Patents by Inventor Michael L. Zettner

Michael L. Zettner 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: 6555727
    Abstract: In a two-step method of chemothermal conversion of feedstock in the form of fluid compounds or compounds convertible into a fluid state, into low-molecular, organic or inorganic compounds, the improvement including reaching an extremely high efficiency rate of the destruction of the compounds of the second preliminary step by introducing the compounds of the first preliminary step through at least one small mixing channel under excess pressure of between 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Inventor: Michael L. Zettner
  • Publication number: 20010029312
    Abstract: In a two-step method of chemothermal conversion of feedstock in the form of fluid compounds or compounds convertible into a fluid state, into low-molecular, organic or inorganic compounds, the improvement including reaching an extremely high efficiency rate of the destruction of the compounds of the second preliminary step by introducing the compounds of the first preliminary step through at least one small mixing channel under excess pressure of between 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventor: Michael L. Zettner
  • Patent number: 5339779
    Abstract: A piston suspension for a reciprocating piston engine, especially a prime motor or pump with one or two pistons per cylinder, has for each piston at least three force transmissions, which each consist of connecting rod or thombus and of a crank, wherein the axes of the crankshafts are not congruent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Inventor: Michael L. Zettner
  • Patent number: 5131840
    Abstract: A burner device for combustion of a combustible mixture of two flowable components consists of a chamber housing, first feed means for the first component, second feed means for the second component and an outlet opening for the combustion gases. Serving as feed means for the first component is an injector pipe, which has a rearward axial bore at its end oriented towards the outlet opening, a narrower forward axial bore at its other end, a constriction between the two bores. The feed means for the second component consists of at least one inclined channel which extends radially and obliquely relative to the injector axis with the apex of the angle .alpha.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Inventor: Michael L. Zettner
  • Patent number: 4890990
    Abstract: A rotary engine in which the expansion pressure of a working gas is converted into a mechanical rotary movement consists of an inner engine element with an outer circumferential surface and an outer engine element which surrounds the inner element and has an inner circumferential surface, the two surfaces being disposed closely adjacent and facing each other. Disposed at, for example, the inner surface are three spaced projections, which transmit the expansion pressure of the gas to the inner element, and three expansion chambers between the projections. Four reaction members, which are each movable into the expansion chambers in turn and transmit the gas expansion pressure to the outer element, are mounted at the circumferential surface of the outer element. The two circumferential surfaces have the form of complementary annular surfaces, wherein in cross-section the inner surface has the shape of a concave, parabola-like curve and the outer surface the shape of a convex, parabola-like curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Inventor: Michael L. Zettner