Patents by Inventor Peter Knieps

Peter Knieps 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).

  • Green start engine control systems and methods
    Publication number: 20080314349
    Abstract: A method of starting an engine having a fuel rail, one or more fuel injectors, and one or more spark plugs. In one embodiment, the method includes initializing a starting operation of the engine and suppressing the engine from starting by retarding a spark timing of the one or more spark plugs from normal spark timing. The method also includes purging, while the spark timing is being retarded, the fuel rail of the engine by operating the one or more fuel injectors. Additionally, the method includes advancing the spark timing after a first duration has passed or the engine has started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Heiko Oertel, Peter Knieps
  • Process for production of cyanogen chloride
    Patent number: 4242319
    Abstract: Process for producing cyanogen chloride by reacting hydrocyanic acid and chlorine in a non-aqueous and/or hygroscopic inorganic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1980
    Assignee: SKW Trostberg Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Georg Buchreiter, Peter Kniep, Kurt Scheinost, Heinz-Rudiger Vollbrecht
  • Desulfurization of iron melts
    Patent number: 4169724
    Abstract: Desulfurization of iron melts with alkaline earth metal containing carbidic or metallic materials by introducing the desulfurizing agents in a finely divided form with a consumable gas causing an exothermic reaction in an iron melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1979
    Assignee: SKW Trostberg Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alfred Freissmuth, Werner Gmoehling, Heinrich Roeck, Peter Kniep