Abstract:
A drive device (10, 100) with an actuating drive (40, 130) for driving a movable element (11, 110), in which drive device a lever (62, 144) coupled to the movable element (11, 110) is capable of being driven by the actuating drive (40, 130) via a gear (48, 132), the lever (62, 144) being capable of being acted upon by a firmly supported return spring (34, 164) so as to be capable of being pivoted back into a basic position (82, 161), and, in the basic position (82, 161), a first lever arm (64, 146) of the lever (62, 144) being acted upon by a stop (84, 160), is to have a particularly low space requirement and at the same time absorb momentum energy of the gear (48, 132) in a particularly reliable way in the event of a failure of the actuating drive (40, 130). For this, the first lever arm (64, 146) of the lever (62, 144) is subdivided by a clearance (68, 150) into a first part region (70, 152) and a second part region (72, 154), the first part region (70, 152) and the second part region (72, 152) each having a free end (74, 76, 156, 158), and at least the free end (76, 158) of the second part region (72, 154) being deformed in the direction of the free end (74, 156) of the first part region (70, 152).
Abstract:
A crankshaft supporter having a support member which is attached to a cylinder block of an engine so as to support a crankshaft and which is formed of an aluminum alloy matrix with a preform cast inside. The support member includes a mounting surface, bolt holes and a dowel hole. A penetrated section of the preform has a through hole defining the bolt hole. The support member has a recess section formed of the matrix. The recess section is positioned between the mounting surface of the support member and an opposing surface of the penetrated section that faces the mounting surface so as to shape the dowel hole therein.
Abstract:
A cylinder crankcase for an internal combustion engine, the base body 1 of the engine consisting of a material A and the cylinder walls 2 of the engine of a second material B, and a lattice-like reinforcement 3 provided between the two materials A, B. A process for production of the cylinder crankcase such that the lattice-like reinforcement 3 is introduced into a casting mold for the cylinder crankcase, and that the two materials A, B are then introduced into the casting mold.
Abstract:
An engine piston (10) comprising a crown (12) and a tubular body portion (30) containing gudgeon pin bosses (46) and force transmitting regions (66) has the body portion forged, preferably of steel, as two or more circumferentially incomplete segments (1001, 1002) which extend about a longitudinal piston axis (14) and are joined into the tubular form by welding or the like. The segments are forged in a direction perpendicularly to the piston axis which permits the formation of regions of differing wall thickness along the tubular body length and mass saving recesses (70) between force transmitting struts (661) and (662) that are not possible with forging a unitary tubular body from one end.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a piston of finest grain carbon, having a bending strength of at least 100 MPa, a bending elongation >0.8%, an average interlayer distance c/2 5 nm and a heat conductivity of at least 10 W/mK, and a method for its production comprising: a) compacting of a polyaromatic mesophase powder to almost its final shape; b) heating of the green product at ambient pressure under a non-oxidizing atmosphere to a temperature of between 900 to 1300° C. and maintenance at this temperature; c) high-temperature treatment, thereby heating up to a temperature between 1400 and 2400° C. and holding this temperature for between 2 and 20 hours; d) cooling down of the shaped form to an ambient temperature at less than 4 K/min, and a polyaromatic mesophase powder for the production of such a piston, characterized by a) a portion of quinoline-insoluble components of ≧85 weight %; b) a portion of toluene-insoluble components of ≧90 weight %; wherein c) a shaped form produced from the powder after sintering up to 1000° C. has a mass residue of more than 90 weight % of the mass before sintering.
Abstract:
It is proposed, for a cylinder crankcase for an internal combustion engine, the base body 1 of such engine consisting of a material A and the cylinder walls 2 of the engine of a second material B, that a lattice-like reinforcement 3 be provided between the two materials A, B. It is also proposed for a process for production of this cylinder crankcase that the lattice-like reinforcement 3 be introduced into a casting mold for the cylinder crankcase, and that the two materials A, B then be introduced into the casting mold. It is claimed for the proposed solution that a cylinder crankcase and a process are made available for production of this cylinder crankcase, which may be produced in an especially simple and cost-effective manner.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a cylinder block which can reduce the vibrations and noises produced from the engine at high temperatures and has a light weight, as well as a method of making such a cylinder block. Specifically, the cylinder block of the present invention comprises a main body (5, 21) of the cylinder block, a bearing (11, 17) attached to the underside of the main body (5, 21), and a crankshaft supported rotatably in a bearing section (13, 25) formed by the underside of the main body (5, 21) and the bearing (11, 17). In this cylinder block, an aluminum alloy layer (33) is formed in the sliding portion of the bearing section (13, 25), the region adjacent to the aluminum alloy layer (33) consists of a composite material (35), and the coefficient of thermal expansion of the composite material (35) is lower than that of the aluminum alloy layer (33) formed in the sliding portion.
Abstract:
In order to improve the wear resistance of the swash plate of a swash-plate type compressor, on which plate copper alloy is flame-sprayed, a composite material, which consists of copper or first copper alloy (for example Cu—Pb alloy) including at least unmelted phase and aluminum or first aluminum alloy (for example Al—Si alloy) including at least melted phase, is flame sprayed on the sliding surface with a shoe.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a throttle device for controlling a fluid flow in an internal combustion engine, with a multi-part housing, whose first housing part and whose additional housing half rest against each other at contact surfaces and the fluid flow is controlled by means of a flat valve element, which can be adjusted in the flow conduit of the fluid flow by an actuating drive. The throttle device contains at least one sealing and compensation element, whose shaping of its inner wall defines the flow cross section of the fluid flow in the throttle device and which has a contact surface, which can seal cavities on its side oriented toward the housing.
Abstract:
An aluminum thrust washer that has a wrought aluminum matrix that includes from 2 to 20 weight percent silicon, 0.1 to 4 weight percent of copper, with the remainder pure aluminum. The aluminum thrust washer is formed of a mono-metal structure without a backing layer. The wrought aluminum matrix has mechanical properties such that the aluminum matrix wears away, leaving silicon particles exposed at a thrust face of the washer, such that the density of silicon particles is continually increasing as the thrust washer is utilized.