Abstract:
Pistons and a method for making them are described. The pistons have reinforcing components, such as piston ring groove inserts, incorporated therein. The reinforcements have one or more porous bodies joined thereto, for example, by brazing and which are infiltrated during casting of the piston.
Abstract:
A piston for an internal combustion engine with a separate head and skirt which are joined by a piston pin. The ring belt extends downward from the head and terminates above the pin. The space between the lower edge of the ring belt and a section of the head defines a cooling oil ring space. The head is provided with bores which extend from the cooling oil ring space upward toward the top of the head.
Abstract:
This specification describes the thermal spraying of an aluminum-bronze alloy coating onto aluminum alloy cylinder bores or piston skirts to provide a scuff- and wear-resistant surface.
Abstract:
Improved structures in bearings operable to receive and support shafts or members which are supported for rotation on shafts or pins. The balls and/or rollers and/or one or more of such components, such as the outer and inner races, are coated with hard, high strength synthetic diamond material deposited in situ thereon. In all forms, the synthetic diamond material coatings may be overcoated with thin layers of chromium, chromium alloys or similar materials which serve to protect the synthetic diamond material coating same.
Abstract:
The technical problem is to reduce the operating noise of such a piston. It is solved by means of a piston having the following dimensions: a) A=(0.45-0.65) D; b) H=(0.25-0.4) D; c) A=(0.3-0.4) D; d) A greater than or equal to B; e) T=(0.45-0.8) D; f) the piston ribs between the annular grooves (2, 3, 4) and the rod region with a very narrow operating clearance have, in the case of a hot operating piston, approximately the same clearance in relation to the cylinder operating path. An additional improvement consists in inserting an annular jacket in the piston head in the radial region behind the annular grooves, said jacket consisting of a material having a thermal expension factor less than that of the basic piston material. In a hot operating internal combustion engine, the piston has, in the region of the ribs, a clearance which, in the direction pressure/counter-pressure reaches approximately only 3-5 times the clearance in the very narrow clearance region of the piston rod.
Abstract:
A multilayer sliding material which is used, in particular, as the material of the bearings in internal combustion engines, comprising a steel backing layer, a bearing layer of copper-based alloy bonded to the steel backing layer, a silver or silver alloy plating layer bonded to the bearing layer, and a surface layer of lead-based alloy bonded to the silver or silver alloy plating layer, the silver or silver alloy plating layer having a thickness of more than 3 microns but not more than 50 microns. The multilayer sliding material having a thick plating layer of silver or silver alloy, excels in seizure-resisting.
Abstract:
Improvements in internal combustion engines and/or components thereof resulting from applying thin coatings or films of synthetic diamond or diamond-like material thereto and, in certain instances, overcoating such synthetic diamond material with a thin layer of chromium for providing certain protective effects. In one form, the entire piston of an internal combustion engine is coated with a thin layer of synthetic diamond material protecting same against heat and chemical corrosion effects during the operation of the engine. In another form, piston rings or ring components are coated with such synthetic diamond material in thicknesses varying from 0.00001" to 0.001" or more. Retaining cavities formed in the head of the piston which retain the piston rings may also be similarly coated. The piston pin and/or its retaining rings may also contain such synthetic diamond material coating as may the top and side walls of the piston. An overcoating of a hard film of chromium may be applied to one or more of the engine components against the synthetic diamond material to protect same against particle erosion and abrasion. Other engine components so protected may include the engine crank shaft or those portions thereof subjected to wear when the surfaces of the bearings of the piston rods engage same and the bearings in which the crank shaft rotates.
Abstract:
A porous body is formed around an element which has the shape of the desired cavity and the body is heated to a temperature such that the element melts and infiltrates the porous body at least in the immediate vicinity of the resulting cavity. The article may then, for example, be incorporated into a piston for an internal combustion engine so as to form a cavity in the crown region thereof.
Abstract:
A piston-ring arrangement for use in an internal combustion engine including a cylinder with a piston axially displaceable within the cylinder and at least one piston ring guided in the cylinder. The cylinder, piston and piston-ring are made of a ceramic material. The piston ring is formed of two circumferentially extending parts and is mounted in a groove in the circumferentially surface of the piston. The groove has a depth greater than the corresponding radial depth of the piston ring so that a spring element can be positioned between the base of the groove and the piston ring for biasing the piston ring radially outwardly. The spring element can be annular member with a corrugated shape or a multi-part ceramic member shaped to provide a biasing action.
Abstract:
Pistons are described comprising a crown portion and a skirt portion, the crown portion having depending from the underside thereof a boss, the boss having secured thereto at least two bearing members in fixed relationship to the piston body and which bearing members co-operate with an associated connecting rod. The bearing members may be located in rebates in the boss such that piston firing loads are born substantially in compression. The bearing members are in one embodiment secured to the boss by a bolt and nut. The bearing members may comprise ferrous, copper-based or aluminium based alloys depending upon the application environment.