Piston for internal combustion engine and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9581105-B2
Application number	US-201514966210-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2015
Priority date	Dec 12, 2014
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a piston main body for the internal combustion engine, and a crosshatched groove being formed on a surface of the piston main body. The crosshatched groove includes a crosshatch angle that corresponds to a crossing angle of lines that configure a crosshatch, the crosshatch angle that is set at a range from equal to or greater than 15 degrees to equal to or less than 35 degrees.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A piston for an internal combustion engine, comprising:
a piston main body for the internal combustion engine; and
a crosshatched groove being formed on a surface of the piston main body; wherein
the crosshatched groove includes a crosshatch angle that corresponds to a crossing angle of lines that configure a crosshatch, the crosshatch angle that is set at a range from equal to or greater than 15 degrees to equal to or less than 35 degrees.

2. The piston for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the crosshatched groove includes a pitch that corresponds to equal to or greater than 40 micrometer and equal to or less than 60 micrometer.

3. The piston for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the crosshatched groove includes a depth that corresponds to equal to or greater than 4 micrometer and equal to or less than 8 micrometer.

4. The piston for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the piston main body includes a piston skirt portion; and
the crosshatched groove being formed on the surface of the piston skirt portion is set within the range of the crosshatch angle with respect to a direction orthogonal to a sliding direction of the piston skirt portion.

5. The piston for the internal combustion engine according to claim 4 , further comprising
a crosshatched covering layer being made of resin, the crosshatched covering layer being formed so as to cover the surface of the piston skirt portion in a state where a shape of the crosshatched groove is incorporated into a shape of the crosshatched covering layer.

6. The piston for the internal combustion engine according to claim 4 , further comprising
a flat-surface covering layer being made of resin, the flat-surface covering layer including an outermost surface being formed in a flat surface, the flat-surface covering layer being formed so as to be embedded in and cover the crosshatched groove of the surface of the piston skirt portion.

7. The piston for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein the piston main body includes a smooth surface that is provided at a position other than a position where the crosshatched groove is provided, the smooth surface including a surface roughness that corresponds to equal to or less than 0.2 micrometer.

8. The piston for the internal combustion engine according to claim 1 , wherein
the piston main body includes a piston pin hole being configured to be inserted with a piston pin to be connected to a connecting rod; and
the crosshatched groove being formed on an inner circumferential surface of the piston pin hole is set within the range of the crosshatch angle with respect to a sliding direction of the inner circumferential surface of the piston pin hole relative to the piston pin.

9. A manufacturing method of a piston for an internal combustion engine comprising:
a forming process forming a crosshatched groove on a surface of a piston main body for the internal combustion engine by a laser processing, the crosshatched groove including a crosshatch angle that corresponds to a crossing angle of lines that configure a crosshatch, the crosshatch angle having a range from equal to or greater than 15 degrees to equal to or less than 35 degrees.

Assignees

• Aisin Seiki

Inventors

• Kuniyasu Atsushi
• Niimi Takuya
• Okamoto Akihiro
• Okazaki Ryo
• Hayashi Takayuki

Classifications

• B23K26/364 Primary

  for making a groove or trench, e.g. for scribing a break initiation groove · CPC title

• F02F3/10 Primary

  having surface coverings (F02F3/02 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F02F3/00

  Pistons · CPC title

• B23K2201/003

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• F16J1/08

  Constructional features providing for lubrication · CPC title