Crankshaft bearing for an internal combustion engine

US6231240A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Gunter Brenker · Waiblingen, DE
• Edgar Brutsch · Stuttgart, DE
• Frank Müller · Essenrode, DE
• Robert Niklas · Waiblingen, DE
• Willy Treyz · Neckartailfingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 7, 1999
• Grant date: May 15, 2001
• Expiry date: Oct 7, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F05C2251/042
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a bearing for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine having a crankcase including a bearing base portion with a bearing cover mounted thereon and both the bearing base portion and the bearing cover consisting of a light metal alloy, the bearing cover has removably mounted therein, adjacent the crankshaft, an insert consisting of a bearing material which has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than the light metal alloy of which the base bearing portion and the bearing cover consist.