Patent number: 11326670

Tensioner with piston containing an internal check valve

Original Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.

Field of technology: Vehicles, Engines and Transportation

Patent granted on: Tue, 10 May 2022

Patent drawing

Abstract

A hydraulic tensioner for an internal combustion engine for tensioning a span of a chain or a belt has a piston with an internal reservoir connected to a high pressure chamber through a check valve assembly. The check valve assembly has a disk seat formed by an internal bulge within the piston; a check valve retainer within the piston, and a moveable disk that is received between the disk seat formed by the internal bulge and the check valve retainer and is moveable between a first position and a second position, and a check valve spring that is received between the check valve disk and the check valve retainer.