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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2017
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Clifford E. Maki, New Hudson, MI (US);
Larry Dean Elie, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
James Douglas Ervin, Novi, MI (US);
Timothy George Beyer, Troy, MI (US);
Hamed Ghaednia, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
James Maurice Boileau, Novi, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A method includes spraying a coating on to an engine bore surface, honing the coated surface to create a honed surface region, and cleaning the honed surface region to remove material from the surface pores. The honed surface region includes a plurality of surface pores and upper, middle, and lower regions. Cleaning the honed surface region produces upper, middle, and lower region surface porosities, with the middle region porosity being greater than at least one of the upper and lower porosities.