Abstract:
A cylinder head for an internal combustion engine, having an iron lower base part with inlet and exhaust ports and controlling valves therefor and an aluminum upper support for the camshaft and valve tappets. The upper part includes an open lattice work formed by spaced interconnected segments and curved sections extending between spaced bulkheads integral therewith that can be readily fastened to the base part to provide overhead support for the valve tappets. The lattice work has special expansion and contraction joints that connect into the bulkheads which mount the camshaft so that different rates of thermal expansion and contraction occurring between the lattice work and lower base part will cause deflection of the expansion joint and will not adversely effect the operation of the camshaft or the tappets carried by the bulkheads and lattice work.
Abstract:
A piston for an internal combustion engine comprising a piston head provided with at least one piston ring groove and a piston body having a piston pin bore, and a compression height of less than 40% of the piston diameter. In order to be able to equalize the influences of thermal expansion as well as possible and to enable a quiet operation of the piston in a cylinder, the invention provides that the largest diameter region of the piston body is arranged in a plane which extends perpendicularly to the body-generating line and which includes the piston pin axis.
Abstract:
A device for contactless determination of a rotary angle has two bodies which are movable relative to one another, at least one sensor coil through which an alternating current flows and whose inductivity and alternating current resistance value changes due to a relative change of a size of regions of a first one of the bodies which regions are associated with the at least one coil and composed of a material selected from the group consisting of an electrically conductive material and ferromagnetic material, the first body being arranged with mechanical prestress relative to a second one of the bodies.
Abstract:
A surface hardened aluminum part having excellent heat resistance and abrasion resistance obtained by forming, on the surface of an aluminum base material, an alloy layer that has a uniform composition and uniform hardness, being free from cracks. An aluminum alloy powder made of aluminum and metals each of which forms an intermetallic compound of high hardness with aluminum is prepared. This aluminum alloy powder is supplied onto the aluminum base material and the aluminum or aluminum alloy contained in the aluminum base material is alloyed with the aluminum alloy powder using a high-density energy heat source to form an alloy layer. The alloy layer thus formed has an intermetallic compound of high hardness uniformly distributed throughout the layer so that the hardness of the alloy layer is uniform and cracking is unlikely to occur.
Abstract:
Fastening devices such as washers, seals and drive pins subject to corrosive deterioration of all or select portions thereof wherein all or such select portions are protected from such corrosion and failure by a thin coating or coatings of hard surface material or materials. In a preferred form, the fastening device is coated with a synthetic diamond material formed as a thin layer in situ thereon. In addition to preventing moisture and other corrosive material from penetrating to the base metal, such synthetic diamond material serves to preserve the surface integrity of the fastening device preventing the formation or spread of surface flaws produced during use or during the fabrication of the fastening device.
Abstract:
A thermal barrier coating for metal articles subjected to rapid thermal cycling includes a metallic bond coat deposited on the metal article, at least one MCrAlY/ceramic layer deposited on the bond coat, and a ceramic top layer deposited on the MCrAlY/ceramic layer. The M in the MCrAlY material is Fe, Ni, Co, or a mixture of Ni and Co. The ceramic in the MCrAlY/ceramic layer is mullite or Al.sub.2 O.sub.3. The ceramic top layer includes a ceramic with a coefficient of thermal expansion less than about 5.4.times.10.sup.-6 .degree.C.sup.-1 and a thermal conductivity between about 1 J sec.sup.-1 m.sup.-1 .degree.C.sup.-1 and about 1.7 J sec.sup.-1 m.sup.-1 .degree.C.sup.-1.
Abstract:
A piston for an internal combustion engine has a crown and peripheral wall to carry a piston ring. A support extends between the wall and a bearing housing to receive the connecting rod. A cylindrical support member also extends from the wall around the support to a skirt. The support member is radially inset from the wall and a cylindrical bearing member is located on its radially outer surface.
Abstract:
A lightweight engine block fabricated from a unitary, thermally conductive casting having at least one cylinder formed with a cylindrical wall in the casting with an upper cylinder section having an outer housing wall displaced from the cylinder wall around the upper cylinder section, wherein a reduced capacity annular water jacket is formed, and, a lower cylinder section having a plurality of outwardly directed cooling fins projecting from the cylinder wall at the lower cylinder section, wherein the cylinder is adapted to receive a piston and be enclosed by a cylinder head forming a combustion chamber with an upper high temperature section and a lower reduced temperature section, the upper high temperature section being encompassed by the upper cylinder section with the water jacket and the lower reduced temperature section being encompassed by the lower cylinder section with the cooling fins.
Abstract:
A piston, e.g. for an internal combustion engine, comprises a crown (16) and a skirt (12). The skirt (12) has an aperture (22) in which an insert (14) of a different material from the remainder of the skirt is secured. The insert (14) may be of plastics material injection moulded into a metal skirt. The insert (14) provides a plurality of pads (34) which extend from a thrust surface of the skirt so that the pads can transmit lateral forces and cause lubricant to be forced over the pads by hydrodynamic action during reciprocation of the piston.
Abstract:
A low-friction piston construction for use in an oil-fed cylinder bore with the piston skirt relieved to define lands that are coated with SFL (graphite, MoS.sub.2, BN, and a special expoxy resin). A method of making such piston construction including provision of asperities on the skirt wall onto which the SFL coating is thermally sprayed and formation of small pockets at the mouth of the asperities to additionally act as oil replenishing reservoirs. A method of using such piston construction in an engine which comprises provisions of a slightly increased gap between the piston and cylinder wall and formation of a transferred SFL coating from the piston to the cylinder wall resulting in two polished microsmooth mating coatings, each attractive to oil films.