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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2002
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
In a cylinder liner of an internal combustion engine for casting into a light-metal crankcase to be cast, in order, during the casting in of the cylinder liner, to achieve as good a binding as possible of the cylinder liner to the surrounding casting material, the cylinder liner has on the outer circumference, in the region of the upper dead center of the piston rings of a piston guided in the liner, an activation layer which consists of a material which, due to the heat effect of the liquid casting material, connects metallically more rapidly to the latter than the liner material, and in that the cylinder liner has a rough surface on the outer circumference following the region of the upper dead center.