Multi-part piston for an internal combustion engine and method for its production

• US 8,267,005 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2009
• Issued: 09/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mahle International GmbH (MAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Mahle International GmbH (MAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH)
• Inventors: Keller, Klaus, Weisse, Volker, Scharp, Ralner
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazo, Thomas E
• Application Number:
  US12/381,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20100107868A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,281 Days
• Field of Search: 921/86, 922/16, 922/31, 922/55, 922/56, 123/41.35
• US Class Current: 92/186
• CPC Class Codes: B23P 15/10 pistons
• 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

The present invention relates to a multi-part piston (10) for an internal combustion engine, having an upper piston part (11) having a piston crown (13), and a lower piston part (12), whereby the lower piston part (12) has pin boss supports (32) and pin bosses (18) connected with them, whereby the upper piston part (11) and the lower piston part (12) each have an inner (21, 25) and an outer (22, 26) support element, which elements delimit an outer circumferential cooling channel (29). According to the invention, it is provided that the inner support elements (21, 25) delimit a cavity (31) that is open toward the pin bosses (18), and that the cavity (31) is provided with a separate cooling oil collector (35) that has at least one cooling oil opening (37, 38).

Claims

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

an upper piston part having a piston crown, a first inner support element, and a first outer support element; and

a lower piston part having a piston skirt, a second inner support element, a second outer support element, pin boss supports and pin bosses connected with said pin boss supports,

wherein said first and second inner support elements and first and second outer support elements delimit an outer circumferential cooling channel,

wherein said first and second inner support elements delimit a cavity that is open toward the pin bosses,

wherein said cavity is provided with a separate cooling oil collector, said separate cooling oil collector having at least one cooling opening, and

wherein the cooling oil collector has an at least partially circumferential spring-elastic flange.

2. The piston according to claim 1, wherein the cooling oil collector is held on the first inner support element or on the second inner support element.

3. The piston according to claim 2, wherein a concave, and at least partially circumferential depression for accommodating at least an edge region of the cooling oil collector is provided on at least one of the first inner support element and the second inner support element.

4. The piston according to claim 1, wherein the cooling oil collector is held under spring bias.

5. The piston according to claim 1, wherein the cooling oil collector has at least two elastic spring tongues disposed on the outer edge.

6. The piston according to claim 1, wherein the flange region of the cooling oil collector has a layer of solder tin.

7. The piston according to claim 1, wherein the cooling oil collector is configured to be essentially round.

8. The piston according to claim 1, wherein the cooling oil collector has a slight curvature.

9. The piston according to claim 1, wherein the at least one cooling oil opening in the cooling oil collector is configured as a slit disposed at the edge of the cooling oil collector.

10. The piston according to claim 1, wherein the cooling oil collector has two or more cooling oil openings.

11. The piston according to claim 1, wherein the cooling oil collector is produced from a spring steel sheet.

12. A method for the production of a multi-part piston for an internal combustion engine, comprising the following method steps:

producing an upper piston part having a piston crown as well as an inner and an outer support element,

producing a lower piston part having a skirt and having pin boss supports and pin bosses connected with said pin boss supports, as well as having an inner and an outer support element,

inserting a separate cooling oil collector, having at least one cooling oil opening, into the upper piston part or the lower piston part,

connecting the upper piston part and the lower piston part in such a manner that each of the inner and outer support elements delimit an outer circumferential cooling channel and a cavity that is open toward the pin bosses and provided with the cooling oil collector,

wherein the flange region of the cooling oil collector is provided with a layer of solder tin.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the cooling oil collector is inserted into the upper piston part, in a region of the inner support element, or into the lower piston part, in a region of the inner support element.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein a concave, and at least partially circumferential depression is made in at least one of the inner support element of the upper piston part and in the inner support element of the lower piston part, and wherein the cooling oil collector is inserted in such a manner that at least an edge region of the cooling oil collector is accommodated in the depression.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein the cooling oil collector is soldered to the upper or lower piston part, by means of the friction heat that occurs during friction welding.