Abstract:
An internal combustion engine having an anodic oxidation coating formed on at least a part of a wall surface that faces a combustion chamber, wherein the anodic oxidation coating has voids and nano-holes smaller than the voids; at least part of the voids are sealed with a sealant derived by converting a sealing agent; and at least a part of the nano-holes are not sealed.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a cylinder sleeve (2) for lining the cylindrical wall of a cylinder (A1) of an internal combustion engine. The inventive sleeve (2) comprises an inner wall (3) which is intended to guide a piston in translation and an outer wall (4) which is intended to rest on the cylindrical wall of the cylinder. The outer wall (4) of the sleeve of the cylinder (2) comprises an upper part (6) which is flared toward a top edge (5) of the sleeve (2), which is defined between the inner (3) and outer (4) walls of the cylinder sleeve. The invention also relates to a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine, comprising at least two cylinders (A1, B1) which are each equipped with one such cylinder sleeve.
Abstract:
This invention provides a cylinder head capable of efficiently cooling the portion at which a large number of valve ports gather. The present invention provides a cylinder head (20) of an engine equipped with suction and exhaust valve ports (3a, 5a) inside a cooling jacket (8), characterized in that a drain port (11) allowing the cooling water jacket (8) to communicate with the outside of the cylinder head (20) opens in a corner portion at one end portion of a side wall (1a) of the cylinder head, water feed ports (10a) extending along the side wall (1a), opening to the cooling water jacket (8) and communicating with the cooling water jacket of the cylinder block are formed in a cylinder bottom wall (1c), and a partition is so disposed as to divide the portion at which the water feed ports (10a) are open and the portion at which the suction and exhaust valve ports (3a, 5a) are disposed and to guide cooling water from the water feed ports (10a) round the suction and exhaust valve ports (3a, 5a).
Abstract:
Ceramic materials to be insert-cast are disclosed, which each contain not less than 65% by volume of aluminum titanate as a crystalline phase, and have an average particle diameter of crystals thereof being not less than 10 .mu.m, Young's modulus of 50 to 2,000 kgf/mm.sup.2, compression strength of 5 to 40 kgf/mm.sup.2, and porosity of 5 to 35%. Ceramic port liners are also disclosed, which are free from cracking due to compression force during insert-casting, peeling-off during use, and facilitate insert-casting. To attain this, a reinforcement which meets either one or both of requirements that differences in coefficient of thermal expansion at 800.degree. C. and Young's modulus between the reinforcement and a material constituting the port liner body are in a range of .+-.0.1% and in a range of .+-.1,000 kgf/mm.sup.2, respectively, is filled into a depressed portion at an outer peripheral surface of the port liner body to form an integrated structure with a flat or swelled surface. Alternatively, the outer peripheral surface of the port liner body is worked to give uneven portions at a joining surface of the port liner body to a metal to insert-cast the port liner. Another alternative is to utilize a stress-releasing slit formed in a wall of the port liner body. Further, the outer peripheral surface of the ceramic port liner body may be covered with a ceramic sheet which is irreversively expandable by heating.
Abstract:
An engine part with a cast main body and a manifold type ceramic liner which is cast in the main body to define a manifold type exhaust passage therein, the ceramic liner including a hollow cylindrical liner body and a plurality of cylinder members branched from the liner body, a through portion being provided at a branched area of the ceramic liner for communicating inside and outside of the ceramic liner at which area adjacent cylinder members are branched apart, the through portion being filled with a molten metal at the time of casting the main body.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method and structure of preventing cylinder head warpage and over-heating of internal combustion engines by utilizing a cylinder head modification assembly. The cylinder head modification assembly includes (1) a main expansion transfer plate assembly; and (2) an exhaust port expansion transfer assembly, each of which are adapted to be mounted on a cylinder head structure to provide strengthening and expansion transfer characteristics. The main expansion transfer plate assembly is of an elongated rectangular shape having various portions of different heights in order to achieve the required strength and heat transfer properties. The exhaust port expansion transfer assembly includes a main support body having an integral anchor section and is adapted to be mounted and secured between adjacent exhaust ports of the cylinder head structure. These elements are attached to the existing cylinder head structure after slight modification thereof so as to distribute excessive expansion build up and warpage during usage. The method of this invention involves the steps of preventing cylinder head warpage and over-heating by a machining process and application of the cylinder head modification assembly to a cylinder head structure.
Abstract:
Precombustion chamber construction in a cylinder head of a diesel engine utilizing ceramic material to increase resistance to thermal stresses. A space is provided between the precombustion chamber construction and the cylinder head at least at the main combustion chamber of the diesel engine, and one or more ceramic bodies are shielded from the metal cylinder head and any other metal by thermal insulation to minimize thermal stresses and enable combustion in the precombustion chamber to take place at a higher temperature whereby the power/weight ratio and the efficiency of the engine are improved. The precombustion chamber construction in one embodiment is composed of axially successive parts, and at least the part nearest the main combustion chamber is made of the ceramic material and shielded as indicated.
Abstract:
An internal combustion engine including a coolant jacketed body surrounding a combustion cylinder with a tubular wall extending through the coolant jacket and surrounding an ignition device exposed through a firing deck area to said cylinder, has a circular recess axially of said ignition device and encompassing said firing deck area with an axially disposed, internally threaded bore extending from said recess into said tubular wall, and a circular plate insert having an axially disposed, externally threaded boss threadable into said bore to axially secure said insert within said recess, the diameter of said insert being less than the diameter of said recess to enable expansion by heat absorption of said insert independently of and without transmitting stress and strain to said engine body.