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patent · US7225790

Valve device and method for injecting a gaseous fuel

5 June 2007

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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.

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Abstract

A valve device and a method directly inject gaseous fuel into a combustion chamber. A rapid response in a simple and compact design is achieved by a piezoelectric, magnetostrictive, or electromagnetic actuator that acts on a transmission device that comprises at least two levers, which are connected in series to increase the lift of the actuator to actuate a valve. An associated sensor device detects the position of a valve element, such that the actuator can be controlled to...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2005-04-15
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2007-06-05
Inventors
Bernd Bartunek; Alain Touchette; Westport Power Inc