Patent ID: 7438039

Claim:
A piston crown for a piston of a large-bore internal combustion engine comprising: a piston crown, said piston crown having a centerline and a diameter of at least 180 millimeters; a crown bowl formed in said piston crown, said crown bowl having a bowl sidewall, said bowl sidewall defining, with respect to the centerline, a maximum bowl radius and a minimum bowl radius; a piston squish face circumscribing said crown bowl; and a cooling chamber positioned below said piston squish face and in relation to said bowl sidewall; wherein said bowl sidewall has an acute re-entrant angle relative to said piston squish face, wherein said maximum bowl radius exceeds said bowl edge radius, wherein said maximum bowl radius is disposed further from said squish face than said minimum bowl radius is disposed from said squish face, wherein said crown bowl further includes a maximum bowl depth, wherein said crown bowl further includes a substantially frustoconical inner surface extending between the maximum bowl depth and the centerline, wherein a lower curve radius defines a lower curve of said crown bowl, wherein an upper curve radius defines an upper curve of said crown bowl, and wherein a sidewall tangent is formed by an intersection of the upper and lower curve radii, wherein the sidewall tangent defines an orientation of said bowl sidewall; and wherein said re-entrant angle is defined by an intersection of the sidewall tangent with respect to a plane parallel to said squish face, wherein said re-entrant angle is measured clockwise from the plane, and wherein the re-entrant angle is selected from a range of about 50 degrees to about 77 degrees, the maximum bowl radius is selected from a range of about 87 mm to about 94 mm, the minimum bowl radius is selected from a range of about 77 mm to about 89 mm, the maximum bowl depth is about 30 mm, the lower curve radius is about 10 mm, the upper curve radius is about 6 mm, and the piston crown diameter is about 263 mm.