Patents by Inventor Gerald H. Dorn

Gerald H. Dorn 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: 6880535
    Abstract: A carburetion system, without complicated control systems, functions uniformly throughout the range of engine load and incremental increases of power demand to provide efficient stable engine performance for a natural gas fired, internal combustion engine using EGR. A cogeneration system for supplying distributed generation of electricity and process/utility heat, employs a system for engine cooling and effective heat transfer to a cogeneration client, reduces engine head temperature, thereby reducing fuel consumption and reducing pollutants, as well as delivering substantially increased heat to a cogeneration process/utility heat facility by use of a carburetion system which employs at least a pair of spaced apart venturi positioned in series proximate one to another such that a first exhaust recycled gas venturi is upstream of a fuel venturi where fuel and air/exhaust gas are admixed prior to the resultant gas being introduced into a turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Chapeau, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Sorter, Gerald H. Dorn
  • Publication number: 20040200221
    Abstract: A heat exchange cooling system for an internal combustion engine co-generation plant, which allows exhaust recycled gas combustion while maintaining lower head temperatures to reduce thermal NOx emissions while delivering increased process/utility heat to a proximate co-generation client, is provided. The cooling system has two cooling loops with different flow rates: one through the engine and the second through exhaust manifolds, such that higher engine block flow resulting in cooler head temperatures is provided, while allowing higher temperature coolant to flow through exhaust exchangers, such that when the two coolant flows converge at a process/utility heat exchanger for heating co-generation client liquid, the combined flows substantially increase the transferred heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Richard L. Sorter, Gerald H. Dorn
  • Publication number: 20040173192
    Abstract: A carburetion system, without complicated control systems, functions uniformly throughout the range of engine load and incremental increases of power demand to provide efficient stable engine performance for a natural gas fired, internal combustion engine using EGR. A cogeneration system for supplying distributed generation of electricity and process/utility heat, employs a system for engine cooling and effective heat transfer to a cogeneration client, reduces engine head temperature, thereby reducing fuel consumption and reducing pollutants, as well as delivering substantially increased heat to a cogeneration process/utility heat facility by use of a carburetion system which employs at least a pair of spaced apart venturi positioned in series proximate one to another such that a first exhaust recycled gas venturi is upstream of a fuel venturi where fuel and air/exhaust gas are admixed prior to the resultant gas being introduced into a turbocharger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: CHAPEAU, INC.
    Inventors: Richard L. Sorter, Gerald H. Dorn
  • Patent number: 6748932
    Abstract: A natural gas fuel regulator for a natural gas fueled internal combustion engine for driving a co-generation plant, which allows exhaust recycled gas combustion while maintaining lower head temperatures to reduce thermal NOx emissions. The gas regulator has a modulation chamber, which modulates incremental pressure changes from the carburetion system to allow the engine to respond to load changes without the necessity for dynamic control feed back valve. In one aspect, a non-diaphragm venturi fuel/air-mixing unit with post turbo charger throttle adjustment is downstream of the natural gas fuel regulator to provide lean burn, low thermal NOx operation of the co-generation unit from no load to full load electrical generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Chapeau, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Sorter, Gerald H. Dorn
  • Patent number: 6729133
    Abstract: A heat exchange cooling system for an internal combustion engine co-generation plant, which allows exhaust recycled gas combustion while maintaining lower head temperatures to reduce thermal NOx emissions while delivering increased process/utility heat to a proximate co-generation client, is provided. The cooling system has two cooling loops with different flow rates: one through the engine and the second through exhaust manifolds, such that higher engine block flow resulting in cooler head temperatures is provided, while allowing higher temperature coolant to flow through exhaust exchangers, such that when the two coolant flows converge at a process/utility heat exchanger for heating co-generation client liquid, the combined flows substantially increase the transferred heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Chapeau, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard L. Sorter, Gerald H. Dorn