Crankshaft for reciprocating engine

    公开(公告)号:US10012260B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-03

    申请号:US15028445

    申请日:2014-10-14

    IPC分类号: F16C3/20 F16C3/08 F16C3/06

    CPC分类号: F16C3/20 F16C3/06 F16C3/08

    摘要: A crankshaft includes: journals that define a central axis of rotation; crank pins that are eccentric with respect to the journals; and crank arms for connecting the journals and the crank pins, wherein each of the crank arms or at least one of the crank arms integrally includes a counterweight. The crank arms have a recess in a surface adjacent to a corresponding one of the journals, the recess disposed inward of a peripheral region along a periphery of the surface, the recess disposed along the peripheral region. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a crankshaft which has reduced weight and increased torsional rigidity in combination with increased flexural rigidity.

    Crankshaft for reciprocating engine

    公开(公告)号:US10330142B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-25

    申请号:US15501013

    申请日:2015-08-06

    IPC分类号: F16C3/06 F16C3/08 F16C3/20

    摘要: A crankshaft includes journals that define a central axis of rotation; crank pins that are eccentric with respect to the journals; crank arms connecting the journals to the crank pins; and counterweights integrated with the crank arms. Each of the crank arms has recesses in a surface adjacent to the crank pin. The recesses are disposed inward of peripheral regions in both sides along an edge of the surface, and are disposed along the peripheral regions. The crankshaft has a reduced weight, an increased torsional rigidity and an increased flexural rigidity.

    Crankshaft for reciprocating engine

    公开(公告)号:US10385912B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-20

    申请号:US15325112

    申请日:2015-07-14

    摘要: A load due to combustion pressure is applied to each of the crank pins via a connecting rod in a direction from the axis of a piston pin to the axis of the crank pin. Each of the crank arms includes a recess in a surface adjacent to the journal, in a region inward of a peripheral region along the edge of the surface. The recess extends along the peripheral region, and is asymmetric with respect to a crank arm centerline connecting the axis of each of the crank pins to the axis of each of the journals. Each of the crank arms has a maximum flexural rigidity at a point of time when the load onto each of the crank pins due to the combustion pressure reaches a maximum. The crankshaft has a reduced weight and an increased torsional rigidity in combination with an increased flexural rigidity.

    Crankshaft for reciprocating engine, and design method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US10385911B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-20

    申请号:US15325114

    申请日:2015-07-14

    IPC分类号: F16C3/08 F16F15/28

    摘要: When each of the crank arms is divided by the crank arm centerline-into a right arm portion and a left arm portion, an area moment of inertia of one of the right and the left arm portions that is in a side that is subjected to the maximum load is greater than an area moment of inertia of the other arm portion that is in a side opposite to the side that is subjected to the maximum load, and, the area moment of inertia of the arm portion that is in the side opposite to the side that is subjected to the maximum load is greater than the area moment of inertia of the arm portion that is in the side that is subjected to the maximum load.