Patents by Inventor John P. Dowell

John P. Dowell 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: 20230243504
    Abstract: An insert device may include a body coupled with an engine cylinder head. The body has an interior surface shaped to receive and engage a distal tip of a fuel injector. The body has gas conduits and mixture conduits with gas conduits extending from inlets along an exterior surface to outlets that intersect the mixture conduits. The mixture conduits extend from inlets along an interior surface of the body to outlets on the exterior surface. The gas conduits are positioned to direct gases outside of the body into the mixture conduits. The mixture conduits are positioned to receive fuel from spray holes of the fuel injector. The mixture conduits can entrain the gas with the fuel into a fuel-and-gas mixture that is directed out of the outlets of the mixture conduits and into a combustion chamber of an engine cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Brett Heher, Kevin Paul Bailey, Manuel Licon Flores, Adam Edgar Klingbeil, John P. Dowell
  • Patent number: 8459175
    Abstract: A power assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a piston housed within a cylinder, with the cylinder having a welded cylinder head, with the cylinder also including a one-piece piston scraper which is welded to the cylinder head, as well as to the cylinder, with a common weld bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Neil Blythe, John P. Dowell, Barry Record, Michael Schleigh, Richard C. Orlando, Ranga Srinivas Gunti
  • Publication number: 20110203546
    Abstract: A power assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a piston housed within a cylinder, with the cylinder having a welded cylinder head, with the cylinder also including a one-piece piston scraper which is welded to the cylinder head, as well as to the cylinder, with a common weld bead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Neil Blythe, John P. Dowell, Barry Record, Michael Schleigh, Richard C. Orlando, Ranga Srinivas Gunti
  • Patent number: 7958814
    Abstract: A power assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a piston housed within a cylinder, with the cylinder having a welded cylinder head, with the cylinder also including a one-piece piston scraper which is welded to the cylinder head, as well as to the cylinder, with a common weld bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: General Electic Company
    Inventors: Neil Blythe, John P. Dowell, Barry Record, Michael Schleigh, Richard C. Orlando, Ranga Srinivas Gunti
  • Publication number: 20090241770
    Abstract: A power assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a piston housed within a cylinder, with the cylinder having a welded cylinder head, with the cylinder also including a one-piece piston scraper which is welded to the cylinder head, as well as to the cylinder, with a common weld bead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Neil Blythe, John P. Dowell, Barry Record, Michael Schleigh, Richard C. Orlando, Ranga Srinivas Gunti
  • Patent number: 6848426
    Abstract: An adaptive fuel limit function (52) for protecting an internal combustion engine. The adaptive fuel limit function is a learning function responsive to trends in an engine performance parameter such as compensated fuel consumption per unit of power produced (62). The engine performance parameter is processed through a low pass filter (64) to allow changes in a fuel limit signal (54) in response to gradual changes in the fuel demand, such as may be due to wear in the engine, while blocking changes in the fuel limit signal in response to sudden changes in the fuel demand, such as may be due to a cylinder failure. The difference between the input and the output of the low pass filter may be processed to identify a failure level (88) for providing an alarm function distinct from the learning function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, John P. Dowell, Bret Dwayne Worden, Gerald Edward Lacy
  • Publication number: 20040260451
    Abstract: An adaptive fuel limit function (52) for protecting an internal combustion engine. The adaptive fuel limit function is a learning function responsive to trends in an engine performance parameter such as compensated fuel consumption per unit of power produced (62). The engine performance parameter is processed through a low pass filter (64) to allow changes in a fuel limit signal (54) in response to gradual changes in the fuel demand, such as may be due to wear in the engine, while blocking changes in the fuel limit signal in response to sudden changes in the fuel demand, such as may be due to a cylinder failure. The difference between the input and the output of the low pass filter may be processed to identify a failure level (88) for providing an alarm function distinct from the learning function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, John P. Dowell, Bret Dwayne Worden, Gerald Edward Lacy