A method is provided for designing and producing fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) pistons. Pistons made with FRP have a lower mass than prior art metal pistons conferring advantageous engine efficiency and stability. FRP pistons also increase the thermal efficiency of engines by having a lower thermal conductivity, with tighter piston-to-bore clearance, and/increased air-fuel ratio than pistons of metal. The technical parameters of the piston are identified, and a piston body blank is produced. The blank is then machined, a bearing surface for the pin bore is created, the piston blank is optionally coated, is optionally subjected to Heavy Metal Ion Implantation (HMII) treatment and is subjected to sodium silicate impregnation to produce the final pistons.

A fluid gear pump gear arranged to rotate about a first axis. The fluid gear pump gear includes a concentrically disposed first hub portion and a plurality of first teeth radially projecting and circumferentially spaced about the first hub portion, the first hub portion and the first teeth being coated with a vapor-deposited of cavitation resistant coating. The gear also includes a first shaft on which the first hub portion is carried.

The disclosure relates to systems and methods that include coating a motor of an ESP with a DLC coating. The DLC coating includes a dopant and is hydrophobic. The coating can reduce (e.g., prevent) scale formation on the surface of the motor and/or reduce an amount of scale inhibitor chemical used to reduce scale.

A method is provided of designing and producing a piston using chopped carbon ceramic pre-impregnated composite material, wherein the method allows piston designers to produce a fiber/composite preform, then machine any of several different piston designs, diameters, with different ring and chamber designs or dimensions and dimensional offsets. The piston preform is shaped in a basic form, and then machined into a piston that fits a specific engine. After the specific machining is performed, the pin bosses are bored and fitted with bronze inserts; ring lands are cut, skirts are shaped, finish machining is performed on all surfaces. Pistons are preferably then plated to seal carbon ceramic based materials, and the skirts as well as regions that engage in part-to-part moving contact, are plasma coated with anti-friction material(s). The skirts may be made as a separate skirt preform which is fitted, machined or cut to fit the specific piston. The overall process is adapted to skirt regions of differing size, length or offset that are assembled into a unitary structure of improved strength/weight characteristics. The method is useful for making high-performance engine modification parts having high strength and reduced inertial mass

A piston that moves reciprocally in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine and has a piston skirt that makes sliding contact with the inner wall of the cylinder. Solid lubrication parts are provided on the sliding-contact surface of the piston skirt. The solid lubrication parts include at least one type of silver, silver alloy, copper, or copper alloy, and at least one type of carbon material or carbide ceramics.

A water pump with a pump body, a chamber defined inside the pump body, and a rotor rotatable inside the chamber around a rotation axis with a plurality of vanes movable along respective radial directions. A tilting stator is arranged inside the chamber in an eccentric position with respect to the rotor. The tilting stator is pivoted at a rotation pin. A ring is interposed between the tilting stator and the rotor and is in contact with a radially inner surface of the tilting stator and with radially outer ends of the vanes. Adjusting members for adjusting the pump displacement are active on the tilting stator to move the tilting stator with respect to the rotor and place the tilting stator in at least one predetermined operating position defined between a maximum eccentricity position and a minimum eccentricity position.

A water pump with a stator, a chamber defined inside the stator, a ring arranged inside said chamber having a radially outer surface in contact with a radially inner surface of the stator, and a rotor arranged inside the ring and rotatable around a rotation axis. The rotor has a plurality of vanes movable along respective radial directions and having respective radially outer ends in contact with a radially inner surface of the ring. The ring is made of a material having a friction coefficient lower than friction coefficient of metal materials.

An enhanced elastomeric stator assembly and method of making the same is disclosed. The elastomeric stator may be structurally, thermally, and/or chemically enhanced through the incorporation of graphene particles, cross-linkable polymers, coupling agents that extend cross-links, and by the reduction of filler material. The graphene particles can be incorporated in functionalized or non-functionalized form or in a combination thereof, the functionalized graphene increasing the number of cross-links in the overall structure, thereby enhancing the structural robustness of the elastomeric stator. The compound can be formulated to have a relatively low viscosity and other characteristics that allow the material to flow through a mould cavity.

A vane pump includes a rotor; a plurality of slits that are formed in the rotor, the plurality of vanes being respectively inserted into the plurality of slits in a slidable manner; a cam ring that has a cam face on which tip-ends of the vanes slide by the rotation of the rotor; and pump chambers that are defined by the rotor, the cam ring, and an adjacent pair of the vanes. The plurality of vanes have a plurality of first vanes that are formed by applying a DLC coating on a base material and second vanes that are formed such that the base material is exposed, the first vanes being respectively inserted into at least two adjacent slits of the plurality of slits.

An enhanced elastomeric stator assembly and method of making the same is disclosed. The elastomeric stator may be structurally, thermally, and/or chemically enhanced through the incorporation of graphene particles, cross-linkable polymers, coupling agents that extend cross-links, and by the reduction of filler material. The graphene particles can be incorporated in functionalized or non-functionalized form or in a combination thereof, the functionalized graphene increasing the number of cross-links in the overall structure, thereby enhancing the structural robustness of the elastomeric stator. The compound can be formulated to have a relatively low viscosity and other characteristics that allow the material to flow through a mold cavity.