Patents by Inventor Stuart Anthony Lane

Stuart Anthony Lane 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).

  • Method of controlling a fuel supply system
    Patent number: 9453489
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a fuel supply system of an engine is disclosed in which an engine driven high pressure fuel pump is operated whenever possible at one of an optimum demand level providing optimum pump efficiency for the current engine speed or at a zero demand level to reduce the fuel used by the engine to drive the high pressure fuel pump. The operating mode used is dependent upon at least one of the amount of fuel currently stored in a high pressure fuel accumulator and whether a current fuel demand Fd exceeds an optimum quantity Po of fuel that can be provided by the high pressure fuel pump when operating at the current engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Donatus Andreas Josephine Kees, Stuart Anthony Lane
  • METHOD OF CONTROLLING A FUEL SUPPLY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140224221
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a fuel supply system of an engine is disclosed in which an engine driven high pressure fuel pump is operated whenever possible at one of an optimum demand level providing optimum pump efficiency for the current engine speed or at a zero demand level to reduce the fuel used by the engine to drive the high pressure fuel pump. The operating mode used is dependent upon at least one of the amount of fuel currently stored in a high pressure fuel accumulator and whether a current fuel demand Fd exceeds an optimum quantity Po of fuel that can be provided by the high pressure fuel pump when operating at the current engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Donatus Andreas Josephine Kees, Stuart Anthony Lane