| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 123549000 | Electric heater | 21 |
| 20080223346 | Automotive modular inductive heated injector and system - A fuel injection system ( | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090000605 | Regeneration system having integral purge and ignition device - A regeneration device is disclosed. The regeneration device has an injector configured to inject pressurized fuel during an injection event. The regeneration device also has a heater configured to ignite the pressurized fuel during the injection event. The heater is also configured to purge the injector between injection events. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090107473 | Cold start structure for multipoint fuel injection systems - Cold start structure ( | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090126705 | Heated fuel vaporizer for enhanced cold starting of an internal combustion engine - A heated fuel vaporizer is disposed in an intake component, such as a throttle valve or an intake manifold, of a fuel injected and spark-ignited internal combustion engine. The engine may be fueled by any liquid fuel, such as gasoline, diesel or by fuels much less volatile than gasoline, for example, alcohols such as ethanol, or mixtures of ethanol and gasoline. A configurable heating element is made from a single piece of sheet metal and includes one or two grids each formed by slots and segments. By controlling the geometry of the element, the power and surface area can be configured to any desired value. A single piece heater assembly is designed for installation in an intake component, such as throttle valve or intake manifold, of an internal combustion engine. The heater assembly includes a single-grid or dual-grid heating element that is over-molded with a high melting temperature polymer. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090133676 | Fuel-heating assembly and method for the pre-heating of fuel an internal combustion engine - A heating assembly that allows an adequate pre-heating of a fuel used in an internal combustion engine is disclosed. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090194078 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING HEATING OF A THROTTLE VALVE OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - In an embodiment, conductance of electricity to a heating element ( | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090241915 | COLD START UP AUXILIARY SYSTEM FOR ALCOHOL AND FLEX ENGINES WITH AIR-INLET AND ALCOHOL WARM UP - The present invention relates to a new auxiliary system of cold start, preferably used in the internal combustion engines that use alcohol as fuel. The engines ‘Flex Fuel’ (alcohol/gasoline/GNV) are included in the possibility of the use of this invention. The cold starting system makes use of resistances ( | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100170481 | Fog carburetor - A conversion system for a gasoline engine based generator enables the use of heavier fuels. A vertically disposed vortex separation chamber includes an inlet proximate the bottom of the chamber and tangential to the longitudinal axis of the chamber for delivering to the chamber partially vaporized fuel in an air-fuel mixture from a carburetor associated with the engine. An outlet proximate the top of the chamber also tangential to the longitudinal axis of the chamber for delivering vaporized fuel from the chamber to the engine. An electric heater is in communication with the bottom of the chamber for heating the chamber wall to vaporize any fuel thereon so vaporized fuel is reintroduced in swirling air-fuel mixture in the chamber. A battery source charged by the generator provides power to the electric heater. A jacket is disposed about and spaced from the chamber wall creating an annulus between the jacket and the chamber wall. An inlet through the jacket is connected to receive exhaust gas from the engine and to deliver the exhaust gas into the annulus for heating the chamber. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100242926 | FUEL HEATING APPARATUS - A fuel heating apparatus for an internal combustion engine or other type of spark ignition engine having an associated pressurised fuel delivery system, the apparatus comprising a chamber for receiving a volume of a pressurised liquid fuel; and means for heating the fuel within the chamber to provide heated liquid fuel to the fuel delivery system of the engine, to thereby minimise condensation of the fuel and facilitate ignition of the engine within relatively low ambient temperature environments. The apparatus has particular application with ‘heavy fuels’, such as diesel or kerosene, and improves the reliability and performance of the engine especially during ‘cold starts’ and while transitioning to fast-idling. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110030661 | STRATEGY FOR ENABLING INTAKE AIR HEATER TO CLEAN UP WHITE SMOKE DURING WARM ENGINE RE-START IN COLD WEATHER - A motor vehicle has an engine compartment ( | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110079202 | AUTOMOBILE FUEL PRETREATMENT DEVICE - An automobile fuel pretreatment device includes an instantaneous constant-temperature heating device including a fuel tube which allows fuel to flow, a heating unit positioned on and heating an outside surface of the fuel tube, and two spring clamp boards enclosing and clamping the heating unit on the fuel tube. Each of the spring clamp boards has a locking hole formed adjacent to a first free end and a locking tab formed adjacent to a second free end. The locking tab of each of the spring clamp boards is received through the locking hole of the other one of the spring clamp boards to engage the first free end of the other one of the spring clamp boards. A magnetization combustion-enhancing device includes two permanent magnets located adjacent to the fuel tube to induce magnetization on the fuel flowing through the fuel tube. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20120204843 | FUEL HEATER SET WITH FUSE EFFECT - A device is provided to heat fuel with a safety feature (fuse effect). The heating device can be operated with ethanol, gasoline or a mixture of ethanol and gasoline. The heating device is an integrant part of the electronic injection system of internal combustion engines. The heating device is assembled inside the fuel rail and serves to increase fuel temperature before, during and after ignition at temperatures specified by the engine calibration strategy. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120285424 | FUEL INJECTOR HEATER ELEMENT CONTROL VIA SINGLE DATA LINE - A system, heated fuel injector, and controller for closed-loop temperature control of a heated fuel injector having simultaneous two-way data communication over a single-line data connection. The system includes a voltage source to output a heater enable signal and a variable current sink configured to draw a current value indicative of a temperature value related to the heated fuel injector. The heater signal and the current value are simultaneously present on the single-line data connection. The configuration reduces the effect of ground shift on the accuracy of determining a feedback signal from the heated fuel injector. The feedback signal is a temperature value related to the heated fuel injector and is indicated by a current value. Because the feedback signal is a current value, the feedback signal is generally immune from being influenced by ground shift between the controller and the heated fuel injector. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120298078 | Method of Using Fuel in Transportation Means for Reduction of Fuel Consumption and Carbon Emission - A method of using fuel in transportation means comprises: (a) providing a heat treatment unit in the transportation means, the heat treatment unit including a through pipe provided with an inlet and an outlet at two end thereof; (b) providing a heat source for the heat treatment unit capable of supplying the through pipe with heat; (c) connecting a fuel tank of the transportation means to the inlet of the through pipe in the heat treatment unit; and (d) connecting an engine of the transportation means to the outlet of the through pipe in the heat treatment unit; whereby fuel contained in the fuel tank is fed through the heat treatment unit to enter the engine, the fuel can be vaporized in the through pipe by the heat source before entering the engine to facilitate fuel vaporization so that fuel consumption and carbon emission can be reduced. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130146032 | Oil-Electricity Separation Type Diesel Heater - An oil-electricity separation type diesel heater comprises an outer shell ( | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130146033 | Fluid-guiding housing of an internal combustion engine with an electrically operated heating device - A fluid-guiding housing, in particular a gas-, oil-, fuel- or water-guiding housing ( | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130146034 | Switch-Mode Synthetic Power Inductor - A fuel delivery system for a vehicle includes a fuel injector that meters fuel flow and provides for preheating fuel to aid combustion. A control circuit including a synthetic inductor drives a heated element within the fuel flow. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20140311462 | FUEL-ADDITIVE SUPPLYING APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING A FUEL-ADDITIVE TO AN ENGINE - A fuel-additive supplying apparatus includes: a container having an upper part formed with a vapor through-hole; a vapor-confining conduit extending in the container from the upper part; an elongate header mounted to and extending in the container from the upper part; and a heater controller connected electrically to the elongate header. The vapor-confining conduit is spaced apart from and surrounds the elongate heater and a bottom end of the vapor through-hole, so that a fuel-additive vapor generated in the vapor-confining conduit may be introduced into an intake manifold of an engine through the vapor through-hole. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20150034055 | METHOD FOR IGNITING A FUEL/AIR MIXTURE, IGNITION SYSTEM AND GLOW PLUG - What is described is a method for igniting a fuel/air mixture in a combustion chamber of an engine, wherein a pencil, which is electrically insulated with respect to walls of the combustion chamber and contains a heating resistor, is electrically heated to a temperature of at least 800° C. in the combustion chamber of the engine by applying a heating voltage, and a high voltage of at least 500 V, which is different from the heating voltage, is applied to the pencil and thereby ions are generated in the combustion chamber by field emission of electrons. The invention additionally relates to an ignition system and a glow plug. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20160153401 | HEATER CONTROL APPARATUS FOR DIESEL FUEL FILTER AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF | 06-02-2016 |
| 20170234275 | FAST GDCI HEATED AIR INTAKE SYSTEM | 08-17-2017 |
