Patents by Inventor Ewald KOTTRE

Ewald KOTTRE 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: 11628522
    Abstract: A handling device for servicing a piston with a small end attached to the piston via a piston pin, having a basic frame, a receiving device that is pivotable or tiltable relative to the basic frame for the piston removed from an internal combustion engine, an actuator for pivoting or tilting the receiving device relative to the basic frame, and a locking device via which the receiving device is lockable on the basic frame in different pivot positions or tilting positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Ewald Kottre, Mario Stegmayr
  • Patent number: 11352948
    Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting a length of a connecting rod of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine by installing and/or removing an intermediate plate between a connecting rod small end and a connecting rod shank of the connecting rod in the state of the connecting rod, with the following assemblies: a pivot guard for the connecting rod small end mountable to the connecting rod small end between the connecting rod small end and a cylinder liner of the cylinder; supports mountable to counterweights of the cylinder on opposite sides of the connecting rod; holders mountable to the supports and extend between the supports perpendicularly to the same; lifting cylinders mountable to the holders and lift the connecting rod small end relative to the connecting rod shank with unscrewed screw connections between connecting rod small end and connecting rod shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Ewald Kottre
  • Publication number: 20210388759
    Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting a length of a connecting rod of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine by installing and/or removing an intermediate plate between a connecting rod small end and a connecting rod shank of the connecting rod in the state of the connecting rod, with the following assemblies: a pivot guard for the connecting rod small end mountable to the connecting rod small end between the connecting rod small end and a cylinder liner of the cylinder; supports mountable to counterweights of the cylinder on opposite sides of the connecting rod; holders mountable to the supports and extend between the supports perpendicularly to the same; lifting cylinders mountable to the holders and lift the connecting rod small end relative to the connecting rod shank with unscrewed screw connections between connecting rod small end and connecting rod shank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventor: Ewald KOTTRE
  • Publication number: 20210354254
    Abstract: A handling device for servicing a piston with a small end attached to the piston via a piston pin, having a basic frame, a receiving device that is pivotable or tiltable relative to the basic frame for the piston removed from an internal combustion engine, an actuator for pivoting or tilting the receiving device relative to the basic frame, and a locking device via which the receiving device is lockable on the basic frame in different pivot positions or tilting positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ewald KOTTRE, Mario STEGMAYR