Patents Assigned to Clifford L. Elmore
  • Timing chamber ignition method and apparatus
    Patent number: 4977873
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for timed ignition of a fuel-air mixture in internal combustion engines, incorporated therein or as a replacement unit therefor, providing an ignition chamber open into the combustion chamber, there being a catalytic igniter positioned in the ignition chamber to contact a pressure front of said fuel-air mixture penetrating the ignition chamber during the compression cycle and ignited thereby to effect the power cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Clifford L. Elmore
    Inventors: Mark A. Cherry, Clifford L. Elmore