Patents by Inventor Bryan KUIECK
Bryan KUIECK 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).
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Publication number: 20250093193Abstract: A housing assembly for a fluid sensor assembly includes a housing having a first and second sensing volumes. A fluid port attached to the housing has a porous membrane covering first and second fluid apertures. The first sensing volume included a vertically-oriented waveguide and is fluidly coupled to an exterior of the housing through the first fluid aperture, where the first aperture port has an area smaller than an area of a cross section of the waveguide. The second sensing volume is coupled to the exterior of the housing through the second fluid aperture, the second fluid aperture having an area larger than a cross section of the second sensing volume. While the first sensing volume and the second sensing volume are both in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing, the fluid port and porous membrane internally isolate the first sensing volume from the second sensing volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Bryan KUIECK, Christopher GODFREY, Steven MILETTE, Michael O'HARA, Christian BRAUN, Sree Hyma Sudhakar PARUCHURI
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Patent number: 12017168Abstract: An aqueous fluid filter assembly with aeration mitigation includes a cap, a bowl engaging the cap and defining a filter volume, and a filter element disposed in the filter volume. The filter element is sealed against an interior of the cap and an interior of the bowl to provide an unfiltered volume and a filtered volume. An inlet is in fluid communication with the unfiltered volume and an outlet is in fluid communication with the filtered volume via a pickup section. The pickup section has a pick-up section inlet extending into the filtered volume and an air-metering orifice, wherein the air-metering orifice has a diameter less than 30% of the diameter of the pick-up section inlet and the pick-up section inlet is located below the air-metering orifice.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: SHAW DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Bryan Kuieck, Patrick Greivell, Michael O'Hara, Eric Gress
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Patent number: 11965768Abstract: A housing assembly for a fluid sensor assembly includes a housing having a first and second sensing volumes. A fluid port attached to the housing has a porous membrane covering first and second fluid apertures. The first sensing volume included a vertically-oriented waveguide and is fluidly coupled to an exterior of the housing through the first fluid aperture, where the first aperture port has an area smaller than an area of a cross section of the waveguide. The second sensing volume is coupled to the exterior of the housing through the second fluid aperture, the second fluid aperture having an area larger than a cross section of the second sensing volume. While the first sensing volume and the second sensing volume are both in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing, the fluid port and porous membrane internally isolate the first sensing volume from the second sensing volume.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHAW DEVELOPMENT, LLCInventors: Bryan Kuieck, Christopher Godfrey, Steven Milette, Michael O'Hara, Christian Braun, Sree Hyma Sudhakar Paruchuri
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Publication number: 20230102136Abstract: An aqueous fluid filter assembly with aeration mitigation includes a cap, a bowl engaging the cap and defining a filter volume, and a filter element disposed in the filter volume. The filter element is sealed against an interior of the cap and an interior of the bowl to provide an unfiltered volume and a filtered volume. An inlet is in fluid communication with the unfiltered volume and an outlet is in fluid communication with the filtered volume via a pickup section. The pickup section has a pick-up section inlet extending into the filtered volume and an air-metering orifice, wherein the air-metering orifice has a diameter less than 30% of the diameter of the pick-up section inlet and the pick-up section inlet is located below the air-metering orifice.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Bryan KUIECK, Patrick GREIVELL, Michael O'HARA, Eric GRESS
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Patent number: 11517838Abstract: An aqueous fluid filter assembly with aeration mitigation includes a cap, a bowl engaging the cap and defining a filter volume, and a filter element disposed in the filter volume. The filter element is sealed against an interior of the cap and an interior of the bowl to provide an unfiltered volume and a filtered volume. An inlet is in fluid communication with the unfiltered volume and an outlet is in fluid communication with the filtered volume via a pickup section. The pickup section has a pick-up section inlet extending into the filtered volume and an air-metering orifice, wherein the air-metering orifice has a diameter less than 30% of the diameter of the pick-up section inlet and the pick-up section inlet is located below the air-metering orifice.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SHAW DEVELOPMENT LLCInventors: Bryan Kuieck, Patrick Greivell, Michael O'Hara, Eric Gress
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Publication number: 20210291091Abstract: An aqueous fluid filter assembly with aeration mitigation includes a cap, a bowl engaging the cap and defining a filter volume, and a filter element disposed in the filter volume. The filter element is sealed against an interior of the cap and an interior of the bowl to provide an unfiltered volume and a filtered volume. An inlet is in fluid communication with the unfiltered volume and an outlet is in fluid communication with the filtered volume via a pickup section. The pickup section has a pick-up section inlet extending into the filtered volume and an air-metering orifice, wherein the air-metering orifice has a diameter less than 30% of the diameter of the pick-up section inlet and the pick-up section inlet is located below the air-metering orifice.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Bryan KUIECK, Patrick GREIVELL, Michael O'HARA, Eric GRESS
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Publication number: 20210239509Abstract: A housing assembly for a fluid sensor assembly includes a housing having a first and second sensing volumes. A fluid port attached to the housing has a porous membrane covering first and second fluid apertures. The first sensing volume included a vertically-oriented waveguide and is fluidly coupled to an exterior of the housing through the first fluid aperture, where the first aperture port has an area smaller than an area of a cross section of the waveguide. The second sensing volume is coupled to the exterior of the housing through the second fluid aperture, the second fluid aperture having an area larger than a cross section of the second sensing volume. While the first sensing volume and the second sensing volume are both in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing, the fluid port and porous membrane internally isolate the first sensing volume from the second sensing volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Bryan KUIECK, Christopher GODFREY, Steven MILETTE, Michael O'HARA, Christian BRAUN, Sree Hyma Sudhakar PARUCHURI
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Patent number: 8925316Abstract: A method of controlling airflow of an engine system is provided. The method includes determining a supercharger operating mode and a turbocharger operating mode based on engine load; selectively generating a control signal to a turbocharger based on the turbocharger operating mode; and selectively generating a control signal to a supercharger bypass valve based on the supercharger operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Steven J. Andrasko, Christopher J. Kalebjian, Yun Xiao, Bryan A. Kuieck
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Publication number: 20130174545Abstract: A method of controlling airflow of an engine system is provided. The method includes determining a supercharger operating mode and a turbocharger operating mode based on engine load; selectively generating a control signal to a turbocharger based on the turbocharger operating mode; and selectively generating a control signal to a supercharger bypass valve based on the supercharger operating mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Steven J. Andrasko, Christopher J. Kalebjian, Yun Xiao, Bryan A. Kuieck
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Publication number: 20130047604Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, an internal combustion engine includes a turbocharger configured to receive an air flow and a first exhaust flow from the internal combustion engine and a supercharger downstream of the turbocharger configured to receive a compressed air charge from the turbocharger. The engine further includes an exhaust gas recirculation circuit receiving a second exhaust flow from the internal combustion engine and supplying the second exhaust flow to the compressed air charge upstream of the supercharger, wherein the second exhaust flow and compressed air charge comprise an exhaust-air mixed flow received by the internal combustion engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Steven J. Andrasko, Christopher J. Kalebjian, Bryan A. Kuieck, Yun Xiao, Thomas L. Bahensky
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Patent number: 7568471Abstract: A fuel injection priming system includes a fuel supply line connected to a fuel supply rail. A plurality of piezoelectric fuel injectors are connected to the fuel supply rail. An injector return fuel line is connected to the fuel injectors and in communication with a fuel supply line via a diverter valve to allow pressure fuel from the high pressure fuel pump return line to pressurize the injector return fuel line to backfill the injectors during a priming operation. A fuel restriction device is in communication with the diverter valve to restrict fuel flow through the injector return line to provide sufficient backfill for the fuel injectors during the priming operation and to allow fuel to pass to the fuel tank from the injector return fuel line during normal operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.Inventors: Henry W Harper, Peter Hubl, Bryan A Kuieck
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Publication number: 20090084361Abstract: A fuel injection priming system includes a fuel supply line connected to a fuel supply rail. A plurality of piezoelectric fuel injectors are connected to the fuel supply rail. An injector return fuel line is connected to the fuel injectors and in communication with a fuel supply line via a diverter valve to allow pressure fuel from the high pressure fuel pump return line to pressurize the injector return fuel line to backfill the injectors during a priming operation. A fuel restriction device is in communication with the diverter valve to restrict fuel flow through the injector return line to provide sufficient backfill for the fuel injectors during the priming operation and to allow fuel to pass to the fuel tank from the injector return fuel line during normal operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Henry W. Harper, Peter Hubl, Bryan A. Kuieck