Patents by Inventor Duane P. Snyder

Duane P. Snyder 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).

  • Patent number: 7841613
    Abstract: A pedals forward seat post having serrated circular ends and a mid-section offsetting the ends allowing for a bicycle seat to be placed lower or closer to the ground so that the bicyclist may place both feet simultaneously on the ground while seated and at the same time maintaining the best seated bicycling leg distance between the seat and the pedals for seated bicycling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Inventor: Duane P. Snyder
  • Patent number: 5271364
    Abstract: An engine of the internal combustion type having a plurality of cooperating adjacent parallel rotors of elliptical cross section having hollow interior flow passages communicating thru hollow supporting shafts forming a combustion chamber having a varying volume which depends upon the rotational position of the rotors. Each rotor has a second flow passage opening thru its interior surface communicating thru to slots at one apex of its major axis so as to provide valving for the combustion changer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Inventor: Duane P. Snyder
  • Patent number: 4934325
    Abstract: Four adjacent parallel rotors of elliptical cross section have hollow interior flow passages communicating through hollow supporting shafts at one end. The supporting shafts at the opposite ends of the rotors have eccentric crank pins received in bearing holes in a common connecting block which orbits as the rotors rotate in unison. One of the shafts extends beyond the crank block as a drive shaft. Each rotor has a second flow passage opening through its surface adjacent to one apex of its major axis. A first pair of these flow passages, in diametrically opposed rotors, open in trailing relation to apices of the two rotors. The other pair of rotors has secondary flow passages through their surfaces in leasing relation to the apices of the latter two rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1990
    Inventor: Duane P. Snyder