Automotive locking ring and intercooler with carbonfiber end tank
AssigneeResource Intl Inc.
InventorsKevin McCardle, Dan Tafe
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for attaching two automotive components comprising different materials having different coefficients of expansion, comprising providing a flange around a perimeter of each of the components, wherein at least one component defines a plenum contiguous to the perimeter, providing corresponding inner faces of the flanges, providing a channel in at least one of the corresponding faces of the flanges, wherein the channel is coaxial to the perimeter, disposing a gasket in the channel, and surrounding the flanges with a locking ring, wherein the ring has an axial channel and a pin disposed perpendicular to the channel to secure a first end of the locking ring to a mating second end of the locking ring.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a first automotive component having a first coefficient of expansion;
- a second automotive component having a second coefficient of expansion different from the first coefficient of expansion, wherein the first automotive component and the second automotive component each comprise a flange;
- a locking ring for attaching the first automotive component to the second automotive component;
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- a linear wave spring for biasing the locking ring against at least one of the flanges;
- wherein the first automotive component and the second automotive component cooperate to seal a plenum which remains sealed in a range of operating pressures from about 0 psi to 30 psi.
An automotive intercooler comprising:
- an aluminum core;
- at least one carbon fiber end tank;
- a locking ring for attaching the carbon fiber end tank to the core;
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- a linear wave spring for biasing the locking ring against the core.
An automotive intercooler comprising:
- an aluminum core;
- a carbon fiber end tank;
- a locking ring for extending over respective flanges of the core and the carbon fiber end tank, thereby attaching the carbon fiber end tank to the core;
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- a linear wave spring for biasing the locking ring against one of the core and the carbon fiber end tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.