Patents by Inventor Yehoram Hofman
Yehoram Hofman 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).
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Patent number: 11971228Abstract: An intercooler lid assembly for an intercooler supercharger system comprising an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing; one or more intercooler cores mounted within the intercooler lid; wherein the one or more intercooler cores configured to receive and cool supercharger air passing there through prior to receipt by an engine, the one or more intercooler cores are mounted to and within the intercooler lid to form a pre-assembled intercooler lid assembly mountable onto the supercharger housing to install the intercooler lid assembly, and the one or more intercooler cores configured to provide heat exchange fluid transfer there through to cool the supercharger air.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: WHIPPLE INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Garrett Wayne Bright, Dustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman
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Patent number: 11668231Abstract: A split-cycle engine includes: a compression chamber, housing a first piston, that induces and compresses working fluid; an expansion chamber, housing a second piston, that expands and exhausts the working fluid; and a transfer chamber, housing a third piston and a fourth piston, wherein the third piston and the fourth piston move relatively to vary a volume within the transfer chamber and to selectively fluidly couple the volume within the transfer chamber to the compression chamber and the expansion chamber. A method of operating an engine includes: inducing working fluid in a first chamber; compressing the working fluid in the first chamber; moving a first moveable boundary of a second chamber; moving a second moveable boundary of the second chamber; expanding the working fluid in the third chamber; and exhausting the working fluid from the third chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Tour Engine, Inc.Inventors: Michael H. Wahl, Amit Helfand, Gilad Tour, Yehoram Hofman, Hugo Benjamin Tour, Oded Tour
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Publication number: 20220074374Abstract: An intercooler assembly for an intercooler supercharger system comprising a plurality of separate, contiguous intercooler cores, each including a top and a bottom, wherein the tops of the intercooler cores are coplanar and at least two of the bottoms of the intercooler cores are not coplanar.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Garrett Wayne Bright, Dustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman
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Publication number: 20220010724Abstract: A split-cycle engine includes: a compression chamber, housing a first piston, that induces and compresses working fluid; an expansion chamber, housing a second piston, that expands and exhausts the working fluid; and a transfer chamber, housing a third piston and a fourth piston, wherein the third piston and the fourth piston move relatively to vary a volume within the transfer chamber and to selectively fluidly couple the volume within the transfer chamber to the compression chamber and the expansion chamber. A method of operating an engine includes: inducing working fluid in a first chamber; compressing the working fluid in the first chamber; moving a first moveable boundary of a second chamber; moving a second moveable boundary of the second chamber; expanding the working fluid in the third chamber; and exhausting the working fluid from the third chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Tour Engine, Inc.Inventors: Michael H. WAHL, Amit HELFAND, Gilad TOUR, Yehoram HOFMAN, Hugo Benjamin TOUR, Oded TOUR
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Publication number: 20200271396Abstract: An intercooler lid assembly for an intercooler supercharger system comprising an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing; one or more intercooler cores mounted within the intercooler lid; wherein the one or more intercooler cores configured to receive and cool supercharger air passing there through prior to receipt by an engine, the one or more intercooler cores are mounted to and within the intercooler lid to form a pre-assembled intercooler lid assembly mountable onto the supercharger housing to install the intercooler lid assembly, and the one or more intercooler cores configured to provide heat exchange fluid transfer there through to cool the supercharger air.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Garrett Wayne Bright, Dustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman
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Patent number: 10738683Abstract: An intercooler lid assembly for an intercooler supercharger system, comprising: an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing; a plurality of intercooler cores coupled together, and mounted to and within the intercooler lid to cool supercharger air prior to receipt by an engine, wherein the intercooler lid assembly is pre-assembled and mounted onto the supercharger housing to install the intercooler lid assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Whipple Industries, Inc.Inventors: Dustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman, Garrett Wayne Bright
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Publication number: 20200232381Abstract: A dual, dual-pass intercooler assembly for an intercooler supercharger system comprising an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing; a pair of intercooler cores coupled mountable to and within at least one of the intercooler lid and the supercharger housing; wherein the pair of intercooler cores configured to receive and cool supercharger air upon a first pass through the pair of intercooler cores and receive and further cool the supercharger air upon a second pass through the pair of intercooler cores prior to receipt by an engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Dustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman, Garrett Wayne Bright
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Patent number: 10697353Abstract: A dual, dual-pass intercooler assembly for an intercooler supercharger system comprising an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing; a pair of intercooler cores coupled mountable to and within at least one of the intercooler lid and the supercharger housing; wherein the pair of intercooler cores configured to receive and cool supercharger air upon a first pass through the pair of intercooler cores and receive and further cool the supercharger air upon a second pass through the pair of intercooler cores prior to receipt by an engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Whipple Industries, Inc.Inventors: Dustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman, Garrett Wayne Bright
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Patent number: 10648400Abstract: A dual, dual-pass intercooler assembly for an intercooler supercharger system comprising an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing; a pair of intercooler cores coupled mountable to and within at least one of the intercooler lid and the supercharger housing; wherein the pair of intercooler cores configured to receive and cool supercharger air upon a first pass through the pair of intercooler cores and receive and further cool the supercharger air upon a second pass through the pair of intercooler cores prior to receipt by an engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Whipple Superchargers, Inc.Inventors: Dustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman, Garrett Wayne Bright
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Publication number: 20190331022Abstract: An intercooler lid assembly for an intercooler supercharger system, comprising: an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing; a plurality of intercooler cores coupled together, and mounted to and within the intercooler lid to cool supercharger air prior to receipt by an engine, wherein the intercooler lid assembly is pre-assembled and mounted onto the supercharger housing to install the intercooler lid assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2018Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Dustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman, Garrett Wayne Bright
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Publication number: 20190331021Abstract: A dual, dual-pass intercooler assembly for an intercooler supercharger system comprising an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing; a pair of intercooler cores coupled mountable to and within at least one of the intercooler lid and the supercharger housing; wherein the pair of intercooler cores configured to receive and cool supercharger air upon a first pass through the pair of intercooler cores and receive and further cool the supercharger air upon a second pass through the pair of intercooler cores prior to receipt by an engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Dustin E. Whipple, Yehoram Hofman, Garrett Wayne Bright
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Publication number: 20110247583Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine includes crank-driven gates to synchronously form chambers for the intake, compression, combustion, expansion and exhaust of a working medium during a high-efficiency hybrid engine cycle. A variety of rotor geometries and sealing apparatuses may work with a rotary engines in the execution of various engine cycles including, but not limited to, a high-efficiency hybrid engine cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: LIQUIDPISTON, INC.Inventors: Nikolay Shkolnik, Alexander C. Shkolnik, Stephen L. Nabours, Gnana Prakash Gnanam, David Collis Kieke, Yehoram Hofman