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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8037859 | Intake manifold An intake manifold to be mounted to a traverse engine includes pieces made of resin and welded to each other. The pieces are constructed with a first piece having a connector to be connected to the engine, and a second piece. The second piece has an upper positionin... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7926460 | Air supply distributor for an internal combustion engine An air distributor including a cylindrical tubular body including connecting channels for supplying cylinders of an internal combustion engine, branches of which open in an aligned manner along a generatrix of the tubular body. The tubular body extends upstream into... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7607412 | Air supply distributor for an internal combustion engine An air distributor including a cylindrical tubular body including connecting channels supplying cylinders of an internal combustion engine, branches of which open in an aligned manner along a generatrix of the tubular body. The tubular body extends upstream into bra... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7370639 | Supercharged diesel engine with a common-rail injection system A supercharged diesel engine having at least one charged air conduit for distributing charged air and having a first chamber for conveying the charged air. Air inlet openings of the cylinder head are connected to the first chamber in a gastight manner. The charged a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7350513 | System for improving motor vehicle performance A system for improving motor vehicle performance includes an air intake heat exchanger placed in-line with the air intake of the motor vehicle. The air intake heat exchanger is coupled to a source of pressurized media for selective application of the pressurized med... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7305959 | Intake manifold with low chatter shaft system An intake manifold assembly includes a housing, a shaft assembly, and an intake insert. The shaft assembly has a metal shaft with bearings located at each end to provide hard mounting surfaces for the shaft assembly when assembled in the housing. The bearings suppor... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7275511 | Intake manifold assembly An intake assembly is provided for a sequentially fired eight cylinder V-type internal combustion engine including a cylinder block having a first band of cylinders and a second bank of cylinders. The assembly includes first, second, third, and fourth intake plenums... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270101 | Intake manifold shaft and blade attachment An arrangement for attaching a blade to a shaft for use in intake manifolds, uses fasteners that create a load on the blade. Fasteners are inserted through fastener holes in the blade and through shaft holes in the shaft. Once inserted outward pressure by the fasten... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7228834 | Intake manifold blade to runner alignment An intake manifold assembly includes a housing, a shaft assembly, an intake insert, and a flange seal. Bushings are located at each end of the shaft and spaced along the shaft to absorb vibrations and provide a low friction surface for shaft assembly rotation. In ad... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7213575 | Fuel manifold in thixotropic aluminum for the direct injection of fuel into an internal combustion engine A fuel manifold for the direct injection of fuel into an internal combustion engine comprising a head provided with a number of cylinders, a number of injectors, each of which is connected to the fuel manifold and is adapted directly to inject the fuel into a respec... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213560 | Adhesively bonded engine intake manifold assembly An engine intake manifold assembly (10), including a first component (12) having a first mating surface (14) and a second molded plastic component (16) having a second mating surface (18). The second molded plastic component (16... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210461 | Internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle with a cylinder head, an intake manifold, and a fuel distributor rail. The downstream end of the intake manifold is connected by a flange to intake channels in the cylinder head of the internal combustion engine. The... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7159005 | Methods, systems and computer program products for restartable multiplexed file transfers Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for concurrently transferring a plurality of files between a first data processing system and a second data processing system by multiplexing chunks of the plurality of files onto a connection between the f... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7100559 | Engine air intake manifold An engine air intake manifold has two main body sections that are divided along an airflow direction and mated tightly against each other at oppositely facing mating parts so as to form an air intake passage therein. A gas passage is formed along the mating parts. T... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7090710 | Air intake duct for vehicle An air intake duct for a vehicle having a cuttable groove at an external wall of an air exhaust port can be applied to any vehicle regardless of whether an air filter is adopted, thus providing cost-effectiveness, preventing air leakage when the air filter is not us... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7055499 | Internal module, members of the module, and electronic controlled throttle device for internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine intake module, members thereof and electronically controlled throttle apparatus for a car and related products characterized by great strength, and light weight and compact configuration wherein the weight of the electronically controll... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6994065 | Intake arrangement for internal combustion engine An intake arrangement for an internal combustion engine, including an intake manifold including an intake collector and a plurality of branch pipes connected with the intake collector. The branch pipes extend in substantially same direction. The intake collector inc... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6938728 | Method and apparatus for attaching a resonance chamber to an air induction component An air induction assembly includes a tuning tube that is integrally formed with an air duct having a distal tube end extending into a resonance chamber. The air duct includes a shoulder portion that transitions into a base end of the tuning tube. The shoulder portio... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6848409 | Intake system for an internal combustion engine An intake system for an internal combustion engine includes an intake manifold adapted to be attached to a side wall of the engine, and an air cleaner for supplying intake air to the intake manifold. The air cleaner is disposed opposite to the side wall of the engin... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6553954 | Compact intake manifold with long runners for six-cylinder in-line engines A compact intake manifold for an in-line six cylinder engine, having six independent runners of equal length emanating from a centrally disposed plenum and traveling in a substantially single plane. Runners serving the two most rearward and the two most f... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6412466 | Internal combustion engine arrangement An arrangement for internal combustion engines of the piston engine type having at least one row of cylinders is disclosed. The arrangement includes at least one fuel injector for each cylinder and at least one intake manifold for admission of air to the ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6394057 | Arrangement of components for engine An arrangement of components for an engine includes an improved construction. An exhaust system of the engine has an exhaust manifold extending along an cylinder body. At least a part of an air induction system of the engine exists to overlap with the exh... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6343583 | Intake manifold of internal combustion engine An intake manifold including a collector defining an intake bore through which an air flow passes, and a noise reducer connected with the collector. The noise reducer includes a base wall mounted to the collector and formed with an aperture substantially ... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6263851 | Air inlet device for watercraft engine An air inlet device for an engine powering a water propulsion device of a watercraft, the watercraft having a hull defining an engine compartment in which the engine is positioned, is disclosed. The engine has a body defining at least one combustion chamb... | 07/24/2001 |
| 5992369 | Intake device made from thermoplastic synthetic material An intake device made from a thermoplastic synthetic resin material and intended specifically for use in an internal combustion engine. The intake device includes a first intake pipe or manifold composed of upper and lower half-shells which are joined to ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5908017 | Intake system mounting construction of engine An intake mounting system for an engine of either natural intake mode or supercharged intake mode. A first bracket is located on an end of a cylinder head of the engine. An air cleaner is mounted to the first bracket. A second bracket is connected to a he... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5690068 | Arrangement for mounting an air intake module on an internal combustion engine In an arrangement for mounting an air intake module on an internal combustion engine including a cylinder head and a cylinder head cover wherein the air intake module comprises an air collector and air induction pipes mounted on the cylinder head and exte... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5630387 | Intake manifold The specification relates to an intake manifold having an increased compaction. In this intake manifold, at least one fragile zone is formed parallel to its longitudinal axis in its wall. Crash impact is absorbed and the volume of the intake manifold decr... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5596961 | Intake manifold assembly for four-cycle internal combustion engine An intake manifold assembly is disclosed for an internal combustion engine. The intake manifold assembly includes an intake manifold of a predetermined length and includes a plenum having an interior wall surface and a predetermined cross-sectional area i... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5524584 | Cylinder head for outboard motor An outboard motor having a four-cycle internal combustion engine as a power plant. The engine is provided with a cylinder head having intake passages that extend downwardly from inlet openings in a surface of the cylinder head to outlet openings that comm... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5213068 | Arrangement for connecting pressure medium systems to cylinder head in big diesel engines The invention relates to a connection arrangement for pressure medium systems in a big diesel engine including a number of cylinders (3), wherein different pressure mediums provided for a cylinder (3) are transported through respective passages in a cylin... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5181491 | Intake system in multi-cylinder type internal combustion engine An intake system in a multi-cylinder type internal combustion engine comprises throttle valves disposed in a plurality of intake passages commonly connected to an air cleaner, and fuel injection valves disposed in the intake passages downstream of the thr... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5163406 | Intake manifold/fuel rail A multiple-runner intake manifold is constructed of upper and lower parts that fit together at a joint. The upper manifold is molded thermoplastic, and the lower part is molded phenolic. The lower part contains an integral fuel rail. The lower part contai... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5163387 | Device for attenuating standing waves in an induction intake system The device has a generally cylindrical chamber with a fluid inlet in an end wall and a fluid outlet in the sidewall. Fluid introduced into the device via the inlet passes through a venturi before being discharged into the interior of the chamber. A curved... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5146897 | Intake manifold of intake system for multi-cylinder internal combustion engine An intake manifold for a multi cylinder internal combustion engine has a common upstream passage and individual downstream passages, leading individually to cylinders of the engine, respectively. These individual downstream passages are connected between ... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5140952 | Method of and apparatus for improving the operation of an engine A method for improving the operation of an engine including a cylinder space, a piston movable therein, at least one inlet valve having an inlet duct associated therewith, and at least one outlet valve having an outlet duct associated therewith includes p... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5133307 | Air intake system for marine propulsion unit engine An air intake system for a marine propulsion engine having a U shaped configuration for facilitating water separation and to provide a long intake passage. An air flow sensor is positioned at the inlet opening of the inlet device with the length between t... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5085178 | Intake piping structure for multi-cylinder engine Plural cylinders are divided into cylinder groups consisting of the cylinders each having an equal inspiration stroke. The cylinder groups are so disposed as to allow their inspiration strokes to be apart from each other in a direction parallel to a crank... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5074258 | Intake system for multiple-cylinder engine An intake system for a multiple-cylinder engine has a plurality of discrete intake passages which are substantially equal to each other in length and are connected to the respective cylinders at their downstream ends. The upstream ends of the discrete int... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5056474 | Internal combustion engine having multiple carburetors and a starting mixture The invention is directed towards a fuel enrichment system for a multi cylinder internal combustion engine. Each cylinder of the engine is served by a separate carburetor. Manifold passageways are interposed between the cylinders and the respective carbur... | 10/15/1991 |
