Patent ID: 7743745

Claim:
Multi-part, cooled piston ( 1 ) for an internal combustion engine, having an upper piston part ( 2 ) that forms the piston crown ( 30 ), that has a ring-shaped cooling channel ( 10 ) radially on the outside, on the underside that faces away from the piston crown ( 30 ), that has a ring wall ( 4 ) that delimits the cooling channel ( 10 ) radially towards the outside, having a ring part ( 5 ) on the radial outside of the wall, and on the underside of which, a pin ( 19 ) situated centrally and coaxial to the piston axis ( 18 ), having a thread ( 21 ), is disposed, having a cooling channel cover ( 12 ) for closing off the cooling channel ( 10 ), configured as a ring in the manner of a disk spring, and having a lower piston part ( 6 ) that has two pin bosses ( 8 ) and skirt elements ( 7 ) that connected the pin bosses ( 8 ) with one another, that has a region ( 22 ) connecting the skirt elements ( 7 ) and the pin bosses ( 8 ) with one another on the piston crown side, into which region a bore 23 situated centrally and coaxial to the piston axis ( 18 ), having an inside thread ( 24 ) that fits into the thread ( 21 ) of the pin ( 19 ), is formed, so that after the cooling channel cover ( 12 ) is laid onto a projection ( 29 ) formed onto the lower piston part ( 6 ) close to the cooling channel ( 10 ), the upper piston part ( 2 ) and the lower piston part ( 6 ) can be screwed together with one another by way of the threaded pin ( 19 ) and the threaded bore ( 23 ), whereby the radially outer region ( 12 ′) of the cooling channel cover ( 12 ) lies on the face surface ( 26 ) of the ring wall ( 4 ) that faces away from the piston crown, and the radially inner region ( 12 ″) of the cooling channel cover ( 12 ) lies on the projection ( 29 ), under bias, wherein two punched areas ( 29 , 30 ) directed radially inward are introduced into the radially inner region ( 12 ″) of the cooling channel cover ( 12 ), at such a distance from one another that a tongue ( 25 ) directed radially inward results between them, the tongue ( 25 ) encloses an acute angle with the inner region ( 12 ″) of the cooling channel cover ( 12 ), the projection ( 29 ) has a recess ( 28 ) radially on the outside, into which the tongue ( 25 ) of the cooling channel cover ( 12 ) engages when upper piston part ( 2 ) and lower piston part ( 6 ) are screwed together.