Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
123527000 | Gaseous fuel and air mixer | 43 |
20080236552 | Mixture Device for Gaseous Fuel and Air - A fuel mixing device includes a body having an intake bore, a first surface, and a second surface adjacent to the first surface. A first valve device may be carried by the body on the first surface and a second valve device may be carried by the body on the second surface. A first fuel passage may be provided in the body communicating with the first valve device and adapted to communicate with a supply of fuel. A second fuel passage communicates with the second valve device and the first fuel passage to permit fuel that has passed through the first valve device to flow to the second valve device, wherein the first fuel passage and the second fuel passage connect to at least one of the first surface or the second surface. | 10-02-2008 |
20090013974 | Portable gas powered internal combustion engine arrangement - A gas powered internal combustion engine in which the gas is provided from pressurized liquid gas in an LPG container and in which the LPG container is rigidly mounted adjacent to the internal combustion engine at a preselected angle to be in conductive heat transfer relationship to the internal combustion engine and in vibration receiving relationship to the internal combustion engine whereby the liquified gas in the LPG container is heated and the effective surface area thereof is increased. | 01-15-2009 |
20090013975 | Portable gas powered internal combustion engine arrangement - A gas powered internal combustion engine in which the gas is provided from pressurized liquid gas in an LPG container and in which the LPG container is rigidly mounted adjacent to the internal combustion engine at a preselected angle to be in conductive heat transfer relationship to the internal combustion engine and in vibration receiving relationship to the internal combustion engine whereby the liquified gas in the LPG container is heated and the effective surface area thereof is increased. | 01-15-2009 |
20090025695 | METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - The invention deals with a method for the operation of an internal combustion engine with at least two cylinders, which can be operated with a fuel of variable quality stored in a tank and/or with fuel blends stored in the tank from a first and at least a second fuel in variable mixing ratios, and wherein variable fuel qualities and/or fuel blends of different compositions require variable air/fuel ratios for the achievement of a stable combustion and/or have a variable vaporization behavior. Provision is, thereby, made for a variation, which is individually adjusted to each cylinder, of the quantity of fuel delivered to the cylinder to be implemented to supply a lean and/or to a rich air/fuel mixture at least one cylinder, for the effect of the variation on the starting characteristics and/or the running smoothness of the cylinder and/or the internal combustion engine to be evaluated and when an improvement in the starting characteristics and/or the running smoothness is achieved, for a fuel adaptation to be implemented for all cylinders. | 01-29-2009 |
20090090335 | Portable gas powered internal-combustion engine arrangement - A gas powered internal combustion engine in which the gas is provided from pressurized liquid gas in an LPG container and in which the LPG container is rigidly mounted adjacent to the internal combustion engine at a preselected angle to be in conductive heat transfer relationship to the internal combustion engine and in vibration receiving relationship to the internal combustion engine whereby the liquified gas in the LPG container is heated and the effective surface area thereof is increased. | 04-09-2009 |
20090126704 | FUEL GAS SUPPLY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN LNG CARRIER - A fuel gas supply system of a vessel, such as an LNG carrier, is provided for supplying fuel gas to a high-pressure gas injection engine of an LNG carrier, wherein LNG is extracted from an LNG storage tank of the LNG carrier, compressed at a high pressure, gasified, and then supplied to the high-pressure gas injection engine. In one embodiment, the system is operated to supply fuel to an MEGI engine. | 05-21-2009 |
20090133674 | FUEL GAS SUPPLY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AN LNG CARRIER - A fuel gas supply system of a vessel, such as an LNG carrier, is provided for supplying fuel gas to a high-pressure gas injection engine of an LNG carrier, wherein LNG is extracted from an LNG storage tank of the LNG carrier, compressed at a high pressure, gasified, and then supplied to the high-pressure gas injection engine. In one embodiment, the system includes a boil-off gas reliquefaction apparatus for reliquefying boil-off gas generated in the LNG tank. | 05-28-2009 |
20090320807 | System and Method for Hydrogen-Assisted Cold Starting of An Engine - The present invention provides a system for providing hydrogen gas to inject into the intake of an internal combustion engine. A hydrogen storage reservoir in communication with the gas output port stores a supply of hydrogen, and a hydrogen storage release valve retains the hydrogen in the storage reservoir and selectively releases hydrogen from the storage reservoir when the engine is started. In the preferred embodiment the system comprises an electrolysis cell that produces hydrogen when the engine is warm, and hydrogen is released from the storage reservoir when the system is active but the electrolysis cell is not producing hydrogen. | 12-31-2009 |
20100012101 | Fuel supply system for gas engine - A fuel supply system for a gas engine is provided that includes a liquefied gas fuel supply source ( | 01-21-2010 |
20100192926 | GAS MIXER OF UNIVERSAL SMALL COMBUSTION-GAS ENGINE FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING AMOUNT OF COMBUSTION GAS - A gas mixer of universal small combustion-gas engine for automatically controlling amount of combustion gas is provided, which includes a casing, a choker, an air inlet, a combustion-gas passage, a main jet, a mixture outlet, a throttle valve, a passage, an additional combustion-gas passage and an gas automatically adjusting valve, the air inlet is provided on the upper end of a chamber of the casing, the chocker is provided under the air inlet, the combustion gas passage is provided on the side of the chamber of the casing, the main jet is provided on the front end of the combustion-gas passage and is connected with the chamber of the casing, the mixture outlet is provided on the lower end of the chamber of casing and the throttle valve is provided above the mixture outlet and under the combustion-gas passage, the additional combustion-gas passage is provided on rear end of the throttle valve, the passage is provided between the combustion-gas passage and the additional combustion-gas passage, the upper end of the passage is connected with the combustion-gas passage, the gas automatically adjusting valve is provided on the conjunction point between the passage and the additional combustion-gas passage, which is characterized in that the lower end of the shaft of the throttle valve is in the shape of furcation; the said automatically adjusting valve can be in the shape of round, oval or square. The advantages of this invention are reflected in the simplification of structure, the applicability and the fulfillment of automatically controlling of gas flow. | 08-05-2010 |
20100269796 | Regulator for gas engine and gaseous fuel supplying device - According to the present invention of the simple structure in which the back pressure chamber of the inner vent type regulator is divided by the inner vent diaphragm and the displacement limitation rod protrudes from the center portion thereof to the center portion of the pressure regulation diaphragm, it is possible to suppress the variation in air-fuel ratio to a minimum both when the air cleaner is blocked and at the time of high load operation, without being accompanied by a rise in costs. | 10-28-2010 |
20110067677 | Carburetor arrangement - A carburetor for a gas powered internal combustion engine having a plurality of pressure reducing stages for reducing the pressure of the gas phase in a liquified petroleum gas storage bottle prior to the mixing of the gas phase of the liquified petroleum gas with ambient air. | 03-24-2011 |
20110290221 | GAS SUPPLY MODULE - A gas supply module is described for supplying a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine with gas, in particular with air, including a gas supply element for supplying gas to the combustion chamber and a closure element which is situated in the gas supply element on the outlet side, the gas supply element being closable in a gas-tight manner on its outlet side with the aid of closure element. | 12-01-2011 |
20110297128 | Internal Combustion Engine, Combustion Charge Formation System, and Method - A gaseous fuel internal combustion engine includes an engine housing defining at least one cylinder, and an intake housing defining an intake passage fluidly connecting with the at least one cylinder. The engine includes a gaseous fuel delivery mechanism coupled with the engine housing and a distributed ignition promoting mechanism having a bead presentation device extending into the intake passage and configured to present a liquid bead of distributed ignition promoting material therein such as engine lubricating oil. During operation, gases passing through the intake passage dislodge the liquid bead from the bead presentation device and carry the distributed ignition promoting material into the cylinder for distributively igniting therein a mixture containing a gaseous fuel, air and the distributed ignition promoting material. | 12-08-2011 |
20120073550 | Fuel Metering Device for a Gaseous Fuel Engine - A novel flow control device for metering a preferably gaseous fuel to an internal combustion engine is disclosed. | 03-29-2012 |
20120090578 | INTAKE MIXTURE INTRODUCING APPARATUS - High pressure regions ( | 04-19-2012 |
20120125299 | AUTOMATICALLY REGULATED GASEOUS MIXER FOR SMALL UNIVERSAL GAS ENGINE - This invention relates to an automatically regulated gaseous mixer for small universal gas engine comprising a mixer body; a choker, an air inlet port, a main gas passage, a main metering jet, a mixture outlet port, a throttle valve, a gas connecting passage and an auxiliary gas passage, which is characterized in that an auxiliary gas passage is set parallel to the main gas passage and connected through a vertical gas passage. Its top end is linked to the main gas passage and the lower end is connected with the auxiliary gas passage, one end of the auxiliary passage is connected with the mixture outlet port. The shaft of throttle valve is in line with auxiliary gas passage and is extended into the auxiliary gas passage to form an automatically regulated valve. The advantages of this invention are simple and compact; practical and reliable. | 05-24-2012 |
20120174898 | METHOD OF FUELING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE USING PRESSURIZED AND HEATED FUEL - A method of operating an internal combustion engine comprises the steps of (a) pressurizing a liquid fuel to a pressure above 150 psig; (b) heating the liquid fuel to a temperature above 500° F. to produce a heated liquid fuel; (c) suddenly reducing the pressure of the heated liquid fuel sufficiently to vaporize the heated liquid fuel to form a vaporized hot fuel; (d) combining the vaporized hot fuel with oxygen to form a vaporized hot fuel/oxygen mixture; (e) introducing the vaporized hot fuel/oxygen mixture into the internal combustion engine; and (f) combusting the vaporized hot fuel/oxygen mixture within the internal combustion engine. | 07-12-2012 |
20120234303 | SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING GAS DISTRIBUTION IN AN INTAKE MANIFOLD - A system for improving distribution of gases within an intake manifold of an engine is presented. The system may be used to improve engine air-fuel control. In one example, turbulence of gases entering an intake manifold is increased. | 09-20-2012 |
20120234304 | STRATIFIED SCAVENGING TWO-CYCLE ENGINE - A stratified scavenging two-cycle engine ( | 09-20-2012 |
20120240907 | STRATIFIED SCAVENGING TWO-CYCLE ENGINE AND CARBURETOR - A stratified scavenging two-cycle engine ( | 09-27-2012 |
20120247435 | STRATIFIED TWO-STROKE ENGINE AND DUAL PASSAGE FUEL SYSTEM - Various embodiments include two-stroke stratified engines and dual passage carburetors for use with gaseous fuel, such as hydrogen, methane, liquid petroleum gas, pure propane, and butane. A stratified air-head engine and low pressure fuel injected engines with fuel only tube is included. | 10-04-2012 |
20130014732 | PRODUCER GAS CARBURETTORAANM Dasappa; SrinivasaiahAACI BangaloreAACO INAAGP Dasappa; Srinivasaiah Bangalore INAANM Krishnaiyengar Srirangarajan; NagamangalaAACI BangaloreAACO INAAGP Krishnaiyengar Srirangarajan; Nagamangala Bangalore INAANM Paul; MeenaAACI BangaloreAACO INAAGP Paul; Meena Bangalore INAANM Paul; SaraAACI BangaloreAACO INAAGP Paul; Sara Bangalore INAANM Paul; KiranAACI BangaloreAACO INAAGP Paul; Kiran Bangalore IN - Disclosed herein is a class of gas carburettor ( | 01-17-2013 |
20130133630 | CHARGE AIR COOLER ASSEMBLY - A charge air cooler assembly for an internal combustion engine is described. A housing of the charge air cooler assembly includes a dividing wall that separates flow after the charge air cooler into two separate flow paths. | 05-30-2013 |
20130255646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMPTYING A TANK - A system for method for emptying a gas storage tank of a vehicle is presented. In one example, engine valve timing is adjusted to facilitate reducing pressure within the gas storage tank. The system and method may extend the use of the gas stored in the gas storage tank. | 10-03-2013 |
20140053815 | GASEOUS FUEL MIXER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A gaseous fuel mixer for an internal combustion engine includes a frustoconical cone and an outlet element extending from the frustoconical cone at an interior portion of the frustoconical cone. The outlet element and the frustoconical cone are located within a mixer passage of an intake system. The mixer passage has an internal diameter. The outlet element includes a plurality of transverse openings that connect a fuel passage formed within the outlet element to the interior portion of the frustoconical cone. The height and diameter of the frustoconical cone and the internal diameter of the passage form specific ratios that provide for uniform mixing of intake air and gaseous fuel prior to the mixture flowing into an intake manifold of the engine. | 02-27-2014 |
20140053816 | GASEOUS FUEL AND INTAKE AIR MIXER FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A gaseous fuel mixer for an internal combustion engine includes a mixer body and a mixer element supported in a mixer passage formed in the mixer body. The gaseous fuel mixer attaches to an intake manifold at a first end and receives intake air at a second end. A distal end of the mixer element accepts gaseous fuel from a manifold passage extending from a port positioned in the intake manifold. The gaseous fuel flows through the mixer element and then through a plurality of openings formed in an exposed proximate end of the mixer element. The gaseous fuel mixes with the intake air, and the mixture of intake air and gaseous fuel flows from the second end of the mixer body to the first end of the mixer body and then to the intake manifold. | 02-27-2014 |
20140083397 | TWO STEP METERING SOLENOID FOR MULTI-PHYSICS FUEL ATOMIZER - A metering system for a fuel atomizer includes a housing, first and second metering members, and at least one solenoid. The housing includes a mixing chamber. The first metering member is operable to control flow of oxidizer to the mixing chamber. The second metering member is arranged coaxial with the first metering member and operable to control flow of fuel to the mixing chamber. The at least one solenoid is configured to operate at least one of the first and second metering members. | 03-27-2014 |
20140102422 | GAS MIXER, GAS MIXING SYSTEM, GAS ENGINE - A gas mixer for mixing a first gas and a second gas, including a gas housing, a Venturi tube, a flow body for the first gas arranged in the Venturi tube to form a mixing gap, an inflow tube connected to the Venturi tube, to an inflow opening to the Venturi tube for the second gas, and an actuating element for varying the inflow cross section of the inflow opening. The actuating element has a first and a second actuating part which restrict the inflow cross section. The first actuating part is a first gas housing part and the second actuating part is a second gas housing part. At least one of the gas housing parts forms part of the Venturi tube and/or of the inflow tube At least one of the gas housing parts can be moved with respect to another and has a rotor of a linear motor. | 04-17-2014 |
20140326221 | GAS MIXER AND GAS MIXING SYSTEM - A gas mixer for mixing a first gas and a second gas, having a first, outer gas housing part, having an inlet for the first gas in a longitudinal axis and an inlet for the second gas in a transverse axis, a second, interior gas housing part set into the first gas housing part to form an annular space for a second gas, having a mixing space into which the first gas and the second gas are introduced for mixing. The first and second gas housing parts and the annular space are aligned along the longitudinal axis and the mixing space is aligned cylindrically along the longitudinal axis. A mixing device having a plurality of hollow rods is arranged in the mixing space. A hollow space of a hollow rod is in fluid communication on both sides with the annular space. The number of hollow rods extends transverse to the longitudinal axis and the transverse axis and at least one hollow rod has a plurality of openings for the second gas, so that the hollow space is in fluid communication with the cylindrical mixing space. | 11-06-2014 |
20150034054 | PLUNGER VALVE FOR A PROPANE CARBURETOR - A plunger valve. The plunger valve includes a body and a set of flutes on the body configured to reduce wedging during operation and eliminate flutter when connected to a diaphragm. The set of flutes includes at least four flutes and are each symmetrically spaced about the axis of the body. The plunger valve also includes a tip. | 02-05-2015 |
20150083090 | FUEL DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine. The fuel delivery system includes a diaphragm carburettor for mixing air and fuel, a start preparation system for introducing fuel into the carburettor before a start of the engine, and a fuel enrichment system for providing an enriched fuel and air mixture when the engine is cranked. | 03-26-2015 |
20150122231 | METHOD TO DISPERSE LUBRICATION INTO A FUEL SUPPLY FOR A FUEL GAS SYSTEM - A method to deliver natural gas (NG) to an internal combustion engine (ICE) via an fuel gas intake assembly is disclosed. The fuel gas intake assembly includes a gas intake manifold and at least one gas admission valve (GAV). The ICE is in fluid communication with the GAV. The method includes the provision of at least one lubrication introduction device, at least a portion of which is laden with a lubricant. The at least one lubrication introduction device is positioned downstream from the gas intake manifold and upstream from the GAV. A substantially pressurized NG is introduced into the gas intake manifold, which causes passage of the NG through the lubrication introduction device. This causes the NG to entrain lubricant from the lubrication introduction device, introduce the lubricant into the fuel gas intake assembly, and deposit the lubricant, at least partially, into the GAV. | 05-07-2015 |
20150322895 | STRATIFIED TWO-STROKE ENGINE - Various embodiments include two-stroke stratified engines and dual passage carburetors for use with gaseous fuel, such as hydrogen, methane, liquid petroleum gas, pure propane, and butane. A stratified air-head engine and low pressure fuel injected engines with fuel only tube is included. | 11-12-2015 |
20160040592 | Split Cycle Engine and Method of Operation - Split cycle engine that runs on gaseous fuels such as natural gas and synthesis gas (syngas) and to a method of operating the same. The engine includes a first compression chamber for compressing the gaseous fuel, means for supplying the gaseous fuel to the first compression chamber at a level of concentration that prevents predetonation of the fuel during compression, a second compression chamber for compressing air, a combustion chamber in which the compressed fuel and air are combined to reduce the concentration of the fuel to a level that allows the fuel to burn and expand in the combustion chamber, and an expansion chamber having an output member which is driven by expanding gas from the combustion chamber. Turbochargers or blowers pressurize and increase the volume of the fuel and air delivered to the respective compression chambers, and the concentration of the fuel is progressively reduced by the injection of air at spaced intervals as the fuel travels toward the compression chamber. | 02-11-2016 |
20160153402 | Gaseous Engine Fuel Delivery | 06-02-2016 |
20160177876 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING AIR AND FUEL MIXTURE TO A COMBUSTION CHAMBER | 06-23-2016 |
20160201609 | LOW PRESSURE GASEOUS FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM | 07-14-2016 |
123528000 | Supercharged engine | 4 |
20090178654 | Ethanol Separation Using Air from Turbo Compressor - In an apparatus comprising a fuel tank, an internal combustion engine, and a separator positioned fluidically between the fuel tank and the internal combustion engine, a method of operating the apparatus is disclosed, wherein the method comprises inputting a mixed fuel containing a hydrocarbon component and an oxygenated component into the separator, separating the fuel in the separator into a hydrocarbon-enriched fuel fraction and an oxygenated fuel component-enriched fuel fraction, and controlling an amount of the hydrocarbon-enriched fuel fraction and an amount of the oxygenated fuel component-enriched fuel fraction provided to the engine based upon an engine operating condition. | 07-16-2009 |
20130233288 | GRADUAL OXIDATION WITH RECIPROCATING ENGINE - Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods for oxidizing gases. In some embodiments, a reaction chamber is configured to receive a fuel gas and maintain the gas at a temperature within the reaction chamber that is above an autoignition temperature of the gas. The reaction chamber may also be configured to maintain a reaction temperature within the reaction chamber below a flameout temperature. In some embodiments, heat and product gases from the oxidation process can be used, for example, to drive a turbine, reciprocating engine, and injected back into the reaction chamber. | 09-12-2013 |
20160040611 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A method for operating an internal combustion engine, which has: an intake section and an engine with an number of cylinders and a receiver which is arranged upstream of the cylinders wherein the intake section has: a supercharging system with a compressor and a bypass for bypassing the supercharging system, and wherein the receiver is assigned an engine throttle, and the bypass is assigned a compressor bypass throttle; and a setting of the engine throttle and/or of the compressor bypass throttle is set as a function of the operation in order to influence a charge fluid. The intake section is assigned an intake section model by which at least a mass flow and/or state of the charge fluid upstream of the engine are/is determined and on the basis of a determination result the compressor bypass throttle is set as a function of the engine throttle. | 02-11-2016 |
20160053724 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING A GAS INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A gas internal combustion engine, having a gas mixer, an intake section and an engine with cylinders. A fuel mixture having a charging mixture is fed to the engine. The engine is operated in the gas mode with gas as the fuel in the charging mixture. By an input mixture portion, assigned to an earlier mixture state, of a gas/air mixture, an output mixture portion, assigned to a later mixture state, of the gas/air mixture is determined, The determination is carried out by an intake section model which serves as a basis of a computing model for the intake section. The output mixture portion of the gas/air mixture is determined an engine feed, the input mixture portion of the output mixture portion is determined over a number of intermediate states of the mixture portion in a number of assigned volumes of the intake section. The intake mixture portion of a gas/air mixture is determined at the gas mixer, and an air stream and/or gas stream is set at the gas mixer in accordance with the input mixture portion. | 02-25-2016 |
123529000 | Safety device (e.g., cutoff) | 1 |
20100108038 | Fuel Feeding Control Device of Compressed Natural Gas Engine - A fuel feeding control device of a compressed natural gas engine, may include a plurality of storage containers storing compressed natural gas (CNG) and respectively having a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet, a plurality of safety valves respectively connected to the fuel outlet of each storage container, a first line connecting each safety valve to the engine and guiding a flow of the CNG supplied from the respective storage container to the engine, a first valve located adjacent to the storage containers in the first line and controlling a supply of the CNG to the engine, a key switch unit detecting key-on/key-off states, and a controller generating opening/closing signals of the first valve according to the key-on/key-off states, wherein the storage containers are arranged so that the safety valves disposed at each fuel outlet of adjacent storage containers are positioned in opposite locations each other. | 05-06-2010 |