Patents Represented by Attorney Herman E. Smith

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  • Fuel regulator
    Patent number: 3977382
    Abstract: A fuel system in which excess fuel is recirculated from the charge forming apparatus, including means for regulating pressure of the recirculated fuel which in turn influences the air-fuel ratio of the charge forming apparatus. One embodiment of the regulator includes manual adjusting means for maintaining a stable pressure and air-fuel ratio, while another embodiment includes an electronically controlled transducer for varying the pressure and air-fuel ratio while the engine is operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1976
    Assignee: Borg-Warner Corporation
    Inventors: John J. Tuzson, Irving H. Hallberg
  • One piece stamped pulley
    Patent number: 3964326
    Abstract: A rotary member such as a wheel, clutch disc, V-pulley and the like which can be formed from a sheet metal stamping. Method and apparatus are disclosed for forming an integral hub having a wall thickness greater than the sheet stock from which it is made. Method and apparatus are disclosed for forming a V-pulley from a sheet metal blank by plastically flowing and spin forming the blank to provide an increase in the thickness of the groove walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1976
    Assignee: Borg-Warner Corporation
    Inventor: Frank Mickus
  • Vacuum pulse actuated fuel control valve
    Patent number: 3952719
    Abstract: An automatic fuel control valve useful with, rotary, as well as 2-stroke cycle and 4-stroke cycle reciprocating internal combustion engines employs a rubber-like check valve and a porous plug in combination with a chamber for averaging recurrent vacuum pulses from the engine, in which the resulting average pressure is applied to maintain a fuel valve in the open condition while the engine is running and to permit the valve to close when the engine is not running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Assignee: Borg-Warner Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Fenton, Daniel L. Donovan
  • Pneumatically controlled fuel injection system
    Patent number: 3938486
    Abstract: A fuel system for an internal combustion engine employs fluid logic and amplifier devices for monitoring and processing pressures from both a venturi and inlet manifold to measure the air inducted into the engine and provides pneumatically controlled fuel injection in which fuel is metered in accordance with the air inducted into the engine by means of regulating the time duration of fuel injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1976
    Assignee: Borg-Warner Corporation
    Inventor: Cecil D. Oglesby
  • Fuel economy indicator
    Patent number: 3938074
    Abstract: A compact fuel economy indicator employs illuminated symbols such as colored lenses to indicate relative fuel economy. In one embodiment a series of lenses is moved with respect to a fixed lamp while in a second embodiment a lamp is moved with respect to the series of lenses for increasing the intensity of illumination of the appropriate lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1976
    Assignee: Borg-Warner Corporation
    Inventor: Clarence D. Fox