Patents Represented by Attorney Artz and Artz, P.C.
  • Patent number: 7156077
    Abstract: A fuel system for an internal combustion engine uses a fuel pump having an internally mounted pressure-responsive buffer which increases the volume available for fuel within the pump's discharge port upon shutdown of the pump, so as to assist in the mitigation of fugitive hydrocarbon emissions from fuel injectors which might otherwise result from a hot soak of an automotive engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Scott Koller, Donald Ignasiak, Thomas Joseph Luley