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Title: Internal combustion engine and piston having stepped combustion bowl with non-axisymmetric profile

Abstract

An internal combustion engine system includes an engine housing having a combustion cylinder, and a piston movable within the combustion cylinder to increase a pressure therein to an autoignition threshold for injected fuel. The piston includes a piston crown having a combustion face forming a combustion bowl, and varied in profile to form jet-jet interaction limiters at locations offset from fuel spray jet paths from a fuel injector. The jet-jet interaction limiters include a bowl component and a step component protruding, respectively, within the combustion bowl and a step located transitioning between the combustion bowl and a circumferential rim of the piston. Limiting jet-jet interaction limits soot production in exhaust produced by the engine.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1892707
Patent Number(s):
11274628
Application Number:
16/889,958
Assignee:
Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, IL)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F02 - COMBUSTION ENGINES F02B - INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES
F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F02 - COMBUSTION ENGINES F02F - CYLINDERS, PISTONS OR CASINGS, FOR COMBUSTION ENGINES
DOE Contract Number:  
A18047; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 06/02/2020
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Anders, Jonathan William, Kavuri, Naga Krishna Chaitanya, John, Bobby, Mohammad, Hyderuddin, Xu, Chao, and Kundu, Prithwish. Internal combustion engine and piston having stepped combustion bowl with non-axisymmetric profile. United States: N. p., 2022. Web.
Anders, Jonathan William, Kavuri, Naga Krishna Chaitanya, John, Bobby, Mohammad, Hyderuddin, Xu, Chao, & Kundu, Prithwish. Internal combustion engine and piston having stepped combustion bowl with non-axisymmetric profile. United States.
Anders, Jonathan William, Kavuri, Naga Krishna Chaitanya, John, Bobby, Mohammad, Hyderuddin, Xu, Chao, and Kundu, Prithwish. Tue . "Internal combustion engine and piston having stepped combustion bowl with non-axisymmetric profile". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1892707.
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author = {Anders, Jonathan William and Kavuri, Naga Krishna Chaitanya and John, Bobby and Mohammad, Hyderuddin and Xu, Chao and Kundu, Prithwish},
abstractNote = {An internal combustion engine system includes an engine housing having a combustion cylinder, and a piston movable within the combustion cylinder to increase a pressure therein to an autoignition threshold for injected fuel. The piston includes a piston crown having a combustion face forming a combustion bowl, and varied in profile to form jet-jet interaction limiters at locations offset from fuel spray jet paths from a fuel injector. The jet-jet interaction limiters include a bowl component and a step component protruding, respectively, within the combustion bowl and a step located transitioning between the combustion bowl and a circumferential rim of the piston. Limiting jet-jet interaction limits soot production in exhaust produced by the engine.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
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patent-application, October 2015


Diesel piston with radial lips in lower bowl
patent-application, March 2020


A piston for an internal combustion engine
patent-application, May 2020


Combustion system for an internal combustion engine
patent-application, October 2018


A piston crown for an internal combustion engine
patent-application, January 2019


Piston bowl with spray jet targets
patent, June 2013