MICHAEL SCHNEIDER
Pilots at Modock Rd, Victor, NY

2006024, Nov 9, 2006

Apr 21, 2005

11/111115

Paul Von Bacho - Rochester NY, US
Eugene Kobos - Henrietta NY, US
David Sant - Fairport NY, US
Renae Veneziano - West Henrietta NY, US
Michael Schneider - Victor NY, US
Sudhakar Das - Rochester NY, US

B05B 1/30

239900000, 239585400, 239596000, 239552000, 239494000

A fuel injection valve and director plate assembly including a circular beveled valve seat, a valve ball for forming a circular sealing line against the seat, and a perforated director plate. The improved valve seat is substantially thicker than a prior art seat to provide greater mass of seat material and hence reduced vulnerability of the seat to thermal distortion from welding. To obviate an increase in residual fuel volume that would result from displacing the director plate from the valve by the added thickness of the seat, the central portion of an improved director plate is made concave such that the actual fuel-directing portion of the director plate is to the valve ball in the prior art relationship, thus preserving the desirably small prior art volume of residual fuel after valve closing.

6877678, Apr 12, 2005

Jan 27, 2003

10/351681

Wenbin Xu - Fussa, JP
Michael X. Schneider - Victor NY, US

Delphi Technologies, Inc. - Troy MI

F02M061/00

23953312, 2395851, 239596, 2395332

A fuel injector flow director plate assembly having a conventional flow director plate and a director plate retainer disposed in a recess in the fuel injector, the retainer having any of several novel structures for reducing buildup of fuel in the corner between the plate retainer and the recess wall and eliminating dripping of fuel. For example, the retainer may be provided with a long skirt having a small diameter; a shorter skirt; a spherical skirt; a skirt stepped axially; a skirt formed as an axial flange on a separate ring member which is installed outside the retainer itself, the flange protruding through the retainer; a separate ring member installed outside a retainer and having an opening of diameter smaller than the opening in the retainer; and a separate ring member installed inside the retainer and having an opening of diameter smaller than the opening in the retainer.

7093776, Aug 22, 2006

Jun 29, 2004

10/879225

Michael Schneider - Victor NY, US

Delphi Technologies, INC - Troy MI

F02M 61/00

23953312, 239494, 239497, 239552, 239556, 239584, 2395851, 239596

A director plate system for a fuel injector for use in an internal combustion engine. The system includes flow channels for directing the fuel stream radially inward toward the discharge holes. The cross-sectional area of the flow channels diminish inwardly, in the direction of flow, to accelerate the fuel stream. A swirl element, for imparting tangential velocities or eddies to a plurality of individual fuel streams, can be combined with the radially inward directed flow channels. The director plate system may be provided as individual plates in a stack or may be combined with each other and/or the valve seat in a variety of plate configurations to simplify the number of components.