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Daniel V. Orzel — 28 Patents

Ford: 28 patents #560 of 17,473Top 4%
Westland, MI: #7 of 501 inventorsTop 2%
Michigan: #2,413 of 86,293 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Daniel V. Orzel has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in October 2003. Daniel V. Orzel ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Daniel V. Orzel in Westland, MI, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6637191 Method and system for diagnosing a secondary air supply for an internal combustion engine Gregory Ziemba 2003-10-28 $27,479,000
6581371 Engine catalyst monitor Michael James Uhrich, Theodore M. Kostek 2003-06-24 $24,300,000
6564543 System and method for monitoring a conditioning catalyst Michael James Uhrich, Theodore M. Kostek 2003-05-20 $31,190,000
6453663 NOx sensor monitoring Michele Reichenbach, Timothy Joseph Clark, William Najib Mansur 2002-09-24 $14,459,000
6024075 Engine control system with exhaust gas recirculation and method for determining proper functioning of the EGR system in an automotive engine David Karl Bidner, Jonathan D. Mehl, Ian J. Czaja 2000-02-15 $115,336,000
5823171 Engine control system for an engine coupled to a fuel vapor recovery David George Farmer, Gopichandra Surnilla 1998-10-20 $46,093,000
5765541 Engine control system for a lean burn engine having fuel vapor recovery David George Farmer, Gopichandra Surnilla 1998-06-16 $44,463,000
5735255 Engine control system for a lean burn engine having fuel vapor recovery David George Farmer, Gopichandra Surnilla 1998-04-07 $49,007,000
5706793 Method and system for monitoring fuel delivery of an engine David Karl Bidner 1998-01-13 $52,762,000
5653102 Air/fuel control system with catalytic converter monitoring for a variable displacement engine Glenn A. Zimlich, David Karl Bidner 1997-08-05 $26,338,000
5617829 Method for maintaining clean spark plugs in a variable displacement engine David Karl Bidner, Glenn A. Zimlich 1997-04-08 $18,700,000
5522219 Exhaust system with bypass catalytic converter and diagnostics Glenn A. Zimlich 1996-06-04 $15,298,000
5404718 Engine control system Tri T. Truong, David George Farmer 1995-04-11 $10,538,000
5386693 Engine air/fuel control system with catalytic converter monitoring 1995-02-07 $19,175,000
5385016 Air/fuel control system responsive to duo upstream EGO sensors with converter monitoring Glenn A. Zimlich, Tri T. Truong 1995-01-31 $20,275,000
5381656 Engine air/fuel control system with catalytic converter monitoring Glenn A. Zimlich, Tri T. Truong 1995-01-17 $23,372,000
5363646 Engine air/fuel control system with catalytic converter monitoring Glenn A. Zimlich, Tri T. Truong 1994-11-15 $10,061,000
5357751 Air/fuel control system providing catalytic monitoring 1994-10-25 $16,062,000
5353592 Engine air/fuel control with monitoring Glenn A. Zimlich, Tri T. Truong 1994-10-11 $39,104,000
5325836 Flexible fuel control system with fuel transit delay compensation William Edward Boruta, Judith M. Curran 1994-07-05 $14,098,000
5321978 Method and apparatus for detecting cylinder misfire in an internal combustion engine Arnold W. Brandt, Jeffrey Koncsol 1994-06-21 $18,487,000
5245978 Control system for internal combustion engines 1993-09-21 $62,615,000
5228421 Idle speed control system 1993-07-20 $20,215,000
5224462 Air/fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine 1993-07-06 $29,259,000
5215055 Idle speed and fuel vapor recovery control system 1993-06-01 $27,855,000