Patents by Inventor Christopher Polonowski
Christopher Polonowski has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11480143Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a ducted fuel injector. In one example, the ducted fuel injector comprises a plurality of passages, with at least one of the passages configured to receive an oxygen poor gas from a reservoir or an adjacent cylinder to decrease a likelihood of pre-ignition in the duct.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Christopher Polonowski
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Publication number: 20220042484Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a ducted fuel injector. In one example, the ducted fuel injector comprises a plurality of passages, with at least one of the passages configured to receive an oxygen poor gas from a reservoir or an adjacent cylinder to decrease a likelihood of pre-ignition in the duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventor: Christopher Polonowski
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Patent number: 11092106Abstract: Methods and systems for operating an engine responsive to filtered cylinder pressure data are disclosed. In one example, fuel injection timing may be advanced in response to filtered cylinder pressure data that is indicative of onset of combustion in a cylinder being delayed from an expected timing. The filtered cylinder pressure data may be generated via a digital filter.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Christopher Polonowski
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Patent number: 10823045Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a piston. In one example, a system may comprise a plurality of first protrusions and a plurality of second protrusions working in tandem to confine an injection to a radial zone defined by the protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric Kurtz, Nan Robarge, Daniel Kantrow, Christopher Polonowski
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Publication number: 20200309057Abstract: Methods and systems for operating an engine responsive to filtered cylinder pressure data are disclosed. In one example, fuel injection timing may be advanced in response to filtered cylinder pressure data that is indicative of onset of combustion in a cylinder being delayed from an expected timing. The filtered cylinder pressure data may be generated via a digital filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventor: Christopher Polonowski
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Publication number: 20200149465Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a piston. In one example, a system may comprise a plurality of first protrusions and a plurality of second protrusions working in tandem to confine an injection to a radial zone defined by the protrusions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Eric Kurtz, Nan Robarge, Daniel Kantrow, Christopher Polonowski
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Patent number: 10641160Abstract: Systems are provided for cooling combustion chamber gasses and increasing an amount of air entrained in an injected fuel spray. In one example, a cooling passage may be included in an internal combustion engine, the cooling passage positioned exterior to a cylinder bore of the engine and coupled to the cylinder bore at a first opening and a second opening. The cooling passage may receive gasses from the cylinder bore via the first opening, and may cool the gasses as they travel through the cooling passage before returning the gasses to the cylinder bore via the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christopher Polonowski, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Daniel William Kantrow, Jianwen James Yi
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Patent number: 10508615Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for actively heating pistons in combustion chambers to decrease a torque imbalance in an engine. In one example, a method for operation of an engine includes determining a variation between compression ratios in a first combustion chamber and a second combustion chamber and operating a piston heating system to apply a targeted amount of heat to a first piston assembly based on the variation between the compression ratios, the first piston assembly including a first piston positioned within the first combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christopher Polonowski, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Daniel William Kantrow
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Patent number: 10487760Abstract: A method may comprise: positioning a pressure control valve (PCV) at an outlet of a fuel rail; positioning a volume control valve (VCV) at an inlet of a high pressure pump; and in response to an exhaust particulate matter (PM) level deviating from a target PM level, adjusting a fuel ratio of a first fuel and a second fuel delivered to an engine, and opening one of the PCV and the VCV. In this way, the fuel oxygen content may be adjusted to maintain a PM at or below a target level without a DPF over a broad range of engine designs and operating conditions, while maintaining fuel economy.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric Matthew Kurtz, Christopher Polonowski, James Eric Anderson, Werner Willems, Nan Robarge
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Publication number: 20190128212Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for actively heating pistons in combustion chambers to decrease a torque imbalance in an engine. In one example, a method for operation of an engine includes determining a variation between compression ratios in a first combustion chamber and a second combustion chamber and operating a piston heating system to apply a targeted amount of heat to a first piston assembly based on the variation between the compression ratios, the first piston assembly including a first piston positioned within the first combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Christopher Polonowski, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Daniel William Kantrow
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Publication number: 20190003371Abstract: Systems are provided for cooling combustion chamber gasses and increasing an amount of air entrained in an injected fuel spray. In one example, a cooling passage may be included in an internal combustion engine, the cooling passage positioned exterior to a cylinder bore of the engine and coupled to the cylinder bore at a first opening and a second opening. The cooling passage may receive gasses from the cylinder bore via the first opening, and may cool the gasses as they travel through the cooling passage before returning the gasses to the cylinder bore via the second opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Christopher Polonowski, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Daniel William Kantrow, Jianwen James Yi
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Publication number: 20180266339Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a fuel injector coupled to mixing passages for entraining combustion chamber gases with a fuel injection to decrease formation of soot throughout a range of engine operating parameters. In one example, a method includes decreasing a combustion chamber temperature in response to an amount of sensed light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Eric Matthew Kurtz, Christopher Polonowski, Daniel William Kantrow, Daniel Joseph Styles, Paul Joseph Tennison
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Patent number: 10077724Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a fuel injector coupled to mixing passages for entraining combustion chamber gases with a fuel injection to decrease formation of soot throughout a range of engine operating parameters. In one example, a method includes decreasing a combustion chamber temperature in response to an amount of sensed light.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric Matthew Kurtz, Christopher Polonowski, Daniel William Kantrow, Daniel Joseph Styles, Paul Joseph Tennison
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Patent number: 10060334Abstract: Systems are provided for cooling combustion chamber gasses and increasing an amount of air entrained in an injected fuel spray. In one example, a cooling passage may be included in an internal combustion engine, the cooling passage positioned exterior to a cylinder bore of the engine and coupled to the cylinder bore at a first opening and a second opening. The cooling passage may receive gasses from the cylinder bore via the first opening, and may cool the gasses as they travel through the cooling passage before returning the gasses to the cylinder bore via the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christopher Polonowski, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Daniel William Kantrow, Jianwen James Yi
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Patent number: 9903307Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving engine performance at high load conditions with reduced combustion phasing while maintaining in-cylinder peak pressures within limits. Following a pilot fuel injection, a main fuel injection is split into multiple smaller injections, the smaller injections spread around a timing of the main fuel injection so that peak cylinder pressures for each injection are within cylinder pressure limits. In this way, more enthalpy is created for expediting warming of exhaust catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Christopher Polonowski, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Andrew Lauri, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, Paul Joseph Tennison, Jonathan Finchum
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Publication number: 20170350308Abstract: Systems are provided for cooling combustion chamber gasses and increasing an amount of air entrained in an injected fuel spray. In one example, a cooling passage may be included in an internal combustion engine, the cooling passage positioned exterior to a cylinder bore of the engine and coupled to the cylinder bore at a first opening and a second opening. The cooling passage may receive gasses from the cylinder bore via the first opening, and may cool the gasses as they travel through the cooling passage before returning the gasses to the cylinder bore via the second opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2016Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Christopher Polonowski, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Daniel William Kantrow, Jianwen James Yi
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Publication number: 20170298850Abstract: A method may comprise: positioning a pressure control valve (PCV) at an outlet of a fuel rail; positioning a volume control valve (VCV) at an inlet of a high pressure pump; and in response to an exhaust particulate matter (PM) level deviating from a target PM level, adjusting a fuel ratio of a first fuel and a second fuel delivered to an engine, and opening one of the PCV and the VCV. In this way, the fuel oxygen content may be adjusted to maintain a PM at or below a target level without a DPF over a broad range of engine designs and operating conditions, while maintaining fuel economy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2016Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Eric Matthew Kurtz, Christopher Polonowski, James Eric Anderson, Werner Willems, Nan Robarge
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Publication number: 20170191442Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving engine performance at high load conditions with reduced combustion phasing while maintaining in-cylinder peak pressures within limits. Following a pilot fuel injection, a main fuel injection is split into multiple smaller injections, the smaller injections spread around a timing of the main fuel injection so that peak cylinder pressures for each injection are within cylinder pressure limits. In this way, more enthalpy is created for expediting warming of exhaust catalysts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2016Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Christopher Polonowski, Eric Matthew Kurtz, Andrew Lauri, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, Paul Joseph Tennison, Jonathan Finchum