Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Joshua Putnam Styron

Jeffrey Eliot Chottiner

V Durga Nageswar Rao

Yash Andrew Imai

George Aristidis Papaioannou

Pravin Sashidharan

A crankshaft, for use with a variable compression ratio engine having a connecting rod and a rod bearing, includes a crankpin adapted to be coupled to the connecting rod with the rod bearing disposed between the crankpin and the connecting rod. The crankpin includes a circumferential surface having first and second side surface portions and a main surface portion disposed between the side surface portions. The main surface portion is configured to receive the rod bearing. The first side surface portion has a first aperture disposed at least partially outwardly of the rod bearing when the rod bearing is received on the main surface portion of the crankpin and the crankpin is coupled to the connecting rod. The crankpin further defines, at least partially, a first fluid passage for supplying pressurized fluid to the first aperture, such that the fluid is useable to vary compression ratio of the engine.

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Canton, MI, United States of America

Joshua Putnam Styron