Patent ID: 7464684

Claim:
A composite piston for an internal combustion engine, comprising: an upper part that forms a piston crown, said upper part having a recess disposed on an underside facing away from the piston crown, said recess being circumferential with rotation symmetry relative to a longitudinal piston axis, and having a dead-end bore with an inside thread disposed on the underside and coaxial to the longitudinal piston axis; and a lower part comprising: two pin bosses disposed on an underside at a distance from one another, each pin boss having a pin bore; skirt elements that connect the pin bosses with one another; a recess disposed on a top and circumferential with rotation symmetry relative to the longitudinal piston axis, said recess forming an inner cooling channel together with the recess of the upper part; and a passage bore with an inside thread disposed on the top and coaxial to the longitudinal piston axis; and a hexagonal socket screw connecting the upper part and lower part, said hexagonal socket screw comprising an upper half and a lower half, each having an outside thread configured in such a manner that the outside thread of the upper screw half can be screwed into the dead-end bore and the outside thread of the lower screw half can be screwed into the passage bore, wherein a diameter of the outside thread of the upper screw half is smaller than a diameter of the outside thread of the lower screw half, such that the upper screw half can be pushed through the passage bore without hindrance, wherein the outside thread of the upper screw half is configured to run in the same direction with the outside thread of the lower screw half, and wherein the outside thread of the upper screw half has a greater pitch angle than the outside thread of the lower screw half and the inside thread of the dead-end bore has a greater pitch angle than the inside thread of the passage bore.