A piston for an internal combustion engine is provided. The piston includes a piston body including an upper combustion surface, an annular side wall with a ring belt region, and a cooling gallery located within the piston body having a fluid inlet. A piston ring is located in a ring groove around the ring belt region and an alignment pin is secured in a hole in the piston side wall to restrict circumferential displacement of the piston ring. The piston body further includes a boss within the cooling gallery into which the hole and the alignment pin extend. The boss projects into the cooling gallery opposite the fluid inlet and is shaped to provide a flow splitter surface configured to divide cooling fluid flowing through the fluid inlet during use into first and second fluid flows and to direct the first and second fluid flows in opposite directions around the cooling gallery.
Marine outboard motor with piston cooling gallery
2020-12-16
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | F02F CYLINDERS, PISTONS, OR CASINGS FOR COMBUSTION ENGINES , Zylinder, Kolben oder Gehäuse für Brennkraftmaschinen / B63H Schiffsantrieb oder Steuerung der Schiffe , MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING / F02B INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES , Brennkraftmaschinen mit innerer Verbrennung mit Verdrängerwirkung / F16J Kolben , PISTONS |
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