Patents by Inventor Keith Scott Koller

Keith Scott Koller 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: 9683525
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a canister purge valve. A method comprises rotating an armature within a valve body in the canister purge valve as the canister purge valve opens and closes during a purge operation. The armature is encircled at a first end by an elastomer seal with multiple angled wings that enable rotation of the armature about a central longitudinal axis during the purge operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Scott Koller, Kevin William Plymale, Dennis Seung-Man Yang, Michael Wene
  • Publication number: 20160076493
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a canister purge valve. A method comprises rotating an armature within a valve body in the canister purge valve as the canister purge valve opens and closes during a purge operation. The armature is encircled at a first end by an elastomer seal with multiple angled wings that enable rotation of the armature about a central longitudinal axis during the purge operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Keith Scott Koller, Kevin William Plymale, Dennis Seung-Man Yang, Michael Wene
  • Publication number: 20110017178
    Abstract: A purge control valve control system is provided for an internal combustion engine system, comprising: a voltage source having a positive potential and a negative potential; a purge control valve having a solenoid, such solenoid comprising an electrically inductive element, such inductive element having a first terminal coupled to the positive potential of the voltage source; a diode having an anode and a cathode. The control unit includes a transistor having: a control electrode fed by a train of pulses; a first electrode coupled to the negative potential of the voltage source; and a second electrode coupled to a second terminal of the inductive element and to the diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: William Keith McDonald, Keith Scott Koller, Eric A. Macke, Kevin Plymale, Niels Christopher Kragh, Scott Bohr, Eric David Bramson, Dennis Harrigan
  • Patent number: 7156077
    Abstract: A fuel system for an internal combustion engine uses a fuel pump having an internally mounted pressure-responsive buffer which increases the volume available for fuel within the pump's discharge port upon shutdown of the pump, so as to assist in the mitigation of fugitive hydrocarbon emissions from fuel injectors which might otherwise result from a hot soak of an automotive engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Scott Koller, Donald Ignasiak, Thomas Joseph Luley