Patents by Inventor Ingobert Adolf

Ingobert Adolf 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: 7918317
    Abstract: In a lubricant dosing arrangement for the lubrication of valve shafts on the cylinder heads of piston engine wherein the valve shafts are axially movably supported in housing bores formed in the cylinder heads and the housing bores include spaced lubricant seals so as to form between the seals around the valve shaft lubricant reservoirs, means are provided for supplying lubricant to the lubricant reservoirs and the valves shafts include means for permitting passage of lubricant out of the reservoir at a rate depending on the lift movement of the valve shafts so as to dose the lubricant volume permitted to flow out of the lubricant reservoir for the lubrication of the valve shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichs Hafen GmbH
    Inventors: Ingobert Adolf, Michael Greil, Ludwig Kläser-Jenewein
  • Publication number: 20070175705
    Abstract: In a lubricant dosing arrangement for the lubrication of valve shafts on the cylinder heads of piston engine wherein the valve shafts are axially movably supported in housing bores formed in the cylinder heads and the housing bores include spaced lubricant seals so as to form between the seals around the valve shaft lubricant reservoirs, means are provided for supplying lubricant to the lubricant reservoirs and the valves shafts include means for permitting passage of lubricant out of the reservoir at a rate depending on the lift movement of the valve shafts so as to dose the lubricant volume permitted to flow out of the lubricant reservoir for the lubrication of the valve shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Ingobert Adolf, Michael Greil, Ludwig Klaser-Jenewein
  • Patent number: 5560338
    Abstract: An arrangement for determining the parameters of an internal combustion engine, in particular an Otto engine operating with gaseous fuels, has at least one optical sensor for observing the emission of light caused by the combustion in a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine and at least one photodetector for converting the light emitted into electric signals which are processed in an evaluation unit. In order to achieve a rapid and accurate regulation, the evaluation unit has an arrangement for determining the maximum or mean intensity of the light emitted during each combustion cycle on the basis of the corresponding electric signal. The evaluation unit further has a regulating unit which regulates at least one engine parameter depending on the intensity maxima.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Jenbacher Energiesysteme Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunther Herdin, Ingobert Adolf, Michael Hotger, Walter Picker, Franz Pockstaller
  • Patent number: 5505177
    Abstract: An arrangement for determining the parameters of an internal combustion engine, in particular an Otto engine operating with gaseous fuels, has at least one optical sensor for observing the emission of light caused by the combustion in a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine and at least one photodetector for converting the light emitted into electric signals which are processed in an evaluation unit. In order to achieve a rapid and accurate regulation, the evaluation unit has an arrangement for determining the maximum or mean intensity of the light emitted during each combustion cycle on the basis of the corresponding electric signal. The evaluation unit further has a regulating unit which regulates at least one engine parameter depending on the intensity maxima.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1996
    Assignee: Jenbacher Energiesysteme Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunther Herdin, Ingobert Adolf, Michael Hotger, Walter Picker, Franz Pockstaller