Patents by Inventor Stephen E. Brown

Stephen E. Brown 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: 5068763
    Abstract: Electric meters contained within modular enclosures are field-installed within the electric distribution system busway by a busway riser and an associated busway connector. The busway connector interfaces between a pair of meter modules electrically connected on either side by means of busway connector straps. The busway connector straps are welded to the individual bus bars within the busway system on both sides of the bus bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Stephen E. Brown, Donnie F. Meeks, Ralph W. Souders, Richard A. Thompson
  • Patent number: 4852526
    Abstract: The combustion efficiency of an internal combustion engine is improved by providing reservoirs in the plenum floor of the intake manifold to collect liquid fuel which precipitates out of the air-fuel mixture. A venturi is mounted in each manifold conduit and is connected with the reservoir by passages which lead to a port in the downstream, low pressure end of the venturi. The air-fuel mixture flowing toward the engine cylinders passes through the venturis and draws the liquid fuel into the flow stream, causing it to atomized into fine droplets that burn more completely in the combustion chambers. A modified form of the invention uses a venturi to receive and effect atomization of liquid fuel from a fuel injector, thus allowing the fuel injector to utilize a relatively large injector port which is less susceptible to clogging than the hair sized ports of conventional fuel injectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Inventor: Stephen E. Brown
  • Patent number: D568645
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: The Durham Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Matthew W. Gore, William George Olesen, II, Shawn T. Gibbons, Thomas B. Chittenden, John P. Negrich, Sr., Stephen E. Brown