Patents by Inventor Ernst Lutz

Ernst Lutz 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: 6810666
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbine, particularly for a supercharger turbocompressor of an internal combustion engine, comprising an outer housing forming a spiral inlet channel for an operating fluid, a rotor supported in a rotary manner in the housing, and an annular vaned nozzle of variable geometry interposed radially between the channel and the rotor and comprising a control member moving axially in order to control of the flow of the operating fluid from the channel to the rotor, the control member being formed as an annular piston of a fluid actuator actuated directly by means of a control pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Iveco Motorenforschung AG
    Inventors: Ernst Lutz, Juerg Spuler
  • Patent number: 6726447
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbine, particularly for a supercharger turbocompressor of an internal combustion engine, comprising an outer housing forming a spiral inlet channel for an operating fluid, a rotor supported in a rotary manner in the housing, and an annular vaned nozzle of variable geometry interposed radially between the channel and the rotor; the nozzle comprises a pair of vaned rings facing one another and provided with respective pluralities of vanes tapered substantially as wedges and adapted to penetrate one another, one of which can move axially with respect to the other in order to define a variable throat section between these vaned rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Iveco Motorenforschung AG
    Inventor: Ernst Lutz
  • Publication number: 20030026692
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbine, particularly for a supercharger turbocompressor of an internal combustion engine, comprising an outer housing forming a spiral inlet channel for an operating fluid, a rotor supported in a rotary manner in the housing, and an annular vaned nozzle of variable geometry interposed radially between the channel and the rotor; the nozzle comprises a pair of vaned rings facing one another and provided with respective pluralities of vanes tapered substantially as wedges and adapted to penetrate one another, one of which can move axially with respect to the other in order to define a variable throat section between these vaned rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Ernst Lutz
  • Publication number: 20030010029
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbine, particularly for a supercharger turbocompressor of an internal combustion engine, comprising an outer housing forming a spiral inlet channel for an operating fluid, a rotor supported in a rotary manner in the housing, and an annular vaned nozzle of variable geometry interposed radially between the channel and the rotor and comprising a control member moving axially in order to control of the flow of the operating fluid from the channel to the rotor, the control member being formed as an annular piston of a fluid actuator actuated directly by means of a control pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Ernst Lutz, Juerg Spuler