Patents by Inventor Walter Picker

Walter Picker 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).

  • Apparatus for sensing the engine parameters of an internal combustion engine
    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
  • Apparatus for sensing the engine parameters of an internal combustion engine
    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