US20130167801A1 - Oil control ring of ferrous body for internal combustion engines - Google Patents

Oil control ring of ferrous body for internal combustion engines Download PDF

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US20130167801A1
US20130167801A1 US13/701,692 US201113701692A US2013167801A1 US 20130167801 A1 US20130167801 A1 US 20130167801A1 US 201113701692 A US201113701692 A US 201113701692A US 2013167801 A1 US2013167801 A1 US 2013167801A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01M—LUBRICATING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; LUBRICATING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; CRANKCASE VENTILATING
    • F01M11/00—Component parts, details or accessories, not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F01M1/00 - F01M9/00
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16J—PISTONS; CYLINDERS; SEALINGS
    • F16J9/00—Piston-rings, e.g. non-metallic piston-rings, seats therefor; Ring sealings of similar construction
    • F16J9/06—Piston-rings, e.g. non-metallic piston-rings, seats therefor; Ring sealings of similar construction using separate springs or elastic elements expanding the rings; Springs therefor ; Expansion by wedging
    • F16J9/061—Piston-rings, e.g. non-metallic piston-rings, seats therefor; Ring sealings of similar construction using separate springs or elastic elements expanding the rings; Springs therefor ; Expansion by wedging using metallic coiled or blade springs
    • F16J9/062—Coiled spring along the entire circumference

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  • the present invention refers to an oil control ring formed by a ferrous body idealized for internal combustion engines that allows the maintenance of appropriate levels of contact pressure, even under reduced expanding loads due to the use of profile that offers reduced contact of the ring with the interface of the cylinder.
  • the internal combustion engines are mechanisms that transform energy used by the great majority of automotive vehicles, and they basically include two main parts: the engine block and one or more cylinder head(s).
  • the combustion chambers in diesel engines in general the combustion chambers are in the piston heads
  • the engine block we find the cylinders and the set of the crankshaft.
  • the set of the crankshaft is composed of pistons, connecting rods and by the crankshaft.
  • the engine converts the energy produced by the combustion of the mixture (fuel and air) in the combustion chambers, into mechanic energy capable of giving movement to the wheels.
  • rings Another important function of the rings is to be used as a bridge to transmit heat from the piston to the cylinder wall/liner where the dissipation of heat occurs through the engine cooling system.
  • the oil rings can be composed of one, two or three pieces, and the most commonly used type in internal combustion engines are the ones with two or three pieces.
  • the one-piece ring uses the elastic properties inherent to the base material in order to meet the expansion force requested for the application, whereas the two-piece ring includes basically a body and an elastic element and the three-piece ring includes basically a support body and two segments of ring to meet the same purpose.
  • the oil rings found in the prior art have slits or holes distributed along the peripheral transversal section of the body. These slits or holes have the function to drain the excess of oil accumulated between the two external work faces of the ring and increase its flexibility by means of the reduction of rigidness of the transversal section that contains the slits, offering more conformity of the piece/set with the cylinder wall.
  • the main contribution of the rings is the reduction of the load necessary to offer the sufficient pressure against the cylinder wall(s) of the engine.
  • the improvement in the operations of reconditioning and burnishing of the cylinders, associated with the low load rings, can lead to an increased time of operation of the engine for the “breaking in” of the pieces.
  • the breaking in period is necessary because, although there is a lot of care in the production of coinciding parts, the variability that is inherent to the production and the deformities of operation of the engine require some wearing before matching the sliding surfaces of the piece. The consumption of lubrication oil in this phase is higher until the appropriate adjustment is reached.
  • the ring defined in the Brazilian patent application PI 9202268 tries to solve the problem of reduction of contact area by using truncated conical contact surfaces. Additionally, the referred ring presents good behavior during the breaking-in phase of the engine, since the very high contact pressure that occurs in the first operation hours helps stabilize the consumption of engine oil.
  • this type of ring has as an unfavorable characteristic the expensive manufacturing process in order to obtain the referred bulged profile in the projections of contact.
  • a first objective of the present invention is to propose an oil control ring which, by using the peripheral face of work with reduced contact surface, allows a better distribution of the pressure, guaranteeing an appropriate thickness of the oil pellicle between the cylinder ring and wall and enabling the reduction of the loading given by the expanding force of ring project (and, therefore, the corresponding reduction of power dissipated by friction).
  • an objective of the present invention is to propose an oil control ring where the use of profile of peripheral face of work with reduced contact surface, associated with the use of higher conical angle of the face of contact against the internal cylinder wall alms at minimizing the effect of radial wearing on the increase of the axial width of the face of contact, offering, therefore, the maintenance of the pressure of project and consequently the control of the oil pellicle between the cylinder ring and wall during the service life of the engine.
  • Another an objective of the present invention is the possibility of being applied together with various types of surface treatments and covers, because given its constructive and handling robustness, it significantly reduces the chances of breaking and cracks during the operation and even the phases of assembly and disassembly of the ring in the piston and the piston in the cylinder.
  • an oil control ring for internal combustion engines formed by a ferrous body including two contact projections, each one defining a respective surface of external contact which contains a first and second extremity edges and each one having a tilted face that starts as of the respective second edge, the projections of contact being turned so that the respective tilted faces are turned one facing the other, in a symmetrically.
  • an oil control ring for internal combustion engines formed by a ferrous body including two projections of contact, each one defining a respective surface of external contact which contains a first and second extremity edges and each one having a tilted face that starts as of the respective second edge, where each surface of contact has a height between the first and second extremity edge between 0.02 and 0.20 millimeters and the angle of each tilted face is included between 5 and 25 degrees.
  • a solution brought by this invention is the possibility of a higher 21 radial removal during the lapping operation, without significant increase of the contact range, given the higher conical angle of the profile.
  • the flat part of the ring guarantees an appropriate contact range and minimizes the risk of chipping that could occur if the vertex were maintained.
  • Another benefit of this invention is the possibility of enabling the use of reduced contact surfaces in oil rings with the use of surface hardening treatments of the contact surface in order to make the product more, resistant to wearing, such as, for example, nitriding.
  • the use of this technology on reduced contact surfaces can result in high levels of located tension because the relation between the thickness of the hardened layer and the contact portion is approximately unitary.
  • FIG. 1 is a view of the transversal section of an oil ring for internal combustion engines of the prior art
  • FIG. 2 is a view of the profile of the stepped work face of an oil ring for internal combustion engines of the prior art
  • FIG. 3 A is a detailed view of the profile of the contact surface of a ring of the prior art
  • FIG. 3 B is a detailed view of the profile of the contact surface of the ring object of this invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the transversal section of the oil ring for internal combustion engines of this invention
  • FIG. 5 is a detailed view of the profile of the preferred concretization of the contact surface of the ring of this invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a detailed view of the profile of an alternative concretization of the contact surface of the ring object of this invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a schematic representation of the high concentration of tensions in a ring of the prior art
  • FIG. 8 is a schematic representation of the higher robustness brought by the profile of the ring object of this invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the ring object of this invention in operation.
  • the Brazilian patent application PI9202268 defines an oil control ring 100 that enables an efficient scraping of oil by means of the contact surface in the truncated conical shape 11 . It also brings, as illustrated in FIG. 1 , oblong rips 16 for the return of the oil to the engine pan.
  • FIG. 2 represents the ring revealed by U.S. Pat. No. 7,117,594, which brings, as solution for the reduction of contact face the use of a manufacturing technique that increases the constructive robustness of the contact surface by the stepping of the projection of contact (see the stepping, identified in FIG. 2 with reference 200 ).
  • this solution does not eliminate the possibility or probability of occurrence of storage of oil in the stepped region of the projections of contact of the ring, increasing, therefore, the consumption of oil in the vehicle driving set.
  • a general ring belonging to the prior art has the profile of the contact surface 16 with a slightly tilted face 17 (between 30′ and 4°), where such configuration allows only a precise contact on edge 18 with the cylinder wall, bringing high pressure in the phase of engine breaking-in.
  • the oil control ring 1 object of this invention is formed by a preferably ferrous body 12 , such as cast iron or any steel, such as nitrided steel, and by a resilient/elastic element 8 , such as an helicoidal spring, flat spring or even another expanding means, to bring the expansion force necessary to this type of application.
  • a resilient/elastic element 8 such as an helicoidal spring, flat spring or even another expanding means
  • a ring in which the own mechanical properties/characteristics of the base material of the body 12 are sufficient to generate the expansion force desired.
  • a body 12 which is not ferrous, such as, for example, constituted by non-metallic material, polymer or compound.
  • the body 12 has total height (illustrated especially in FIG. 9 as HT) above 2 millimeters (mm) taken in the axial direction, in order to offer a little more rigidness, although it is perfectly possible to conceive a ring included in the scope of protection of this invention whose body has height below 2 mm.
  • HT total height
  • mm millimeters
  • Body 12 regardless of its HT height being above or below 2 mm, it has two external projections of contact 2 each one containing an extreme triangular region 21 (which is illustrated with hachure in FIG. 3B , but will be later removed in a process of final lapping), a segment of triangular trunk (which gives the form to the projection of contact 2 itself after the removal of the external triangular region) bordered by a parallel face or surface of contact 102 and a tilted face 3 , an intermediary section 4 directed at the cylinder wall 5 and a circular section 6 turned to the side of the piston 7 . As can be seen in FIG. 9 , the projections 2 project towards the cylinder wall 5 when the set is assembled.
  • each projection of contact 2 of the oil control ring 1 contains a first 22 and second 23 extremity edges, and brings initially a distance d 3 , also identified as the height (H), formed from edge 22 to edge 23 , where the tilted face 3 starts. This distance corresponds, as we will see below, exactly to the parallel surface of contact 102 .
  • the angle of the tilted face 3 must be included between 5° and 25° (degrees), preferably between 13° and 17° in relation to the axial length of the ring, which maximizes its performance properties.
  • One of the possible processes to use in order to manufacture the ring object of this invention uses as base a metallic annular segment of rectangular transversal section, and the two projections of contact 2 are created by means of removing material from the region between both.
  • a metallic tape whose transversal section already brings the projections 2 (pre-profiled), making the procedure of removing material unnecessary.
  • the triangular extremity 21 is removed so that the ring reaches its final format, by lapping the contact face or even any other similar process.
  • each projection of contact 2 defines the contact face 102 in the flat form, parallel to the cylinder wall, with the height (H) which may vary from 0.02 to 0.20 millimeter, being preferred, but not mandatorily, with 0.20 millimeter or a close value.
  • the suppression of the triangular extremity 21 guarantees both the stability regarding the breaking or cracks in the region, and the maintenance of a more constant contact pressure during the service life of the equipment.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates the transversal section of a preferred concretization of the oil ring 1 of this invention.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate the detail of the contact surfaces 102 of the ring 1 of this invention.
  • the projections of contact 2 are turned so that the tilted faces 3 are turned one facing the other, that is, symmetrical, according to the direction indication 9 .
  • This first concretization is preferred, mainly when one focus on the solution of the problem of irregular contact between the superior and inferior projection of contact of the oil ring (that is, different, the contact of a projection being higher than the other), which may occur (and in practice does occur) due to the deformation of the small channel of the piston, of the axial movement of the piston, given by the backlash between the piston/cylinder pair and the movement of the gravity center of the rings due to the singularity added to the portions of contact of the ring, when the two projections of contact are directed.
  • the two projections of contact 2 are positioned in an asymmetrical manner, that is, directed so that the two tilted faces 3 are turned to the same direction, namely, the direction of the top of the piston, according to the indication of direction 10 .
  • This assembly focus on making feasible the reduction of viscous or hydrodynamic attrition, upon the operation of the piece; however the results obtained regarding the stability of the ring to avoid the irregular or different contact between the superior and inferior projection of contact and the cylinder become more dependent on the use of advanced manufacturing techniques, with reduced tolerances, mainly regarding the difference between the heights of the projections of contact, in order to minimize the impact of the already mentioned external effects, such as the deformation of the small channel and the axial movement of the piston.
  • the ring can include one or more areas to drain oil in the preferred form of oblong rips or holes 33 positioned in the intermediary section 4 in order to enable the flow of lubricant. Because it is a solution known to those with experience in this technique, there is no need for more details in the description. The existence of these oblong rips or holes 33 is more interesting, and preferred, when the height of the ring is above 2.0 mm, which maintains a still acceptable value of rigidness, but nothing stops them from being offered in a ring with lower height, if necessary or desired.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates, in a schematic manner, the high concentration of tensions that occur in a ring of the prior art, by means of the relation between the contact width (c) and the thickness of the hardened layer (D/2), formed upon the application of superficial hardening treatments.
  • This concentration of tensions is very considerable and makes it impossible to associate the application of the techniques of superficial hardening treatment in rings, such as, for example, nitriding, together with the reduction of the contact surfaces of the projections of contact, according to the designs presented by the rings belonging to the prior art, such as the ones illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 .
  • FIG. 8 schematically illustrates in details one of the projections of contact 2 of the ring object of this invention, which, due to its geometry, offers reduction of the contact surface associated with obtuse constructive angles, which are gentler, minimizing the accumulation of tensions upon the application of superficial hardening treatments to reduce superficial wearing, such as nitriding, or localized processes of phase change of material, such as the hardening by laser.
  • the shape of the projections of contact 2 of the ring, object of this invention makes its use possible with coatings and superficial treatments to increase the resistance to wearing in which the use of profiles with excessive reduction of the surface of contact, such as the rings belonging to the prior art, becomes restrictive, given the accumulation of tensions caused by the high superficial hardness brought by the coatings and superficial treatments, not to mention the other great advantage of the invention, commented above, which is the superior maintenance of the contact pressure along the service life of the engine since it has higher tilting angle of the edge that supports the contact face, making, therefore, the radial wearing have reduced effect on the increase of the contact face of the projections of contact of the oil ring.

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