Patents by Inventor Andreas Kunne

Andreas Kunne 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).

  • Method for preventing knocking in a spark-ignited internal combustion engine having a plurality of combustion chambers
    Patent number: 5101789
    Abstract: Undesired knocking in a spark-ignited internal combustion engine is avoided by selectively retarding ignition for individual combustion chambers the first time knocking occurs to identify the knocking combustion chamber and storing the identified combustion chamber in a memory so that, upon later knocking, shifts in the ignition timing of individual combustion chambers can be made utilizing the known ignition sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1992
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Dieter Voigt, Andreas Kunne