Abstract: A direct contact rotating steam generator apparatus has an enclosure with an interior volume with a steam producing section. The enclosure has a water injection inlet and a steam outlet and a waste discharge outlet. The enclosure is mounted in an orientation in which the longitudinal axis is slightly inclined to horizontal. The water injection inlet is positioned at one end of the enclosure. The waste discharge outlet is positioned at an opposite end to enclosure. The interior volume has a controllable pressure therein. The enclosure is rotatable about the longitudinal axis thereof.

Abstract: A back-carried work apparatus has a back carrier (2), which has two shoulder straps (3, 4) to carry the back carrier (2) on a back and carries a drive motor (20). The drive motor (20) is configured as a combustion engine. A fuel tank (7) for the drive motor (20) is arranged on the back carrier (2). In order to make fuel extraction possible up to the least possible amount of residual, the tank base (8, 28) of the fuel tank (7) has a lowest region which extends over less than 20% of the width (d) of the tank base (8, 28) when the shoulder straps (3, 4) are arranged on the shoulders of the operator.

Abstract: The electromagnetic device for converting fuel based combustion engine to a hybrid or electric engine comprises an encasement with one or more electromagnets to replace a head gasket of a cyclinder of the fuel based combustion engine and a magnet connected to a top of a piston associated with the head gasket. The electromagnets in the encasement are powered by a battery and/or fuel cell. The magnet on the piston interacts with the electromagnets in the encasement to push and pull the piston within the cyclinder of the engine. The electromagnetic device further comprises a processor to control a sequence of push and pull of the piston within the cylinder of the engine by controlling the electromagnets in the encasement.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and method for converting ozone and fuel into mechanical energy and waste products. In some embodiments, a super-combustor may be used to provide a combustion engine with an improved ability to combust fuel. Certain embodiments of the invention may provide for an improved spark plug or modified engine having a super-combustor built in.

Abstract: An anti-rotation device (1) for a coupling piston (2) in a switchable component (3) of a valve train of an internal combustion engine is provided, with the component (3) including two parts (4, 5) that are movable relative to each other.

Abstract: In a clearance compensating device for an internal combustion engine with an internal part movably arranged within a guide duct of an external part for adjusting a clearance of an associated valve of the internal combustion engine, a pressure chamber, and a storage chamber which is hydraulically connected to the pressure chamber for receiving hydraulic fluid are associated with the interior part. Between the two chambers a one-way valve is disposed for applying an actuating force to the interior part relative to the external part. A feeding device is hydraulically connected to a blocking chamber for supplying a hydraulic fluid to the blocking chamber in order to exert a blocking force to the internal part acting in a direction opposite the actuating force under the control of a timing device the blocking force being modified depending on a cycle of the timing devices.

Abstract: A system includes a pressure signal adjustment module that generates a maximum pressure signal based on a fluid pressure signal from a pressure sensor of a camshaft phaser system of an engine. The pressure signal adjustment module detects a maximum peak value of the fluid pressure signal and maintains the maximum pressure signal at the maximum peak value for a peak and hold period. A diagnostic module detects a fault of the camshaft phaser system based on the maximum pressure signal during the peak and hold period.

Abstract: A secondary winding spool for an ignition coil has two segments, one residing within a spark plug well and the other having a larger diameter than the well and residing above the well, to maximize exploitation of coil space in an engine.

Abstract: In a system, a pinion shift unit starts shift of a pinion to a ring gear for engagement therebetween during an internal combustion engine coasting in a forward direction after an automatic stop of the internal combustion engine. An engagement determining unit determines whether the pinion and the ring gear have any one of first and second positional relationships therebetween. The first positional relationship represents that the pinion is at least partly engaged with the ring gear. The second positional relationship represents that the pinion is in abutment with the ring gear. When an engine restart condition is met before it is determined that the pinion and the ring gear have any one of first and second positional relationships therebetween after the start of the shift of the pinion to the ring gear, a rotation adjusting unit adjusts a start timing of rotation of the pinion.

Abstract: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine that has a starter device for starting the internal combustion engine and a device for supplying fuel controlled by a control device, it is determined whether cold start conditions or hot start conditions exist during starting of the internal combustion engine. In at least one operating range, during starting of the internal combustion engine, an engine speed gradient is determined during a slowdown phase of a pull stroke of a starter device and the engine speed gradient is used for determining whether cold start conditions or hot start conditions exist. The fuel quantity to be supplied to the internal combustion engine is controlled based on the determined cold start conditions or hot start conditions.

Abstract: A gravity-activated valve for use in supplying an uninterrupted supply of fluid is disclosed. The valve includes a housing having an outlet, an inlet positioned below the outlet, and a sleeve disposed within the housing. The valve also includes a buoyant piston disposed within the sleeve, which is adapted to move between an open position and a closed position. The piston is positioned above the outlet when the piston is in the open position to allow fluid flow through the outlet and positioned proximate the outlet in the closed position to prevent fluid flow through the outlet. The piston is in the open position when the fluid level exceeds a predetermined fluid level and in the closed position when the fluid level is at or below the predetermined fluid level. The valve further includes a plurality of gaskets, which are adapted to create a seal between the piston and the sleeve.

Abstract: In the context of an enclosure-housed engine in which an engine 10 is housed within an enclosure 2, the present invention is such that arranged in an intake chamber 8A, separate from one or more chambers where a radiator 18 and the engine are disposed, there is engine intake equipment comprising an air cleaner 22 and an intake silencer 23; the constitution being such that at least one wall face of said intake chamber is subjected to a cooling airstream, intake and exhaust of which are driven by a radiator fan; and the constitution being such that the radiator fan 19 is driven, regardless of whether or not engine coolant within the radiator is circulating, when outside air temperature is greater than or equal to a prescribed temperature.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to propose a structure of a crankcase capable of coping with increased combustion pressure inside a cylinder of an engine by a simple and inexpensive means for suppressing the deformation at a middle section between adjacent fastening bolts in a direction connecting the centers of adjacent cylinders. The structure of the crankcase which has a plurality of cylinders and a plurality of bolts arranged on both sides of each of the cylinders for fastening the cylinders to a cylinder head, the structure of the crankcase comprises a reinforcing rib 6 formed on an outer wall of the cylinder at a middle section between the adjacent fastening bolts 3 in a direction 20 connecting centers of the adjacent cylinders, the reinforcing rib extending downward continuously from the cylinder top plate in a direction parallel to a center line 4a of the cylinder.

Abstract: An oil mist separator (100) for an internal combustion engine that separates an oil component in a gas, which is introduced from a crankcase of the internal combustion engine, from the gas, includes a porous filter (150) that separates, from the gas, the oil component in the gas, the porous filter (150) being provided in a passage, through which the gas passes, and being coated with a counteragent for neutralizing an acid substance.

Abstract: Engine oil may pool in various locations in the cylinder head near the valves and underneath the camshaft. Rather than directly conducting the oil to the oil return passages, the oil is conducted to a surface proximate the exhaust ducts before being conducted to the oil return passage so that the oil is readily warmed up during a cold start by the contact with a surface in the cylinder head proximate exhaust ducts. The provision of such a surface proximate exhaust ducts is facilitated by the integrated exhaust manifold design in which the exhaust ducts are merged prior to exiting the cylinder head. By rapidly heating the oil, the oil's viscosity decreases, thereby reducing friction and improving fuel efficiency.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to an apparatus for the condensation of a liquid suspended in a gas, and more specifically, to an apparatus for the condensation of water from air with a geometry designed to emphasize adiabatic condensation of water using either the Joule-Thompson effect or the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube effect or a combination of the two. Several embodiments are disclosed and include the use of a Livshits-Teichner generator to extract water and unburned hydrocarbons from exhaust of combustion engines, to collect potable water from exhaust of combustion engines, to use the vortex generation as an improved heat process mechanism, to mix gases and liquid fuel efficiently, and an improved Livshits-Teichner generator with baffles and external condensation.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to injectors with integrated igniters providing efficient injection, ignition, and complete combustion of various types of fuels. These integrated injectors/igniters can include, for example, multiple drivers used to shape charges, controllers used to modify operations based on ionization parameters, and so on.

Abstract: A systematic fuel injection control technique for compression self-igniting internal combustion engines capable of executing an auxiliary injection prior to a primary injection is provided, with which it is possible to optimize an injection mode for the primary injection and the auxiliary injection. In a common rail diesel engine capable of executing at least a main injection and a pre-injection as an operation of fuel injection from an injector, the pre-injection is executed by being split into a first pre-injection and a second pre-injection. The injection timing and the injection amount of each fuel injection is controlled such that some of the fuel injected in the first pre-injection combusts by self-ignition, and the remainder of the fuel does not combust until fuel is injected in the main injection, but combusts together with the fuel injected in the main injection.

Abstract: A resin gear has a concave portion formed on a gear body at a position radially inward of a boundary region between a toothed portion and a non-toothed portion. During a molding process, a welded portion is formed at the non-toothed portion by merger of flow of the molten resin along a first path and flow of the molten resin along a second path. The first path detours the concave portion and passes through the side of the toothed portion, and the second path detours the concave portion and passes through the side of the non-toothed portion.

Abstract: An electronically-controlled throttle valve control device may include a coil spring that is engaged with a throttle body and a rotating body to bias a throttle valve in a fully opening direction and a fully closing direction, a spring guide that is provided to the rotating body and is capable of supporting the coil spring from inside, and an opener member that is provided to the rotating body and is biased by the coil spring in the fully opening direction or the fully closing direction. The coil spring includes a first coiled portion that is capable of biasing the throttle valve in a first direction, a second coiled portion that is capable of biasing the throttle valve in a second direction, and an intermediate coiled portion that is positioned between the first and second coiled portions. The coil spring is formed such that a central axis of the intermediate coiled portion is displaced radially outwardly relative to a central axis of the first coiled portion.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide for methods of cylinder manufacturing engines. Various embodiments provide for methods of cylinder manufacturing four-stroke engines. Various embodiments provide for methods of cylinder manufacturing two-stroke engines.

Abstract: A carburetor control system includes: a governor device that is coupled to a throttle lever, opens a throttle valve when an operation of an engine is stopped, and opens or closes the throttle valve in accordance with a rotational number of the engine when the engine is in operation; a choke return spring urging a choke lever in a direction to close a choke valve; and an automatic choke device opening the choke valve in accordance with an increase in temperature of the engine. In the carburetor control system, the throttle lever is provided with a drive arm pivoting the choke lever, during a cold operation of the engine, to a position where the choke valve is at an intermediate degree of opening in operative connection with the throttle lever being pivoted by the governor device to a position where the throttle valve is at a degree of opening for idling or a position in a vicinity thereof.

Abstract: A thermal load control assembly for a fuel injector includes a rail inlet port, a cooling inlet port and a fuel drain port. A leakage path channels leaked fuel originating from the rail inlet port to the fuel drain port. A cooling path channels fuel originating from the cooling inlet port to the fuel drain port. A fuel system using a thermal load control assembly includes a single fuel tank that supplies fuel to the rail inlet port and the cooling inlet port of a plurality of fuel injectors and collect fuel from the fuel drain port of the plurality of fuel injectors.

Abstract: A device for feeding fuel from a fuel tank (33) to a multi-fuel engine (12) that uses fuel in which alcohol and gasoline are mixed in an arbitrary ratio. The internal volume of a connecting line (84) provided between a fuel pressure governor (85) and a fuel injection device (50) is a volume equal to or greater than the amount of fuel consumed from startup of the engine until an oxygen sensor (88) reaches a measurement-enabling temperature.

Abstract: A combustion chamber to which a reactant and a working gas whose specific heat ratio is higher than that of air are supplied and in which the working gas can expand following a reaction of the reactant, a circulation path capable of re-supplying the working gas into the combustion chamber by causing the working gas to circulate from an exhaust side to a suction side of the combustion chamber, supplying means that supplies the reactant, a concentration detection means capable of detecting a concentration of the reactant in the circulation path, and a supply control means that sets at least a first supply rate of the reactant by the supplying means in a time for starting based on the concentration of the reactant detected by the concentration detection means before a start of supplying of the reactant by the supplying means are included and so proper starting can be assured.

Abstract: This invention belongs to the group of projectile throwing instruments working without an explosive or a combustible propelling charge in particular to the group of projectile throwing instruments using strained hard body energy and can be used for the design and construction of a missile throwing weapon using a string—namely a bow and crossbow.

Abstract: A paint ball feeding buffer device, especially used for a paint-ball gun, is a magazine which loads a plurality of paint balls and provides for firing continuously. The magazine includes a roll-up device which restricts a stroke of an elastic advancing device, and the roll-up device is provided with a damping device which allows an initial stroke of the advancing device to be buffered, so as to prevent the paint balls from being squeezed, deformed, and ejected, by pressure which is released instantly.

Abstract: A roulette wheel-type funnel device for use with a hopper of a paintball marker is configured according to the hopper and essentially includes a funnel body and a roulette wheel. The funnel body is formed therein with a receiving chamber connected with a ball channel. The ball channel is in tangential communication with the receiving chamber so as to form a smooth guide path. A covering plate formed adjacent to an inlet of the ball channel and has an inclined surface and extends into the receiving chamber. The roulette wheel has a sloped surface formed with at least one fin. The roulette wheel is driven to rotate by a motor and facilitates rolling of paintballs. With the ball channel being in tangential communication with the receiving chamber and forming the smooth guide path, the paintballs are fed easily and smoothly into the ball channel and prevented from being stuck.

Abstract: Hoppers and similar loading systems have an integrated imaging system for still and/or video capture, display and/or networked transmission. The imaging system allows real time capture, display and/or transmission live paintball play action from the point of view of the player. Images can be transmitted to team mates in proximity with a corresponding imaging system and/or to off field personnel. Such image transmission from the perspective of the hopper held by the player permits coordination of on field activities among the team members or by an off field coach. In tournament play, the real time video transmission can be broadcast through the off field systems for display to a local audience or streamed to an internet audience. Recordable media within each hopper system permit the recorded images to be stored for later analysis.

Abstract: A projectile (10) arranged to be launched from a launcher (12), the projectile comprising a source of compressed gas (1) and control means (23) for controlling the release of the compressed gas, in which the control means (24) is arranged so as to release the compressed gas in response to the launching of the projectile (10) from the launcher (12). Typically, the control means (24) is a valve, arranged such that the application of gas pressure from the launcher (12) is required in order to release the compressed gas, but the application of gas pressure must abate before the compressed gas is released. Thus, the compressed gas may only be released once the projectile (10) has cleared the launcher (12).

Abstract: An apparatus [10] for use in paintball includes a modified pressure bottle [14, 114] with a valve assembly [34, 134] “integrally” mounted within the neck [16, 116] thereof, and independent of the connection structure [46/48, 116a] for connecting the bottle [14, 114] to a paintball marker [12, 112]. The structure prevents sudden and inadvertent venting to atmosphere of the pressurized gas held within the internal volume [29, 129] of the bottle [14, 114], thereby eliminating a dangerous situation that existed with prior conventional paintball devices.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to an automated ball launching method and apparatus. The apparatus includes ball pick and place mechanisms, an air cannon, spin and velocity inducing belt drive assemblies, electric leveling jack stands, electric angle linear drive, and a computer control system. The apparatus is capable of automatically controlling ball spin, velocity, and launch angle.

Abstract: The bow stabilizer assists a bowman in positioning and holding the bow in a draw by causing the plane of the bow to remain in the vertical plane by providing a force counteracting the draw pull of the bowman's opposite hand. The device is secured at one end to the bowman's shoulder and secured at the other end to the bowman's hand.

Abstract: The present invention provides a windproof stove, which has practical application in resisting lateral airflow, and includes a plurality of foot rests distributed in an encircling configuration to form a stove body. An encircling ring is suspended interior of the foot rests, and a combustion device is located interior of the encircling ring. An annular air port is formed between a periphery of the combustion device and the encircling ring, and a surface of the encircling ring is used to block lateral airflow.

Abstract: The present invention refers to an improved burning system for industrial furnace burners (16), more specifically for tunnel type furnaces for firing ceramic materials, to improve the thermal efficiency and reduce the consumption by these furnaces in the process of firing load (10) such as floor tiles, tiles, sanitary material, refractories, porcelain, insulators, grindstone, tableware ceramic, red ceramic and ceramic in general, by a using flame rotation system, providing a radiant flame surface by dividing the flame into smaller intermittent flames.

Abstract: I lighting arrangement for a barbeque hood. The lighting arrangement includes a light housing and at least one light. The light housing is adapted for mounting adjacent an interior surface of the hood. The at least one light is mounted to the light housing.

Abstract: A hood device for grill comprises a hood, a telescoping tubing, a filter assembly, a grease cup, and an external fan. The hood partially covers a grill at a first elevated vertical position and collects smokes from the grill. The telescoping tubing extends from the hood and is configured for ventilating, and telescoping between the first and second positions. The filter assembly is disposed at a lower end of the telescoping tubing, and comprises filter with concentric and cylindrical layers. The grease cup is for collecting grease from the filter. The fan is for building up an ascending air current inside the telescoping tubing. A velocity of the ascending air current is determined according to the first elevated vertical position, a ratio of a diameter of the hood to a diameter of the grill, and a surface temperature of the grill.

Abstract: A system and method for providing variable ventilation for a cooking environment. The system includes a plurality of cooking appliances, wherein each appliance has various operating parameters indicative of a cooking level of each appliance; a cooking event monitor operably connected to each of the cooking appliances and configured to: (1) determine a level of ventilation for each of the plurality of appliances based upon the cooking level of each appliance, (2) determine a control signal based upon the determined level of ventilation, and (3) transmit the control signal; a motor speed controller operably connected to the cooking event monitor and configured to receive the control signal; and at least one exhaust fan operably connected to the motor speed controller, wherein the motor speed controller adjusts a speed of the exhaust fan based upon the control signal.

Abstract: A gas burner module for a gas cooktop has a gas burner with an ignition and monitoring electrode, and also ignition and control electronics, a flame monitoring device and a gas valve. A burner foot in the form of a base is provided as a supporting element of the gas burner module. These parts of the gas burner module are combined to form a unit and are mechanically connected to one another in such a way that they form a constructional unit which can be handled independently.

Abstract: A burner and pilot assembly for a gas fireplace has a substantially hollow burner enclosure with a plurality of burner outlet apertures at the top of the enclosure. A pilot burner is mounted within the enclosure to underlie a portion of the outlet apertures such that flame from the pilot burner extends from a portion of the outlet apertures to merge the appearance of the pilot flame with the main burner flame when the main burner is lit. The invention is well-suited to a linear-style gas fireplace burner.

Abstract: A solar tracking unit for concentrating the sun's rays on an absorption receptor includes one or more concave reflectors and an energy absorption receptor disposed between the sun and the reflector. An energy absorbing fluid flows through the receptor and is heated by the concentrated rays of the sun. A first plurality of photovoltaic cells are disposed about a hemispherical form for generating an electrical signal to incrementally rotate the reflector about a first axis and a second plurality of photovoltaic cells disposed about a hemispherical form to generate an electrical signal to rotate the mirror about a second axis to thereby focus the reflected rays on the receptor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the orientation of a sun collector (K1, K2, K3, K4), with a heat collecting element (10) respectively arranged in the focal line. The temperature and/or the heat quantity of the heat transfer medium flowing through the heat collecting element (10) are measured in the region of a sun collector (K1, K2, K3, K4) in such a way that they can be associated with same, and the determined temperature values (T1, T2, T3, T4; T?1, T?2, T?3; T?4, T?5) and/or heat quantity values are supplied to a control unit controlling the orientation of each sun collector (K1, K2, K3, K4) and orienting the respective sun collector (K1, K2, K3, K4) according to a determined orientation parameter.

Abstract: A solar radiation collector system may includes a gimbal with a rim that supports a solar radiation concentrator or collector assembly passing through the plane of the rim, and foundation structures that support and anchor the gimbal, allowing it to both rotate and be raised or lowered. One flexible structural member may support the gimbal rim and a second flexible structural device both anchors the rim and enables the gimbal-collector assembly to rotate around an axis parallel to the earth's polar axis providing the desired primary tracking motion following the daily apparent motion of the sun. Motion between the gimbal and the solar radiation collector assembly allows the assembly to follow the apparent seasonal motion of the sun, among other tasks.

Abstract: A subterranean solar panel system 10 for collecting solar energy and generating electricity, includes a structure 12 having a building section 14, a roof 16, and rooftop surface 18. A plurality of solar panels forming a solar panel station 30 is provided in an underground space 20. An optical device 50 is provided for capturing and magnifying sunlight in the form of a transparent lens 52 that is either concave or convex, which receives and magnifies the sunlight, or enhances it to be transferred to the solar panel station 30. A system of fiber optic conductors 60 is provided having fiber optic strands contained therein which are connected to the transparent lens 52 and the solar panel station 30 for transferring the collected sunlight from the transparent lens 52 to the solar panel station 30.

Abstract: A protective cover for a solar panel is disclosed. The cover provides protection for the solar panel from the elements of the weather such as snow, hail, sleet, and windblown debris, and also against overheating of the solar panel during periods of long and intense solar radiation, when the demand for hot water is insufficient to dissipate heat build-up. The cover is constructed of material having heat-insulative properties and provides a barrier layer over the top of the solar panel to reduce the amount of heat transferred to the water tubes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a full time regenerative type single radiant tube burner. The full time regenerative type single radiant tube burner includes a radiant tube type burner; a regenerating unit that regenerates exhaust gas heat generated from the burner and is used for preheating the intake combustion air; and an intake and exhaust switching device that passes the intake air and the exhaust gas to the regenerating unit and heat-exchanges them and simultaneously progresses the intake and exhaust processes of the burner to perform the full time combustion.

Abstract: An inhaler for producing an inhalable aerosol of powdered medicament is disclosed. The inhaler includes an aerosolising device having a chamber of substantially circular cross-section, inlet and outlet ports at opposite ends of the chamber for the flow of drug laden air through the chamber between said ports and, a bypass air inlet for the flow of clean air into the chamber. The bypass air inlet is configured so that air entering the chamber through said inlet forms a cyclone in the chamber that interacts with the drug laden air flowing between the inlet and outlet ports.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for delivery of oxygen or other treatment gases to a patient without requiring physical contact or enclosure of the patient. Embodiments can include a delivery hood, sensing components, and a gas distribution system including one or more gas delivery ports. Gas delivery ports may be individually controlled based on input from the sensing components to alter the volume and orientation of treatment gas flow directed at a patient. Sensing components can include cameras or other sensors that detect the position of a patient's head, and gas delivery ports may then be controlled to direct treatment gas flow in the direction of the patient's head. Embodiments and methods described thereby allow for efficient oxygen or other gas delivery to a patient without requiring contact or enclosure of the patient.

Abstract: An anesthesia system is provided including an anesthesia apparatus, an anesthetic dispenser with an anesthetic reservoir, at least one dispensing parameter detection means, a contactless interface between the anesthesia apparatus and the anesthetic dispenser for transmitting data, especially the dispensing parameters, and for supplying the at least one dispensing parameter detection means with energy. The data and energy transmission takes place by means of electromagnetic field forces.

Abstract: An electronic anesthesia delivery apparatus for mixing a carrier gas and first and second anesthetic agents comprises a chassis having an electronic vaporizer, the vaporizer having a first anesthetic chamber and a second anesthetic chamber retaining the first anesthetic agent and the second anesthetic agent, a carrier gas input port in flow communication with the first anesthetic chamber and the second anesthetic chamber, a precision orifice and an electronic control valve corresponding to each of the chambers being downstream of the gas input port, each of the chambers having a conduit in flow communication with the carrier gas input port, each of the conduits extending into each of the chambers below an upper level of anesthetic agent, wherein the carrier gas passes through a porous diffuser near an end of the conduit and bubbles through the anesthetic agent, the chamber further comprising an anesthetic gas outlet port, an electronic touchscreen display for controlling carrier gas flow rate to the first ane