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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6363888 | Absorbent compacted composition An absorbent compacted composition is disclosed. The absorbent compacted composition of the present invention consists essentially of zeolite, a finely divided cellulosic material, such as fir, and finely divided pine. The amount of finely divided cellulo... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363889 | Apparatus for creating an underwater, air-filled environment A portable apparatus is adapted to provide an underwater living environment for air breathing creatures in, for example, an aquarium. The apparatus includes a housing with a sealed upper portion and an open lower portion to allow the creatures to enter in... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363890 | Package for animal bedding pads A package for animal bedding which includes one or more pads or sheets of cotton within a plastic pouch is disclosed. The pads are placed within the pouch and the air from the interior of the pouch is evacuated. The pouch is then sealed. The package is al... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363891 | Method of deterring animals from avian enclosures A method of deterring certain kinds of animals from birdfeeders and birdhouses consists of rotating such avian enclosures at a sufficient speed to deter the undesirable animal. An electronic baffle rotates the avian enclosures at variable speeds for which... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363892 | Cooling system, especially for a vehicle Fan efficiency problems are substantially reduced in a cooling system having a plurality of heat exchangers (10), (18), (20), (22) positioned with respect to each other to define a housing in the form of a polygonal solid with certain of the heat exchange... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363893 | Water jacket for multi-cylinder internal combustion engine An improved water jacket structure for a cylinder head that assists in transferring heat from a lower wall of the cylinder head to coolant flowing through passageway in the head. The passageway is defined in the cylinder head by the lower wall and an uppe... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363894 | Diesel engine having a cylinder liner with improved cooling characteristics An internal combustion engine including a cylinder block having at least one cylinder bore and a cylinder liner concentrically disposed within the cylinder bore and secured to the cylinder block. The cylinder liner includes a main body portion and an uppe... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363895 | Device for controlling a regulator An actuator comprises a gas exchange valve and an electromagnetic actuating drive, having at least one electromagnet which has a coil, having an armature, whose armature plate can move between a first bearing surface on the electromagnet and a second bear... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363896 | Camshaft adjuster for internal combustion engines A camshaft adjuster (1) for internal combustion engines has a central tensioning screw (9) for fixing the adjuster (1) in relation to a camshaft (2). A slide (8) controls the supply of the pressure medium to the camshaft adjuster (1) being integrated into... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363897 | Device for changing the control timing of the gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine, in particular a hydraulic camshaft adjustment device of the rotary piston type A hydraulic camshaft-adjusting device of the rotary piston type having a drive gear (2) and an impeller. The drive gear (2) has a cavity formed from a perimeter wall and two side walls (5, 6) inside of which at least one hydraulic working chamber is forme... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363898 | Quick replacement igniter assembly A two-piece igniter includes an outer housing that includes a cylindrical member having an outer wall and an inner wall that defines a passage through the outer housing. The igniter further includes a plug member adapted to fit within the passage of the o... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363899 | Method for the starter cut-out of an internal combustion engine The invention is directed to a method for turning off the starter of an internal combustion engine, wherein a starter motor which can be engaged with the internal combustion engine for cranking is disengaged and switched off when the internal combustion e... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363900 | Synthetic resin-made intake manifold and manufacturing method thereof A synthetic resin-made intake manifold including a volumetric air-intake section communicating with an intake air supply source through an inlet pipe and a plurality of outlet pipes for connecting the volumetric air-intake section to cylinders of an inter... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363901 | Pull starter for engine An outboard motor has a quieter operating recoil starter arrangement. The recoil starter has a starter drum with a dog clutch arrangement having two dog cam members. The dog cam members rotate between an initial position and an extended position under the... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363902 | Fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composite internal combustion engine intake/exhaust valves A fracture-resistant, thermally stable intake or exhaust valve for an internal combustion (IC) engine. The valve has a stem portion and a head portion, both of which are formed of fiber reinforced ceramic matrix composite (FRCMC) material. This FRCMC mate... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363903 | Intake port structure in four-stroke cycle internal combustion engine A common intake port 10 is branched into a pair of branch intake ports 12, 24, which are separated through a partition wall 11, at the downstream end thereof. A pair of intake valves 16, 17 adapted to independently open and close the pair of branch intake... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363904 | Multi-position, operator-carried, four-cycle engine A power tool having a rotary implement driven by a four-cycle engine. The engine crankcase is through a passageway which extends through a camshaft to a valve chamber. The rotating shaft member inhibits the escape of lubricating oil when the engine is run... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363905 | Flexible oil fill tube An oil fill tube for an internal combustion engine, the engine including an oil sump contained therein. The oil fill tube is axially flexible, and includes an extendable and contractable accordion section intennediate first and second ends, the first end ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363906 | Idle shutdown override with defeat protection A system and method for controlling a compression ignition internal combustion engine having an electronic control module with an idle shutdown feature to automatically stop the engine after idling for a period of time include determining whether the engi... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363907 | Air induction control system for variable displacement internal combustion engine A control system for a variable displacement internal combustion engine determines effective flow cross sectional area as a predetermined function of a cross sectional area given against a throttle position. The effective flow cross sectional area is used... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363908 | Method for ensuring combustion of evaporative fuel in a stratified charge engine using multiple fuel injection pulses A method for operating a direct injection spark ignition engine in stratified mode and dual mode is presented. The method includes determining a fuel fraction in a fuel vapor canister; determining whether the fuel vapor canister should be purged; performi... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363909 | Direct-fuel-injection-type spark-ignition internal combustion engine and method of fuel injection A direct-fuel-injection-type spark-ignition internal combustion engine has an ignition plug, a cavity formed in an upper wall of a cylinder, a fuel injection valve that injects fuel so that most of the fuel strikes a side wall of the cavity at an acute an... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363910 | Apparatus for speed limitation of engines and/or for velocity limitation of engine-driven motor vehicles Engine speed and/or vehicle velocity limitation apparatus of engine-driven motor vehicles, wherein a controller defines, as a function of the difference between an actual speed value or actual velocity value as controlled variable, on the one hand, and a ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363911 | Implement driven by an internal combustion engine having a carburetor An implement is provided that is driven by an internal combustion engine having sparked ignition and a carburetor. The implement has a first control device, for controlling engine power, that includes a throttle lever, a butterfly valve in the carburetor,... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363912 | Method for regulating the engine speed in multi-cylinder internal combustion engines A method of regulating the rotational speed of multicylinder internal combustion engines is described using the rotational speed can be detected precisely and rapidly in a simple and cost-effective manner, permitting stable regulation to a constant rotati... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363913 | Solid state lift for micrometering in a fuel injector A fuel injector performs main fuel injection by raising fuel pressure in a nozzle chamber to lift a check valve member to a fully open position, and performs preinjection or microinjection by operating a solid state motor to lift the check valve member a ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363914 | Accumulator fuel injection system An accumulator fuel injection system for controlling an injection rate according to the operating state of an engine comprises: a first accumulation chamber 2 for containing high-pressure fuel supplied by a fuel supply pump 1; a first electromagnetic valv... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363915 | Fuel injector valve with motion damper The present invention provides a valve arrangement for metering fluid flow. The valve arrangement includes a valve seat including an orifice through which fluid flows. The valve arrangement also includes a valve displaceable along an axis between a first ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363916 | Fuel injection control device The invention provides a fuel injection control device in which the cost is low and the fuel injection quantity is flexibly adjusted corresponding to the operating conditions. The fuel injection control comprises: a water temperature detector for detectin... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363917 | Fuel injector pump advance arrangement An advance arrangement for a fuel injection pump, comprising a housing slidably receiving an advance piston which, in use, cooperates with the fuel injection pump to adjust the timing of fuel delivery by the pump, and, a light load piston associated with ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363918 | PUMP ARRANGEMENT, FUEL DELIVERY SYSTEM AND LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE INCORPORATING SUCH A PUMP AND A VEHICLE COMPRISING SUCH A FUEL DELIVERY SYSTEM AND LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM A pump arrangement is disclosed having a housing, a first pumping chamber within the housing, a drive shaft carried by the housing, and first pumping means arranged for rotation within the first pumping chamber. The first pumping means is driven by the dr... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363919 | Evaporated fuel treatment apparatus for internal combustion engine An evaporated fuel treatment apparatus having a correction checking means for detecting the state of change in the internal pressure of the fuel tank when the fuel tank is closed after being placed under atmospheric pressure, a leakage checking means for ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363920 | Proportional solenoid for purging fuel vapors An improved regulator valve 10 for controlling the purging of fuel vapors collected in a canister 12 and an evaporative emission control system into an intake system 18 of an internal combustion engine employs a solenoid valve assembly 40 with an armature... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363921 | Vacuum leak verification system and method In a purge mode, a purge flow path extends from atmosphere through the vent valve, through the evaporative emission space, and through the purge valve to the engine intake system. In a pre-conditioning phase of a leak verification mode, a pre-conditioning... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363922 | Exhaust gas recirculation pressure differential sensor error compensation The present invention involves a system and method of compensating sensor error of a differential pressure sensor on an exhaust gas recirculation passage for a calculation of a flow rate of recirculated exhaust gas into a vehicle engine. The method includ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363923 | Oxygen enrichment device for the combustion air of internal combustion engines An apparatus for enriching oxygen in the combustion air of internal-combustion engines has a gas centrifuge (1) which is driven by an exhaust gas turbine (2) in the exhaust pipe (4)... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363924 | Arrow rest An arrow rest for use with archery bows includes an arrow supporting launcher that provides vertical movement to dampen any up and down movement of the arrow shaft when it is shot from the bow, such as up and down vibrational movement which occurs as a re... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363925 | Charcoal grill A charcoal grill includes a mechanism whereby a user may adjust the vertical distance between a fuel grate and a cooking grid by rotating a control knob located on the surface of the charcoal grill. This mechanism provides a safer and more convenient way ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363926 | Handle for a barbecue grill A handle (28) for a grill (10) has a gripping portion (34). The gripping portion (34) defines an inner chamber (31) therein. The gripping portion (34) has a passageway (52) in fluid communication with the inner chamber (31) and the atmosphere. The handle ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363927 | Log burning device A log burning device that includes a standing grate that supports at least one log and a cover that is attached by at least one hinge to the standing grate. A method for burning logs using a standing grate that has a hinged cover that is attached to the s... | 04/02/2002 |
