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Encyclopedia > Corliss Orville Burandt

Inventor of variable valve timing.


Reference

  • IEEE Spectrum, issue May 2005
  • U.S. Patent No. 4961406

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Corliss Orville Burandt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (506 words)
Corliss Orville Burandt is an American engineer who invented a system of variable valve timing in automobile engines.
Working through a 1965 Corvair, he designed a system of putting a sensor into the cylinder to optimize the fuel-air mixture during combustion.
Burandt assigned the rights to his most cherished invention to Investment Rarities, a venture capital company which specialized in gold trading.
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