Particular Piston And Enclosing Cylinder Construction Patents (Class 123/193.1)
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Patent number: 11486293Abstract: An exhaust structure of an internal combustion engine having an exhaust passage communicating between an exhaust port and an exhaust pipe. The exhaust structure includes a heat insulating component covering an inner wall of the exhaust port, the heat insulating component includes a first abutting portion disposed at a first side of the heat insulating component at a combustion chamber side and abutting an inner wall of the exhaust port, a second abutting portion disposed at a second side of the heat insulating component at an exhaust pipe side and abutting the inner wall, and a middle section disposed between the first side and the second side. A gap is formed between the middle section and the inner wall, and a bent portion connecting the middle section and the first abutting portion is bending toward the inner wall of the exhaust port from the middle section.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ratchawat Samdaeng, Thachakorn Weerapanyakulthavee, Sahachai Lerdpakavanich
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Patent number: 11286850Abstract: A combustion chamber structure for an engine includes a combustion chamber that is defined by a cylinder block, a cylinder head, and a piston. The cylinder head includes: a head body that has a lower surface opposing the combustion chamber; and a coat layer that covers the lower surface. The coat layer includes: a heat-insulating layer that is arranged in a region, which opposes a cavity, in the lower surface and has a lower thermal conductivity than the head body; a heat-shielding layer that is arranged to cover the lower surface and has a lower thermal conductivity than the head body and the heat-insulating layer; and a heat diffusion layer that is arranged between the heat-insulating layer and the heat-shielding layer and has a higher thermal conductivity. The heat diffusion layer includes a side end edge and an extending portion, each of which abuts the head body.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yoshihisa Nou, Osamu Aoki, Yuji Harada, Kenji Uchida, Xiyao Ge
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Patent number: 11045869Abstract: Methods, assemblies and apparatuses are for forming a cooling jacket in a cast part of a marine engine, for example in a cylinder head for the marine engine. A cooling jacket core has a longitudinally elongated first portion that forms a first flow path for conveying cooling fluid through the cast part in a first direction and a longitudinally elongated second portion that forms an opposite, second flow path for conveying cooling fluid through the cast part in an opposite, second direction. At least one bridge integrally supports the first and second portions with respect to each other during casting. At least one plug is configured to fit in the cast part where the bridge was located so as to separate the first and second flow paths from each other while sealing the first and second flow paths from an opposite side of the cast part.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: Brunswick CorporationInventor: Mark A. Kollock
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Patent number: 10890135Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] A space from a skirt to a side wall is uniformly deformed in a wide range without a bias. [Solution] A piston 1 has two pin bosses 3 disposed so as to face each other at an interval, a side wall 4 disposed on both sides of the pin boss 3, and a skirt 5 provided continuously to the side wall 4, and a pin hole 3a into which a piston pin 1a can be inserted is formed in the pin boss 3. Inner walls 10 of the side wall 4 and the skirt 5 are continuous with each other and disposed by facing on both sides of a pin boss axis C1 with the pin boss axis C1 between them. A horizontal section of the inner wall 10 is formed along a specific oval shape E.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Naoyuki Suda
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Patent number: 10781805Abstract: A cylinder coupling structure of a small air compressor according to the present invention, in which a cylinder is integrally coupled to a block by which a crankshaft is shaft-supported, wherein the block is provided with a supporting end by which the cylinder is pressed to be supported; a latching end is formed on the outer surface of the cylinder; and a press bolt is fastened to the block and a valve cover so that the valve cover presses the front end of the cylinder while the latching end of the cylinder is latched and supported on the supporting end.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: NEW MOTECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Jong Hyuk Kim
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Patent number: 10711896Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine may include a piston skirt extending in a piston longitudinal direction and defined in the piston longitudinal direction by a piston head. The piston skirt may include a boxed interior space defined by two box walls and two substantially opposing skirt walls. A boss having a through-opening may be arranged on each of the two box walls, the two through-openings being oriented so that they align with one another. The two box walls may each include a boss portion oriented perpendicularly to the boss, and at least one intermediate portion extending between the respective boss portion and one of the skirt walls. The intermediate portion may merge via a bend into the associated boss portion. A radial extent of the boss portion may be greater than a diameter of the through-opening and at least 50% of a diameter of the piston.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Ralf Braig, Dieter Emmrich, Eric Erbs, Rainer Fischer, Thomas Hettich, Artem Walter, Markus A. Hirsch
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Patent number: 10598016Abstract: A shaft joint has an inverse conical stopper. The joint is a combination of interconnected shafts, with one shaft being inserted into the other. The interface between the two shafts can be of any type: press-fit, thermally shrank, threaded, etc. Besides, the shaft-to-shaft interface can be also either bonded or non-bonded.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: MICRO TURBINE TECHNOLOGY, BVInventors: Frans Duijnhouwer, Paulus Maria Smeets, Savad Shakariyants
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Patent number: 10487779Abstract: A device and method for preventing and removing piston deposit build-up on a piston cylinder assembly of an engine, including a diesel engine, is disclosed. A cylinder having an inner sleeve for receiving a piston, has a piston scraping ring positioned on the cylinder sleeve. The piston scraping ring includes an inner surface, and has a curved or hook shaped feature on its inner surface. The curved or hook shaped feature, named the ‘power groove’ for the purposes of this application, allows for reduced wear between the piston rings and the cylinder sleeve by reducing the pressure on the piston rings by expanding and reversing the flow of combustion gases. Additionally, this reversal of the combustion gases results in a decrease in blow-by gases passing between the piston rings and cylinder sleeve thereby improving sealing between the piston and the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC.Inventor: John Lloyd Beasley
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Patent number: 10472976Abstract: An assembly comprising a ceramic matrix composite component, a monolithic insert, and a polymer char and a method for producing the same. The ceramic matrix composite component may include an exterior surface, with the monolithic insert bonded to the exterior surface of the ceramic matrix composite component. The polymer char may be sandwiched between the monolithic insert and the exterior surface of the ceramic matrix composite that may bond the monolithic insert to the ceramic matrix composite component.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce American Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ted J. Freeman, Thomas D. Nixon, Sean E. Landwehr, Aaron D. Sippel, Donald W. Reinhart
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Patent number: 10458653Abstract: An assembly comprising a ceramic matrix composite component, a ceramic insert, and a ply and a method for producing the same. The ceramic matrix composite component may comprise silicon carbide fibers in a silicon carbide matrix. The ceramic inset may be adjacent to the ceramic matrix composite component. The ply may at least partially cover the ceramic insert such that the ceramic insert may be sandwiched between the ply and the ceramic matrix composite component, and the ply may extend beyond the ceramic insert in at least one direction so that the ply is joined to the ceramic matrix composite. The ply may comprise at least one layer of silicon carbide fibers or carbon fibers in a silicon carbide matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ted J. Freeman, Thomas D. Nixon, Sean E. Landwehr, Aaron D. Sippel, Donald W. Reinhart
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Patent number: 10422299Abstract: A galleryless piston and method of construction provide a piston body forged from a single piece of material having an upper combustion surface extending around a longitudinal center axis along which the piston reciprocates for exposure to a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The upper combustion surface has an asymmetric geometry relative to a center plane extending along the central longitudinal axis in generally perpendicular relation to a pin bore axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Tenneco Inc.Inventors: Michael Weinenger, Jeffrey L. Riffe, Timothy Vezina
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Patent number: 10408163Abstract: Engine assemblies and methods of heating and/or cooling the engine assemblies are provided. The engine assembly has a metal liner defining a cylindrical region for receiving a piston, a polymeric composite housing disposed around at least a portion of the exterior surface of the metal liner, and a metal cylinder head. The polymeric composite housing comprises a polymer and a plurality of reinforcing fibers and at least one of: a plurality of microchannels for receiving a heat transfer fluid for heating and/or cooling the engine assembly; and at least one wire for heating the engine assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Hamid G. Kia, Mark W. Verbrugge, Anthony M. Coppola, Paul M. Najt, Michael A. Potter, Russell P. Durrett
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Patent number: 10364741Abstract: An internal combustion engine, includes: an engine main body; a structural member disposed around the engine main body; a bracket including a support plate and a plurality of leg pieces depending from the support plate and connected to the structural member; a turbocharger including a turbine and a compressor, the turbine being connected to a side of the support plate opposite to the structural member; an exhaust pipe connected to a central part of the turbine and extending in a direction away from the compressor; and an engine auxiliary disposed between the structural member and the support plate, wherein the leg pieces are arranged unevenly to provide a higher heat shielding performance on a side of the exhaust pipe than on a side of the compressor with respect to the support plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Higo, Noritaka Sekiya, Soichiro Nomoto
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Patent number: 10221759Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed toward a linear combustion engine, comprising: a cylinder having a cylinder wall and a pair of ends, the cylinder including a combustion section disposed in a center portion of the cylinder; a pair of opposed piston assemblies adapted to move linearly within the cylinder, each piston assembly disposed on one side of the combustion section opposite the other piston assembly, each piston assembly including a spring rod and a piston comprising a solid front section adjacent the combustion section and a gas section; and a pair of linear electromagnetic machines adapted to directly convert kinetic energy of the piston assembly into electrical energy, and adapted to directly convert electrical energy into kinetic energy of the piston assembly for providing compression work during the compression stroke.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: EtaGen, Inc.Inventors: Adam Simpson, Shannon Miller, Matt Svrcek
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Patent number: 10202937Abstract: A galleryless piston for an internal combustion engine and method of construction thereof are provided. The piston has a monolithic piston body extending along a central longitudinal axis. The piston body has an upper wall forming an upper combustion surface with first and second portions, with the first portion extending annularly along an outer periphery of the upper wall and the second portion forming a combustion bowl. The upper wall has an undercrown surface on an underside of the combustion bowl directly opposite the second portion of the upper combustion surface. The undercrown surface has an openly exposed surface area, as viewed looking along the central longitudinal axis, thereby providing an expansive area against which oil being splashed or sprayed can freely contact to cool the piston.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Tenneco Inc.Inventors: Jeff Riffe, Michael Weinenger
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Patent number: 10166629Abstract: A method for manufacturing an engine block is disclosed. In embodiments, the method includes forming an expansion hole in a block body of the engine block that encircles an engine block bore at a head face of the engine block. The method also includes placing an insert into the expansion hole, the insert including an insert body. The method further includes placing a reaction material between the insert and the block body. The method yet further includes forming an insert bond layer between the insert and block body using the reaction material. The method still further includes forming an insert bore through the insert body.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Taylor Douglas Young, Daniel Thomas Cavanaugh, Curtis John Graham, Luis A Vazquez
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Patent number: 10132270Abstract: Vehicle assemblies, such as engine assemblies, including an integrated cylinder head and plurality of liners as well as a polymeric composite housing are provided. Methods of making such vehicle assemblies are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Anthony M. Coppola, Hamid G. Kia, Paul M. Najt, Russell P. Durrett, Michael A. Potter
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Patent number: 10099008Abstract: A rotor for medical flow-regulating devices is described. The rotor comprises a central body and a margin extending from the central body. The margin comprises at least one actionable section that is movable from a rest position to a stretched position with respect to the central body upon application of a force and is configured to resiliently return to the rest position upon removal of the force. A medical flow-regulating device comprising the rotor is also described. A system comprising the medical flow-regulating device and a hand-held activation device is also described. A method of manufacturing a rotor is also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Medirio S.A.Inventors: Irio Giuseppe Calasso, Luca Calasso, Matteo De Donatis
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Patent number: 10087541Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for forming a capacitor having carbon or metal electrodes and an electrolyte which is also a source of electropolymerisable anions. Applying a sufficiently positive voltage, a thin dielectric layer forms at the positive electrode, enabling the use of cell voltages higher than 3.5 V. The construction and characteristics of capacitors with 5, 6.3, and 10 V of cell voltages, having reduced graphene oxide electrodes and an ionic liquid electrolyte, are shown.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: University of TartuInventors: Tavo Romann, Enn Lust, Ove Oll
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Patent number: 10073027Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for measuring friction on a cylinder-piston arrangement, wherein a reciprocating piston (3) is arranged in a cylinder liner (2) of a liner unit (23), said cylinder liner being decoupled from a cylinder head (9), and the liner unit (23) is arranged in a liner carrier (8) which is connected to a sensor carrier and which has a rotationally symmetrical receiving region (13) for the cylinder liner (2), said receiving region being concentric to the cylinder axis (21), wherein preferably at least one cooling jacket (12) is assigned to the cylinder liner (2).Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2014Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: AVL List GmbHInventors: Michael Erich Hammer, Wolfgang Meldt
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Patent number: 10053208Abstract: Ground effect acting on an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle, may be simulated by discharging a gas around propeller blades of the aerial vehicle while the propeller blades are rotating. For example, a gas, such as air, may be discharged at or near the tip of the propeller blades with enough velocity to disrupt the airflow around the blade tips, thereby altering the sound generated by rotation of the propeller blade.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian C. Beckman, Allan Ko
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Patent number: 10018146Abstract: A piston capable of reducing undesirable “knock,” reducing hydrocarbon emissions, and providing more complete combustion, is provided. The piston includes a multilayer coating having a thickness of 500 microns or less disposed on an upper combustion surface. The coating includes a bond layer including nickel disposed on the upper combustion surface. A thermal barrier layer including a ceramic composition is disposed on the bond layer. A sealant layer formed of metal is disposed on the thermal barrier layer. A catalytic layer including at least one of platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, and iridium is disposed on the sealant layer. The catalytic layer can be disposed on select regions or the entire upper combustion surface to promote combustion through a catalyzed reaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Federal-Mogul LLCInventors: Miguel Azevedo, Warran Boyd Lineton
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Patent number: 9903180Abstract: A main body housing includes a main body port. An O-ring sleeve is contained in the housing. The O-ring sleeve includes an O-ring sleeve port and O-rings mounted on either side of the O-ring sleeve port. The O-ring sleeve is not rotatable with respect to the main body housing and is translatable with respect to the main body housing between an open O-ring sleeve position and a closed O-ring sleeve position. The O-ring sleeve port aligns with the main body port when the O-ring sleeve is in the open O-ring sleeve position and the O-ring sleeve port is sealed from the main body port by the O-rings when the O-ring sleeve is in the closed O-ring sleeve position.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Inventors: Jacob James Boutin, Christopher Dale Russo, Daniel Aaron Sanchez
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Patent number: 9873928Abstract: A cast iron having high strength, hardness, and thermal conductivity for a cylinder liner of an internal combustion engine is provided. The cast iron includes 3.2 wt. % to 3.8 wt. % carbon, 2.2 wt. % to 3.2 wt. % silicon, 0.5 wt. % to 1.3 wt. % copper, and at least 75.0 wt. % iron, based on the total weight of the cast iron. The cast iron further includes 0.01 wt. % to 0.5 wt. % manganese, 0.01 wt. % to 0.2 wt. % chromium, up to 0.3 wt. % phosphorous, up to 0.05 wt. % sulfur, up to 0.2 wt. % tin, and up to 0.1 wt. % magnesium, based on the total weight of the cast iron. Preferably, the cast iron is free of molybdenum, nickel, and vanadium. The cast iron is also heat treated and solidifies to achieve fully spheroidal graphite.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Federal-MogulInventors: Haron Gekonde, John Miller, Troy Kantola, Blair Jenness, Jeff Hunter
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Patent number: 9869268Abstract: A galleryless piston for an internal combustion engine and method of construction thereof are provided. The piston has a monolithic piston body extending along a central longitudinal axis. The piston body has an upper wall forming an upper combustion surface with first and second portions, with the first portion extending annularly along an outer periphery of the upper wall and the second portion forming a combustion bowl. The upper wall has an undercrown surface on an underside of the combustion bowl directly opposite the second portion of the upper combustion surface. The undercrown surface has an openly exposed 2-dimensional surface area, as viewed looking along the central longitudinal axis, between about 35-60 percent of an area defined by a maximum outer diameter of the piston body, thereby providing an expansive area against which oil being splashed or sprayed can freely contact to cool the piston.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Federal-Mogul LLCInventors: Jeff Riffe, Michael Weinenger
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Patent number: 9863363Abstract: A small air-cooled internal combustion engine includes an aluminum cylinder block and an aluminum cylinder head welded to the aluminum cylinder block.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Briggs & Stratton CorporationInventors: Jerry Schenkel, Gary D. Greenlees, Claude Hoerig, Mike L. Carlson
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Patent number: 9856817Abstract: A cylinder for a V-twin engine including a body with a first end having a surface configured to mate with a cylinder head, and a second end configured to mate with a crankcase. A sleeve is fixedly secured within the body to define a cylinder bore. The sleeve includes a first portion that extends from the first end of the body to the second end of the body. The first portion of the sleeve has a first wall thickness. The sleeve further includes a second portion that extends out of the second end of the body to be received within a crankcase bore. The second portion has a second wall thickness that is thinner than the first wall thickness. The sleeve is constructed from a chromoly steel alloy material, and the second wall thickness is less than 0.060 inch.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, LLCInventors: Tony Nicosia, Brad Bishop, Mark Dane
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Patent number: 9835156Abstract: A sealing arrangement (40) is provided for sealing an interface between a casing main body (12) and a casing end cover (16). A circumferential lip (42) on the casing main body (12) defines a first radially facing circumferential surface (46) and the end cover (16) has a circumferential lip (50) defining a second radially facing circumferential surface (52). The sealing arrangement (40) includes a first circumferentially extending groove (55) formed in one of the first and second circumferential surfaces (46,52) and a sealing member (56) disposed within the first groove (55) in sealing contact with the one of said first groove (55) and in sealing contact with the other one of the first and second circumferentially extending surfaces (46,52).Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2013Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Frederick L. Miller, Steven J. Holden
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Patent number: 9784211Abstract: The present invention relates to a piston (10) for an internal combustion engine, which has a piston skirt (14) as well as a piston head (13) having a circumferential ring belt (21) and having a circumferential cooling channel (24) closed off with a closure element (26), wherein a circumferential recess (23) is formed between the piston head (13) and the piston skirt (14). According to the invention, it is provided that the closure element (26) consists of at least two subcomponents (27, 28), that each subcomponent (27, 28) has a radially oriented base plate (29) and at least one circumferential collar (31) oriented axially on the outer edge (29a) of the base plate (29), which collar is accommodated in at least one outer fold (34) that runs underneath the ring belt (21).Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventor: Timo Linke
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Patent number: 9777668Abstract: A piston for internal combustion diesel engine having a piston diameter of 180 to 650 mm, includes a top part and a body part connectable to each other, the top part defining, when installed in a cylinder of the engine, the piston side of a combustion chamber, and the body part having an aperture for a gudgeon pin, bosses for distributing forces, when in use, between the piston and the gudgeon pin, the body part having an interior, an outer surface and operable connecting surfaces. The interior of the body part includes an interior wall having a macro geometry of wavy surface, where a wave has a length of 3 to 25 mm and a height of 0.3 to 3 mm, the wavy surface having a micro geometry measurable as a surface roughness of 5 to 9 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2011Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: COMPONENTA FINLAND OYInventors: Sakari Pisila, Tommy Ronnskog
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Patent number: 9732713Abstract: A fuel system for an engine has a cylinder with an inlet air port, an air box surrounding the inlet air port, and a gaseous fuel injector positioned in the air box and having a nozzle located at the inlet air port. The fuel system also has a gaseous fuel control valve, a fuel supply line fluidly extending from the gaseous fuel control valve to the gaseous fuel injector, a purge valve, and a purge fluid supply line fluidly extending from the purge valve to at least one of the fuel supply line and the gaseous fuel injector. The fuel system also has a return valve and a return line fluidly extending from at least one of the fuel supply line and the gaseous fuel injector.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.Inventors: Deep Bandyopadhyay, Farhan F. Devani, John P. Timmons, David T. Montgomery, Aaron G. Foege
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Patent number: 9643718Abstract: Ground effect acting on an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle, may be simulated by discharging a gas around propeller blades of the aerial vehicle while the propeller blades are rotating. For example, a gas, such as air, may be discharged at or near the tip of the propeller blades with enough velocity to disrupt the airflow around the blade tips, thereby altering the sound generated by rotation of the propeller blade.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian C. Beckman, Allan Ko
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Patent number: 9581106Abstract: A small air-cooled internal combustion engine includes an aluminum cylinder block, an aluminum cylinder head welded to the aluminum cylinder block, and a weld securing the aluminum cylinder block to the aluminum cylinder head, wherein a joint having a first length is formed between the aluminum cylinder block and the aluminum cylinder head and wherein the weld extends for a second length that is at least 25% of the first length.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Briggs & Stratton CorporationInventors: Jerry Schenkel, Gary D. Greenlees, Claude Hoerig, Mike L. Carlson
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Patent number: 9562491Abstract: A device and method for preventing and removing carbon deposit build-up on a piston/cylinder assembly of an engine, including a diesel engine, is disclosed. The device includes a cylinder having an inner sleeve for receiving a piston, a carbon scraping ring positioned on the cylinder sleeve, the carbon scraping ring including an inner surface, and an abradable coating applied to the inner surface of the carbon scraping ring providing a wearable surface between the piston and the cylinder sleeve. The abradable coating has a wearable surface, which conforms to the shape created by the movement of the piston and the cylinder sleeve and carbon scraping ring, creating a substantially zero clearance fit between the piston and the carbon scraping ring. The clearance may reduce oil consumption and improve sealing of the cylinder and piston, thereby reducing blow-by.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC.Inventor: John Lloyd Beasley
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Patent number: 9234480Abstract: A compressor or expander has a variable-volume chamber with a heat exchanger located inside the chamber. The heat exchanger can have a helical structure and may be connected between walls of the chamber that move relative to one another during compression or expansion. The heat exchanger comprises a passage containing a heat exchange fluid. The heat exchange fluid may add heat to or remove heat from a gas being expanded or compressed. Embodiments may provide isothermal or near isothermal compression or expansion.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Inventor: Donald Gayton
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Patent number: 9017823Abstract: A machine component may include a body made of an iron alloy. The body may include a surface, and a coating fused to the surface. The coating may be an alloy including phosphorous, carbon, and iron. The coating may have solidus temperature of less than or equal to about 1000° C., and a hardness greater than or equal to about 50 HRC.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Tianjun Liu, Marvin Grendel McKimpson
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Patent number: 9016256Abstract: A concentric cylinder engine includes a toroidal outer cylinder having an inner cylinder contained therein, the inner cylinder wall comprising a sleeve assembly acting as a transfer valve. Each cylinder contains a piston, the two pistons being connected to a single crankshaft. The inner and outer piston crank throws are at least generally opposite one another, with the two pistons traveling in opposite directions during engine operation. The outer piston provides intake and compression functions, while the inner piston simultaneously provides power and exhaust functions. The concentric cylinder engine thus provides the four separate and distinct intake, compression, power, and exhaust phases of conventional Otto cycle engine operation during a single revolution of the crankshaft. The concentric cylinder engine may be constructed in multiple cylinder configurations having spark or compression ignition, in either liquid or air cooled embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Inventor: W. Daniel Hamby
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Patent number: 9004037Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Federal-Mogul CorporationInventor: Floin Muscas
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Patent number: 8991354Abstract: An advanced angled cylinder piston engine, pump, or compressor design. A method to determine optimum cylinder(s) orientation to achieve maximum torque. A method to determine proper cylinder(s) orientation achievable based on crankshaft and connecting rod dimensions. A cylinder insert sleeve, and a piston provide clearance for free operation of a connecting rod. A compensating piston provides proper cylinder volume to maintain desired compression ratio. An oil passage provides additional lubrication to cylinder wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Inventor: Ronald Lewis
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Patent number: 8978611Abstract: Disclosed is a piston (16) that is capable of not only suppressing the occurrence of knocking but also reducing cooling loss in an internal combustion engine in which a tumble flow is formed in a cylinder. The piston for the internal combustion engine in which the tumble flow is formed in the cylinder includes a non-adiabatic region (50) that is a region on a piston upper surface (35) brought into contact with the tumble flow during an intake stroke and has no insulating layer. The piston also includes an adiabatic region (52) that is a region on at least a part of the piston upper surface excluding the non-adiabatic region and has an insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2010Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Omura, Akio Yoshimatsu, Yasushi Yoshihara, Masafumi Takeda
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Patent number: 8973548Abstract: A liquid cooled piston of an internal combustion engine includes a piston lower part and piston upper part which has a combustion chamber recess. These piston components are supported via joining lands which are spaced apart radially and together form a dividing plane, and are joined together with a material-to-material fit. In order to receive piston rings, the piston upper part has a ring area and includes an annular cooling channel which extends into the piston lower part and is connected to an inner cooling space via connecting channels. The cooling channel is adjoined by recesses which are oriented in the direction of a piston head, are configured as a blind hole and widen conically starting from the cooling channel as far as a recess bottom. The recess bottom can be of a pronounced undulating enlarged surface or a finely undulating configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbHInventor: Olma Andreas
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Patent number: 8904975Abstract: A cylinder head (1) includes a water jacket (4) formed around an ignition plug mounting hole (5). Upper surfaces (12 to 14) of portions of the water jacket (4) between intake ports (7) and the ignition plug mounting hole (5) and between exhaust ports (8) and the ignition plug mounting hole (5) are set to be lower than upper surfaces (15 to 17) of the remaining portions of the water jacket (4) around the ignition plug mounting hole (5) to increase the rigidity. Thereby, deformation of the cylinder head (1) due to cylinder internal pressure is limited, and the stress concentration around the ignition plug mounting hole (5) due to such deformation is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiro Ikeda, Tsutomu Wakiya, Hideo Nakamura
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Publication number: 20140331957Abstract: A combustion chamber structure for an internal combustion engine includes, in a piston top part, a concave portion formed eccentrically with respect to a cylinder center axis, and a tapered portion that connects an upper end face of the piston top part and a side face of the concave portion. The tapered portion is formed so that a tapered portion volume (volume of a space formed between the tapered portion and an upper wall surface of the combustion chamber) in a first portion of the piston top part is greater than a tapered portion volume in a second portion that is nearer than the first portion to an eccentric direction of the concave portion from the cylinder center axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2011Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro Nishida, Hiroshi Oyagi
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Patent number: 8881706Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine, for example a diesel engine, including a body delimited laterally by a skirt and configured to collaborate with walls of a cylinder of axis of revolution C in which the piston can slide along the axis C, the piston including a transverse face including a central pip, a peripheral ring, and a bowl of axis of revolution B that extends from the central pip towards the peripheral ring to which it connects at a lip of thickness Ep, the bowl including, in substantial vertical alignment with the lip, a torus in profile, for example of dome-shaped, of maximum radius capable of guiding fuel injected under the lip in the region of a re-entrant zone towards the central pip. The tip of the central pip exhibits a flattened region centred on the axis of revolution B of the bowl, of a width Lt ranging between 0 mm and 5 mm, or substantially equal to 2.5 mm.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Renault S.A.S.Inventors: Sylvain Augot, Anne-Marie Doisy, Gregory Musq
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Publication number: 20140311437Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a piston ring (30, 130, 230) for a piston (10) of an internal combustion engine, comprising a ring back (31), an upper ring flank (32), a lower ring flank (33), and a running surface (42), and the method comprising the following method steps: (a) preparing a ring blank (30?) with a ring back (31?), an upper ring flank (32?), a lower ring flank (33?), and an outer lateral face (34?), (b) shaping an asymmetrical convex contour (35) along the outer lateral face (34?) and shaping a radially outward-extending protrusion (36) in the outer lateral surface (34?) in the region of the lower ring flank (33?), (c) coating the outer lateral surface (34?) with a coating material, (d) removing the protrusion (36), thereby exposing the material of the ring blank (30?) in the shape of a circumferential surface (41) which blends into the coating (39), and forming an oil scraper edge (40) between the circumferential surface (41) and the lower ring flank (33?), and (e) post and/orType: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Daniel Lopez, Ricardo Alves
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Patent number: 8813734Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-insulating structure which can be used, for example, to reduce the cooling loss of an engine. The heat-insulating structure includes a hollow particle layer made of a lot of hollow particles densely packed on a surface of a metallic base material. The hollow particle layer is covered with a coating.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Shinji Kadoshima, Nobuo Sakate, Yoshio Tanita, Nobuyuki Oda, Yoshihisa Miwa
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Patent number: 8807115Abstract: An engine having improved combustion characteristics is provided. The engine includes a fuel injection system that is variable between two operational states. In the first operating state, the fuel injectors provide a fuel spray having first spray pattern characteristics. When the system detects that an operation characteristic exceeds a threshold, the fuel injectors are displaced into a second operating state. In the second operating state, the fuel injectors provide a spray pattern having first spray pattern characteristics. The combustion cycle may be characterized by timing the fuel injection so that the fuel is sprayed into the cylinder early in the compression stroke. Further still, the combustion cycle may be characterized by controlling the fuel pressure so that the fuel pressure is inversely related to the load on the engine.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Advanced Diesel Concepts, LLCInventor: John M. Baxter
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Patent number: 8794207Abstract: A method for processing a cylinder block is disclosed, wherein a protrusion protruding toward a crankcase is provided at a crankcase-side edge of a cylinder bore and a sprayed coating is formed on an inner surface of the cylinder bore and an inner surface of the protrusion continuous with the inner surface of the cylinder bore. After forming the sprayed coating, at least part of the protrusion is removed together with the sprayed coating formed on the inner surface of the protrusion. Accordingly, even in the case of removing the edge portion of the cylinder bore on the crankcase side, a sufficient margin to be removed can be ensured while a reduction in size of the cylinder block is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Shiotani, Akira Shimizu, Hidenobu Matsuyama, Daisuke Terada, Yoshito Utsumi, Yoshitsugu Noshi, Hiroshi Hatta, Masami Tashiro, Shuji Adachi, Hiroaki Mochida
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Publication number: 20140174384Abstract: A cooling structure for an internal combustion engine piston is provided. The piston includes an oil cooling channel integrated in the piston. The oil cooling channel has a bottom surface facing towards a top surface of the piston and a top surface facing away from the top surface of the piston. The oil cooling channel is provided with an oil inlet and an oil outlet which are laterally separated from each other. The bottom surface and/or the top surface of the oil cooling channel is slanted relative to a central axis of a wrist pin opening provided in said piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: VOLVO LASTVAGNAR ABInventors: Kenneth ASK, Anders HANSSON, Lars LUNDIN
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Patent number: 8752520Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine, for example a diesel engine, including a body delimited laterally by a skirt and configured to collaborate with walls of a cylinder of axis of revolution C in which the piston can slide along the axis C, the piston including a transverse face that includes a central pip, a peripheral ring, and a bowl of axis of revolution B that extends from the central pip towards the peripheral ring to which it connects at a lip of thickness Ep. The bowl includes, in substantial vertical alignment with the lip, a torus in profile, for example of a dome-shaped, of maximum radius Rt capable of guiding fuel injected under the lip in a region of a re-entrant zone R towards the central pip. The tip of the pip lying on the axis of revolution B of the bowl rises to a height that is a distance Dt of between 5.4 mm and 8 mm, or substantially equal to 7.2 mm, below the level of the peripheral ring.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Renault S.A.S.Inventors: Magali Besson, Gerard Giacomello, Fano Rampanarivo