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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan Patrick Jeffries, Canton, MI (US);
Brian Denis Armstrong, Whitmore Lake, MI (US);
Thomas Jeremy Kostrzewski, Brownstown, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02F 3/28 (2006.01); F02B 75/22 (2006.01); F02B 23/06 (2006.01); F02B 23/08 (2006.01); F02F 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02F 3/28 (2013.01); F02B 23/063 (2013.01); F02B 23/08 (2013.01); F02B 75/22 (2013.01); Y02T 10/125 (2013.01);
Abstract
A piston includes a crown having a deck, a spark recess, an exhaust valve recess, and an intake valve recess. The piston also includes a wedge disposed on the crown extending from the exhaust valve recess and the intake valve recess toward the spark recess above the deck. The wedge is a planar wedge disposed at an angle substantially parallel to an associated exhaust valve received by the exhaust valve recess. The crown is symmetrical about a piston center line.