Patents by Inventor Gernot Wurfel

Gernot Wurfel 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: 6883491
    Abstract: A fuel-injection system for internal combustion engines has at least one fuel injector injecting fuel into a combustion chamber, which is delimited by a cylinder wall in which a piston is guided. A spark plug projects into the combustion chamber, and the fuel injector is located in the combustion chamber in the region of a gas-intake valve toward the cylinder wall. The fuel injector produces a plurality of fuel jets at least one of these fuel jets being tangentially oriented to the region of the spark plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Arndt, Gernot Würfel, Jürgen Raimann, Roman Grzeszik
  • Patent number: 6877477
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for internal combustion engines having a fuel injector that injects fuel into a combustion chamber, which is delimited by a cylinder wall in which a piston is guided, and having a spark plug that projects into the combustion chamber, the fuel injector injecting a plurality of injection jets into the combustion chamber. The injection jets generate a cone-shaped mixture cloud having an elliptical cross-section in the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Gernot Würfel
  • Publication number: 20040025834
    Abstract: A fuel injection system (1) for internal combustion engines (1) having a fuel injector (5) that injects fuel into a combustion chamber (7), which is delimited by a cylinder wall (13) in which a piston (6) is guided, and having a spark plug (4) that projects into the combustion chamber (7), the fuel injector (5) injecting a plurality of injection jets (10) into the combustion chamber (7). The injection jets (10) generate a cone-shaped mixture cloud (9) having an elliptical cross-section in the combustion chamber (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventor: Gernot Wurfel
  • Publication number: 20040020459
    Abstract: A fuel-injection system for internal combustion engines has at least one fuel injector injecting fuel into a combustion chamber, which is delimited by a cylinder wall in which a piston is guided. A spark plug projects into the combustion chamber, and the fuel injector is located in the combustion chamber in the region of a gas-intake valve toward the cylinder wall. The fuel injector produces a plurality of fuel jets at least one of these fuel jets being tangentially oriented to the region of the spark plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Stefan Arndt, Gernot Wurfel, Jurgen Raimann, Roman Grzeszik
  • Patent number: 4509476
    Abstract: A spark-plug assembly comprises a fitting mounted on the piston cylinder of an internal-combustion engine and formed with a generally closed firing chamber, at least one firing port extending between the firing chamber and the piston cylinder for fluid communication therebetween, and a storage compartment opening only into the firing chamber. The fitting being provided with a flame-blocking element or formation preventing the entrance of a flame front from the firing chamber into the storage compartment. This firing chamber is open substantially only to the storage compartment and to the piston cylinder. A spark plug has electrodes in the firing chamber. The electrodes form a spark gap lying in the firing chamber between the storage compartment and the port and the storage compartment opens only into the firing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erich Breuser, Wilhelm Grozinger, Reinhard Latsch, Gernot Wurfel