Internal combustion engine of hydrogen gas
AssigneeKatsuji BABA
InventorKenji Watanabe
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Abstract
A hydrogen gas internal combustion engine provided with a hydrogen gas jet nozzle and water spray jet nozzle in the combustion chamber to directly jet hydrogen gas and the water spray therein. The sprayed water is instantly vaporized to steam by igniting the hydrogen gas thereby utilizing the combustion/explosion energy of the hydrogen gas and the steam energy generated from the vaporization of the steam in a combination to obtain mechanical dynamic energy.
Claims7
In a hydrogen gas fueled internal combustion engine, the improvement comprising:
- a hydrogen gas jet nozzle provided in a combustion chamber of the engine to directly jet hydrogen gas as fuel into the combustion chamber;
- a source of water at ambient or room temperature;
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- a water spray jet nozzle coupled to said water source, said water spray jet nozzle being provided in said combustion chamber, separately and independently of said hydrogen gas jet nozzle, to directly jet a spray of said ambient or room temperature water into said combustion chamber substantially simultaneously with the jetting in of the hydrogen gas;
- the air in said combustion chamber being compressed so that the water sprayed into said combustion chamber is instantly vaporized to steam by igniting of the hydrogen gas jetted into said combustion chamber, thereby utilizing the combustion/explosion energy of the hydrogen gas and the steam energy generated from the vaporization of the steam in combination to obtain mechanical dynamic energy.
The hydrogen gas fueled internal combustion engine of claim 7, further comprising a semi-spherical front nozzle cover and a rear nozzle cover arranged in said combustion chamber, said front nozzle cover having said hydrogen gas jet nozzle mounted thereto and said rear nozzle cover having said water spray jet nozzle mounted thereto, said nozzle covers respectively being provided with apertures arranged radially around the respective nozzles for guiding air, and said nozzle covers each further having guide fins for deflecting and dispersing compressed air inside said apertures at a given deflection angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.