Patents Assigned to KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
  • Patent number: 11668263
    Abstract: Piston (1) of an internal combustion engine, which piston is designed in structured construction, comprising two oppositely arranged load-bearing skirt wall portions (2), wherein a connecting wall (3) respectively extends, starting from a pin boss (4), in the direction of the side edge of the load-bearing skirt wall portions (2), characterized in that in an interior of the piston (1) is (are) disposed at least one rib (5, 6, 7), preferably three ribs (5, 6, 7), and the material of the regions around the at least one rib (5, 6, 7) is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Müller, Gerhard Luz, Andreas Berninger, Emmerich Ottliczky, Matthias Fahr
  • Patent number: 11566581
    Abstract: A steel piston (1) for a combustion engine, having an upper part in which a ring section (7) with at least one ring groove (8) is arranged, wherein the upper part is adjoined by a lower part that has two opposing skirt wall sections (2), wherein the two skirt wall sections (2) are connected via two mutually opposite case walls (3), wherein a pin bore (4) surrounded by a piston boss (6) is provided in each case wall (3). In one example, there is at least one aperture (14) or at least one recess in the case wall (3) in the region between the piston boss (6) and the skirt wall section (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Emmerich Ottliczky, Gerhard Luz, Eberhard Weiss, Ingo Roth
  • Patent number: 11492996
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine formed from a lower part and an upper part which are threadingly connected to one another to form a piston. In one example, an anti-rotation safeguard device is used to prevent unwanted rotation of the upper part relative to the lower part. In another example, a forged extension and a nut are used to obtain a prestress during operation of the piston. In another example, a cooling gallery including extension bores are used to increase the cooling capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Laqua, Alexander Schäfer, Wolfgang Köhler, Dieter Krämer
  • Patent number: 11162453
    Abstract: A piston for use in an internal combustion engine having a two-piece construction including an upper and a lower part. The upper and the lower parts include one or more overlapping cutouts to reduce the weight of the piston. One or more of the cutouts or connecting walls include wall regions that transition to adjacent walls without sharp or abrupt areas. The piston upper and lower parts are permanently joined together. One or more tongue and groove structures are used to provide a locking connection between the piston upper and lower parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Lormes, Willi Sikorsky
  • Patent number: 11098800
    Abstract: A piston, in particular, a gallery-cooled piston for an internal combustion engine has a piston bottom part and a piston upper part which are connected in a joining process to produce the piston. The piston upper part has at least one ring zone and an inner wall. The piston bottom part has a radially circumferential oblique surface at the end which faces the piston upper part. The oblique surface, interacting with the inner wall of the piston upper part, brings about a centering action during the joining process of the piston parts. A joining method for manufacturing a piston is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Eberhard Weiss, Emmerich Ottliczky
  • Patent number: 11053885
    Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a piston upper part and a piston lower part having a cooling channel including at least one inlet opening. A dam-type elevation is formed in the region of the at least one inlet opening through forging of the dam elevation in the cooling channel portion in the piston lower part. In one example, a funnel-shaped inlet contour is formed in the inlet opening by pre-forging. In one example, a V-shaped element is formed in the piston upper part cooling chamber portion in alignment with the inlet opening and used as a coolant jet splitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Luz, Ingo Roth, Eberhard Weiss
  • Patent number: 10871125
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Laqua
  • Patent number: 10823109
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Lormes
  • Patent number: 10787990
    Abstract: Disclosed is an internal combustion engine piston wherein at least one space is formed into which a coolant is installed. In one example, the coolant is first introduced into a coolant container and the coolant container is thereafter inserted into the at least one space in the piston. In one example, the coolant is an alkali metal consisting of sodium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Stier
  • Patent number: 10569325
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for producing an internal combustion engine piston having at least one cavity which is filled with an alkali metal cooling medium and is subsequently closed. The at least one cavity longitudinally extends from a central point into the piston body toward the piston circumference. The invention further discloses a piston produced according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventor: Eberhard Weiss
  • Patent number: 10539094
    Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a lower portion and an upper portion. An upper joining plane is positioned between the upper and lower extending through the outer circumference of the piston. At least one lower joining plane is positioned between the upper and lower portions. A solder gap is defined in the upper and lower joining planes wherein a solder containing iron is inserted to fixedly join the upper and lower portions together. Methods for producing pistons through connection of the lower portion to the upper portion with solder are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Kühnel, Holger Germann, Edward Werninghaus
  • Patent number: 10465628
    Abstract: A composite material selectively applied to at least surface areas of a piston of an internal combustion engine. The composite material contains at least high temperature polymers and/or liquid crystalline polymers (LCP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventor: Jan Förster
  • Patent number: 10359000
    Abstract: A cylinder of an internal combustion engine, in which cylinder liner an oscillating piston is guided on a running surface wherein the cylinder line is fixed vertically by means of a collar between a cylinder housing and a cylinder head. The wet cylinder includes an outer side which deviates from a circular shape and/or a rotationally asymmetrical outer contour of the collar. The cylinder liner is fitted in a positionally oriented manner in a corresponding receptable of the cylinder housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventor: Volker Gniesmer
  • Patent number: 10337450
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling-channel piston for an internal combustion engine, having an upper part and a lower part, wherein the upper part and the lower part are connected to one another by way of a cohesive joint in the form of a weld seam, and the upper part and the lower part form an annularly encircling cooling channel which is arranged approximately behind a ring section, wherein a gap geometry is provided between a lower edge of the ring section and an upper edge of the lower part, wherein the gap geometry has at least one sliding surface which is arranged on a lower edge of the ring section of the cooling-channel piston and/or on the corresponding upper edge of the lower part of the cooling-channel piston, and to several methods for the operation of a cooling-channel piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Laqua, Volker Lehnert
  • Patent number: 10221807
    Abstract: The arrangement relates to a method for producing a cooling duct piston for an internal combustion engine, having the steps of producing a top piston part by introducing a combustion bowl, a cooling space of a part of a cooling duct and overflow ducts, producing a bottom piston part by introducing a part of a cooling duct, and joining the piston parts, wherein at least one transfer duct is created by bores. A cooling duct piston produced by the method is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Albert Janssen, Wolfgang Köhler, Gerhard Luz, Franz Ratzky
  • Patent number: 10197161
    Abstract: A method for producing a piston for internal combustion engines, where the piston includes a circumferential trapezoid annular groove for receiving trapezoid rings with small axial dimensions the groove having a groove base with adjoining surfaces and groove flanks. The groove base with adjoining surfaces is created in a first method step by machining using a cutting steel tool and the groove flanks are created in a further method step. Also disclosed are a piston produced according to the method and a cutting steel tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Friede, Denis Beller
  • Publication number: 20190024606
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine having an upper part integrally joined to a lower part having a shaft and at least one pin bore. The upper part including a combustion chamber bowl recess and a piston crown with a crown edge. At least one joint is arranged in the region of a ring zone and in an outer wall of the combustion bowl recess, and the ratio of piston compression height (h1) and the diameter of the piston (d1) is less than 0.53.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicants: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH, KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Eberhard Weiss, Gerhard Luz, Jochen Müller, Emmerich Ottliczky
  • Publication number: 20180355818
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine formed from a lower part and an upper part which are threadingly connected to one another to form a piston. In one example, an anti-rotation safeguard device is used to prevent unwanted rotation of the upper part relative to the lower part. In another example, a forged extension and a nut are used to obtain a prestress during operation of the piston. In another example, a cooling gallery including extension bores are used to increase the cooling capacity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Laqua, Alexander Schäfer, Wolfgang Köhler, Dieter Krämer
  • Publication number: 20180328311
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston of an internal combustion engine including at least one peripheral annular groove. The piston includes an upper part and a lower part permanently joined in the region of a joining plane by a friction welding method. The joining plane may be located between the upper flank and the lower flank of the annular groove. A heat-affected zone is generated due to the use of the friction welding and includes at least one of the upper flank or the lower flank of the annular groove. Where multiple annual grooves are used, the joining plane and heat-affected zone may be positioned on alternate annular grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicants: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH, KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Voigt, Johannes Spermann
  • Patent number: 10047694
    Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has a sliding shoe carried in a force accumulator. The sliding shoe has a channel to transfer cooling oil into a hollow space. The force accumulator is located is a channel formed by the piston, and the sliding shoe is guided partially inside the force accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: KS KOLBENSCHMIDT GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Laqua, Markus Pinz