Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshio Hamashima

Shigeo Kaiho

Masuo Ebisawa

Yoshikazu Kanzawa

Akio Kawase

Masaaki Kurosawa

Shuji Kobayashi

Kiyoshi Shibata

A process for manufacturing a siamese-type clyinder block which is disclosed herein comprises a blank making step of providing a cylinder block blank in which a sleeve made of a cast iron is cast in each cylinder barrel of a siamese-type barrel made of an aluminum alloy and consisting of a plurality of cylinder barrels connected in series, and a mechanically working or machining step of forming the inner peripheral surface of each sleeve of the cylinder block blank into a true circle. The process is characterized in that the blank making step includes placing highly rigid sleeves each having a thickness set as large as 10% or more of the inner diameter thereof into a siamese-type cylinder barrel molding cavity in a mold and then pouring a molten metal of aluminum alloy under a pressure into the cavity to effect a casting. The sleeve is cast-in as it is at an ambient temperature or in a heated state. A cylinder block blank resulting from the casting-in of sleeves at an ambient temperature is subjected to a thermal treatment for reducing the casting strain in each cylinder barrel.

Process for manufacturing siamese-type cylinder block

A casting process which is disclosed herein comprises placing a breakable core into a cavity in a mold and pouring a molten metal under a pressure into the cavity by means of a plunger. The casting process is characterized in that the speed of plunger moved is controlled at three stages of first, second and third velocities, the second velocity being set higher than the first velocity and the third velocity being lower than the second velocity.

Casting process

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Sakado, Japan

Toshio Hamashima