Patents by Inventor Philip C. Lucas

Philip C. Lucas 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).

  • Injection of fuel to an engine
    Patent number: 4753213
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine particularly of two stroke cycle spark ignited engine, wherein a metered quantity of fuel is entrained in a gas, and the fuel and gas mixture so formed is delivered through a nozzle into the combustion chamber under conditions that will establish a fuel spray having a dispersion velocity in the direction of the spray axis of not more than 25 meters/sec at 35 millimeters of spray penetration from the nozzle when measured in still air atmospheric pressure, and preferably that dispersion velocity is not more than 18 meters/sec at 70 millimeters from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1988
    Assignee: Orbital Engine Company Proprietary Limited
    Inventors: Christopher K. Schlunke, Peter W. Ragg, Robert M. Davis, Philip C. Lucas