Patents Assigned to Nitrous Express, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5743241
    Abstract: Apparatus for supplying a mixture of oxidizer and fuel to an internal-combustion engine includes a frame supporting oxidizer supply lines and fuel supply lines, the frame being mounted above an intake manifold and below the engine's carburetor. Discharge ports in the oxidizer and fuel supply lines are positioned so that a high-velocity flow of oxidizer entrains and atomizes a stream of fuel from an adjacent fuel-discharge port; each oxidizer port is aimed toward the mouth of a passage in the intake manifold so the stream of mixed oxidizer and fuel is directed into the passage without reducing the level of vacuum in the intake manifold plenum and so that the stream of oxidizer and fuel urges increased amounts of fuel-air mixture from the carburetor into the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Nitrous Express, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Wood, John T. Stewart
  • Patent number: 5699776
    Abstract: A nitrous oxide nozzle for inserting a mixture of oxidizer and fuel into a passage of an engine's intake manifold has two inlet ports, each of which communicate with a conduit. A nitrous oxide conduit vents into the apex of a bell-shaped emitter, and a fuel conduit vents into a side portion of an atomizing cavity adjacent the emitter, so that high-pressure nitrous oxide gas flowing through the emitter entrains fuel flowing through the fuel conduit, then atomizes the fuel and mixes with the fuel. The bell shape of the emitter provides improved mixing of fuel with the nitrous oxide; the discharged fuel/oxidizer mixture from the emitter is introduced into air flowing through an engine's intake manifold, and is conveyed to a cylinder for burning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: Nitrous Express, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Wood, John T. Stewart