Patents by Inventor Thomas Carl

Thomas Carl 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).

  • Signal conditioning module for a wide-band oxygen sensor
    Patent number: 10190520
    Abstract: A signal conditioning module for a wide-band oxygen sensor and methods of installing the same. One signal conditioning module includes an electronic processor, a first electrical coupling, and a second electrical coupling. The first coupling is configured to be coupled to a port of an electrical harness. The power is configured to receive an electrical coupling of a narrow-band oxygen sensor signal for providing power to the narrow-band oxygen sensor. The second coupling is configured to be coupled to the wide-band oxygen sensor. The electronic processor receives power over the first coupling, powers the wide-band oxygen sensor over the second coupling using the received power, receives first data over the second coupling from the wide-band oxygen sensor, converts the first data to second data, and outputs the second data over the first coupling to the electrical harness for transmission to an electronic control unit coupled to the electrical harness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Zellner, Scott A. Koerner, Thomas Carl
  • Cylinder deactivation for a motorcycle engine
    Patent number: 7488273
    Abstract: A method of reducing heat produced by an internal combustion engine in a motorcycle. The method includes supplying fuel pulses to a combustion chamber at least once per engine cycle (consecutive engine cycles defining a series of consecutive fuel pulses), operating the motorcycle at a low speed condition, and withholding at least a portion of at least one fuel pulse from at least one subsequent engine cycle to the combustion chamber when operating the motorcycle at the low speed condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Carl, Earnest Metz, Matthew Peller, Benjamin Wright, Kyle G. Wick, William P. Pari, David L. Zwart
  • CYLINDER DEACTIVATION FOR A MOTORCYCLE ENGINE
    Publication number: 20080004158
    Abstract: A method of reducing heat produced by an internal combustion engine in a motorcycle. The method includes supplying fuel pulses to a combustion chamber at least once per engine cycle (consecutive engine cycles defining a series of consecutive fuel pulses), operating the motorcycle at a low speed condition, and withholding at least a portion of at least one fuel pulse from at least one subsequent engine cycle to the combustion chamber when operating the motorcycle at the low speed condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: HARLEY-DAVIDSON MOTOR COMPANY GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Carl, Earnest Metz, Matthew Peller, Benjamin Wright, Kyle G. Wick, William P. Pari, David L. Zwart
  • Method and device for creating a model for a logistics process
    Publication number: 20010032063
    Abstract: In a method and a device for creating a model for a logistic process, the model including a plurality of process model units a plurality of process model units is created by selecting at least 50% of the plurality of process model units from a library of predetermined process model units. A relationship is established between at least two of the plurality of process model units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Inventors: Johannes Nardi, Guenter Sauer, Thomas Carl, Markus Fasel, Oswald Utz, Bernd Franke, Michael Schlez