System and method of making a crankshaft with alternate materials

    公开(公告)号:US11619255B1

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-04

    申请号:US17698410

    申请日:2022-03-18

    摘要: A crankshaft for an internal combustion engine is provided. The crankshaft comprises at least four main journals aligned on a crankshaft axis of rotation defining a centerline. The crankshaft further comprises at least three pin journals. Each pin journal is disposed about a respective pin journal axis and positioned between the main journals. Each of the pin journals is joined to a pair of crank arms. Each pair of crank arms is joined to a respective main journal. Each of the main journals, pin journals, and crank arms is made of a first metallic material. Each crank arm has an over-molded counterweight metallurgically bonded thereto. Each counterweight is disposed opposite a respective pin journal relative to the centerline for balance and stability. Each counterweight is made of a second metallic material. The crankshaft has a weight ratio of the second metallic material to the first metallic material of between 0.20 to 0.50.

    CYLINDER LINER
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220106923A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-07

    申请号:US17064810

    申请日:2020-10-07

    申请人: Caterpillar Inc.

    摘要: An annular cylinder liner includes an annular body defining a longitudinal axis, a radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, a circumferential direction, a first longitudinal end, a second longitudinal end, and a liner length measured from the first longitudinal end to the second longitudinal end along the longitudinal axis. The annular body also includes a shoulder that is disposed at the first longitudinal end, defining a shoulder axial thickness measured along the longitudinal axis. A ratio of the liner length to the shoulder axial thickness ranges from 24.0 to 46.0.

    Fluid flow energy harvester
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10968884B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-06

    申请号:US16641733

    申请日:2018-08-21

    摘要: Provided is a fluid flow energy harvester (10) comprising a crankshaft (12) and at least one vane (14) pivoted into a sail portion (18) and a crank portion (20) on respective sides of the pivot (16). Both portions (18) and (20) are operatively oscillatable about the pivot (16) when the crank portion (20) is operatively arranged facing into a fluid flow (22). The crank portion (20) is linked to the crankshaft (12) via a crank (24) so that operative oscillation of the vane (14) imparts rotational force to said crankshaft (12). The harvester (10) also includes a fin arrangement (26) which comprises a fin (28) arranged on, and configured to guide, the sail portion (18) of the vane (14) facing towards or in a direction of the fluid flow (22). The harvester (10) also includes a fin actuator (30) configured to control an orientation of the fin (28) relative to the sail portion (18), so that during oscillation of the sail portion (18), either a surface (32) of the sail portion or a surface of the fin (34) impedes the fluid flow (22) when a surface of the other is parallel to such fluid flow. In this manner, stalling of the vane oscillation is counteracted thereby facilitating continuous rotation of the crankshaft (12) during fluid flow (22).

    ROTARY ENGINE
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210054872A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-25

    申请号:US16764163

    申请日:2018-11-13

    摘要: The present invention provides a rotary engine comprising: a housing provided with three lobe accommodation parts; a rotor which is provided with two lobes continuously accommodated in the lobe accommodation parts, has an intake storage part communicating with an intake port provided on the front surface-side, and has an exhaust storage part communicating with an exhaust port provided on the rear surface-side; an intake-side housing cover provided with an intake hole communicating with the intake storage part; an exhaust-side housing cover provided with an exhaust hole communicating with the exhaust storage part; and a crankshaft, wherein the flow of an exhaust gas into a stroke chamber during an intake stroke is reduced by preventing the exhaust storage part, at a portion of a section in which the exhaust port is open, from communicating with the exhaust hole during the intake stroke.

    Method of assembling and an assembly of a crankshaft and a crank member

    公开(公告)号:US10233966B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-19

    申请号:US15035719

    申请日:2014-11-12

    申请人: Gomecsys B.V.

    摘要: A method of assembling a crankshaft and a crank member comprises supplying a crankshaft including a crankpin which extends between crank arms, supplying two halves of a crank member, which are fixed to each other about the crankpin such that in assembled condition the crank member is rotatable about the crankpin and comprises a bearing portion having an outer circumferential wall for bearing a big end of a connecting rod and an external crank member gear for driving the crank member about the crankpin, wherein the halves are fitted about the crankpin, hence creating two contact faces at opposite sides of the crankpin, after which both halves are fixed to each other in circumferential direction by means of applying at least a fixation at a fixing place located remote from the bearing portion and the toothed surface of the crank member gear.

    Carbon Composite Piston Engine Crankshaft
    7.
    发明申请
    Carbon Composite Piston Engine Crankshaft 审中-公开
    碳复合活塞发动机曲轴

    公开(公告)号:US20160356307A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-08

    申请号:US15149164

    申请日:2016-05-08

    IPC分类号: F16C3/10 B29C70/34

    摘要: A piston engine crankshaft made from carbon composite molded in two separate moldings is disclosed. According to a preferred embodiment, the first mold takes the top dead center piston ignition load. The second molding takes the dynamic piston and rod load and contains the counterweight. Accordingly, carbon fiber filaments are aligned in preferred directions to optimally absorb loads at different areas of the crankshaft.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种由两个分开的模制品中的碳复合材料制成的活塞发动机曲轴。 根据优选实施例,第一模具采取上止点活塞点火负载。 第二个模具采用动态活塞和活塞杆装载,并包含配重。 因此,碳纤维长丝在优选方向上对准以最佳地吸收曲轴不同区域的载荷。

    Electric bicycle
    8.
    发明授权
    Electric bicycle 有权
    电动自行车

    公开(公告)号:US09434446B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-09-06

    申请号:US14375367

    申请日:2012-03-08

    申请人: Masafumi Kawakami

    发明人: Masafumi Kawakami

    摘要: An electric bicycle is provided that can increase the diameter of the joining section between a crankshaft and a crank arm, suppress an increase in manufacturing cost, and minimize a size increase of a hanger with a torque sensor disposed in the hanger. A crankshaft 17 is divided into a crankshaft body 17A on the periphery of which a torque sensor 23 is disposed, and an auxiliary crankshaft 17B connected to one side of the crankshaft body 17A. A diameter D1 of the joining section between the auxiliary crankshaft 17B and a crank arm 18B and a diameter D3 of the joining section between the crankshaft body 17A and a crank arm 18A are larger than a diameter D2 of the connecting section between the crankshaft body 17A and the auxiliary crankshaft 17B.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种电动自行车,其可以增加曲轴和曲柄臂之间的接合部分的直径,抑制制造成本的增加,并且使用设置在衣架中的扭矩传感器的衣架的尺寸增加最小化。 曲轴17在其周边设置有扭矩传感器23的曲轴体17A和与曲轴主体17A的一侧连接的辅助曲轴17B。 辅助曲轴17B和曲柄臂18B之间的接合部分的直径D1和曲轴主体17A和曲柄臂18A之间的接合部分的直径D3大于曲轴主体17A之间的连接部分的直径D2 和辅助曲轴17B。

    CRANKSHAFT FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
    10.
    发明申请
    CRANKSHAFT FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE 审中-公开
    内燃机起重机

    公开(公告)号:US20160061106A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-03-03

    申请号:US14829949

    申请日:2015-08-19

    申请人: EcoMotors, Inc.

    摘要: An internal combustion engine includes a crankshaft having a first web portion defining an inner opening and defining an undercut proximate the inner opening, a second web portion defining an inner opening and defining an undercut proximate the inner opening and an inner bearing portion that engages with the inner opening of the first web portion and with the inner opening of the second web portion. First and second pushrods each have a piston end and a crankshaft end. The crankshaft ends of the first and second pushrods each have a concave surface placed over different portions of the inner bearing portion between the first and second web portions, and each further have shoulders adjacent their respective concave surface that engage with the undercuts of the first and second web portions.

    摘要翻译: 内燃机包括曲轴,其具有第一腹板部分,所述第一腹板部分限定内部开口并限定靠近内部开口的底切;限定内部开口并限定靠近内部开口的底切的第二腹板部分和与所述内部开口接合的内部轴承部分 第一腹板部分的内部开口和第二腹板部分的内部开口。 第一和第二推杆各自具有活塞端和曲轴端。 第一和第二推杆的曲轴端部各自具有放置在第一和第二腹板部分之间的内部轴承部分的不同部分上的凹形表面,并且每个还具有与其相应的凹形表面相邻的肩部,其与第一和第二腹板的底切接合, 第二网部分。