Induction and fuel delivery system for piston engine
OwnerDavid Littlewood Johnsoninventor
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Abstract
Apparatus constituting part of an induction and fuel delivery system for a cylinder of a piston internal combustion engine comprising a small cyclone into which is tangentially discharged a flow of heated air to generate a sustained vortex of high rotational speed; a modulatable fuel injector delivering a flow of atomized fuel into said small cyclone wherein it underdoes flash evaporation and energetic mixing; a delivery duct connecting said small cyclone to the inlet tract of said cylinder wherein said vortex fuel-air mixture is mixed with heated induction air; and means to prevent overheating of said modulatable fuel injector.
Claims75
An apparatus constituting part of an induction and fuel delivery system for a cylinder of a piston internal combustion engine, said apparatus comprising:
- a cyclone into which is tangentially discharged a flow of heated air to generate a sustained vortex of high rotational speeds;
- a modulatable fuel injector delivering a flow of atomized fuel into said cyclone wherein it underdoes flash evaporation and energetic mixing;
- a delivery duct connecting said cyclone to an inlet tract of said cylinder wherein a vortex fuel-air mixture is mixed with induction air;
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- means to prevent overheating of said modulatable fuel injector.
A method of providing fuel-air mixture to a cylinder of a piston internal combustion engine, said method comprising the steps of:
- tangentially discharging a flow of heated air into a cyclone to generate therein a sustained vortex of high rotational speed;
- delivering from a modulatable fuel injector a flow of heated, atomized fuel into said cyclone wherein it underdoes flash evaporation and energetic mixing;
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- discharging said vortex fuel-air flow via a delivery duct into an inlet tract of said cylinder wherein said vortex fuel-air mixture is mixed with heated induction air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.