Electronic fuel injector control for rotary vacuum fuel conversion device

A fuel dispersion device for converting a liquid fuel from macroscopic droplets into converted fuel in the form of a mixture of microscopic liquid droplets and vaporized fuel, said device comprising:

• a cylindrical chamber having a first longitudinal axis and an interior cylindrical wall;
• a cylindrical rotor within said chamber mounted for rotation on an eccentric longitudinal axis laterally spaced from said first axis, said rotor having a surface which comes into near contact with said cylindrical wall along a near contact line lying in a common plane with said eccentric longitudinal axis to form a vacuum chamber between said rotor and said cylindrical wall;
• a longitudinal slot in said rotor, lying in a plane passing through said rotor axis;
• a vane mounted in said slot for sliding movement toward and away from said rotor axis;
• means for rotating said rotor and said vane within said housing in a predetermined direction of rotation to form a vacuum therein for converting macroscopic liquid fuel droplets into converted fuel comprising fuel vapor and microscopic fuel particles;
• a liquid fuel inlet extending through said cylindrical chamber into communication with said vacuum chamber for injecting macroscopic liquid fuel droplets, said inlet being angularly spaced to the upstream side of said plane opposite said contact line;
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• a fuel outlet extending through said cylindrical wall into communication with said vacuum chamber, said outlet being angularly spaced to the downstream side of said plane adjacent said contact line for discharging converted fuel.

A method of supplying combustible fuel to an engine comprising the steps of:

• providing a vacuum pump having an eccentric mounted rotor within a cylindrical housing and a fuel inlet in the housing and a fuel outlet in the housing offset from the inlet;
• introducing macroscopic liquid fuel droplets into the inlet;
• converting the macroscopic liquid fuel droplets to converted fuel in the form of fuel vapor and microscopic liquid fuel droplets within the vacuum pump;
• introducing air to the converted fuel at an angle thereto to assure substantially complete mixing of the converted fuel and air before entering the engine.