US 5,423,306 A · Internal plasma-combustion engine system

Abstract

An internal combustion engine system including an engine, timer/distributor device and a compliant electromagnetic device is disclosed. The engine may have one or more cylinders and includes an anode positioned above a cathodic piston whereby the anode delivers high intense short bursts of electrical energy through the combustion chamber and ignites fuel delivered by an injector. Each engine cylinder is connected to a distributor which sequences and delivers the high energy impulses from the compliant electromagnetic device to an individual cylinder when the piston is at or near top dead center. The compliant electromagnetic device includes an inductor, a power source and a field of material, i.e., the air/fuel mixture within the combustion chamber. The summed equivalence of the electromagnetic fields within the combustion chamber at any instant in time controls the intensity of the pulses and the quantity of pulses that are discharged by the anode. An alternative embodiment is provided which further improves performance by recirculating non-combusted gases and mixing them with high pressurized fuel and delivering the mixture to the combustion chamber where the fuel is fragmented, dissociated and combusted. The resulting internal combustion engine system has improved working efficiencies as well as a reduction in the emissions by the engine.

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Dependent claims

An internal combustion engine system comprising:

a cylinder;
a piston slidable within said cylinder, said cylinder and piston together defining a combustion chamber;
a fuel jet injector located above said piston;
a compliant electromagnetic excitation device operable to produce high-energy electromagnetic pulses;
a ceramic body comprising an anode support and positioned above said piston, said anode being positioned within said ceramic body and functioning to provide high-energy electromagnetic pulses received from said complaint electromagnetic excitation device, said pulses further causing the dissociation and imparting of a high kinetic energy, and ultimately, full ionization of the fuel injected from said fuel jet injector resulting from the provision of said high-energy electromagnetic pulses from said anode;
and
a control device operable to provide a controlled triggering and release of said high-energy electromagnetic pulses produced by said complaint electromagnetic excitation device.

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In an internal combustion engine comprising a cylinder containing a piston covered by a head to define a combustion chamber, and including a fuel mixture inlet port and a combustion gas outlet port, with each port having a closure valve timed to cyclically permit the flow of the fuel mixture into the chamber and the flow of combustion gases, after combustion out of the chamber, and a spark device for providing high intensity power, short bursts, of electrical energy within the chamber for igniting the fuel mixture, the improvement comprising:

said spark device being connected as an anode to an electrical power source, and said piston being electrically connected to said power source as a cathode;
said spark device formed to provide a multiplicity of short time, high intensity bursts of electrical energy, fired towards said piston, during each combustion part of the engine cycle, for simultaneously producing negatively ionized fuel particles and causing them to rapidly excite throughout the combustion chamber and ignite upon dispersal due to mutual electrical like-charge repulsion, and
a controller for controlling the timing and intensity of each burst by monitoring the conditions of the electrical L-C-R characteristics of the excited and ignited fuel particles which momentarily form the equivalent of a parallel resonant L-C-R circuit acting like a switch and variable resistor to permit the flow and control of the next burst and to predetermine the power intensity thereof when the circuit is in resonance with the power source.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Internal plasma-combustion engine system

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