Abstract:
This invention relates to a liquid-cooled piston ring carrier assembly and piston for internal combustion engines. The ring carrier assembly includes an annular metallic body and an enclosure member collectively defining an integral coolant channel. During engine operation, liquid coolant is directed to the coolant channel by way of an inlet passage in the skirt portion of the piston and an aligned inlet port in the ring carrier assembly. An outlet passage in the skirt portion of the piston and an aligned outlet port conveys coolant away from the coolant channel.
Abstract:
In an axial piston motor or pump the cylinder barrel is mounted on a medial shaft which has a shoulder which axially bears against the front end of the rotor barrel. The rear end of the medial shaft is radially borne in a housing portion. The front portion of the medial shaft is provided with a bearing member of an axial thrust bearing for support on a respective axial thrust bearing member in the housing. On the rear end of the rotary barrel an axially selfthrusting control body is provided to seal the flow of fluid to and from the cylinders of the rotary barrel. The control body presses against the rotary barrel, the rotary barrel presses against the shoulder of the medial shaft and the thrust bearing member of the shaft bears on the thrust bearing member of the housing. As a result thereof the cylinders in the rotary barrel can be straight through bores. The manufacturing of the rotor barrel is thereby simplified and the flow acceleration losses of former bore type cylinders are prevented.
Abstract:
A component subjected to zonally differential thermal stress for engines, machinery or other devices, in particular a component for combustion engines. In these components, in order to arrange more favourably the stress variation as a function of temperature in the thermally highly stressed parts or regions, so that the adjoining colder regions do not reduce or hinder its expansion, in the material of the component, for example a piston of a combustion engine, in the neighbourhood of the zones of higher thermal loading, at least one closed hollow chamber is provided which is completely filled with a substance which has a higher coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the material of the component surrouding the chamber.
Abstract:
Pistons are discribed comprising a crown portion which also includes a piston ring belt and gudgeon-pin bosses and which crown portion comprises a ferrous allow and a seperate articulated skirt portion comprising a casting of aluminum alloy, steel or cast iron which also includes gudgeon-pin bores, the crown portion and the skirt portion having a common gudgeon-pin about which the articulated skirt portion is freely able to move relative to the crown portion.
Abstract:
The heat-insulating piston structure according to the present invention is formed by fixing a piston head, which consists of a material the coefficient of thermal expansion of which is substantially equal to that of a ceramic material, to a piston skirt, and setting a thin, flat plate portion of a ceramic material on the whole of the flat surface of the piston head which is on the side of a combustion chamber via a heat-insulating member. Accordingly, the piston can be formed so that it has excellent heat-insulating characteristics and high thermal resistance, deformation resistance and corrosion resistance. Especially, the thin plate portion of a ceramic material, which is exposed to a combustion gas, can be formed to the smallest possible thickness to reduce the thermal capacity thereof greatly. Therefore, the temperature of the wall of the combustion chamber varies easily with that of the combustion gas (in other words, the amplitude of the temperature of this wall becomes large). Consequently, a difference between the temperature of the thin plate portion of a ceramic material and those of the gases (combustion gas and suction air) becomes small momentarily, so that the heat transfer rate of the thin plate portion decreases. This causes a decrease in the quantity of heat which the suction air receives from the wall surface. As a result, the suction air smoothly enters the combustion chamber without being expanded therein. This enables the suction efficiency and cycle efficiency to be improved.
Abstract:
A multiple piece piston is provided for a diesel internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber depression in the crown of the piston. In order to achieve a low rate of heat flow into the piston ring area and thus into the cylinder liner which surrounds the piston, a separate piston base or crown surrounding the combustion chamber depression is formed by a ring element made of a material having poor thermal conductivity, and the main body of the piston is made of a material with high thermal conductivity. The heat of combustion is thus conducted mainly axially through the piston main body and absorbed by sprayed cooling oil. The cooling oil, thus heated, can be utilized for heating purposes.
Abstract:
Light alloy articles comprising a body of light alloy having a composite layer of heat-resistant fibers and light alloy and bonded to said body, and a surface layer of heat-resisting alloy sprayed onto said composite layer exhibit improved integrity and heat resistance when the heat-resisting alloy is plasma sprayed onto one surface of a preform of fibers and the light alloy is then cast to the opposite surface of the preform such that an interfacial layer is defined between the composite layer and the surface layer in which the fibers and light alloy are integrally incorporated with the heat-resisting alloy.
Abstract:
Piston for combustion engines consisting of an upper part forming the piston crown and a lower part forming the piston body. These two piston parts abut via annular contact surfaces in the piston axial direction and are coupled together via a gudgeon pin or a gudgeon pin bushing. In order to arrange such an unscrewed piston in such manner that its upper part need not be constructed to be rigid and heavy as in an articulated piston with pendulum shaft and that the construction of cooling channels between the upper and lower parts is possible without excessive expenditure and the constructional height of the piston can be small, the contact surfaces are mutually prestressed in the direction of the piston axis in that the gudgeon pin bore in the one piston part is arranged to be offset relative to the gudgeon pin bore in the other piston part in the unstressed condition in the direction of the piston axis. In this connection, the offset can amount to 0.5 to 10 parts per thousand of the piston diameter. By this offset according to the invention a substantially rigid inter-engaged and frictionally inter-locking coupling between the two piston parts is ensured.
Abstract:
A piston boss is formed with an oil inlet hole for collecting oil flowing downward along a piston and allowing it to flow toward a snap ring and an end of a ceramic piston pin in contact with the snap ring. The oil having lubricated the snap ring and the end of the piston pin is collected by an oil outlet hole formed in the piston boss and allowed to flow downward therethrough.
Abstract:
A fluid machine such as a pump, compressor, engine, motor or transmission has working chambers in a rotor and a central rotor-hub is provided in the rotor for the reception of a control pintle therein. The control pintle has control ports for the control of flow of fluid into and out of the working chambers of the rotor. Pressure fields form in the clearance between the rotor hub and the control pintle especially around the control ports. Leakage flows from the pressure fields through portions of the clearance between the rotor--hub and the control pintle which reduces the efficiency of the machine. Therefore means are provided in the control pintle to press those portions of the faces of the rotor hub and of the control pintle, which have those local pressure fields, together or to narrow the clearance between these faces in the respective areas where those pressure fields are located in order to reduce the leakage through the clearance between the faces of the rotor hub and the control pintle. In detail, the invention provides, in the central pintle, radially directed thrust chambers with thrust bodies therein at the proper locations and sizes to obtain an economic device with only small leakage.