Corliss Orville Burandt
Corliss Orville Burandt was an American inventor of the automatic camshaft adjustment .
While working on a 1965 Chevrolet Corvair , he installed a sensor in the cylinder to optimize the fuel-air mixture during combustion.
He transferred the patent rights to Investment Rarities , a venture capital firm specializing in gold trading. When these suffered financial setbacks in the 1980s, they no longer paid the fees for maintaining Burandt's patent, making the invention public domain .
Web links
- http://www.autobloggreen.com/2006/12/14/corliss-orville-burandt-the-human-tragedy-of-variable-valve-tim/
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- http://home.mchsi.com/~cleverlever99/index.html ( Memento from December 9, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Burandt, Corliss Orville |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |