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US Patent 7499477 Internal combustion engine

Patent 7499477 was granted and assigned to AVL (engineering company) on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

AVL

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7499477

Patent Inventor Names

Volker Mannheim1

Ernst Winklhofer1

Georg Franz1

Gerhard Kroupa1

Alfred Binder1

Date of Patent

March 3, 2009

Patent Application Number

10573115

Date Filed

September 23, 2004

Patent Primary Examiner

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Dung T. Nguyen

Patent abstract

The invention relates to an internal combustion engine with a laser ignition device (1), Q-switched, pumped solid-state laser with a pulsed pumped light source (30), a solid laser crystal (2), enclosed in a resonator, a Q-switch (4), for increasing the power density, at least one output mirror (6) and a focussing device (7), by means of which the laser beam (26) may be focussed in a combustion chamber.