Patents Assigned to NEXT GENERATION ENGINES LLC
  • Patent number: 10408168
    Abstract: A power system including a variable volume combustion chamber for a two-stroke engine having a controlled exhaust port, a fuel injector to the combustion chamber and an oxygen injector to the combustion chamber. The oxygen injector provides repeated oxygen injection pulses to complete a charge. The controlled exhaust port includes an oscillating rotatably mounted valve. A source of pressurized concentrated oxygen to the oxygen injector is in a closed case having a ceramic fiber membrane. An air inlet and a waste outlet are in communication with a first side of the ceramic fiber membrane. An oxygen outlet is in communication with a second side of the ceramic fiber Ionic transport membrane. The case has a heat transfer surface in communication with the controlled exhaust port from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: NEXT GENERATION ENGINES, LLC
    Inventors: Alfred A. Turner, Jr., Edmond Eugene McCrickard, Thomas Lee Roberts, III
  • Publication number: 20180135567
    Abstract: A power system including a variable volume combustion chamber for a two-stroke engine having a controlled exhaust port, a fuel injector to the combustion chamber and an oxygen injector to the combustion chamber. The oxygen injector provides repeated oxygen injection pulses to complete a charge. The controlled exhaust port includes an oscillating rotatably mounted valve. A source of pressurized concentrated oxygen to the oxygen injector is in a closed case having a ceramic fiber membrane. An air inlet and a waste outlet are in communication with a first side of the ceramic fiber membrane. An oxygen outlet is in communication with a second side of the ceramic fiber Ionic transport membrane. The case has a heat transfer surface in communication with the controlled exhaust port from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: NEXT GENERATION ENGINES LLC
    Inventors: Alfred A. Turner, JR., Edmond Eugene McCrickard, Thomas Lee Roberts, III
  • Patent number: 9850856
    Abstract: A power system including a variable volume combustion chamber for a two-stroke engine having a controlled exhaust port, a fuel injector to the combustion chamber and an oxygen injector to the combustion chamber. The oxygen injector provides repeated oxygen injection pulses to complete a charge. The controlled exhaust port includes an oscillating rotatably mounted valve. A source of pressurized concentrated oxygen to the oxygen injector is in a closed case having a ceramic fiber membrane. An air inlet and a waste outlet are in communication with a first side of the ceramic fiber membrane. An oxygen outlet is in communication with a second side of the ceramic fiber Ionic transport membrane. The case has a heat transfer surface in communication with the controlled exhaust port from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: NEXT GENERATION ENGINES LLC
    Inventors: Alfred A. Turner, Jr., Edmond Eugene McCrickard, Thomas Lee Roberts, III
  • Publication number: 20170363047
    Abstract: A power system including a variable volume combustion chamber for a two-stroke engine having a controlled exhaust port, a fuel injector to the combustion chamber and an oxygen injector to the combustion chamber. The oxygen injector provides repeated oxygen injection pulses to complete a charge. The controlled exhaust port includes an oscillating rotatably mounted valve. A source of pressurized concentrated oxygen to the oxygen injector is in a closed case having a ceramic fiber membrane. An air inlet and a waste outlet are in communication with a first side of the ceramic fiber membrane. An oxygen outlet is in communication with a second side of the ceramic fiber Ionic transport membrane. The case has a heat transfer surface in communication with the controlled exhaust port from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: NEXT GENERATION ENGINES LLC
    Inventors: ALFRED A. TURNER, JR., EDMOND EUGENE McCRICKARD, THOMAS LEE ROBERTS, III