Abstract: A waste heat recovery system connects a working fluid into passages formed within an internal combustion engine. The fluid passages transport the working fluid to high temperature areas of the engine, raising the temperature of the working fluid near the phase change point or above the phase change point. The heated working fluid drives an energy conversion portion located downstream from the engine. The heat absorbed by the working fluid decreases the load on an engine cooling system as well as driving an energy conversion portion, improving fuel efficiency.

Abstract: A rotary engine with one or more toroidal chambers defined by rotors that rotate within cylindrical housings. Pistons project into the chambers from the rotors. The pistons cooperate with valves to define compression regions and expansion regions in the chambers. The rotors, the pistons, the valves, or a combination thereof define or include combustion regions of constant volume wherein a fuel-air mixture compressed in the compression regions burns and then is ejected to the expansion regions. Fuel is injected into both the compression regions and the expansion regions. In a first embodiment of the engine, the valves are rotary and include recesses that accommodate the pistons as the pistons pass the valves. As a piston transits from a compression region to an expansion region via a valve, the space in the valve recess not occupied by the piston is the combustion region.

Abstract: The invention relates to a two-stroke engine having an overflow channel through which an air/fuel mixture is supplied. The overflow channel is provided with a vaporization chamber having a hot wall against which fuel is injected and vaporized. The vaporized fuel is stored in the vaporization chamber and is carried into the combustion chamber of the engine by fresh air flowing in from the crankcase when the overflow channel is opened. Even at high rotational speed, a good mixture preparation is asssured.

Abstract: An apparatus for the injection of fuel into combustion chambers, in particular of self-igniting internal combustion engines, having an injection nozzle (10) and a subsequent glow body (20), which has a conduit (30) surrounded by heatable walls (26) and serving for the passage therethrough of the injected streams. At least one lateral opening (32) discharges into this conduit (30), the opening preferably communicating with a region (46) of the combustion chamber (36) remote from the core region of the ignition. The air aspirated through the lateral opening (32) warms up and enters into the peripheral zone of the injected streams, where the result is an air-fuel ratio and temperature conditions which are very favorable for ignition. Less heat energy is required to initiate the ignition than in the known apparatus of this general type.

Abstract: A water-alcohol injection apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a crankcase and a carburetor mounted on the air fuel manifold of the engine, the apparatus including a reservoir for a water-alcohol mixture, a main reservoir conduit connected to the reservoir, a first conduit connecting the main conduit to manifold to provide a continuous flow of the fluid mixture to the manifold, a second conduit connecting the main conduit to the carburetor to provide fluid mixture flow in response to demand and a third conduit connecting the crankcase to the first conduit, the third conduit including a pressure compensating valve to control the flow of crankcase emissions to the carburetor.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying liquids in finely-divided form to an internal combustion engine includes a liquid container, a distributor mounted.The apparatus has a liquid container, a distributor mounted in the container for supplying ambient air to the liquid in the container, a conduit connected between the container and the intake manifold of the engine for conveying air moistened with the liquid to the intake manifold for admixture to the fuel/air mixture, and a baffle in the container for making effective the moisturization of the air.

Abstract: Waste-gas suppressor for internal-combustion engines, utilizing negative pressure generated in the carburetor of the engine. A water regulator operated by the negative pressure adjusts water flow in proportion to engine speed, the water being evaporated by the exhaust heat of the engine. The resulting steam is supplied to an air cleaner, and the cleaned air containing the steam is supplied to the combustion chamber of the engine.