Abstract:
In an uncooled engine, it is propose to form insulator coatings on the combustion chamber surfaces, and to mechanically protect such coatings against erosion or cracking by means of outer protective layers applied over the insulator coatings. The insulator coatings can be zirconium oxide applied to a thickness of approximately 0.15 inch. The protective layers can be formed of various materials resistant to high temperatures in the vicinity of 2000.degree. F., e.g. silicon nitride, steel or cast iron.
Abstract:
Described are an aluminium-based article having a heat and corrosion protective coating, especially engine parts such as piston crown or cylinder head, and a method of preparing said article. The coating consists of an aluminium-based bonding layer, preferably having a thickness in the range 0.1-0.6 mm, and an outer top layer of stabilized or partially stabilized zirconium dioxide, preferably having a thickness in the range 0.5-2.5 mm, and optionally a cermet layer, comprising zirconium dioxide and an aluminium-based metal component, between the bonding layer and the outer zirconium dioxide top layer. The bonding layer is applied to the substrate by thermal spraying of a rapidly solidified powder, substantially consisting of 60-80% by weight of Al and 40-20% by weight of Si, the particles of the powder having a frozen unstable micro-structure. The cermet layer desirably is a layer consisting of zirconium dioxide and an aluminium-based alloy, the metal content of the cermet layer decreasing substantially uniformly in the direction towards the outer zirconium dioxide top layer. The cermet layer preferably has a thickness in the range 0.2-0.6 mm. Also the cermet and zirconium oxide layers are deposited by thermal spraying.
Abstract:
In a fluid pump or motor improvements are provided to the piston shoes therein to permit a higher pressure in the respective device. Other improvements are done to the hydrostatic bearings in radial piston or radial chamber type fluid motors and pumps. A further arrangement is, that plural pistons are applied to permit the use of two different fluids in the respective device. This leads also to the application of disc springs and their modification in a pump or motor to make the pumping of non-viscous fluids like water possible at very high pressure. Motors are provided with arrangements to permit them to drive and to carry simultaneously or to have hollow shafts, whereby improved and novel machines and vehicles are obtained.
Abstract:
A light metal alloy cast piston comprises a thermal strut provided in the shoulder portion of the piston skirt. The thermal strut is composed of a fiber reinforced metal portion containing high tensile strength fibers integrally molded in the matrix metal. The piston is shaped in such a manner that the inner periphery of the thermal strut is exposed toward the inside of the piston skirt, except for the regions at the piston pin bosses, to avoid the presence of non-reinforced metal a the inside of the thermal strut. This arrangement prevents the formation of cracks along the inner periphery of the thermal strut.
Abstract:
The height of a piston for an internal combustion engine is reduced by the provision of gudgeon pin bores which intersect or at least partly intersect a ring band extending around the crown. This allows the mass of the piston to be reduced and allows improved visibility from the vehicle owing to reduced bonnet height. The weight of the piston is reduced so improving its performance and the performance of the engine.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an internal combustion engine piston having a metal piston body and a piston cap constituted by a plurality of ceramic pieces and fixed to the top portion of the metal piston body, wherein the piston cap is composed of at least one kind of a ceramic material, at least one of the ceramic pieces is fixed to the metal piston body through fitting or through engagement by way of a metallic piece secured onto said at least one ceramic piece, and the remaining ceramic piece or pieces are fixed onto the metal piston body by means of said at least one ceramic piece. A method for producing an internal combustion engine piston is also disclosed, which method includes steps: forming the piston cap from at least one kind of a ceramic material, forming a fitting projection on at least one of the ceramic pieces constituting the piston cap, fixing said at least one of the ceramic pieces onto the metal piston body through fitting the fitting projection to a through hole or depression formed at the top portion of the metal piston body, and fixing the remaining ceramic piece or pieces onto the metal piston body by means of said at least one of ceramic pieces fixed to the metal piston body.
Abstract:
An aluminum alloy piston for an internal combustion engine has two spaced piston pin bosses. A steel alloy bushing is fitted in each boss. A ceramic piston pin is fitted in said bushings.
Abstract:
In a piston for internal combustion engines, a cover layer comprising a material having a relatively low thermal conductivity has been applied to the piston head by plasma or flame spraying. To increase the life of the cover layer until it separates from the body of the piston, the surface of the cover layer has a peak-to-valley height of 5 to 30 .mu.m.
Abstract:
A piston for internal-combustion engines, reinforced at least at either the shoulder of the skirt or the piston boss thereof by a composite reinforcement consisting of a layer of inorganic long filaments and a layer or layers of inorganic staple short fibers or whiskers. The inorganic filaments are one or a combination of any of carbon, graphite, alumina, silicon carbide and glass, while the inorganic staple fiber or whiskers are silicon nitride whiskers, mineral fibers, potassium titanate whiskers, carbon fibers or graphite fibers, or a combination of those whiskers and/or fibers.
Abstract:
A light alloy piston for internal combustion engines has a skirt which is closed at its lower end and at locations disposed adjacent to the bosses on both sides of the horizontal plane through the piston pin is set back so as to form respective recesses. In order to avoid a retention of oil in the recesses those end portions of the skirt which adjoin the recesses are inwardly offset from the outside peripheral surface of the piston.