Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7314104 | Steam driven road vehicle A steam driven road vehicle having a firebox, a boiler, a drive mechanism operated by steam from the boiler, a water supply supplying water to the boiler, and a drive connection connected between the drive mechanism and an axle of the vehicle. A fuel bin is supporte... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7181913 | Steam-generating drive system A steam-generating drive system is disclosed. The steam-generating drive system includes an internal combustion engine having an exhaust outlet chamber. A steam reservoir is provided in fluid communication with the exhaust outlet chamber for receiving exhaust gases ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7051720 | Engine with charge air-cooling system with water fumigation An engine charge air-cooling system with water fumigation for an internal combustion engine includes a charge air cooler having a housing, a heat exchanger core, an air inlet and an air outlet. The charge air cooler inlet is connected to an outlet of a compressed ai... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6467271 | System and method for controlling VOC emissions An improved system for controlling emissions of VOC's by combustion of the VOC's in an internal combustion engine, comprising: a chiller through which the VOC's pass for condensing some of the VOC's into useable liquid products, the remaining VOC's being ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 5944483 | Method and apparatus for the wet cleaning of the nozzle ring of an exhaust-gas turbocharger turbine A method for wet cleaning of the nozzle rings of exhaust-gas turbocharger turbines is based on thermal shock of the contaminants, and includes the steps of injecting water in repeated, relatively small amounts, into the exhaust duct immediately upstream o... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5938402 | Axial turbine of a turbocharger Improved cleaning of the nozzle ring and the moving blades of the axial turbine of a turbocharger is to provided by a cleaning device. The cleaning device (20) includes only one nozzle (21, 44) having at least one injection opening (24) as well as a clean... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5191766 | Hybrid internal combustion/steam engine A hybrid engine is disclosed which utilizes the heat from the exhausted combustion gases of an internal combustion engine to generate steam externally of the cylinders of the engine. The steam is used to power turbines which may be effectively connected t... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5178119 | Combustion process and fuel supply system for engines A fuel combustion process is provided for a multi-cylinder engine for reducing exhaust emissions of carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbons. The process includes the steps of introducing hydrocarbon fuel in a first engine cylinder, burning the hydrocarb... | 01/12/1993 |
| 4548040 | Method and apparatus for determining when to initiate cleaning of turbocharger turbine blades A method and apparatus for determining when to initiate the cleaning of the turbine blades of a turbocharger is disclosed. The performance of the compressor portion of the turbocharger is monitored and upon a degradation in performance being detected it i... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4159700 | Internal combustion compound engines This invention relates to improving the internal combustion and internal use of fuel in reciprocating engines, and more particularly to reciprocating engines which are compounded in order to effect extension of the expansion event of the four-event work c... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4159699 | Compound engines This invention relates to improving the internal combustion and internal use of fuel in reciprocating engines, and more particularly to reciprocating engines which are compounded in order to effect extension of the expansion event of the four-event work c... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4125999 | Methods of supercharging a diesel engine, in supercharged diesel engines, and in supercharging units for diesel engines An internal combustion engine of the expansible chamber type and preferably a diesel engine is equipped with a turbo-compressor unit, comprising at least one compressor and at least one turbine, and at least one bypass pipe enabling direct and permanent p... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4124979 | Internal combustion engine with exhaust gas turbo super charger An internal combustion engine with exhaust gas turbocharger, according to which in the lower partial load range of the engine for purposes of increasing the temperature of the air charge exhaust gas from an exhaust gas conduit is through a connecting line... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4075980 | Multiple-cycle, piston-type internal combustion engine The invention relates to a multiple-cycle internal combustion engine having as a unit of two four-cycle cylinders operating 180° apart and one two-cycle cylinder firing 90° after the four-cycle cylinders fire. The four-cycle exhaust is admitted to the i... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4059958 | Automotive engine exhaust -- clean air system An internal combustion engine of the spark or diesel ignition type and having an anti-pollution arrangement for the reduction of the products of incomplete combustion and crankcase evaporation and said arrangement including a turbine adapted to receive ex... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4010607 | Internal combustion engine with afterburner, venturi cooler and exhaust turbine A power plant in which a turbine is driven by the combustion products of hydrocarbon fuel, air under superatomspheric pressure, and the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine. Air is supplied by a compressor which is driven by the turbine.... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3988894 | Improvement in methods of supercharging an engine, preferably a diesel engine in such supercharged engines, and in supercharging units for such engines An internal combustion engine of the expansible chamber type and preferably a diesel engine is equipped with a turbo-compressor unit, comprising at least one compressor and at least one turbine, and at least one bypass pipe enabling direct and permanent p... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3961482 | Method and device for cleaning a supercharging set powering turbine driven by the exhaust gases of a heat engine Method and device for cleaning an exhaust gas-driven power turbine of a supercharging set of an internal combustion engine, wherein washing liquid under pressure is fed during the washing periods into injection nozzles fitted onto the inlet ducts for exha... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3949555 | Internal combustion engines equipped with a turbocompressor unit with heating upstream of the turbine and methods of starting up their turbocompressor units Diesel engines, equipped with a turbocompressor unit with a combustion chamber upstream of the turbine, comprising a by-pass duct enabling direct and permanent passage between the outlet of the compressor of the turbocompressor unit and said combustion ch... | 04/13/1976 |
