Abstract: A fuel injector for injecting gaseous fuel into an internal combustion engine. The injector includes an electromagnetic control valve which controls the admission of actuation gas to a metering valve assembly. The metering valve incorporates a positive mechanical stop to limit valve lift. The force to open the metering valve is supplied by the actuation gas.

Abstract: This invention relates to a gas engine, in particular a four-cycle gas engine, having a mixture line (7) to the combustion spaces in the cylinders (2) and having a mixer (5) in the mixture line (7), in which air is mixed into the fuel gas, and a metering valve (8) for the metering of the gas delivery, the metering valve (8) being actuated by a controller (4) for the control of the pollutant emission, and the controller (4) adjusting the metering valve (8) in dependence on the power setting of the gas engine (1) and an engine parameter measuring the pollutant emission.

Abstract: An air-fuel ratio feedback control apparatus for a gas engine. A mixer mixes intake air and a fuel gas. A subsidiary supply path supplies at least one of the intake air and the fuel gas downstream of the mixer. Oxygen concentration sensors detect a concentration of oxygen in an exhaust gas; and operation condition detectors detect operating conditions of the gas engine. A basic amount setting unit sets a basic amount of at least one of the intake air and the fuel gas supplied through the subsidiary supply path. A correction amount setting unit sets a correction amount proportional to a total fuel gas supply rate, and a control amount setting unit for setting a control amount of at least one of the intake air and the fuel gas supplied through the subsidiary supply path by adding the basic amount and the correction amount together, whereby the air-fuel ratio of the gas engine can be controlled at a desired value even when a bypass supply ratio of the fuel gas varies.

Abstract: Two embodiments of air/fuel ratio adjusting systems for gaseous-fueled internal combustion engines. In each embodiment, a pressure regulator supplies regulated fuel in gaseous form from a source in which it is stored in a liquid form to a charge former that has a fuel control device such as a needle valve. The air/fuel ratio is maintained constant by mixing atmospheric air with the fuel before the charge former fuel control device under the control of an oxygen sensor in the exhaust system. In one embodiment, an enrichment system is also incorporated for supplying enrichment fuel under acceleration or cold starting conditions.

Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus for a vehicle includes a throttle body having an air flow passage extending therethrough with a throttle plate mounted in the passage. At least one fuel injector is mounted below the throttle plate and above the intake manifold of the engine for cyclically injecting fuel into the air flow passage extending between the throttle body and the inlet of the intake manifold. A full time, closed loop feedback control system monitors exhaust gas content and adjusts the fuel flow based on the measured air/fuel ratio. A tank storing gaseous fuel at a high pressure is connected to the fuel injector via fluid flow conduits. An annular recess is formed on at least one location on the side wall of the tank. Annular shoulders are disposed on opposite sides of the recess and extend outward above the side wall of the tank. A mounting bracket is mounted in the recess surrounding the tank and is attachable to the vehicle to mount the tank to the vehicle.

Abstract: A vacuum insulated storage vessel holds a quantity of LNG for delivery to a pressure building tank. The pressure building tank maintains a natural gas head over the LNG. The pressure in the pressure building tank is lowered using liquid nitrogen (LN.sub.2) to condense the natural gas head and is raised by vaporizing the LNG. A valve system connects the supply of LNG in the pressure building tank to the fuel tank of the vehicle being supplied to allow either LNG or natural gas to be delivered to the vehicle tank and allows natural gas in the tank to be vented back to the fueling station. The fueling station of the invention includes suitable controls for controlling the pressure and temperature of the LNG delivered to the vehicle, the pressure and temperature in the fueling station itself and the pressure and temperature in the vehicle fuel tank.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling and improving the air-fuel ratio of a gas engine by controlling the air-fuel ratio on an exhaust purifying apparatus such as a three way catalyst in use with the gas engine. The method involves the steps of modulating a vibrational drive current for driving a bypass value with waveforms such as rectangular wave, sinusoidal wave, triangular wave, etc., with predetermined periods and amplitudes, in response to signals transmitted from a main oxygen sensor and a pressure sensor.

Abstract: An apparatus and methods for converting fuel injected internal combustion engines normally operated with a conventional fuel such as gasoline to operate with an alternative fuel are disclosed. The methods include a synchronization method where an alternative fuel injector control signal is synchronized among two or more alternative fuel injectors throughout the engine's energy demand range; a method for transforming non-sequential conventional fuel injector control signals to individual cylinder timed alternative fuel injector control signals; a method for transforming sequential multi-port conventional fuel injector control signals to throttle body alternative fuel injector control signals; and a method which includes adjusting the timing of the start of the injection relative to the valve opening event as a function of fuel flow.

Abstract: There is provided an electrically activated, multiple orifice rotary fuel injector for injecting gaseous fuel into an internal combustion engine. A rotary electric stepper motor is housed within an injector body which receives both air and compressed gaseous fuel. The stepper motor rotates an annular valve member to selectively permit or block fuel flow into the air stream through a plurality of circumferentially arranged holes in the valve member, and a correspondingly arranged plurality of passages in the injector body. An electronic control module on the engine utilizes pulse-width-height-triggering point modulation techniques for controlling fuel injection intervals and timing.

Abstract: The present invention uses an on-board source of compressed natural gas (CNG) to pressurize the LNG in the vehicle's LNG storage tanks such that high pressure natural gas can be delivered to the use device. More than one LNG storage tank can be used without increasing the amount of CNG required if the storage tanks are connected together in series so that the upstream storage tank pressurizes the downstream storage tank.

Abstract: A flow control system for use in a compressible fluid-fueled internal combustion engine includes a fluid metering device comprising a plurality of fluid lines for communication between an inlet fluid manifold and a metered fluid manifold. Bistable valves of various orifice sizes are provided, one in each of the fluid lines except for at least two lines, which are provided with pulsing valves. The device also includes sensors for determining parameters of the inlet fluid sufficient to determine potential mass flow of fluid through each of the valves, and valve controls for activating valve actuators to open the valves in combinations and for time intervals to give a desired total mass flow of fluid through the valves.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for converting a fuel injected internal combustion engine normally operated with a conventional fuel such as gasoline to operate with an alternative fuel are disclosed. The apparatus comprises an alternative fuel introduction assembly having at least one alternative fuel injector, a temperature sensor, and an electronic translator. The electronic translator is adapted to receive conventional fuel injector control signals generated by an electronic control module, and to receive an output signal from the temperature sensor. The electronic translator then calculates an alternative fuel injector control signal to facilitate the supply of a required energy amount of the alternative fuel. The calculation is based upon the energy content of the alternative fuel, the temperature of the alternative fuel, and the flow and operating characteristics of the alternative fuel injector relative to a conventional fuel injector. Preferably, the alternative fuel is natural gas.

Abstract: A fuel lock/converter having an integrated housing with a liquid fuel inlet port and a gaseous fuel outlet port. The outlet port discharges to an air/fuel mixer which acts as a carburetor and its demand controls this fuel lock/converter. Between the inlet port and the outlet port there is a fuel lock which closes in the absence of demand, and opens at any demand. A primary regulator valve regulates liquid flow to a converter, and gaseous fuel from the converter is regulated by a secondary regulator valve. The secondary regulator valve also acts as a fuel lock in the absence of demand.

Abstract: A system is described that combines two or more fluids in fixed proportions over a wide range of flow rates, in which said proportions are independent of the rate of flow of the fluids, by causing each of said fluids to experience a drop in pressure which is approximately proportional to said fluid flow. An important application of such a system is to serve as a fuel-oxidizer combiner for a combustion engine to provide a constant ratio of air to fuel over a wide range of engine power output. The invention is especially useful in controlling the ratio of air to natural gas in natural gas fueled engines, where the gas is stored at very high pressures and is normally reduced to atmospheric pressure before being mixed with the air in an air-gas mixer.

Abstract: A system for fueling a compression ignition engine that minimizes the quantity of ignition fuel required by controlling the quantity of combustible mixture, rather than the fuel to air ratio.

Abstract: A fuel injection structure for dual fueled combustion engines having access to the combustion chamber of a cylinder to automatically supplement a liquid fuel with a gaseous fuel, the structure being adapted to supply the gaseous fuel by a programmed electronic control circuit which regulates the operation of fuel injection to be in accord with certain sensed engine operation parameters to determine from said parameters a desired gaseous fuel flow rate and a signal responsive to said parameters actuating a valve to control said flow.

Abstract: The delivery system of the invention consists of a pair of LNG fuel tanks mounted on a vehicle. A solenoid valve associated with each tank allows the vehicle operator to select the tank from which LNG is to be delivered to the engine. An automatic override system is provided whereby if the pressure in the non-selected tank rises above a predetermined level, the operator's tank selection is overridden and gas from the non-selected tank is used until the pressure falls below the predetermined level. This override system eliminates the need to vent gas to the atmosphere to avoid pressure build up and thereby eliminates waste of the LNG. Each tank is also provided with a pressure building capability such that the gas will always be delivered to the engine with sufficient pressure. The system is designed such that LNG from a stationary low pressure storage tank can be delivered at high pressure to refuel the tanks.

Abstract: The fueling station of the invention consists of a vacuum insulated storage vessel for delivering LNG to a pressure building tank. The pressure building tank holds a quantity of LNG and a natural gas head. The pressure in the pressure building tank is lowered using liquid nitrogen (LN.sub.2) to condense the natural gas head and is raised by vaporizing the LNG. A valve system connects the supply of LNG in the pressure building tank to the vehicle being supplied to allow either LNG or natural gas to be delivered to the vehicle tank and allows natural gas in the vehicle tank to be vented back to the fueling station. The fueling station of the invention includes suitable controls for controlling the pressure of the LNG delivered to the vehicle, the pressure in the fueling station itself and the pressure in the vehicle.

Abstract: A fuel supplying system of a gas-engine is comprised of a gas-engine, an intake manifold, a mixer communicated with the gas-engine via the intake manifold, a fuel passage, a gas tank communicated with the mixer via the fuel passage, an air passage, an air cleaner communicated with the mixer via the air passage, and a governor inserted in the fuel passage. The governor is comprised of a first gas room, a second gas room, an opening between the first gas room and the second gas room, and an atmospheric pressure room defined in the second gas room by a first diaphragm. The opening between the first gas room and the second gas room is open and closed by a valve. A lever is fixed to the valve and a first spring urges the valve to close the opening. An apparatus is supplied for varying the urging force of the spring.

Abstract: A fluid bleed device for controlling the amount of natural gas supplied to the carburetor of a turbocharged carbureted natural gas engine provides a regulated output fluid pressure to the setpoint of the natural gas supply regulator feeding the carburetor. This regulated output fluid pressure is related to the magnitude of two input variables, the turbocharger output pressure and an electric signal from an exhaust gas sensor reflecting the engine exhaust gas composition. Turbocharger air input to the bleed device passes through two restrictive orifices and a nozzle in series. The nozzle is variably occluded by a movable member controlled by an electromagnet powered by the electric signal. The regulated output fluid pressure is taken from the junction between the two restrictive orifices to supply a pressure to the gas supply regulator that is related to both turbocharger outlet pressure and the exhaust gas composition for enhanced engine efficiency.

Abstract: An electric current to gas pressure transducer provides a very low output pressure of just a few inches of water column and is capable of providing a negative or vacuum output as well as a low position pressure output. This transducer is used in an air/fuel ratio control system for natural gas fueled, naturally aspirated reciprocating engines to provide a fluid output to bias the setpoint or pressure loading input side of the engine's fuel gas regulator. A sensor in the engine's exhaust senses exhaust gas composition and provides an electric current to the transducer related to exhaust gas composition. The current powers an electromagnet in the transducer which regulates the flow of a fluid through an orifice to provide the fluid output at a pressure related to the exhaust gas composition for biasing the setpoint of the engine's gas fuel regulator in relation to exhaust gas composition for enhanced engine operation.

Abstract: An apparatus 10 for introducing a mixture of air and gaseous fuel into internal combustion engines has a housing 12 in communication with a supply of gaseous fuel that may be mounted to tubular intake ports 11 of the engine. The apparatus has a pair of control tubes 32 which adjustably extending into the housing to positions close to but spaced from the intake ports to form gaps therebetween. By repositioning the control tubes the size of these gaps may be altered to alter the air to gas mixture ratio.

Abstract: The invention provides a mixture control system for controlling the flow of vaporized hydrocarbons drawn into an engine for combustion and combining a supplemental fuel with the vaporized hydrocarbons as required to maintain a near stoichiometric mixture.

Abstract: Several embodiments of gaseous fuel supplying systems for an internal combustion engine used to power a portable generator. In each embodiment, heat is supplied to the fuel so as to maintain the fuel pressure if the fuel pressure falls below a predetermined pressure. In some embodiments, the heat supply is on-off and in other embodiments it is variable. In certain embodiments, the heat is supplied electrically and in another embodiment, the heat is extracted from the engine. In addition, one embodiment incorporates a cold starting arrangement wherein fuel is supplied to the engine for cold starting at full container pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus 10 for introducing a mixture of air and gaseous fuel into internal combustion engines has a housing 12, in communication with a supply of gaseous fuel, that is mounted to a tubular intake port 11 of the engine carburetor. The apparatus has a control tube 26 which adjustably extends into the housing 12 to positions close to but spaced from the housing to form a gap 50 therebetween. A honeycomb air flow restriction plate 33 is mounted in the control tube. By repositioning the control tube the size of the gap 50 may be altered to adjust the air to gas mixture ratio. During engine operation the restriction plate creates a pressure differential that serves to draw gaseous fuel form the housing about the control tube into the airstream passing through the control tube into the port.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing emissions from an internal combustion engine used for propelling a heavy land vehicle, for example, comprising a fuel supply tank for storing liquified natural gas and a fuel circuit for cooling compressed charge air to the engine with the heat of vaporization of the fuel. Under low load conditions fuel vapor from the tank can be consumed to avoid an excessive build-up of pressure; the engine is operated with a lean fuel/air mixture without cooling of the charge air to obtain low emissions. Non-methane hydrocarbon emissions are eliminated by stripping the natural gas of essentially all of the higher hydrocarbons during the liquification process.

Abstract: This invention has an inlet for either gaseous or liquified gases (LP gas requiring a vaporizer within the system) with the proper passages from the inlet to a back seated fuel valve which is opened by a pressure differential (vacuum from the idle system) across a diaphragm engaging a lever which moves a sealed actuating pin inward to open the fuel valve allowing gaseous fuels to move to the outlet through a proper confining passage. Placed between the outlet and the vacuum chamber of the fuel valve diaphragm is a chamber divided by a free floating diaphragm providing two chambers, one chamber is either balanced for air cleaner resistance or vented to the atmosphere, the other chamber having a free passage to the outlet and a passage in the center of the chamber, having communication with the vacuum side of the fuel valve diaphragm, which is throttled by the floating diaphragm diluting the idle vacuum signal to position the fuel valve.

Abstract: Injector apparatus for direct injection of liquefied gas fuels, particularly LPG into internal combustion engines, includes a partially stabilized zirconia tube which incorporates a sliding spool therein for controlling a metering orifice of a nozzle. The spool has a tip which extends beyond the nozzle and into the inducted air steam of an engine. Expanding gas entering the air steam from a central gallery in the spool and via the nozzle cools the tip thereby causing heat to be transferred from the spool to the tip thereof.

Abstract: A fuel/mixing device for mixing producer gas with air is provided to generate a suitable air/fuel mixture for firing an internal combustion engine. Stepped venturi inlets are utilized, whereby the gas is expanded as the air is reduced, to both accelerate and mix the gas with the air as it is introduced into the throat of a carburetor. Means are provided for adjusting the air flow without disturbing the standard throttle on the carburetor. The mixing device is adapted to be mounted on existing carburetors, permitting retrofitting of existing equipment. The device permits start-up with gasoline and a smooth transition from gasoline fuel start-up to full operation on producer gas.

Abstract: The invention provides a mixture control system for controlling the flow of vaporized hydrocarbons drawn into an engine for combustion and combining a supplemental fuel with the vaporized hydrocarbons as required to maintain a near stoichiometric mixture.

Abstract: An air-gas controller unit to supply a gas-fired burner with a combustible air-gas mixture, the unit serving to modulate the volumetric flow rate of the mixture without, however, altering the ratio of air to gas which is pre-set for optimum combustion efficiency. The unit includes a valve body whose cylindrical cavity accommodates a hollow cylinder functioning as a mixing chamber, one end of which is open to discharge the air-gas mixture into a mixture outlet in the valve body. The cylinder is turnable within the cavity from a maximum to a minimum valve setting by a rotary control element attached to its other end. Formed in the cylinder is an air orifice which at maximum setting lies in full registration with a gas inlet in the valve body. Also formed in the cylinder is a gas orifice which at maximum setting lies in full registration with a gas inlet in the valve body. The relative portions of the orifices are such as to afford a desired ratio between the air and gas fed into the mixing chamber.

Abstract: A valve for the intermittent introduction of fuel, in particular gaseous fuel, into an intake tube of an internal combustion engine, which is provided with an electrically actuatable valve member disposed in a valve housing. The valve comprises a slide valve having a substantially cosine-like metering motion, and a metering conduit that opens only after a predetermined portion of the metering motion beyond a position of repose of the valve member is provided. As a result, the control edges are overtaken very fast, and a steep rise or drop in the insufflated fuel quantity takes place. A good approximation to the ideal course, which is equivalent to the course of the aspirated air quantity, is therefore achieved.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for timed port injection and enriched stratified charge of fuel, preferably gaseous fuel, into an internal combustion engine. The process begins with forming a lean fuel/air mixture with a first fuel portion in an intake manifold upstream of a port injector. The lean fuel/air mixture is uniformly distributed into a combustion chamber during an intake phase of an engine cycle. A subsequent fuel portion is injected in a controlled manner during the intake phase so as to form a stratified charge near the ignitor within the cylinder. The stratified charge within the cylinder is ignited and combusted. Combustion products are then exhausted from the combustion chamber. This invention also provides an apparatus and process for injecting a gaseous fuel within a combustion chamber to form an enriched portion of a stratified charge near the ignitor.

Abstract: An engine powered by fuel having a boiling temperature less than ambient wherein the fuel is stored as a liquid and delivered in the liquid state to a fuel injection system. The fuel is sprayed into the intake port region of a cylinder head as liquid droplets which then vaporize. The fuel supplied to the injection system is maintained in the liquid state by a cooling system which maintains the liquid fuel below the boiling temperature. One cooling system includes a tube coiled around the injection system through which a refrigerant is circulated and cooled by a refrigeration system. A bleedoff conduit withdraws any excess fuel from the injection region and returns it to the fuel storage tank.

Abstract: A fuel system for crankcase scavenged two cycle spark ignition engines which includes a specialized valve assembly connecting a source of propane gas and a source of oil to the engine. An automatic main valve connects the source of gas to the engine port and also senses pulses from the engine crankcase. A control valve interconnected to a venturi controls the air and oil supply to the engine.

Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus for metering the supply of natural gas to an internal combustion engine having an air intake manifold and throttle valve mounted therein comprising: a pressure regulator for regulating the pressure of said natural gas; a sensor plate associated with said air intake manifold and moveable in response to variations in said throttle; and a valve being actuable by said moveable sensor plate to vary the supply of natural gas to said air intake manifold in response to variations in said throttle valve so as to meter the supply of natural gas to said internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A small portable generator powered by a gas fueled internal combustion engine. The gas fuel supply system for the engine includes a solenoid value whose duty cycle is regulated so as to permit unthrottled operation of the engine and afford engine speed control.

Abstract: A gas phase fuel delivery system is provided for delivering a vapor phase fuel to a regulator independent of fuel tank temperatures, the system comprises a storage tank for storing a fuel, such as liquid phase propane, and a regulator in fluid communication with the tank for receiving the fuel from the tank and for outputting a vapor phase fuel. A pressure sensor is provided for monitoring pressure conditions within the tank and for enabling a pump for supplementing fluid pressure when the tank pressure falls below a preset threshold.

Abstract: An air/gaseous fuel proportioning device includes an air inlet, a fuel inlet, an outlet to feed an air fuel blend to an engine, with the air inlet having an air butterfly valve to throttle the air flow, having a disc-shaped fuel valve resting in a conical bore and having a linkage attached to the air butterfly valve for causing the fuel valve to follow the air butterfly valve in a tilting motion to provide an open area between the disc and cone that relates proportionally to the air flow past the air butterfly valve.

Abstract: A gas-air mixer for internal combustion engines having an inlet and an outlet diffusor and being mounted in a collar member which forms a cyclindrical surface between them. Feeding channels are disposed between the inlet and outlet diffusors which terminate at the external side of the diffusors in a concentrically shaped annular channel. Both diffusors are constructed as separate bushings. The outlet diffusor is fixedly mounted in the collar and the inlet diffusor is movably mounted in the collar, around its axis by means of a control lever. The diffusors are seated end face to end face and an outer cylindrical surface mutually defined by them through which have been cut radial slots form feeding channels for gas fuel. By turning of said diffusors with respect to each other the cross-section of the feeding channels is adjusted depending on the angle of rotation of the inlet diffusor around its axis different operating regimes of the engine.

Abstract: A fuel supply and glow plug arrangement for a portable electrical power supply fueled by a gaseous fuel internal combustion engine. The gaseous fuel flow to the engine is controlled by a solenoid valve having its duty cycle varied to vary engine speed. In addition, the solenoid valve is shut off when the engine speed falls below a predetermined speed so as to prevent fuel leakage. The engine is fired by a flow plug which is supplied with power at a high power level during cranking and at a lower power level during running.

Abstract: A spark plug of an engine ignition/combustion system have the electrode gaps of the spark plug surrounded by a capsule having a controlled orifice system. The orifice system and electrode gap are positioned, sized, and oriented specifically for use with lighter-than-air fuel gas.

Abstract: A process of synthesizing an end product within an integrated engine-reactor wherein an initial product, e.g., syngas, is generated within a first chamber of the engine-reactor. This product is contacted with a catalyst in a second chamber within the engine-reactor to catalytically synthesize an end product, e.g., methanol, which is then expanded within the engine-reactor to rapidly cool the end product before it is exhausted from the engine-reactor.

Abstract: Device for the intelligent control of a venturi-type carburettor unit for a gaseous fuel, including a pressure regulator, a main throttle valve in the airsuction pipe for control of the engine output and a regulating valve in the gas supply pipe between the pressure regulator and the venturi, this valve being coupled to the main throttle valve. By adjusting this mechanical system for providing a too rich air-fuel-mixture under all conditions, only mirror adjustments of the mixture are necessary to provide the engine with the correct mixture required for each load/speed condition. These requirements are stored in a processor, and the latter controls the necessary corrections of the mixture by diluting the gasflow to the main venturi with some air. To this end a small venturi is placed in the gaspipe, the gasflow sucking the diluting air through a mixing air regulating valve, which valve is controlled by the processor in a continuous, analogic intelligent way. Optionally an O.sub.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating fuel vapor, such as in a motor vehicle fuel tank, by subjecting it to adsorption treatment to prevent its direct emission into the atmosphere. The apparatus according to the present invention comprises a fuel tank, a partitioning wall provided within the fuel tank to define a small fuel storage chamber within the fuel tank, a canister container housed in the small fuel storage chamber, the canister container storing therein a fuel adsorbing material. When fuel feeding takes place, feeding fuel is introduced into the small fuel storage chamber to cool the canister container. However, when the engine is operated, high temperature return fuel is introduced into the small storage chamber to heat the canister container thereby promoting the adsorbing and de-adsorbing action of fuel by the fuel adsorbing material.

Abstract: An important for a diesel engine by injecting LP gas into the diesel engine. A solenoid valve and a pressure controller are provided in a line between an LP gas cylinder and a gas injector mounted on the air inlet of the diesel engine. The solenoid valve is activated only when the engine temperature has risen above a predetermined level and only after the vehicle speed has exceeded a predermined level. This arrangement increases the output of the diesel engine, saves the fuel cost and eliminates black smoke.

Abstract: A low profile gaseous fuel carburetor provided with deflector valves to improve mixing of gas and air in a mixture stream of short length. It also shows improved idling and starter valves, and a link for a parallelogram throttle linkage that maintains a correct lever relationship despite operational wear.

Abstract: An air fuel mixing device for internal combustion engines comprises a ring section having air passages leading to an interior volume, a cap section for supplying fuel, and a mixing body disposed between the cap section and ring section. The mixing body includes a frusto-conical member through which a plurality of fuel passages extend parallel to the cone axis. The fuel passages form fuel outlets in a frusto-conical surface disposed in the interior volume and facing the air passages. Incoming air passes across the fuel outlets to suck fuel into the interior volume. Depressions in the frusto-conical surface induce turbulence in the incoming air to promote mixing of air and fuel. The ring section comprises relatively rotatable rings with mutually alignable slots for forming the air passages. The slots are selectively misalignable to a desired extent for regulating the amount of incoming air so that the mixing device can be suited to the different needs of various engines.

Abstract: An arrangement for regulating the combustion air mixture in the case of a gas engine operating on a lean fuel, and in the induction line of which there is an air-gas mixer, a lambda regulator being provided and following which there is, for varying the combustion air proportions, a positioning device which adjusts the air-gas mixer, and also an output measuring device for ascertaining the engine output. A manometer determines the actual value of the mixture pressure upstream of the inlet valves of the engine, linked with the value for the combustion air proportions. By adjusting the combustion air proportions, it is possible to regulate the mixture pressure to the output dependent desired value for the mixture pressure as ascertained in a device within the lambda regulator.

Abstract: Arrangement for the metering of fuel, in particular liquid gas, to a variable-output consumer, which comprises a metering device with a reduction valve (4), a metering valve (11) and a chamber (20, 21) arranged therebetween, as well as means of control or regulation for the setting of the valves as a function of operating variables, in particular for controlling the metering valve (11) as a function of a power requirement signal. For the purpose of high precision metering which is suitable even for the requirements of a lambda control, the arrangement is made such that the means of regulation act on the setting of the reduction valve (4), the chambers (20, 21) between the two valves being designed as a buffer volume for the equalization of pressure fluctuations.