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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8122859 | Nylon body located piston cooling nozzle A piston cooling nozzle including a nylon body having a hub and a pair of integral legs extending from the hub and a tube for delivering coolant to a piston. The pair of legs are formed relative to the hub and the tube to ensure that when the body is mounted to an e... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8087389 | Two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine In a two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine, opposed pistons disposed in a cylinder are coupled to a pair of side-mounted crankshafts by connecting rods that are subject to substantially tensile forces acting between the pistons and the crankshafts. Th... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7861679 | Cylinder and piston assemblies for opposed piston engines In an opposed piston engine, a pair of pistons are disposed in opposition in the bore of a cylinder. The cylinder includes first liquid coolant grooves having a first cooling capacity to cool a portion of the cylinder extending from a central portion toward an exhau... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7827942 | Lubrication structure for engine Disclosed is a lubrication structure for an engine comprising pistons 12 for slide motion in cylinders 11 of a V-type engine and lubricating means 13 and 14 for injection of oil to cool the pistons 12. The lubricating means... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7823545 | Piston squirter system and method A piston squirter system for an internal combustion engine includes an oil reservoir, a variable displacement pump, and, for each cylinder, a piston squirter that sprays oil onto a piston for cooling and lubricating. A gallery connects the variable displacement pump... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7819093 | Engine hydraulic control apparatus A hydraulic control apparatus (1) is provided with an oil pump (4) that draws oil from an oil pan (3) due to the rotation of the crankshaft, a piston jet (6) that open when the hydraulic pressure of the oil that has been drawn from this o... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7784436 | Two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine In a two-stroke, opposed-piston internal combustion engine with optimized cooling and no engine block, opposed pistons protrude from the bore during at least a portion of an operating cycle of the engine and are cooled by application of a liquid coolant to their int... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7735462 | Piston for an internal combustion engine and combination a piston provided with an oil injection device A piston for an internal combustion device, has at least one cooling channel, with at least two sections which, when seen from above, are located along the piston axis and/or on different levels in the radial direction, and/or the two or more cooling channels are pr... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7591235 | Opposed piston engine with piston compliance An engine having a cylinder with a bore opposed pistons disposed for reciprocation in the bore includes compliant members that allow for angular adjustment of piston structure with respect to the cylinder in response to an imbalance in forces coupled to the pistons ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7559296 | Cooling sprayer with valve The internal combustion engine piston cooling sprayer comprises a sprayer body (1) with an axial through-passage (12) in which is fixed a tubular guide liner (4). The tubular guide liner (4) is fixed in the sprayer body (1) by its ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7549402 | Piston spray nozzle The invention relates to a piston spray nozzle (12, 112) for cooling a piston (10) of a combustion engine by means of a liquid jet (20, 120) that is directed to a cooling chamber (14) of the piston (10). According to the invention,... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7546819 | Two-stroke, opposed-piston internal combustion engine In a two-stroke, opposed-piston internal combustion engine with optimized cooling and no engine block, the opposed pistons are coupled to a pair of crankshafts by connecting rods that are subject to substantially tensile forces acting between the pistons and the cra... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7380536 | Combustion bowl in the crown of a piston for a diesel engine The invention relates to a combustion recess in the head of a piston for a diesel engine, the piston being provided with a cooling duct optionally existing in the form of a cooled ring carrier. This combustion recess has, in the radially outer edge area, an undercut... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7367305 | Internal combustion engine and connecting rod therefor A connecting rod of an internal combustion engine, and an internal combustion engine including the connecting rod, a piston, a crankshaft and a float bearing as main moving parts. A piston is connected to a connecting rod by a spherical joint and has radial ribs on ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360511 | Opposed piston engine A two-cycle, opposed piston engine with side-mounted crankshafts and cylinders isolated from mechanical stresses of the engine includes tailored cooling of cylinders and symmetrical cooling of the interior surfaces of piston crowns. Each opposed piston includes a co... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360510 | Engine piston cooling system A cooling system comprises at least one common feed manifold carrying a series of nozzles and forming a mechanically rigid assembly, with fixing means for fixing in the engine and with hydraulic connection means for making a hydraulic connection to a feed circuit in... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360520 | Damped windage tray and method of making same A damped windage tray for an engine including a windage tray formed from a laminate. The laminate operates to damp vibrations of the windage tray. The laminate includes a first constraining layer, a second constraining layer and a viscoelastic damping layer disposed... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356925 | Method for producing a cooled ring carrier The invention relates to a method for producing a cooled ring carrier (1) for an aluminium piston pertaining to an internal combustion engine and produced according to a casting method, comprising a cooling channel (6) which is embodied on the rear ( | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350484 | Controlled leakage valve for piston cooling nozzle Device to feed cooling and lubricating fluid to cooling and lubricating nozzles for the pistons of an internal combustion engine, having at least one valve with an upstream channel and a downstream channel, said valve having a blocking element able to move in a comp... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347169 | Cooling oil delivery structure for a vehicular generator, and engine including same In an engine having a generator mounted thereon, an oil passage is formed within the engine's crankcase to supply oil to an oil jet for cooling one or more pistons. In addition, oil is supplied to an oil jet for cooling the generator, using the oil passage in common... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341039 | Lubrication system for a marine propulsion system with a tilted in-line engine A lubrication system for an in-line engine which has a piston symmetry plane that is tilted relative to a vertical plane is provided with an oil pan and windage tray that facilitates the transfer of oil from a rotating crankshaft to the oil pan without excessive aer... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337539 | Method for production of a coolable annular support for internally cooled piston rings A method of producing a coolable annular support for internally cooled piston rings and comprising an annular body, a cooling channel plate and respective tubular bodies or plate-shaped bodies disposed on or in openings of the plate. End portions of legs of the cool... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334570 | Common rail fuel injection system with accumulator injectors A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine includes a common rail, a plurality of accumulator injectors, and at least one accumulator controller separate from the accumulator injectors and connected to the common rail. Each accumulator controller incl... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7325525 | Piston for internal combustion engine A piston includes: in a cross-section that is perpendicular to a piston pin and that includes a center axis of the piston, a great thickness-reduction portion provided to attain a thin thickness as stress applied to the piston on a side without a cavity is small, an... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325526 | Four-stroke engine system A four-stroke engine employs engine vibration for lubricating engine components. The engine vibration induces a ripple in a surface portion of the oil in an oil reservoir, which is located within a crankcase of the engine. The oil ripple causes misting of the oil, w... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322318 | Cooling system for an internal combustion engine, and engine incorporating same An internal combustion engine is provided with an internal piston cooling system that jets oil from an oil jet onto a surface of a piston during engine operation, to effectively cool the piston. In the piston cooling system of the internal combustion engine, each pi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318397 | High efficiency high power internal combustion engine operating in a high compression conversion exchange cycle A piston (10), a spring (15) operatively coupled to a piston, the spring being inside (21) or outside (41) the piston, and if the spring is inside the piston, the diameter of the spring is equal to 0.7 to 0.9, and if it is outside of the ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7299772 | Cooling gallery fan assembly for a piston A piston for an internal combustion engine defining an axis of motion and including an annular cooling gallery defined within the piston. The cooling gallery extends annularly about the axis of motion of the piston. A plurality of annularly spaced fan blades is posi... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7284529 | Engine An engine comprises a crank case (1) provided with a lower opening portion (2), which is covered with an oil pan (3) from below, and with a pair of left and right oil passages which extends in a front and rear direction along left and right late... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281532 | Blow-by gas and purge gas treating device in intake valve lift variable engine In an intake valve lift variable engine including: an engine body; a cylinder head; an intake valve which is disposed in the cylinder head and which is controlled to be open and close so as to regulate the amount of intake air; and an intake system having no throttl... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278390 | Piston-pin boss of a piston for an internal combustion engine The invention related to a piston-pin boss (18) of a piston (6) for an internal combustion engine, comprising a piston-pin bore (1) for receiving a piston pin. To improve the passage of oil and to form an oil reservoir, the interior surface (... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270108 | Opposed piston, homogeneous charge pilot ignition engine An engine of the opposed piston, two-stroke, compression ignition type includes provision for injection of a main charge of liquid fuel into the bore of a cylinder between opposed pistons early in a compression stroke to permit the fuel to evaporate and mix with air... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7255067 | Evaporative in-cylinder cooling An engine is cooled using high pressure water injected into the piston with the water converted to high pressure steam by the heat from combustion with heat transfer taking place in passages in the piston and in and between grooves in the piston and the cylinder sle... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249577 | Connecting rod with oil squirter A connecting rod includes a connecting rod body having a crank arm bore portion at a first end and a pin bore portion at a second end. A beam portion connects the crank arm bore portion and the pin bore portion. At least one oil squirter is provided within the crank... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240642 | Air compressor having changeable structure An air compressor includes a piston slidably received in a cylinder housing, and a motor coupled to the piston for moving the piston relative to the cylinder housing in a reciprocating action, in order to generate pressurized air. A cover is detachably secured on to... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240643 | Piston cooling nozzle and positioning method for an internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine includes an engine block having an oil rifle. A cylinder liner carried by the engine block includes a bottom end. A piston cooling nozzle coupled with the engine block includes an inlet in communication with the oil rifle, a tube, and a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237514 | Piston cooling device A cooling structure is a separate member from a structural portion of an engine. An oil injection pipe includes cooling oil injection holes for injecting cooling oil into cylinder bores and is mounted across an engine at a somewhat upper position with respect to a c... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7213562 | Piston for a combustion engine and casting method for the production thereof The invention relates to a piston (1), which is comprised of an approximately circular cylindrical upper area (5) and of a lower area (6), having two hubs (7), which are set back toward the piston central axis (8) so that, in the u... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7201118 | Piston-cooling arrangement for an internal combustion engine The invention relates to an internal combustion engine having a piston-cooling arrangement (1) which has at least one spray device (2, 27; 2, 39) which is supplied with a coolant/lubricant via at least one supply passageway (3). The supply passa... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7185614 | Double bowl piston A piston for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The piston has a piston crown with a face having an interior annular edge. The piston also has first piston bowl recessed within the face of the piston crown. The first piston bowl has a bottom surface and an ... | 03/06/2007 |
