layer also has a generally flat portion and an embossment bead with the embossment bead being spaced from the inner periphery and surrounding the opening. The embossment bead extends in a first direction away from the generally flat portion, has an indentation which extends in a second direction opposite of the first direction and has a bead height of greater than 0.15 mm and no greater than 0.30 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler Haberer, Michael J. Davidson
  • Patent number: 8960682
    Abstract: A cylinder head gasket with a single layer carrier member, a sealing ring for sealing around the cylinder opening, and at least one protection layer. The sealing ring has a plurality of functional layers. A protection layer is positioned on at least one side of the sealing ring, and preferably on both sides. The sealing ring and protection layers are fixedly secured to the carrier member by welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventor: Sun Chengjie
  • Patent number: 8962147
    Abstract: A powder metal component is made of compacted and sintered powder metal particles such as chromium-containing ferrous-based metal and is porous. Following sintering, the pores are impregnated with relatively smaller particles of ceria and/or yttria. The component is then heat treated and the presence of the impregnated ceria and/or yttria serve as nucleation sites for the formation of desirable oxides, such as chromium oxide, on the surface. The impregnated particles that lie below the protective oxide layer remain available throughout the life of the component in the event the original oxide layer becomes worn or damaged, wherein a renewed protective oxide is formed in such regions due to the presence of the impregnated particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Denis Christopherson, Jr., Jeremy Koth
  • Patent number: 8955487
    Abstract: A piston, piston ring and method of construction thereof is provided. The piston ring is L-shaped, having a first portion configured to extend upwardly from a ring groove of a piston along a top land of the piston and a second portion configured for receipt in the ring groove. The first and second portions of the ring have an enclosed hollow cooling chamber with a cooling medium disposed therein such that the cooling medium is free to flow internally to the piston ring groove and upwardly from the piston ring groove along the top land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventors: Keith Hampton, Miguel Azevedo
  • Patent number: 8955849
    Abstract: A radial shaft seal and assembly are provided. The seal has an annular mounting portion and a seal body bonded thereto. The seal body extends to a seal lip extending between an oil-side end and a free air-side end. An annular bridge extends between the seal lip and a central portion of the seal body in radially overlying relation to the seal lip. A primary dust lip extends from the air-side end and has an annular rib configured for sealed abutment with a running surface of a shaft. The annular rib has at least one vent. An auxiliary dust lip extends from the central portion of the seal body to a free end configured for sealed abutment with the shaft. The free end of the auxiliary dust lip has at least one vent spaced circumferentially from the at least one vent in the annular rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventor: Brent R. Sedlar