Patents by Inventor Curtis G. Yaeger

Curtis G. Yaeger 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: 5415006
    Abstract: A transport refrigeration system having electrical control which controls the temperature in a served space via heating and cooling cycles using hot refrigerant gas from a refrigerant compressor. The refrigeration system has high and low pressure sides. The high pressure side includes a discharge manifold of the compressor, a condenser coil, a refrigerant receiver tank, and an evaporator coil associated with the served space. The low pressure side extends from the evaporator coil to a suction manifold of the compressor. A first controllable refrigerant flow path means is controlled by the electrical control to purge the condenser coil in response to predetermined system parameters, causing refrigerant trapped in the condenser coil to flow to the low pressure side of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1995
    Assignee: Thermo King
    Inventors: David J. Renken, Curtis G. Yaeger, Doyle G. Herrig
  • Patent number: 5339787
    Abstract: A diesel engine system in which fuel in a fuel tank having an air space above a fuel level is pumped to a fuel injection system disposed in spaced relation above the fuel tank, and excess fuel is returned to the fuel tank air space via an uninterrupted fluid flow path between the injection system and the air space of the fuel tank. The fluid flow path has a cross sectional area selected such that air from the fuel tank air space flows counter to fuel returning to the fuel tank by gravity during non-operation of the diesel engine, to maintain the space vacated by returning fuel near atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce E. Jungquist, Michael E. McBroom, Curtis G. Yaeger, Donald G. Knauff, Thomas R. Sem