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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110315132 | Diesel Engine, Predetermined Breaking Component for Diesel Engine as well as Method for Avoiding Damages to a Diesel Engine The invention concerns a Diesel engine, in particular a two stroke crosshead large Diesel engine comprising at least one combustion chamber, which is enclosed on multiple sides by a cylinder, and by at least one upper side of at least one piston moving up and down in th... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110303202 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE An internal combustion engine, having at least one cylinder bank, the or each cylinder bank having two outer high pressure cylinders and a central low pressure cylinder, reciprocating pistons of the cylinders being coupled via connecting rods to a crankshaft, the valves... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110247584 | Francis Cycle Backwards Injected Engine Fuel is injected into and through the exhaust port and into the cylinder of the piston engine during the time when the flow is reversed from the normally expected flow. The engine is able to operate with some or all of its fuel injected backwards of conventional expecta... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110061637 | Fuel System In various embodiments, a metering apparatus may be associated with an engine. The metering apparatus may include a first passageway for transporting air to a first port of an engine, and a second passageway for transporting gaseous fuel to a second port of the engine.... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110036336 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION SYSTEM FOR A LOCOMOTIVE TWO-STROKE UNIFLOW SCAVENGED DIESEL ENGINE The present invention is directed to a locomotive two-stroke uniflow scavenged diesel engine system including an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system for reducing NOX emissions and achieving improved fuel economy by recirculating exhaust gas through the eng... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100326411 | TWO STROKE ENGINE WITH REGULAR LUBRICATION SYSTEM This is a novel two-stroke engine design which achieves the best properties of both the two and the four-stroke types of engine. The design has a simple and effective lubrication system, a clean exhaust system, and an increased power to displacement ratio.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100326412 | Carburetor and Two-Stroke Engine with a Carburetor A carburetor has a carburetor housing in which an air passage and a mixture passage are disposed. A barrel valve controls the air passage and the mixture passage. The barrel valve has a mixture passage section and an air passage section formed therein. The air passage i... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100294254 | Inverted cross-scavenged, two-overhead valve, 2-stroke engine A two-stroke internal combustion engine which has an Inverted Cross-Scavenged operation forming a 180° air and exhaust gas loop and having two overhead valves [46, 47] in the cylinder head and optimized coils [43, 44] per spark plug [41, 42], the s... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100206278 | POWER CUTTER A power cutter including a two stroke internal combustion engine mounted within a housing and a carburetor for providing aerated fuel for the engine. The carburetor is capable of operating in at least two modes of operation, a first mode when the engine is cold and a se... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20090277434 | CONTROL STRATEGY FOR MULTI-STROKE ENGINE SYSTEM An engine system and a method of operation are described. As one example, the method may include: during a first operating condition, operating a cylinder of the engine in a two stroke cycle to combust a first mixture of air and fuel, and adjusting an opening overlap be... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090255519 | SILENCER FOR A MOTOR DEVICE A silencer for a two-stroke engine includes a first chamber and a second chamber, wherein a flow channel is provided between an outlet of a combustion chamber and the first chamber. A high charge degree of the combustion chamber has a pressure ratio in the region of the... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090241895 | TWO STROKE COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH LIQUID INJECTION A combustion engine operating in accordance with the two-stroke principle, which comprises alternating power strokes and the compression strokes, wherein the combustion engine comprises at least one cylinder (1) and a piston (2) that performs a reciprocati... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090228189 | Method for Operating a Two-Stroke Engine A two-stroke engine has a fuel supply device, an intake passage formed partially in the fuel supply device, and an air filter with clean air chamber. The intake passage upstream of the fuel supply device is connected to the clean air chamber. A partition divides the int... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090217890 | Bendah rotary cycle internal combustion engine and air compressor The present invention generally relates to a rotary engine and, more particularly, to a rotary engine that, by using cylinder wedge geometry improves output efficiency, and decreases fuel consumption, and at the same time is easy to manufacture, contains fewer parts, us... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090199828 | Air injection engine An internal combustion engine of the present invention features separate compression and expansion cycles. The engine includes a separate compressor device which pressurizes air by a ratio greater than 15 to 1, at least one two stroke combustion cylinder and a compresse... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090179424 | INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE DRIVEN TURBO-GENERATOR FOR HYBRID VEHICLES AND POWER GENERATION A piston compression system converts energy from a conventional combustion cycle engine driving a piston to displace a working gas for flow through a turbine for output power. The working gas is derived by diverting a portion of the charge during combustion at near peak... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090139485 | Direct injection two-stroke engine A two-stroke engine having a combustion chamber (12), a cylinder (6) having an exhaust port (9) on which is centered a first diametral plane of the cylinder, a piston (4), a cylinder head (10) fitted with a sparkplug (11) on the... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090138174 | TWO-CYCLE ENGINE A 2-cycle engine 1 is provided with an ignition device 8; an exhaust control valve 24; and a controller 40 for controlling the ignition device 8 and the exhaust control valve 24. The controller 40 controls spark ignition ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090095268 | TWO-CYCLE ENGINE Through holes formed on an atomization pipe can prevent fuel adhering on inner walls of the through holes from escaping. In addition, when fuel adhering on an inner circumferential surface of the atomization pipe flows toward a downstream side, the fuel enters the throu... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090064975 | TWO-STROKE COMBUSTION ENGINE A method for the operation of a combustion engine operating in accordance with a two stroke principle, which comprises alternating power stroke and compression strokes, wherein the combustion engine comprises at least one cylinder (1) and a piston (2) that... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090048756 | MULTI-MODE 2-STROKE/4-STROKE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE In a multi-mode, 2-stroke/4-stroke internal combustion engine operation, by switching the engine stroke from 4-stroke operation to 2-stroke operation so that the combustion frequency is doubled, doubling of the engine power is achieved even at the same work output per c... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090020107 | Two-Stroke Engine, Especially for Landcraft, Watercraft, or Aircraft Models Disclosed is a two-stroke engine, especially for landcraft, watercraft, or aircraft models, comprising a piston which can be moved up and down within a bush, defines a combination chamber at the top, and is connected to a crankshaft via a con-rod at the bottom, said cra... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20090013979 | RECIPROCATING ENGINE A reciprocating engine (10) operating on the two stroke cycle, comprising a pair of stationary and substantially concentrically aligned mutually opposed pistons (13, 15) and a sleeve (11) adapted to reciprocate about these static pistons. The recipr... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090013982 | Two-cycle engine cylinder and method for manufacturing the same A cylinder block for the two-cycle combustion engine includes a scavenging port open at an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder block so as to orient diagonally upwardly relative to a longitudinal axis of a cylinder bore and defined in the cylinder block in communic... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090013981 | Two-cycle engine cylinder and method for manufacturing the same A cylinder block includes a scavenging passage, which extends between a combustion chamber and a crankcase chamber to communicate them together and has a scavenging port defined in the cylinder block so as to open at an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder block. An... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090013980 | TWO CYCLE ENGINE Size reduction and pollution reduction are promoted in a two cycle engine. A two cycle engine includes: a cylinder which contains a piston so as to allow reciprocating movement of the piston; a scavenging gas reserving chamber which covers a lower opening of the cylinde... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080173287 | MOUNTING PLATE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE An internal combustion engine is disclosed. The internal combustion engine includes a crankcase and a mounting plate or base plate connected to the bottom portion of the crankcase. The base plate includes a plurality of engine mountings integrally formed with the base p... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080110446 | TWO-STROKE MOTOR WITH AN IMPROVED TRANSFER PORT In order to provide a two-stroke motor, in particular for a portable, hand-guided working device with a combustion space formed in a cylinder and a piston guided in the cylinder so that it performs a lifting movement, at least one transfer port is provided which is form... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080110445 | Two-Stroke Internal Combustion Engine A two-stroke internal combustion engine comprising a combustion space, which is enclosed by a cylinder having an end wall, and a piston that is connected to a crankshaft, which piston is capable of reciprocating motion within the cylinder between a position in which the... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080053093 | Uniform pressure unequal surface engine and engine for power generators using the same Disclosed herein are a uniform pressure unequal surface engine and an engine for power generators using the same. The uniform pressure unequal surface engine includes a kernel cylinder having a fuel supply unit. A kernel piston is airtightly provided in the kernel cylin... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20070283908 | Tse's internal combustion engine Improvements of internal combustion engine brought in by this invention includes extracting four stroke engine cycle to two stroke cycle by construction of corresponsive partition, fuel inlet and emission outlet forming a pathway in combustion chamber allowing fresh fue... | 12/13/2007 |