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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2022
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Ronald John Petrus, Lake Orion, MI (US);
Richard M. Nichols, III, Macomb, MI (US);
Brian C. Leuenhagen, Clarkston, MI (US);
William A. Berry, Davison, MI (US);
Qigui Wang, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
James T. Singer, Defiance, OH (US);
GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An automobile vehicle engine includes multiple water jackets individually formed in a cast engine block proximate to successive ones of multiple cylinder bores. Multiple cast-in place transition regions are individually formed during a casting operation of the cast engine block at entrances to individual ones of the multiple water jackets. Individual ones of multiple sawcuts open into individual ones of the multiple cast-in place transition regions.