CAST LIGHT METAL PISTON, IN PARTICULAR AN ALUMINIUM PISTON

摘要

A cast light metal piston for an internal combustion engine may include a piston crown and a piston skirt adjoining the piston crown. The piston skirt may include two skirt walls arranged on a pressure side and a counterpressure side, respectively. The piston skirt may have two box walls connecting the skirt walls, which conically taper towards one another in a direction of the piston crown. The piston may include an annularly encircling cooling channel. A thickness of the piston crown may amount to a maximum of 4.5 mm.