F02P 15/001
Ignition installations adapted to specific engine types
Official title: {Ignition installations adapted to specific engine types (ignition of jet propulsion plants F02K9/95; for rotary piston engines F02B53/12)}
F02P15/001 (Ignition installations adapted to specific engine types) appears on 165 US grants and 91 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F02P- Granted patents
- 165
- Published applications
- 91
- Assignees
- 94
- Inventors
- 262
- Latest grant
- 20 Jan 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ignition system and method of operating a combustion engine20 Jan 2026US 12,529,341 B2General Electric Company
- Engine ignition systems and control methods therefor2 Dec 2025US 12,486,822 B2Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Engine ignition systems15 Jul 2025US 12,359,648 B2Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Plasma ignition and combustion assist system for gas turbine engines25 Feb 2025US 12,234,774 B2
- Plasma ignition and combustion assist system for gas turbine engines16 Jul 2024US 12,037,948 B2Acutronic Turbines Inc.
- Ignition system and method of operating a combustion engine11 Dec 2025US 2025/0376948 A1General Electric Company
- Engine ignition systems and control methods therefor13 Jun 2024US 2024/0191681 A1Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Plasma Ignition and Combustion Assist System for Gas Turbine Engines16 May 2024US 2024/0159190 A1Acutronic Turbines Inc.
- Plasma Ignition and Combustion Assist System for Gas Turbine Engines7 Dec 2023US 2023/0392553 A1Acutronic Turbines Inc.
- Internal Combustion Engine Comprising at Least One Cylinder Equipped With a Pre-chamber, an Injector and Two Spark Plugs, and Method for Operating Same30 Nov 2023US 2023/0383717 A1Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Most cited
By later US patents
- Spark plug heating for a spark ignited engine86US 7,255,080 B1Ford Global Technologies, LLC · 2007
- Engine with flow coupled spark discharge64US 5,517,961 ACombustion Electromagnetics, Inc. · 1996
- Exciter controlled by FADEC system57US 6,195,247 B12001
- Wave rotor detonation engine49US 6,460,342 B1Advanced Research and Technology Institute, Inc. · 2002
- Apparatus and method for providing ignition to a turbine engine39US 5,065,073 A1991