Patents by Inventor Delbert L. Kramer

Delbert L. Kramer 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: 6655142
    Abstract: A turbocharger for an internal combustion engine, is provided with a turbine including a rotatable turbine shaft, a turbine wheel carried by the turbine shaft, and a drive gear carried by the turbine shaft. A first compressor includes a rotatable first compressor shaft, a first compressor wheel carried by the first compressor shaft, and a first driven gear carried by the first compressor shaft. The first driven gear is operatively engaged with and driven by the drive gear. The turbocharger has a compact arrangement, and allows for optimization of compressor wheel operating speeds, including in a turbocharger having multiple compression stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: James J. Callas, Frank G. Gerke, Delbert L. Kramer, Mark D. Moeckel
  • Publication number: 20030188534
    Abstract: A turbocharger for an internal combustion engine, is provided with a turbine including a rotatable turbine shaft, a turbine wheel carried by the turbine shaft, and a drive gear carried by the turbine shaft. A first compressor includes a rotatable first compressor shaft, a first compressor wheel carried by the first compressor shaft, and a first driven gear carried by the first compressor shaft. The first driven gear is operatively engaged with and driven by the drive gear. The turbocharger has a compact arrangement, and allows for optimization of compressor wheel operating speeds, including in a turbocharger having multiple compression stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Publication date: October 9, 2003
    Inventors: James J. Callas, Frank G. Gerke, Delbert L. Kramer, Mark D. Moeckel
  • Patent number: 6553763
    Abstract: A turbocharger for an internal combustion engine is provided with a compressor having an inlet receiving combustion gas and an outlet; and a turbine drivingly coupled to the compressor. The turbine has a shaft and a turbine wheel disposed on the shaft. The turbine wheel has a plurality of turbine blades and an edge defining a plurality of scallops. Scallop fillers are disposed between the turbine blades. Advantages of a scalloped turbine wheel, resulting from reductions in mass, are achieved without reductions in efficiency normally experienced with scalloped turbine wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc
    Inventors: James J. Callas, Frank G. Gerke, Delbert L. Kramer, Mark D. Moeckel
  • Patent number: 6450765
    Abstract: A fan assembly with an improved seal for a mobile machine cooling system is disclosed. A housing is mounted to a machine structure and an impeller is mounted for rotation with respect to the housing. The impeller includes a plurality of rotating blades supported on a flange. A fan inlet is mounted with the housing and directs air toward the blades. A rotating shroud extends outwardly from the impeller flange and has a shroud inlet that extends into the fan inlet to form a seal between the fan inlet and the shroud inlet. The method and apparatus includes forming the seal between the fan inlet and the rotating shroud to prevent leakage as the rotating blades generate a centrifugal airflow for discharge through a fan outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jim K. Carroll, Delbert L. Kramer
  • Patent number: 6082969
    Abstract: A quiet compact radiator cooling fan having a hub portion, which extends radially outwardly and axially from its inlet to its outlet end, a shroud portion, which extends radially inwardly and axially adjacent the inlet end and radially outwardly and axially adjacent its outlet end forming a converging annular opening and a plurality of airfoil shaped, forward sweep blades disposed between the hub and shroud which cooperate with the hub and shroud to produce a mixed flow radiator fan which has improved blade loading and aeroacoustic performance producing a quiet and efficient cooling fan for off the road vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jim K. Carroll, Delbert L. Kramer