Fuel conditioner and method of conditioning fuel to an internal combustion engine therewith

A fuel conditioner comprising a conduit shell body having a pair of compression connection ends;

• said shell body having a structure defining a fuel entrance conduit, a fuel exit conduit and a heating chamber interposed between the entrance conduit and the exit conduit and in communication with each;
• a first agitating screen means and a second agitating screen means respectively covering the point of communication opening of the entrance conduit and the exit conduit with the heating chamber;
• a pair of electrical conduit means passing through said shell body into said heating chamber;
• a heating coil means electrically attached in series to the ends of said pair of electrical conduits in said heating chamber;
• and electrical power means engaging the other ends of said electrical conduits for energizing the heating coil means, said fuel entrance conduit and said fuel exit conduit are essentially aligned in the same plane and directly opposed with respect to each other;
• said heating chamber is generally cylindrical, said point of communication opening of said fuel entrance conduit has a diameter smaller than the diameter of said generally cylindrical heating chamber in order to additionally agitate the fuel through expansion and to lower the flow velocity of same as the fuel flows through said first agitating screen means into the heating chamber, said lowering of said flow velocity allows the fuel to spend adequate time in said heating chamber to be heated by the heating coil;
• said point of communication opening of the fuel exit conduit has a diameter smaller than the diameter of the generally cylindrical heating chamber in order to increase the velocity of the heated fuel as it passes through the second agitating screen means into the exit conduit of the shell body;
• an overmold means circumscribing the shell body, said electrical conduit means passing through said overmold means;
• and said overmold means circumscribes the structural portion of said shell body that defines the heating chamber.