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Reduced compression height dual gallery piston, piston assembly therewith and methods of construction thereof

  • US 10,450,999 B2
  • Filed: 01/17/2019
  • Issued: 10/22/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2014
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of constructing a piston assembly for an internal combustion engine, comprising:

  • forming a piston head having upper and lower crowns;

    forming the upper crown having an upper combustion surface having a combustion bowl depending therein with an undercrown surface opposite the combustion bowl;

    forming an annular upper outer wall portion and an annular upper inner wall portion depending from the undercrown surface;

    forming a pair of laterally spaced pin bosses depending from an upper wall of the lower crown and having axially aligned pin bores for receipt of a wrist pin;

    forming a pair of diametrically opposite skirt portions extending between the pin bosses;

    forming a concave, saddle bearing surface extending between the pin bosses in the upper wall of the lower crown;

    forming at least one oil inlet through the saddle bearing surface;

    forming at least one oil outlet in the upper wall of the lower crown;

    forming the lower crown having an annular lower outer wall portion and an annular lower inner wall portion extending upwardly from the upper wall;

    fixing the upper and lower outer annular wall portions to one another and fixing the upper and lower inner annular wall portions to one another and forming a toroid-shaped outer cooling gallery surrounding an inner cooling gallery;

    fixing an end of a connecting rod to the wrist pin for conjoint oscillation therewith and bringing an oil passage in the connecting rod into fluid communication with a through hole in the wrist pin; and

    configuring the through hole in the wrist pin for fluid communication with the at least one oil inlet in the upper wall during reciprocation of the wrist pin against the saddle bearing surface.

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