Patents by Inventor Kurt Reichel

Kurt Reichel 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: 11350777
    Abstract: An assisted eating aid for use with an eating utensil constructed to carry food portions is disclosed as a serving vessel body having a bottom surface and an opposing upper surface with a centrally disposed food receiving region, an outermost perimeter, and a plurality of flanges projecting upwardly from the upper surface of the serving vessel body to divide the centrally disposed food receiving region from an outermost food receiving region where at least two of the flanges are spaced apart with each flange having an interior facing scoop surface and exterior facing scoop surface constructed to shove food portions pushed thereagainst onto the eating utensil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Inventor: Kurt Reichel
  • Publication number: 20190059622
    Abstract: An assisted eating aid for use with an eating utensil constructed to carry food portions is disclosed as a serving vessel body having a bottom surface and an opposing upper surface with a centrally disposed food receiving region, an outermost perimeter, and a plurality of flanges projecting upwardly from the upper surface of the serving vessel body to divide the centrally disposed food receiving region from an outermost food receiving region where at least two of the flanges are spaced apart with each flange having an interior facing scoop surface and exterior facing scoop surface constructed to shove food portions pushed thereagainst onto the eating utensil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: KURT REICHEL
  • Patent number: 10104991
    Abstract: An assisted eating aid for use with an eating utensil constructed to carry food portions is disclosed as a serving vessel body having a bottom surface and an opposing upper surface with a centrally disposed food receiving region, an outermost perimeter, and a plurality of flanges projecting upwardly from the upper surface of the serving vessel body to divide the centrally disposed food receiving region from an outermost food receiving region where at least two of the flanges are spaced apart with each flange having an interior facing scoop surface and exterior facing scoop surface constructed to shove food portions pushed thereagainst onto the eating utensil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Inventor: Kurt Reichel
  • Publication number: 20150090726
    Abstract: An assisted eating aid for use with an eating utensil constructed to carry food portions is disclosed as a serving vessel body having a bottom surface and an opposing upper surface with a centrally disposed food receiving region, an outermost perimeter, and a plurality of flanges projecting upwardly from the upper surface of the serving vessel body to divide the centrally disposed food receiving region from an outermost food receiving region where at least two of the flanges are spaced apart with each flange having an interior facing scoop surface and exterior facing scoop surface constructed to shove food portions pushed thereagainst onto the eating utensil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: KURT REICHEL
  • Patent number: 4057037
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with charge stratification and spark ignition comprises a cylinder head having a main combustion chamber and a cavity defined by surrounding walls of the cylinder head and opening toward the main combustion chamber. An auxiliary combustion chamber is formed within a cup-shaped insert frictionally maintained in the cavity and opening away from the main combustion chamber. The cup-shaped insert is thin-walled and has an opening providing a passage connecting the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber and a pair of openings for receiving a fuel delivery device and an ignition device, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Reichel, Gerd Decker, Alfred Kuck, Erwin Schulz
  • Patent number: 4057038
    Abstract: An auxiliary combustion chamber for a stratified chage internal combustion engine is formed by an insert secured in a bore of the cylinder head. The insert is in the form of a tubular shell having openings for ignition means, fuel supply means, and having a passage communicating with the main combustion chamber. The tubular shell has a relatively massive construction in the region of the passage and is relatively thin walled in the remaining regions to provide the capability for fast warm-up of the auxiliary combustion chamber and to prevent overheating of the chamber in the region of the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Reichel, Gerd Decker, Hans-Alfred Kuck, Walter Brandstetter
  • Patent number: 4040393
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with charge stratification and spark ignition comprises a main combustion chamber and an auxiliary combustion chamber, the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber being interconnected by a short passage. The auxiliary combustion chamber has a wall, at least a portion of which is contiguous with an exhaust conduit of the main combustion chamber. When hot exhaust gases from the main combustion chamber are flowing through the exhaust conduit, the portion of the wall of the auxiliary combustion chamber contiguous with the exhaust conduit is in direct heat exchange contact with the hot exhaust gases for rapidly heating the auxiliary combustion chamber to a temperature within an optimum range to prevent condensation from forming therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerd Decker, Dieter Steinke, Kurt Reichel
  • Patent number: 3989014
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with charge stratification and spark ignition comprises a main combustion chamber and an auxiliary combustion chamber, the main combustion chamber and the auxiliary combustion chamber being interconnected by a short passage. Hot gases flow past an outer surface of the auxiliary combustion chamber in heat exchange contact therewith for rapidly heating the auxiliary combustion chamber to a temperature within an optimum range to prevent condensation from forming in the auxiliary combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1976
    Assignee: Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Brandstetter, Gerd Decker, Kurt Reichel
  • Patent number: 3983853
    Abstract: An induction pipe for internal combustion engines having a distributor section and supply lines for the mixture with the deflector having means therein to even the distribution of the mixture and the deflector being formed by a wall between the branch off points and also provided with recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1976
    Assignee: Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhard Gospodar, Kurt Reichel, Gustav Vogelsang, Peter Thauer