Patents by Inventor Kurt Wilhelm

Kurt Wilhelm 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: 6050244
    Abstract: An injector system adapted for use in a free-piston engine, includes an injection pump designed in the form of a free-piston pump and having a pump piston accommodated in a cylinder for reciprocating within the cylinder for making a compression stroke from a bottom dead center to a top dead center and for making an expansion stroke from the top dead center to the bottom dead center, an injector nozzle disposed in an engine piston or in a cylinder head which oscillates axially together with the engine piston, for injecting fuel received from the injection pump into a working chamber of the free-piston engine, a stroke limiting piston bearing on a working chamber distant end of the pump piston, and a restriction mechanism for limiting the travel of the limiting piston and the travel of the pump piston in the directions of the compression stroke and the expansion stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Inventor: Kurt Wilhelm