Patents by Inventor Walter Topfer

Walter Topfer 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: 5623900
    Abstract: An internal-combustion engine comprising an intake system has a chamber with an intake connection and individual suction pipes which are connected with a cylinder head and which, by means of valves, lead into the individual cylinders. An air supply and air purification system is connected with the intake connection. An air guiding pipe is connected with the intake connection of the chamber, which air guiding pipe projects freely into the chamber and is arranged coaxially with respect to it. The mouth opening of the air guiding pipe extends in a plane at a right angle with respect to the lateral wall of the chamber and has an identical distance to the center axes of the individual suction pipes of a second and third cylinder of the internal-combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignees: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG, Avto-Waz Volga Automovile Associated Works
    Inventors: Walter Topfer, Franz Eberle, Dietmar Kruger, Norbert Kleinehakenkamp, Michail I. Fesina, Rudolf N. Starobinskij, Jurij P. Lasarev, Evgenij V. Lysenko
  • Patent number: 5603295
    Abstract: An internal-combustion engine having an intake system comprises a chamber having an intake connection and individual suction pipes which are connected with a cylinder head and which lead into the individual cylinders. The interior of the chamber is connected to a pollutant reducing system which comprises at least one of the systems, such as a housing venting system, an auxiliary-air feeding system, a fuel vapor catch system and an exhaust gas return system. An intake pipe, which projects into the chamber of the intake system, which has a mouth opening approximately in a plane between two central individual suction pipes, is fastened to the intake connection, and a pipe connection, which connects the systems of the pollutant reducing system, leads into the interior of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG
    Inventors: Walter Topfer, Franz Eberle, Dietmar Kruger, Norbert Kleinehakenkamp, Michail I. Fesina, Rudolf N. Starobinskij, Jurij P. Lasarev, Evgenij V. Lysenko
  • Patent number: 5537965
    Abstract: An intake system for an internal-combustion engine, having a suction manifold comprising a chamber, has an intake connection on the inflow side and several individual suction pipes on the outflow side, which suction pipes lead into a cylinder head of the internal-combustion engine and are connected with the individual cylinders. The intake connection has an air guiding device which extends approximately to a plane extending between the two center suction pipes, and a wall of the air guiding device directed toward the interior openings of the suction pipes is arranged at a distance from these openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignees: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche, AG, Avto-WAZ Volga Automobile Associated Works
    Inventors: Walter Topfer, Franz Eberle, Dietmar Kruger, Norbert Kleinehakenkamp, Michail I. Fesina, Rudolf N. Starobinskij, Jurij P. Lasarev, Evgenij V. Lysenko
  • Patent number: 4922882
    Abstract: A ring-shaped duct, which is connected to a coolant circulating system, extends in a throttle valve housing in an air intake section of an internal-combustion engine. A ventilating pipe for the crankcase gases is connected to the throttle valve housing, is divided into branches in the throttle valve housing and leads into ventilating points in front of and behind the throttle valve. The coolant, which circulates in the ring-shaped duct, simultaneously prevents an icing of the throttle valve and of the ventilating points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.f. Porsche AG
    Inventor: Walter Topfer