INJECTOR-IGNITION FOR AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
First Claim
1. A fuel injector for dispensing fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the fuel injector comprising:
- a heated catalyzed fuel injector that dispenses the fuel substantially exclusively during a power stroke of an engine;
wherein the fuel is catalyzed in a gas phase or super-critical phase only, using oxygen reduction catalysts.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a heated catalyzed fuel injector that dispenses fuel substantially exclusively during the power stroke of an internal combustion engine, wherein ignition occurs in a fast burn zone at high fuel density such that a leading surface of the fuel is completely burned within several microseconds. In operation, the fuel injector precisely meters instantly igniting fuel at a predetermined crank angle for optimal power stroke production. Specifically, the fuel is metered into the fuel injector, such that the fuel injector heats, vaporizes, compresses and mildly oxidizes the fuel, and then dispenses the fuel as a relatively low pressure gas column into a combustion chamber of the engine.
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34 Claims
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1. A fuel injector for dispensing fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the fuel injector comprising:
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a heated catalyzed fuel injector that dispenses the fuel substantially exclusively during a power stroke of an engine; wherein the fuel is catalyzed in a gas phase or super-critical phase only, using oxygen reduction catalysts. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15)
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12. The fuel injector of claim, wherein the dispensed fuel column contains 0.1% to 5% pre-combustion radicals in the form RO2. and ROOH., which are highly reactive, partially oxidized, cracked hydrocarbon chains from the initial fuel.
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16. A fuel injector for dispensing fuel into a combustion chamber of a variable cycle engine in a multi-fuel vehicle, the fuel injector comprising:
a heated catalyzed fuel injector that dispenses the fuel into the combustion chamber substantially exclusively during a power stroke of the variable cycle engine. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A fuel injector for dispensing fuel into a combustion chamber of an injector engine that runs on a bio-renewable flex fuel, the fuel injector comprising:
a heated catalyzed fuel injector that dispenses the bio-renewable flex fuel into the combustion chamber substantially exclusively during a power stroke of the variable cycle engine. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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