Patents by Inventor Mark Cherry

Mark Cherry 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: 7007658
    Abstract: A device for shutdown of an internal combustion engine which provides for the cessation of fuel and air mixture in a carburetor supplying the cylinders of the engine with fuel for ignition. The device features a conduit in sealed engagement with the fuel supply bowl of the carburetor which may by switched from engagement between the atmosphere or a negative air pressure supply. When switched to communication with negative air pressure the device causes a vacuum in the fuel bowl of the carburator thereby ceasing fuel flow and shutting down the engine due to lack of fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: SmartPlugs Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Cherry, Richard D. Course, Stephen Michael Chudyk
  • Patent number: 5421299
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for compression timed ignition in internal combustion engines, the varying mass of the fuel-air mixture having controlling effect to retard timing by cooling a heater element to vary the current therethrough, and characterized by an igniter with a pre-chamber in communication with the engine combustion chamber via a restricted nozzle area for projecting burning plasma at high velocity into the engine combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1995
    Inventor: Mark A. Cherry
  • Patent number: 5388282
    Abstract: A pneumatic assisted flush system for toilets having a raised water storage tank and a flush valve discharging into a toilet bowl, characterized by a primary air seal at the rim of the toilet bowl and a secondary air seal established in a flush passage during flushing, whereby the toilet bowl is converted into a closed chamber for the entrapment of air compressed by the discharge of flush water, thereby depressing debris laden water in the toilet bowl in order to initiate syphoning through a flush pipe and into a sewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Inventor: Mark A. Cherry
  • Patent number: 5297518
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for compression timed ignition in internal combustion engines, the varying mass of the fuel-air mixture having controlling effect to retard timing by cooling a heater element to vary the current therethrough, and characterized by an igniter with a pre-chamber in communication with the engine combustion chamber via at least one and preferably a multiplicity of radiating ports for projecting burning plasma into the engine combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Inventor: Mark A. Cherry
  • Patent number: 5109817
    Abstract: A catalytic prereaction timing ignition method and igniter unit for timed ignition of a fuel-air mixture in internal combustion engines providing an ignition chamber open into the combustion chamber of the engine, there being a catalytic igniter positioned in the ignition chamber to intercept a pressure front of stratified fuel-air mixture penetrating a prechamber timing zone of the ignition chamber and controlled by the spring rate of burnt gasses captured in a buffer zone of the ignition chamber during the compression cycle and ignited by the pressure front touching the igniter to effect the power stroke of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: Altronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark A. Cherry
  • Patent number: 4977873
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for timed ignition of a fuel-air mixture in internal combustion engines, incorporated therein or as a replacement unit therefor, providing an ignition chamber open into the combustion chamber, there being a catalytic igniter positioned in the ignition chamber to contact a pressure front of said fuel-air mixture penetrating the ignition chamber during the compression cycle and ignited thereby to effect the power cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Clifford L. Elmore
    Inventors: Mark A. Cherry, Clifford L. Elmore