Patents by Inventor Stéhane RICHARD

Stéhane RICHARD 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).

  • Publication number: 20170082013
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel injection method for a compression-ignition direct-injection internal-combustion engine comprising at least a cylinder (10), a cylinder head (12) carrying fuel injection means (14), a piston (16) sliding in this cylinder, a combustion chamber (34) delimited on one side by upper face (44) of the piston comprising a teat (48) extending in the direction of the cylinder head and arranged in the centre of a concave bowl (46) with at least two mixing zones (Z1, Z2), said injection means projecting fuel in at least two fuel jet sheets (36, 38) with different sheet angles (A1, A2), characterized in that it consists in injecting into the combustion chamber the fuel jets (40) of one (36) of the sheets in a radial direction (C1) forming a non-zero angle (b2) with the radial direction (C2) of fuel jets (42) of the other sheet and in admitting the oxidizer in a swirling motion with a swirl number less than or equal to 1.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Lionel MARTINEZ, Stéhane RICHARD, Olivier LAGET