A piston for a high temperature internal combustion engine is provided. The piston includes an upper wall, base wall, outer rib, and inner rib defining a cooling chamber therebetween, and a plurality of ring grooves formed in the outer rib. Only the second ring groove is formed with the keystone cross-section, and all of the other ring grooves are formed with the conventional rectangular cross-section. Thus, the piston can be formed with low manufacturing costs and can also provide exceptional performance when used in high temperature combustion engines, wherein the temperature at the first ring groove is greater than 280° C., and thus prevents carbon from depositing or burns off any carbon deposits, but the temperature at the second ring groove is between 200° C. and 280° C., in which case carbon deposits can form and cause the piston ring to stick.

Systems and methods for forming a plurality of valleys on an inner circumferential surface of a cylinder liner for uniform oil film thickness are disclosed. In one aspect, an internal combustion engine includes a piston; and a cylinder liner surrounding the piston, wherein the cylinder liner has a plurality of valleys on an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder liner, and wherein the plurality of valleys are formed to a frequency of 7 to 14 valleys per millimeter (mm) having a depth of at least 1 micrometer (μm).

A system to attach valve seat inserts to an aluminum cylinder head of an automobile vehicle includes a cylinder head of an automobile vehicle engine having a valve seat portion. A valve seat insert is positioned in the valve seat portion of the cylinder head. A fusion bond is created between the valve seat insert and the valve seat portion by laser welding thereby fusing the valve seat insert to the valve seat portion.

The disclosure relates to a method for producing a component, in particular a vehicle component or an engine component, such as a piston of an internal combustion engine. The method comprises forming a first body region, in particular by means of casting or forging. The method includes forming a second body region, which is connected to the first body region, from an aluminium alloy or an iron-based alloy or a copper-based alloy by means of an additive manufacturing method. The second body region is alloyed in such a manner that it has higher thermal stability, higher mechanical strength or higher wear resistance upon tribological stressing than the first body region.

A method of manufacturing an internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a cylinder forming member, a piston reciprocatably accommodated in a cylinder, an injector which supplies fuel into a combustion chamber, and a heat insulating layer covering at least a part of a combustion-chamber wall surface and having a lower heat conductivity than the combustion-chamber wall surface. The method includes applying a coating material that is a material of the heat insulating layer to the combustion-chamber wall surface, assembling the piston to the cylinder forming member while the coating material is uncured, and heating the coating material to be cured by combusting the fuel injected from the injector and reciprocating the piston. The heating the coating material includes injecting the fuel from the injector at least in an early stage of the heating so that the injected fuel adhering to the surface of the coating material is suppressed.

The present invention suppresses leakage of combustion gas from a contact surface. A cylinder head (20) is attached to a cylinder block. The surface (26) of the side of the cylinder head (20) that is attached to the cylinder block includes a first region (AH1) and a second region (AH2) that has higher hardness than the first region (AH1).

A magnetic-field-assisted plasma coating system and method are provided. In another aspect, a coating system employs a cathode with a linearly moveable magnetic field. A further aspect employs a workpiece as an anode within which is located an elongated cathode which internally coats a bore of the workpiece. Still another aspect of the present system and method employs an elongated and hollow cathode with at least one magnetic source therein. In yet another aspect, end caps or plates seal against one or more open ends of a workpiece bore to be coated, with a cathode inserted into the bore and a vacuum being created within the bore such that the workpiece itself defines at least a portion of a vacuum chamber.

A cylinder block for an internal combustion engine includes a metal section and a resin section. The metal section includes: a cylinder liner; head bolt female screw portions that are screwed onto male screw portions of head bolts that fasten the cylinder block and a cylinder head; crank cap bolt female screw portions that are screwed onto male screw portions of crank cap bolts that fasten the cylinder block and crank caps and columnar portions that connect the head bolt female screw portions; and the crank cap bolt female screw portions. The cylinder liner and the columnar portions are integrated with each other.

A piston for an internal combustion engine may include a piston crown, a piston body, and a ring portion. The piston body may have a radially outermost piston outer surface, which may emanate from the piston crown and extend axially and in a circumferential direction. The ring portion may be disposed axially spaced apart from the piston crown. The ring portion may extend axially and in the circumferential direction. The ring portion may include a ring carrier with a ring groove configured to receive a piston ring. The ring portion may further include a radially outer ring portion outer surface that extends in the circumferential direction. The ring portion outer surface may be disposed radially to an inside relative to the piston outer surface. The piston outer surface may extend elliptically in the circumferential direction. The ring portion outer surface may extend rotation-symmetrically in the circumferential direction.

This piston includes a low thermal conductivity part comprising: a porous member made of a borosilicate glass that has a lower thermal conductivity than the piston base material made of an aluminum alloy material that is the base material impregnated into the porous member. A molded object obtained from a first powder (glass powder) and a second powder (sodium chloride powder) is put in hot water to dissolve away the second powder and form pores in the porous member. The aluminum alloy material is impregnated into these pores to unite the porous member to the piston base material. Furthermore, varnish containing polyimide, etc. is applied to the upper surface of the porous member and impregnated into the pores with a varnish impregnation device assisted by vacuum drawing and atmospheric pressure, thereby preventing the pores from remaining vacant. Due to this, deterioration in exhaust emission performance can be prevented.