Patents by Inventor Heribert Imkamp

Heribert Imkamp 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).

  • Publication number: 20130287325
    Abstract: A crankshaft bearing of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine has a plain bearing formed of bearing shells, wherein a bearing shell (10) adjoins a cylinder crankcase (11) of the internal combustion engine by a bearing shell back (13) and adjoins the crankshaft to be bearing-supported by a bearing shell running surface (12), wherein either the bearing shell running surface (12) or the bearing shell back (13) or a surface (14) of the cylinder crankcase (11) adjoining the bearing shell back (13) has a concave profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: MAN DIESEL & TURBO SE
    Inventors: Robert Stocker, Niels P. Lange, Heribert Imkamp
  • Patent number: 7757650
    Abstract: The gas engine for burning a gaseous fuel-air mixture includes a combustion chamber containing the gaseous fuel-air mixture, at least one ignition device projecting into the combustion chamber to ignite the gaseous fuel-air mixture and having a heating device serving as an ignition source, and a mounting unit separating the heating device from the fuel-air mixture to be ignited. The mounting unit includes a heatable section in contact with the fuel-air mixture to be ignited, and the heating device is designed to heat the heatable section in such a way that the heatable section has a temperature required to ignite the fuel-air mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: MAN Diesel SE
    Inventors: Axel Hanenkamp, Heribert Imkamp
  • Publication number: 20070099133
    Abstract: The gas engine for burning a gaseous fuel-air mixture includes a combustion chamber containing the gaseous fuel-air mixture, at least one ignition device projecting into the combustion chamber to ignite the gaseous fuel-air mixture and having a heating device serving as an ignition source, and a mounting unit separating the heating device from the fuel-air mixture to be ignited. The mounting unit includes a heatable section in contact with the fuel-air mixture to be ignited, and the heating device is designed to heat the heatable section in such a way that the heatable section has a temperature required to ignite the fuel-air mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventors: Axel Hanenkamp, Heribert Imkamp