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Lean-burn Combustion, Inc.

Michael Keller

Gerald L Wheeler

William Robert Bandy

Leon Marucchi

Sidney Lynn Reed

Andrew E Meyer

James G Azlein

David Mandel

David Pierson

William J Leimkuehler

Issam Nemeh

An automotive internal combustion engine piston is formed to have a bowl in the piston crown, at least one micro chamber formed in a side surface of the piston body at a position lower than a floor of the bowl, and extended orifices to provide 2-way communication of gaseous materials between the micro chambers and bowl. The micro chamber volume is defined by a removable casting core that incorporates a strut to secure the core at the circumference of the piston body in the casting mold. Subsequent to casting and removal of the core material, the cavity from the strut to secure the core is prepared to receive a tapered thread plug that is sealed by circumferential friction stir welding on the outer diameter of the piston body. The micro chamber is thereby isolated except for the extended orifice to the bowl.

Method for making a lightweight internal combustion engine piston with micro chambers

Disclosed is an advanced process that relates to the enhanced production of energy using the integration of multiple thermal cycles (Brayton and Rankine) that employ multiple fuels, multiple working fluids, turbines and equipment. The method includes providing a nuclear reactor, reactor working fluid, heat exchangers, compressors, and multiple turbines to drive compressors that pressurize a humidified working fluid that is combusted with fuel fired in at least one gas turbine. The turbine(s) provide for electrical energy, processes or other mechanical loads.

Hybrid integrated energy production process

A device for compressing tires and other compressible items in a shipping container comprises a support frame 22 attached to the lift end of a forklift. A fixture 20 is attached to and moves vertically with the support frame. The fixture comprises a horizontal compression platen 30. A vertical pusher plate 50 extends above and below the platen. The upper pusher plate 53, which is above the platen, can fold down so that the platen can be brought near the ceiling of a shipping container above a stack of tires. The fixture weighs enough to compress tires stacked below the compression platen. Additional tires are stacked above the platen and compressed tires. The upper pusher plate is then folded up, against the tires. Two hydraulic cylinders push the pusher plate away from the support frame to pull the platen from between the tires.

Method of stacking and compressing tires

Device for compressing tires for shipment in containers

Tire load compressor

The non-impact dot matrix printer is a high speed alpha-numeric, electric spark discharge printer that utilizes a rotating perforated dielectric belt in cooperative association with a laminar stack of insulated electrical conductors to control electric spark discharge printing on an electrical conductive erosive surface of a recording medium. The belt is disposed between the laminar stack and the conductive surface of the recording medium, and alpha-numeric characters are printed on the printing surface by applying a controlled source of voltage between the printing surface and the stack to cause spark discharging through the perforations in the rotatable belt, under the overall control of appropriate electronic circuitry.

Non-impact dot matrix printer

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Compton, CA, United States of America

Michael Keller