Multi-part piston for a combustion engine

• US 7,533,601 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2006
• Issued: 05/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mahle International GmbH (MAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH), Mahle Technology, Inc. (MAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Mahle International GmbH (MAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH), Mahle Technology, Inc. (MAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH)
• Inventors: Dinu, Dan, Lapp, Michael T.
• Primary Examiner(s): LOPEZ, FRANK D
• Application Number:
  US11/637,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20080134880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 921/86, 922/31
• US Class Current: 92/186
• CPC Class Codes: F02F 3/0023 the parts being bolted or screwed together
• CPC Class Codes: F02F 3/003 the parts being connected by casting, brazing, welding or clamping
• CPC Class Codes: F02F 3/22 the fluid being liquid

Abstract

A multi-part piston for a combustion engine having a piston upper part and a piston lower part, where the piston upper part has a piston crown and an attachment head on its side facing the piston lower part, and the piston lower part has an attachment element in which the attachment head is held, the attachment element being disposed on a side facing the piston upper part. The attachment head is held in the attachment element by a press fit.

Claims

1. A multi-part piston for a combustion engine, comprising:

a piston upper part having an piston crown;

a piston lower part;

an attachment head on the piston upper part, said attachment head being disposed on a side facing the piston lower part; and

an attachment element on the piston lower part, said attachment element holding the attachment head and being located on a side of the piston lower part facing the piston upper part;

wherein the attachment head is held in the attachment element by means of a press fit;

wherein the piston lower part is provided with an axially aligned annular collar facing the piston upper part, and

wherein the piston upper part has an annular and all-round side wall that grips around the annular collar and is held by a press fit.

2. A piston according to claim 1, wherein the piston upper part and the piston lower part are additionally connected to one another by welding, soldering, or bonding.

3. A piston according to claim 1, wherein the attachment element has a hole extending entirely therethrough.

4. A piston according to claim 3, wherein the attachment element has a chamfer at an end facing the piston lower part and the attachment head grips the chamfer with an end facing the piston lower part.

5. A piston according to claim 4, wherein the attachment head is riveted to the attachment element.

6. A piston according to claim 1, wherein the attachment element has a blind hole.

7. A piston according to claim 1, wherein the piston lower part has an internal and all-around support element, and wherein a support plate on which the attachment element is held is connected to the internal support element.

8. A piston according to claim 7, wherein the internal support element has an all-around support surface facing the piston upper part and the piston upper part has an all-around contact surface corresponding to the support surface and facing the piston lower part.

9. A piston according to claim 1, wherein the piston upper part and the piston lower part enclose an all-around cooling channel.

10. A piston according to claim 1, wherein the piston lower part comprises a lightweight metal or a steel material and the piston upper part comprises a steel material.

11. A multi-part piston for a combustion engine, comprising:

a piston upper part having an piston crown;

a piston lower part;

an attachment head on the piston upper part, said attachment head being disposed on a side facing the piston lower part; and

an attachment element on the piston lower part, said attachment element holding the attachment head and being located on a side of the piston lower part facing the piston upper part;

wherein the attachment head is held in the attachment element by means of a press fit, and

wherein the attachment element has a blind hole.