Patents by Inventor Steve R. Mueller

Steve R. Mueller 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).

  • Fuel flow proportioning valve
    Patent number: 3931368
    Abstract: A variable area venturi type carburetor has a movable wall that varies the venturi area. A fuel flow metering valve moves with the wall and has a flow splitter land straddled by a fuel inlet port to proportion flow of fuel under pressure to opposite sides of the land, part of the flow supplying fuel tubes to discharge fuel adjacent the venturi throat, with the remaining proportion of fuel being returned to the pump, the proportions varying as a function of the position of the splitter land and the shape of the inlet port traversed by the splitter land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1976
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Thomas D. Barker, Steve R. Mueller, Clifford A. Nickel, Thomas A. Sweder