Patents by Inventor Angelo Ciccarone

Angelo Ciccarone 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).

  • Patent number: 4884539
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a head for an internal combustion reciprocating engine, with a couple of spark-plugs for each combustion chamber, wherein the structure of the head is optimized in order to improve the preformance of the engine, and to secure the necessary structural stiffness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Alfa Lancia Industries S.p.A
    Inventors: Angelo Ciccarone, Emilio Oldani, Pier L. Scapecchi
  • Patent number: 4849897
    Abstract: The device allows the physical quantity used for the feedback-governing of the supercharging pressure of an internal combustion engine to be corrected as a function of ambient air temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Alfa-Lancia Industriale S.r.l.
    Inventor: Angelo Ciccarone
  • Patent number: 4819428
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust system for a multicylinder internal combustion engine comprising at least a manifold formed by individual exhaust ducts connected to the engine's cylinders, connector pipes, into which groups of individual ducts come together, a common exhaust pipe into which the said connector pipes join each other, the silencer mufflers, wherein the system is characterized in that the said silencer mufflers are positioned in correspondence of at least an end of said common exhaust pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Alfa Romeo Auto S.p.A.
    Inventor: Angelo Ciccarone
  • Patent number: 4706197
    Abstract: This invention relates to a device for correcting functional quantities of an internal combustion engine in accordance with detonation. The correction is made by comparing the amplitude of a vibratory signal indicative of detonation with a reference signal.In order to cause the correction to take place, a sensitivity factor is used multiplied by a correcting constant which depends on the value of the reference signal or on the ratio of the reference signal to the reference signal in the absence of detonation, this being an index of the basic characteristics and operating state of the engine and transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Alfa Romeo Auto S.p.A.
    Inventor: Angelo Ciccarone
  • Patent number: 4529356
    Abstract: A device for controlling the flow pattern of the exhaust gas of a supercharged internal combustion engine comprises a diverging conduit disposed at the outlet of an exhaust gas operated centripetal turbine, a radially finned conduit portion, a converging conduit and an exhaust pipe for conveying the gas to atmosphere. The back pressure at the engine exhaust is thus minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Assignee: Alfa Romeo S.p.A.
    Inventor: Angelo Ciccarone
  • Patent number: 3937766
    Abstract: A fuel feeding system for internal combustion engines, of the type comprising a carburettor with a throttle controlling the main flow of fuel-air mixture to the cylinders, the carburettor further comprising a pre-mixing chamber for the air-fuel mixture, which communicates with the engine intake duct by means of ports located both upstream and downstream of the throttle in its closed condition, said pre-mixing chamber feeding also with air-fuel mixture a secondary chamber, communicating both with the atmospheric air and with the intake duct downstream of the said throttle, whereby the fuel-air ratio is kept constant both at idling and at low RPM of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1976
    Assignee: Alpha Romeo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giampaolo Garcea, Gennaro Police, Angelo Ciccarone