Man Energy Solutions Se

Marcel Morgenstern

Talat Shaer

Markus Bauer

A cylinder of an internal combustion engine, having a cylinder liner and a cylinder piston guided in the cylinder liner The cylinder piston has multiple ring grooves delimited by ring webs and are separated by the ring webs. Each ring grooves receives a compression ring or an oil scraping ring. Each ring groove is delimited by an upper groove flank, a lower groove flank and a groove base, and each piston ring has a lower ring flank, an upper ring flank a ring back and a section which rests against a radially inner running surface of the cylinder liner. A depression is introduced into the lower groove flank of the at least one ring groove or each ring groove which receives a compression ring and/or into the lower ring flank of the piston ring designed as a compression ring.

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Chemnitz, Germany

Marcel Morgenstern