Patents by Inventor Alexandre Michel

Alexandre Michel 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).

  • Publication number: 20110011365
    Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine, for example a diesel engine, including a body defined laterally by a skirt configured to interact with walls of a cylinder having a revolution axis C in which the piston can slide along axis C, the piston including a front face that includes a central lug, a peripheral crown, and a bowl having a revolution axis B extending from the central lug to the peripheral crown to which it is connected at a lip having a thickness Ep. The bowl includes substantially over the lip a torus, for example having a half-dome profile, with a maximum radius Rt and capable of guiding a fuel injected under the lip in a region of a re-entrance zone R towards the central lug, wherein the central lug has separate upper A1 and lower A2 slopes, the upper slope A1 being more gentle than the lower slope A2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Renault S.A.S.
    Inventors: Franck Levy, Alexandre Michel