Patents by Inventor Robert Joseph Pyle

Robert Joseph Pyle 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: 10018160
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a vapor canister couple to a fuel tank of a vehicle. A series of fluidically coupled, variable capacity bleed elements, externally coupled to a sidewall of the vapor canister, capture the bleed emissions resulting from desorption of fuel vapors from an adsorbent material inside the vapor canister. The series of bleed elements may be fluidically coupled through flow paths passing through the vapor canister wall, connecting through a first flow path to a chamber inside the vapor canister and connecting through a second flow path to a vent port of the vapor canister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chuck Frank Bartus, Dennis Lowe, David Ballheim, Floyd Leon Bergeron, John Felecan, Dawn Woodring, Todd Blankenship, Robert Joseph Pyle, Dwayne Pollitt
  • Publication number: 20170211518
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a vapor canister couple to a fuel tank of a vehicle. A series of fluidically coupled, variable capacity bleed elements, externally coupled to a sidewall of the vapor canister, capture the bleed emissions resulting from desorption of fuel vapors from an adsorbent material inside the vapor canister. The series of bleed elements may be fluidically coupled through flow paths passing through the vapor canister wall, connecting through a first flow path to a chamber inside the vapor canister and connecting through a second flow path to a vent port of the vapor canister.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Chuck Frank Bartus, Dennis Lowe, David Ballheim, Floyd Leon Bergeron, John Felecan, Dawn Woodring, Todd Blankenship, Robert Joseph Pyle, Dwayne Pollitt
  • Patent number: 7624720
    Abstract: A fuel pressure regulator is provided. The fuel pressure regulator includes a body forming an inlet and an outlet, a seal element positioned intermediate the inlet and the outlet, an armature positioned to apply force to the seal element, and a solenoid coiled around the armature, wherein excitation of the solenoid causes a change in at least one of a position of the armature relative to the seal element and a force applied by the armature to the seal element to vary a regulated fuel pressure set-point at which fuel flows through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David M. Dokas, Robert Joseph Pyle, Dequan Yu
  • Patent number: 7559315
    Abstract: A rotodynamic fuel pump in a fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine including a pump housing, a pump inlet channel extending through the housing allowing fuel to be drawn into the pump, a purge orifice extending through the housing and spaced away from the pump inlet channel, the purge orifice allowing fuel vapor to exit the pump, the purge orifice including a purge inlet, a purge outlet, and a purge channel, where the purge inlet is axially offset from the purge outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dequan Yu, Sheven Sharp, Harold L. Castle, Stephen T. Kempfer, Robert Joseph Pyle