Vaporizing By A Hot Surface Of Prechamber Patents (Class 123/252)
  • Patent number: 12163492
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to arrangements for a pre-chamber of a combustion engine as well as pre-chambers comprising such arrangements, in particular to condition or temper a gas flow within a gas-purged pre-chamber prior to entering a combustion area. Accordingly, an arrangement for a pre-chamber gas valve of a combustion engine is suggested, comprising a housing having an outer surface and comprising a channel, a first end of the channel being in fluid communication with the outer surface and a second end of the channel being connectable to a valve seat of the pre-chamber gas valve, and at least one protrusion extending from the outer surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Enrico Drehobl, Friedrich Schaefer
  • Patent number: 8707914
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery system connects a working fluid into passages formed within an internal combustion engine. The fluid passages transport the working fluid to high temperature areas of the engine, raising the temperature of the working fluid near the phase change point or above the phase change point. The heated working fluid drives an energy conversion portion located downstream from the engine. The heat absorbed by the working fluid decreases the load on an engine cooling system as well as driving an energy conversion portion, improving fuel efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cummins Intellectual Property, Inc.
    Inventor: David M. Barnes
  • Patent number: 6132197
    Abstract: A rotary engine with one or more toroidal chambers defined by rotors that rotate within cylindrical housings. Pistons project into the chambers from the rotors. The pistons cooperate with valves to define compression regions and expansion regions in the chambers. The rotors, the pistons, the valves, or a combination thereof define or include combustion regions of constant volume wherein a fuel-air mixture compressed in the compression regions burns and then is ejected to the expansion regions. Fuel is injected into both the compression regions and the expansion regions. In a first embodiment of the engine, the valves are rotary and include recesses that accommodate the pistons as the pistons pass the valves. As a piston transits from a compression region to an expansion region via a valve, the space in the valve recess not occupied by the piston is the combustion region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Inventors: Victor Isaevich Adamovski, Anatoly Georgievich Bakanov
  • Patent number: 4876999
    Abstract: The invention relates to a two-stroke engine having an overflow channel through which an air/fuel mixture is supplied. The overflow channel is provided with a vaporization chamber having a hot wall against which fuel is injected and vaporized. The vaporized fuel is stored in the vaporization chamber and is carried into the combustion chamber of the engine by fresh air flowing in from the crankcase when the overflow channel is opened. Even at high rotational speed, a good mixture preparation is asssured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl
    Inventors: Roland Schierling, Werner Geyer
  • Patent number: 4620516
    Abstract: An apparatus for the injection of fuel into combustion chambers, in particular of self-igniting internal combustion engines, having an injection nozzle (10) and a subsequent glow body (20), which has a conduit (30) surrounded by heatable walls (26) and serving for the passage therethrough of the injected streams. At least one lateral opening (32) discharges into this conduit (30), the opening preferably communicating with a region (46) of the combustion chamber (36) remote from the core region of the ignition. The air aspirated through the lateral opening (32) warms up and enters into the peripheral zone of the injected streams, where the result is an air-fuel ratio and temperature conditions which are very favorable for ignition. Less heat energy is required to initiate the ignition than in the known apparatus of this general type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1986
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Reum, Thomas Frey, Werner Grunwald, Ernst Imhof, Iwan Komaroff, Gunther Schmid, Kurt Schmid
  • Patent number: 4391230
    Abstract: A water-alcohol injection apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a crankcase and a carburetor mounted on the air fuel manifold of the engine, the apparatus including a reservoir for a water-alcohol mixture, a main reservoir conduit connected to the reservoir, a first conduit connecting the main conduit to manifold to provide a continuous flow of the fluid mixture to the manifold, a second conduit connecting the main conduit to the carburetor to provide fluid mixture flow in response to demand and a third conduit connecting the crankcase to the first conduit, the third conduit including a pressure compensating valve to control the flow of crankcase emissions to the carburetor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1983
    Inventors: Eugene B. Pesce, James A. Krikava
  • Patent number: 4076002
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying liquids in finely-divided form to an internal combustion engine includes a liquid container, a distributor mounted.The apparatus has a liquid container, a distributor mounted in the container for supplying ambient air to the liquid in the container, a conduit connected between the container and the intake manifold of the engine for conveying air moistened with the liquid to the intake manifold for admixture to the fuel/air mixture, and a baffle in the container for making effective the moisturization of the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1978
    Inventors: Allan Mellqvist, Thorild Nils Kristian Ewald Anderberg
  • Patent number: 3996902
    Abstract: Waste-gas suppressor for internal-combustion engines, utilizing negative pressure generated in the carburetor of the engine. A water regulator operated by the negative pressure adjusts water flow in proportion to engine speed, the water being evaporated by the exhaust heat of the engine. The resulting steam is supplied to an air cleaner, and the cleaned air containing the steam is supplied to the combustion chamber of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1974
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1976
    Inventors: Toyosuke Ri, Sachio Yasuda, Sadamu Tohdoh