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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1999
Barry Edwin Shepley, Novi, MI (US);
Keith Raymond Bartle, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Oludele Olusegun Popoola, Novi, MI (US);
Patrick John Hilton, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Robert Edward Dejack, Whitmore Lake, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A masking for an engine block to be thermally sprayed with a coating includes a head deck mask portion adapted to engage a head deck of an engine block to prevent over-spray of a thermally sprayed coating on the head deck. The masking also includes a crankcase mask portion adapted to be disposed in a crankcase chamber of the engine block and engage a lower end of a cylinder bore cavity of the engine block to prevent over-spay of the thermally sprayed coating into the crankcase chamber.