Atomizer Type Patents (Class 261/78.1)
  • Patent number: 7513489
    Abstract: Apparatus sealably incorporating a fuel metering device and fuel processing device [200, 200a, 200b] for producing a stabilized fog of fuel droplets sized 50 microns and less that when mixed with combustion air burn completely, reduce or eliminate detonation (knock) in internal combustion engines and reduce fuel octane requirements. The apparatus [200, 200a, 200b] may include a carrier gas reservoir [216, 216a] closed to external carrier gasses. A heater [205] may be employed to flash into vapor a portion of the liquid fuel to develop a carrier gas. In embodiments for jet or turbine engines, bleed gas from the engine may be used to provide carrier gas through a fuel processor [254], or the fuel may be heated-by-heater [260] to flash some of the fuel into vapor to provide carrier gas through the fuel processor to produce the stabilized fog of fuel droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Inventor: Gilles L. DeLisle
  • Publication number: 20090088950
    Abstract: A gaseous carburetor or fuel control system includes a fuel metering assembly, a venturi mixer assembly, a throttle assembly, and an electronic control unit. The control unit controls the fuel metering assembly in a closed loop manner based on detected gas and air pressure to an air/fuel mixing venturi. An electronic governor which controls the throttle valve may also be controlled by the same control unit which controls the fuel metering assembly, using a separate control loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL CONTROLS CORPORATION
    Inventors: C. Ross Fisher, Kristian W. Yates, David G. Fisher, George A. Mansfield
  • Publication number: 20090065957
    Abstract: Systems and methods for injecting and mixing a liquid hydrocarbon fuel to provide a uniform, homogenous fuel vapor mixture for introduction into a fuel reformer for use with a fuel cell are disclosed. Preferably, the system comprises a fuel injector that generates and aspirate a liquid fuel in the presence of an atomizing gas stream; a diverging-converging mixing chamber, into which the atomized fuel and a secondary fluid stream are introduced, to enhance the mixing of the fuel and the added heated gas or steam; and a mixer/swirler, which can be centrally located in the mixing chamber between the upper and lower chambers, to stabilize the fuel vapor mixture further for greater uniformity and homogeneity. More preferably, grooves and/or brazed wires can be provided on the surfaces of the mixing chamber and/or mixer/swirler to channel any accumulated fuel so as to provide sufficient time to evaporate the accumulated fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Chien-Pei Mao, John Short
  • Patent number: 7497253
    Abstract: In a downhole steam generator, hydrogen, oxygen, and water are separately injected into an oil well. The hydrogen and oxygen are made to react, either with the aid of a catalyst or due to an electric spark. Heat from the reaction converts the water in the area into steam, which is then used to enhance the production of the oil well. The hydrogen may be produced at the surface of the well by the steam reforming of a hydrocarbon. The hydrogen injected into the well may be provided as part of a reformate mixture produced by the steam reforming process. The water is preferably atomized by the stream of oxygen immediately before ignition, so as to provide a maximum surface area for heat absorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Inventors: William B. Retallick, William A. Whittenberger
  • Publication number: 20090051056
    Abstract: There are provided a microbubble liquid producing apparatus capable of effectively producing microbubble liquid containing fully microscopic air bubbles, and a device for atomizing air bubbles using the microbubble liquid producing apparatus. An air bubble liquid producing means A for mixing liquid with air by an aspirating pressure generated by a pressure pump D arranged on a liquid feeding pipeline P while aspirating the liquid from a liquid supply source and forcibly feeding the liquid by pressure is disposed on the liquid feeding pipeline P on the upstream side of the air bubble liquid producing means relative to the liquid feeding direction. A first air-bubble atomizer B is disposed on the liquid feeding pipeline P on the downstream side of the air bubble liquid producing means relative to the liquid feeding direction for atomizing the air bubbles contained in the air-mixed liquid produced by the air bubble liquid producing means A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Takashige Kikuchi, Kazumi Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20090044787
    Abstract: Carburetors for attaching to fuel-burning engines are described. The carburetors generate improved engine efficiency and reduced engine emissions by improving combustion of fuel. The carburetors include a plurality of nebulizers, each of which nebulizes a thin film of fuel covering a vibrating plate. The vibrating plate vibrates at a high frequency, and this vibration ejects a fog or mist of fuel particles into an air/fuel mixture channel that passes above the nebulizers in series. Air is drawn into the air/fuel mixture channel, passes over each of the plurality of nebulizers in turn, and then passes to a nebulized fuel outlet within a Venturi narrowing of a main channel of the carburetors. The Venturi narrowing provides a reduced air pressure area that performs the function of drawing the air through the air/fuel mixture channel over the nebulizers, thus drawing out the mixed air and nebulized fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventor: Georg B.L. Adams
  • Publication number: 20090044786
    Abstract: Carburetors for attaching to fuel-burning engines are described. The carburetors generate improved engine efficiency and reduced engine emissions by improving combustion of fuel. The carburetors include a plurality of nebulizers, each of which nebulizes a thin film of fuel covering a vibrating plate. The vibrating plate vibrates at a high frequency, and this vibration ejects a fog or mist of fuel particles into an air/fuel mixture channel that passes above the nebulizers in series. Air is drawn into the air/fuel mixture channel, passes over each of the plurality of nebulizers in turn, and then passes to a nebulized fuel outlet within a Venturi narrowing of a main channel of the carburetors. The Venturi narrowing provides a reduced air pressure area that performs the function of drawing the air through the air/fuel mixture channel over the nebulizers, thus drawing out the mixed air and nebulized fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventor: Georg B.L. Adams
  • Publication number: 20080303178
    Abstract: The carburettor (1) includes a flow duct comprising rich (60) and lean (50) flow passages in parallel, through which, in use, air flows in a flow direction and which are separated by a substantially planar partition (30), at least one fuel jet 5 communicating with the rich passage (60), the partition (30) including an aperture (40) towards which the fuel jet (5) is directed, and a substantially planar butterfly valve (20) being received in the aperture (40) so as to be pivotable between a first position, in which the flow duct is substantially closed and the aperture (40) is substantially open, and a second position, in which the flow duct is substantially open and the aperture (40) is substantially closed, the upstream half of the aperture (40) being defined by an upstream semi-annular seating ledge (48) affording an upstream seating surface which is engaged by one of the surfaces of the butterfly valve (20) when it is in the second position and a first end surface which extends between the upstream seating
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: RICARDO UK LIMITED
    Inventor: Stephen Brian Glover
  • Publication number: 20080277807
    Abstract: A mixing arrangement, comprises an electrostatic atomiser which feeds a first fluid into a walled-channel where it mixes with a second fluid; the electrostatic atomiser incorporating a charging electrode (3) and a nozzle (2) with an array of orifices through which charged particles of the first fluid exit the atomiser; wherein said charging electrode (3) substantially spans said array of orifices; and said charging electrode (3) and said nozzle (2) are pointed neither into nor towards said channel but are shaped and sized to constitute a part of or the entire wall of said channel in which said first and second fluids are mixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen, Paul Bartholomew Ravenhill
  • Publication number: 20080257738
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods employed in wet cleaning semiconductor devices are provided. In particular, systems that can deliver deionized water with the desired concentration of CO2 and methods of generating deionized water with a desired concentration of CO2 for use in wet cleaning of semiconductor devices are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: MKS Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Seiwert, Ulrich Brammer, Christiane Gottschalk, Joachim Lohr
  • Publication number: 20080216872
    Abstract: There is obtained an MOCVD oriented vaporizer which eliminates a phenomenon that thin-film materials are adhered to a portion of the vaporizer near and around a spout thereof. A carrier gas/small amount oxidizing gas supply part supplies a carrier gas, which is supplied through an internally formed gas passage and which contains a material solution, to a vaporization part; a bubble prevention/material solution supply part supplies a material for preventing generation of bubbles of the carrier gas containing the material solution, and the material solution, into the carrier gas; a solvent vaporization restricting/cooling system restricts vaporization of a solvent; and a swirl flow preventing gas supply part supplies a gas for preventing occurrence of swirl flows near a gas outlet of the vaporization part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Hisayoshi Yamoto, Ryoichi Sakai, Masafumi Shoji, Kazuya Akuto, Ken Nagaoka, Hiroshi Watanuki
  • Publication number: 20080210086
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a disperser for vaporizer capable of preventing a fluid dispersion from being crystallized when a carrier gas into which thin-film forming materials are dispersed is injected from a terminus end injection port, a vaporizer for MOCVD using the disperser for vaporizer, and a carrier gas vaporizing method. A plurality of thin-film forming materials are dispersed into a carrier gas introduced into a gas passage by a dispersion section located in a midway portion of a gas passage 35 into which the carrier gas is introduced. An air flow substantially along the injection direction of carrier gas into which the plurality of thin-film forming materials injected from an terminus end injection port 35b are dispersed is injected from an air flow injection port 38 formed near the terminus end injection port 35b located in the downstream end portion of the gas passage 35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Masayuki Toda, Masaki Kusuhara
  • Patent number: 7415980
    Abstract: A suction device capable of spraying a liquid medicine or the like so that the particles have a set uniform diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignees: Bio Media Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiko Hashiba
  • Patent number: 7399327
    Abstract: A fuel cell system including a fuel reforming processor having a catalyst therein constructed and arranged to produce a reformate stream including hydrogen and carbon monoxide, a water gas shift reactor downstream of the fuel reforming processor and wherein the water gas shift reactor includes a catalyst therein constructed and arranged to reduce the amount of carbon monoxide in the reformate stream, a preferential oxidation reactor downstream of the water gas shift reactor and wherein the preferential oxidation reactor includes a catalyst therein constructed and arranged to preferentially oxidize carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and to produce a hydrogen-rich stream, and a fuel cell stack downstream of the preferential oxidation reactor constructed and arranged to produce electricity from the hydrogen-rich stream, a first direct water vaporizing combustor constructed and arranged to combust fuel producing a high-temperature fuel combustion byproducts exhaust and to produce steam from water sprayed into th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Steven G. Goebel
  • Publication number: 20080137065
    Abstract: A high performance liquid chromatography system employs a nebulizer with a flow restriction at the exit of its mixing chamber to produce finer droplets, and an adjustable impactor for increased control over droplet sizes. Downstream of the mixing chamber, the nebulizer can incorporate tubing that is permeable to the sample liquid, to promote aerosol drying through perevaporation. A condensation particle counter downstream of the nebulizer uses water as the working medium, and is adjustable to control threshold nucleation sizes and droplet growth rates. A particle size selector employing diffusion, electrostatic attraction or selection based on electrical mobility, is advantageously positioned between the nebulizer and the CPC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Derek R. Oberreit, Frederick R. Quant, David B. Blackford
  • Publication number: 20080116594
    Abstract: Described is a carburetor (8), comprising an air (2) inlet with a mechanically adjustable air valve (3), an into the air inlet coming mechanically adjustable atomiser, and a mechanical metering device connected with the air valve and the atomiser, maintaining a stoichiometric ratio between amounts of air and fuel. Furthermore the carburetor has fuel pressure regulating means/devices (13) that are equipped to influence the fuel pressure, in dependence of one or more dynamic engine load parameters, under which the vacuum signal in the air inlet, which is obtained via a vacuum intake conduit (12) coming into the air inlet (2). By regulating the fuel pressure also in dependence of the measured vacuum signal, the emission of unburned fuel is reduced under certain dynamic conditions of the combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Anthony John Williams
  • Publication number: 20080053655
    Abstract: In a downhole steam generator, hydrogen, oxygen, and water are separately injected into an oil well. The hydrogen and oxygen are made to react, either with the aid of a catalyst or due to an electric spark. Heat from the reaction converts the water in the area into steam, which is then used to enhance the production of the oil well. The hydrogen may be produced at the surface of the well by the steam reforming of a hydrocarbon. The hydrogen injected into the well may be provided as part of a reformate mixture produced by the steam reforming process. The water is preferably atomized by the stream of oxygen immediately before ignition, so as to provide a maximum surface area for heat absorption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: William B. Retallick, William A. Whittenberger
  • Patent number: 7111829
    Abstract: A fuel processing device (2) is provided that produces fuel aerosol particles (5) that when mixed with combustion air, reduces or eliminates detonation (knock) in internal combustion engines, reducing fuel octane requirements and improving burning characteristics of the fuel. The device includes an adapter (10) between fuel injector (12) and port (14) for the fuel injector, the adapter being of a hollow cylindrical configuration. A plurality of plates (46) are disposed in the adapter, plates (46) provided with a central opening (50), with radially extending slots (52) extending away from the central opening (50). Each slot has one edge configured with a vane (56) that creates turbulence in the air/fuel mix passing through the adapter so that larger droplets are broken up into smaller droplets until an optimum droplet size is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Better Burn, LLC
    Inventor: Gilles L. DeLisle
  • Patent number: 7104528
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved fuel processor for preparing fuel prior to introducing the fuel into a combustor utilized in connection with a gas internal combustion engine. The fuel processor of the present invention efficiently maintains an internal vacuum by balancing the surface area of the air intake with the atomized air/fuel combination output. In addition, the fuel processor eliminates the helical effects on the ejected air/fuel combination but maintains the atomized chemical state. The fuel processor conforms to industry standards and could therefore easily be incorporated with existing technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: LyteSyde, LLC
    Inventor: Kelly P. Rock
  • Patent number: 7093463
    Abstract: A method for producing powders that consist of substantially spherical particles from a material such as glass, ceramics or plastic that produces a highly viscous melt that solidifies at a glass transition temperature Tg or at a solidification temperature Ts. The inventive method comprises the following steps: (a) producing a melt of a viscosity ? in the range of from 0.1 to 100 Ns/m2; (b) atomizing the melt using a first gas, the first gas having a temperature TA?Tg or ?0.5Ts at the outlet of the nozzle and (c) cooling off the particles produced by atomization in a cooling section downstream of the nozzle using a coolant, the temperature of the coolant being smaller than Ts or Tg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Applikations-und Technikzentrum fur Energieverfahrens-Umwelt-und Stromungstechnik (ATZ-EVUS)
    Inventors: Gerhard Wolf, Andreas Emmel
  • Patent number: 7093826
    Abstract: A fuel processing device is provided that produces properly sized fuel aerosol particles that when mixed with combustion air, reduces or eliminates detonation (knock) in internal combustion engines thus reducing fuel octane requirements for engines of a given compression ratio and increasing efficiency of the engine. The device includes an adapter between a fuel injector and a port for the fuel injector, the adapter being generally of a hollow cylindrical configuration closed to external gasses at an end that sealably receives the fuel injector. A plurality of plates are disposed in the adapter, the plates provided with a central opening, with radially extending slots extending away from the central opening. Each slot may have one edge configured with a vane that creates turbulence in the air/fuel mix passing through the adapter so that larger droplets are broken up into smaller droplets until an optimum droplet size is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Better Burn, LLC
    Inventor: Gilles L. DeLisle
  • Patent number: 7090203
    Abstract: A carburetor for an internal combustion engine has an intake pipe having a throttle valve plate therein. An annular venturi tube is disposed upstream or downstream of the throttle valve plate inside the intake pipe. The annular venturi tube is located at a predetermined interval with the throttle valve plate. The annular venturi tube has a fine continuous annular slit or four or more annularly arranged fuel discharging pores so as to atomize the fuel thereat. Atomization is always carried out near a position where a fastest air moves so as to improve the atomization and a uniform air-fuel mixture, thereby improving an output, fuel consumption and exhaust gas emission of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Inventor: Shinji Goto
  • Patent number: 7090205
    Abstract: A premixed air-fuel mixture supply device, combined with a combustor liner included in a combustor, includes a prevaporizing, premixing unit having inner and outer walls defining a prevaporizing, premixing chamber, and a wall surrounding an end part of the outer wall so as to define a secondary combustion air passage together with the end part of the outer wall around the prevaporizing, premixing chamber. A tail part of the outer wall is shaped in an atomization lip. The extremity of the tail part of the atomization lip is formed in a sharp edge or is cut perpendicularly or substantially perpendicularly to the flowing direction of the combustion air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Masayoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6905112
    Abstract: A column for counter-currently contacting vapour and liquid comprising a plurality of horizontal contact trays arranged axially spaced apart in the column, each contact tray being provided with a vapour-liquid contacting area, a liquid receiving area, a downcomer area and an overflow weir between downcomer area and contact area, and which column is further provided with a plurality of horizontal separation trays, each separation tray being spatially arranged above a contact tray, said separation tray having means to separate entrained liquids from the upwardly moving vapour and means to return the thus separated liquid to a contact tray below, wherein the vapour-liquid contacting area is provided with atomiser means where in said atomiser means liquid can be dragged from a continuous liquid phase into a flow of vapour to form a dispersion of vapour and liquid droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Gerrit Konijn, Hugo Martijn Letzel
  • Patent number: 6849235
    Abstract: A method for gas-supersaturating fluids, e.g., physiologic saline, includes providing a chamber having a first inlet to receive the fluid; a second inlet to receive a gas, e.g., oxygen, from a gas supply that maintains pressure within the chamber at a predetermined level, advantageously about 600 psi; and an outlet advantageously coupled to a capillary assembly. An atomizer nozzle coupled to the first inlet advantageously creates within the chamber fine droplets of fluid into which gas diffuses to create the gas-supersaturated fluid, which collects within the chamber below the atomizer nozzle for removal via the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: TherOx, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen E. Myrick, Mark S. Buhr
  • Patent number: 6820864
    Abstract: Atomization and vaporization of spray in a fuel supply system is promoted at the time of cold startup and the amount of fuel depositing on the inner wall of the intake manifold is reduced, thereby ensuring improved startability of an internal combustion engine of a car, reduced fuel costs and improved purification of exhaust gas. A very fine groove is formed on a heat transfer surface in a fuel vaporization promoting apparatus, wherein this groove is shaped in such a way that fuel is dispersed by the surface tension of the heat transfer surface and the fuel. This configuration ensures uniform dispersion of fuel on the heat transfer surface and effective promotion of vaporization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Amou, Yuzo Kadomukai, Hiroaki Saeki, Kenji Watanabe, Takanobu Ichihara, Masami Nagano
  • Patent number: 6758461
    Abstract: In a fuel-air mixture device, downstream of a throttle (4) and a fuel introduction device, a block (51) is provided across the primary air passage (2). The block has a plurality of passageways (54) through it for air flow towards an inlet manifold. These improve mixture of the fuel and air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Inventor: Kristian Bjorn Omarsson
  • Publication number: 20030234455
    Abstract: A non-contact fuel vaporizer adds heat to the injected fuel by combining the fuel with heated air in a vaporization chamber downstream of air supply inlets. The fuel is metered axially through a conventional fuel injector. The heated air is metered through an air director plate that introduces the air in a helical trajectory concentrically around the injector spray. When the hot swirling air comes in contact with the atomized fuel, substantially all of the fuel is vaporized before coming into contact with a wall of the vaporization chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventors: Harry R. Mieney, Michael T. Faville, Michael J. Yax
  • Publication number: 20030231982
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for blood oxygenation is provided, advantageously comprising an extracorporeal circuit for the preparation and delivery of hyperoxic or hyperbaric blood. In one embodiment, an apparatus for gas-supersaturating fluids, e.g., physiologic saline, includes a chamber having a first inlet to receive the fluid; a second inlet to-receive a gas, e.g., oxygen, from a gas supply that maintains pressure within the chamber at a predetermined level, advantageously about 600 p.s.i.; and an outlet advantageously coupled to a capillary assembly. An atomizer nozzle coupled to the first inlet advantageously creates within the chamber fine droplets of fluid into which gas diffuses to create the gas-supersaturated fluid, which collects within the chamber below the atomizer nozzle for removal via the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventors: Stephen E. Myrick, Mark S. Buhr
  • Publication number: 20030168753
    Abstract: An idle fuel supply device for a carburetor has an idle air passage that communicates with an air intake passage and a fuel chamber. A passage extending from a fuel metering chamber is connected to the fuel chamber preferably via a fuel adjusting needle valve. A low speed fuel nozzle hole communicates the fuel chamber with the air intake passage in the vicinity of a throttle valve when in its idle position. A passage communicates with the fuel chamber and the idle air passage, so that fuel and air may mix in at least a portion of the idle air passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Takashi Abei, Hidenori Sasaki, Masao Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6616973
    Abstract: The present invention recognizes that the build-up of residue in a metal alloy injection valve used to inject a liquid phosphorous precursor compound is due to the nickel in the alloy affecting the liquid phosphorous precursor compound. The invention thus provides components manufactured of an alloy having a low nickel content, preferably less than 5% nickel, and more preferably less than 1%. In an additional aspect of the invention, the alloy is provided with a higher chromium content, preferably at least 15% chromium, more preferably 16-27%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Chau Nguyen, Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan
  • Patent number: 6561497
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method of bioremediation by mixing a gas and in particular a high oxygen content low pressure gaseous stream with water at a higher pressure, dissolving the gas in the water at elevated pressures by subdividing the water into fine droplets and thereafter injecting such water into soil containing contaminated groundwater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Inventor: William A. Newman
  • Patent number: 6554202
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a stable capillary microjet and a monodisperse aerosol formed when the microjet dissociates. A variety of devices and methods are disclosed which allow for the formation of a stream of a first fluid (e.g. a liquid) characterized by forming a stable capillary microjet over a portion of the stream wherein the microjet portion of the stream is formed by a second fluid (e.g. a gas). The second fluid is preferably in a different state from the first fluid—liquid-gas or gas-liquid combinations. However, the first and second fluids may be two different fluids in miscible in each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Universidad de Sevilla
    Inventor: Alfonso Gañán-Calvo
  • Publication number: 20030015808
    Abstract: A carburetor preferably of a diaphragm type for an internal combustion engine has a low speed circuit for starting and idling of a cold engine. An air bleed line of the low speed circuit communicates between an inlet of a fuel and air mixing passage of the carburetor and an emulsifying chamber of the low speed circuit. Fuel flows to the emulsifying chamber from a fuel metering chamber and is regulated by a low speed idling adjustment needle screw. The bleed air and the fuel mixes within the emulsifying chamber and flows into the mixing passage between the throttle valve and the outlet of the mixing passage. Promoting this flow is a high vacuum produced by cranking and idling of the engine and accentuated by the substantially closed throttle valve. The fuel-and-air mixture is rich during cold idling as a result of the closed air bleed line. When the engine warms up, the air bleed line is opened via the restrictor valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Michael P. Burns, George M. Pattullo
  • Publication number: 20020139167
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for producing a gas mixture which contains at least one gaseous trace component, in particular for producing a calibration gas, in which a matrix gas stream is conveyed continuously with a predetermined quantitative flow, and at least one calibration component is introduced into the matrix gas stream in a predetermined quantity per unit volume of matrix gas, the at least one calibration component being introduced in the form of microdroplets of substantially identical size and being evaporated in the matrix gas to form the calibrating gas mixture, the microdroplets being delivered by nozzles which are in each case made to contract by means of a piezoelement which is triggered by metering pulses which are generated according to the intended delivery quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Jurgen Schram, Thomas Albinus
  • Patent number: 6446940
    Abstract: An apparatus for atomizing liquid fuel while mixing it with air, and varying the amount of each while maintaining a substantially constant fuel/air ratio for the intake manifold of an engine. The apparatus includes a frame (16) forming a passage (14) with a throat (44), with a second wall (56) of the passage being moveable toward and away from a stationary first wall (54) of the passage to vary the cross-section of the passage and thereby vary airflow. A fuel-carrying tube (24) has a proximal end (60) fixed to the first stationary wall and has a distal portion (62) that extends through a bore (64) in the moveable wall and with the moveable wall being slideable around the tube. The tube has at least one aperture (70) for flowing fuel into the passage, with the exposed aperture area being progressively increased as the moveable wall moves away from the stationary wall to flow a progressively increasing amount of fuel into the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: KleenAir Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Lester P. Berriman, John M. Zabsky
  • Publication number: 20020086194
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for humidifying a gas flow includes means for atomizing a liquid into a gas feed line and means for heating the liquid. The atomizing means is provided in a spray chamber, with a heat-exchanger region for at least partially evaporating the liquid being arranged adjacent to the spray chamber. The heat-exchanger region has a multiplicity of flow passages for gas flows which are to be humidified, which flow passages are at least partially delimited by heat-exchanger surfaces for condensing and evaporating the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: Janusz Blaszczyk, Wolfram Fleck, Colin Keddie
  • Patent number: 6405936
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a stable capillary microjet and a monodisperse aerosol formed when the microjet dissociates. A variety of devices and methods are disclosed which allow for the formation of a stream of a first fluid (e.g. a liquid) characterized by forming a stable capillary microjet over a portion of the stream wherein the microjet portion of the stream is formed by a second fluid (e.g. a gas). The second fluid is preferably in a different state from the first fluid—liquid-gas or gas-liquid combinations. However, the first and second fluids may be two different fluids in miscible in each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Universidad de Sevilla
    Inventor: Alfonso Gañán-Calvo
  • Publication number: 20020060374
    Abstract: An apparatus for atomizing liquid fuel while mixing it with air, and varying the amount of each while maintaining a substantially constant fuel/air ratio for the intake manifold of an engine. The apparatus includes a frame (16) forming a passage (14) with a throat (44), with a second wall (56) of the passage being moveable toward and away from a stationary first wall (54) of the passage to vary the cross-section of the passage and thereby vary airflow. A fuel-carrying tube (24) has a proximal end (60) fixed to the first stationary wall and has a distal portion (62) that extends through a bore (64) in the moveable wall and with the moveable wall being slideable around the tube. The tube has at least one aperture (70) for flowing fuel into the passage, with the exposed aperture area being progressively increased as the moveable wall moves away from the stationary wall to flow a progressively increasing amount of fuel into the passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: Lester P. Berriman, John M. Zabsky
  • Patent number: 6386463
    Abstract: Atomized particles within a desired size range (e.g., 1 micron to about 5 microns) are produced from two immiscible fluids, the first a fuel source containing the formulation to be atomized, and a second fluid source which is contained in a pressure chamber surrounding at least the area where the first liquid is to be provided. The invention provides a method for the formation of small, relatively uniform fuel particles for use in internal combustion engines and a nozzle-type apparatus for providing the particles to a combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Universidad de Sevilla
    Inventor: Alfonso Ga{overscore (n)}an-Cálvo
  • Patent number: 6357670
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a stable capillary microjet and a monodisperse aerosol formed when the microjet dissociates. A variety of devices and methods are disclosed which allow for the formation of a stream of a first fluid (e.g. a liquid) characterized by forming a stable capillary microjet over a portion of the stream wherein the microjet portion of the stream is formed by a second fluid (e.g. a gas). The second fluid is preferably in a different state from the first fluid—liquid-gas or gas-liquid combinations. However, the first and second fluids may be two different fluids in miscible in each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Universidad de Sevilla
    Inventor: Alfonso Gañán-Calvo
  • Patent number: 6347788
    Abstract: A fuel jet supporting structure for a carburetor includes a support column (5) provided with a fuel passage which introduces fuel to an air intake passage (9). The fuel passage includes a fuel passage bore (24), an air passage bore (19), a threaded bore (18) and an outlet passage (16) which has subsequently reduced diameters. A stepped portion between the threaded bore (18) and outlet passage (16) is tapered. The fuel jet body (25) has a middle portion forming an emulsion tube (26) and a downstream threaded portion (28) which engages the threaded bore (18). A downstream end (27) is tapered and abuts the tapered section in the bore to form a seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Walbro Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Terakado
  • Patent number: 6338443
    Abstract: A pneumatic nebulizer that produces a high volume of aerosols for inhalent delivery of medications and other constituencies. High pressure gas formed into a gas jet is passed through a thin choked region of fluid that is entrailed and impinged upon an aerosol amplifier which creates a spray whose aerosol components are directed up through vents to an aerosol outlet for delivery. Larger-sized liquid particles are caused to pool up in a region surrounding the aerosol amplifer and then drip down back into the liquid medication reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Mercury Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Samuel David Piper
  • Publication number: 20010042793
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a stable capillary microjet and a monodisperse aerosol formed when the microjet dissociates. A variety of devices and methods are disclosed which allow for the formation of a stream of a first fluid (e.g. a liquid) characterized by forming a stable capillary microjet over a portion of the stream wherein the microjet portion of the stream is formed by a second fluid (e.g. a gas). The second fluid is preferably in a different state from the first fluid—liquid-gas or gas-liquid combinations. However, the first and second fluids may be two different fluids in miscible in each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventor: Alfonso Ganan-Calvo
  • Patent number: 6241159
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is a liquid atomization procedure that uses appropriate geometric parameters and physical properties to ensure that the liquid to be atomized is discharged as a continuous, steady capillary microjet through a suitable orifice. The procedure relies on the microwithdrawal effect undergone by a liquid-gas interface when the gas is withdrawn from a point (orifice) near the liquid surface. The invented procedure is applicable to any mechanism involving homogeneous atomization of liquids (particularly electronic fuel injection).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Universidad de Sevilla
    Inventors: Alfonso Gañán-Calvo, Antonio Barrero Ripoll
  • Patent number: 6234402
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a stable capillary microjet and a monodisperse aerosol formed when the microjet dissociates. A variety of devices and methods are disclosed which allow for the formation of a stream of a first fluid (e.g. a liquid) characterized by forming a stable capillary microjet over a portion of the stream wherein the microjet portion of the stream is formed by a second fluid (e.g. a gas). The second fluid is preferably in a different state from the first fluid—liquid-gas or gas-liquid combinations. However, the first and second fluids may be two different fluids in miscible in each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Universidad de Sevilla
    Inventor: Alfonso Gañán-Calvo
  • Patent number: 6213453
    Abstract: A gasification auxiliary device for high pressure oil ejection is disclosed, especially, a multiple penetrating gasification auxiliary device. The device can be used to atomize oil molecules. The gasification auxiliary device includes an upper case, a lower case, and two banks of gasification blades. The two banks of gasification blades are alternatively arranged with one another. The gasification blades can be provided within the device, so that the lower half edges and upper half edges of alternative gasification blades do not have gasification holes and are tightly connected to the case. Alternatively, the gasification blades can be arranged within the device, so that a gap exists alternatively between the upper and lower edge of the gasification blades and the wall of the case. When oil under high pressure is ejected into the device, the oil molecules will pass through the holes or gaps and gasify.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Inventor: Ren-Sheng Ou