Patents by Inventor Richard K. Krause

Richard K. Krause 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: 6045166
    Abstract: A high pressure plug/port assembly includes a plug having a head portion at one end, a guide portion at the other end and an O-ring portion therebetween. An annular plug seat surface extends radially inward from the head portion to the O-ring portion at the intersection thereof and a chamfered surface extends radially outward from the O-ring portion to the guide portion at the intersection thereof. The port includes a threaded counterbore in threaded engagement with the plug head portion, a smaller bore receiving the plug's guide portion and a frusto conical bore extending from the smaller bore to the counterbore and defining an annular port seat surface extending radially outward from the frusto conical bore to the counterbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: The RexRoth Corporation
    Inventor: Richard K. Krause
  • Patent number: 5839413
    Abstract: A priming system for a hydraulically actuated, electronically controlled unit injector fuel systems used on diesel engines and the like includes an accumulator charged at low pressure and in fluid communication with the manifold/rail passages leading to the individual fuel injectors, which passages are pressurized upon engine startup by the system's high pressure pump to actuate the injectors. The accumulator is plumbed into the hydraulic system by one way check valves which isolate the accumulator from the high pressure pump to permit the high pressure pump and the priming system to be located at any convenient position within the vehicle's engine compartment irrespective of their position relative to the manifold/rail passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: The Rexroth Corporation
    Inventors: Richard K. Krause, Eric D. Ramseyer