Patent ID: 11939905
Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  Y | IPC F

Claim 13:
14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein:
(a) the fuel injector operably emits a first amount of liquid fuel into the main piston cylinder which is homogeneously mixed in a main combustion cavity and during later stages of compression, some of the first amount of liquid fuel being compressed into the pre-chamber cavity;
(b) the same fuel injector operably emits a later amount of the liquid fuel into the main piston cylinder which is less than the first amount of the liquid fuel for combustion to enrichen a fuel-air mixture in the pre-chamber cavity; and
(c) the later amount of the liquid fuel is ignited by the pre-combustion occurring in the pre-chamber cavity.