Kent Essex Clark

US Patent:

8122859, Feb 28, 2012

Filed:

Oct 22, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/255992

Inventors:

Neal R. Phelps - Bargersville IN, US
Kent H. Clark - Panama NY, US
Eric D. Stahl - Columbus IN, US
Kenneth Howard - Indianapolis IN, US
John Cook - Columbus IN, US

Assignee:

Cummins, Inc. - Columbus IN

International Classification:

F01P 1/04

US Classification:

123 4135, 310 54, 239600

Abstract:

A piston cooling nozzle including a nylon body having a hub and a pair of integral legs extending from the hub and a tube for delivering coolant to a piston. The pair of legs are formed relative to the hub and the tube to ensure that when the body is mounted to an engine block, the legs engage a cylinder liner to thereby position the tube between a skirt of the piston and a connecting rod coupled to the piston.

US Patent:

8251590, Aug 28, 2012

Filed:

May 29, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/475042

Inventors:

Dale G. Gibby - Columbus IN, US
Joseph Rennekamp - Columbus IN, US
Kent H. Clark - Columbus IN, US

Assignee:

Cummins Intellectual Properties, Inc. - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

F16C 17/02
F16C 9/04

US Classification:

384288, 384294

Abstract:

A bearing component and bearing assembly are disclosed. The bearing component includes structure for providing a hard rotation stop, in one embodiment, the anti-rotation structure includes a slot formed in at least one bearing component having a surface for supporting a bearing shell. The slot has a longitudinal axis at an oblique angle to a plane perpendicular to the surface for supporting the bearing shell. In other embodiments, a groove extends radially outward from a surface of at least one component for supporting a bearing shell to a side of the component. The groove has a depth that increases as a function of distance in a direction parallel with a center axis of the component.