Patents by Inventor Francis R. Lyndhurst

Francis R. Lyndhurst 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: 4957070
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has a carburetor and cylinders, each cylinder having two fuel/air intake ports, and also provided is a first manifold runner system having a fuel/air intake end communicating with one barrel of the carburetor, and a fuel/air delivery end communicating with one of the fuel/air intake ports at certain cylinders, and a second manifold runner system having a fuel/air intake end communicating with another barrel of the carburetor, and a fuel/air delivery end communicating with the other of the fuel/air intake ports at engine cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: Thunder Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence E. Ofria, Francis R. Lyndhurst
  • Patent number: 4542720
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has two side-by-side cylinders associated with a common metallic block, the engine including:(a) first and second heads separately connected to, and detachable from the respective cylinders,(b) and rocker arm assemblies including shafts carried by said heads to pivotally support valve controlling rocker arms,(c) each head may include two separate sections which are removably interconnected, one section removably connected to a cylinder and defining valve seats, and the other section carrying said rocker arm shaft. One section may include both head and rocker arm assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1985
    Assignee: Scat Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Francis R. Lyndhurst
  • Patent number: 4425881
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has air intake manifolding proximate two parallel cylinder heads, the heads extending longitudinally and being laterally spaced, and(a) the manifolding includes runner ducts that extend generally laterally and in generally parallel relation,(b) each runner duct has a discharge end communicating with intake valve porting associated with one of the heads,(c) each runner duct has an intake end spaced generally laterally from its discharge end, the intake ends extending in two parallel rows that extend longitudinally,(d) and a plenum chamber communicates with the intake ends and via which air is supplied to both of the rows of runner duct intake ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: Aero Power Engine Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Francis R. Lyndhurst
  • Patent number: 4382427
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine has air/fuel intake manifolding and porting proximate the head of the engine, and exhaust manifolding and porting proximate the head of the engine, the engine including:(a) a cylinder block having two longitudinal rows of cylinders with V-shaped configuration,(b) the block forming coolant passages proximate the cylinders, there being multiple coolant inlets at one side of each of the rows to flow coolant to the passages at said one side of each of the rows and also to flow coolant around opposite ends of each row to the passages at the other side of the row,(c) and a cylinder head for each of the rows of cylinders, each head having first and second coolant passages respectively in communication with the passages in the block at the one and the other side of each such row of cylinders to receive coolant flow therefrom, the second passages in the head extending proximate the air/fuel intake porting, the first passages in the head extending proximate the exhaust porting, said intake
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1983
    Assignee: Aero Power Engine Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Francis R. Lyndhurst
  • Patent number: D324867
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Thunder Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis R. Lyndhurst, Philip T. Lieb