Patent ID: 7093826
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: F02B,F02M,Y02T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for processing a fuel spray in an internal combustion engine comprising: a fuel metering valve responsive to an engine computer to inject selected quantities of liquid fuel, and a port in said internal combustion engine for receiving said liquid fuel, a tube closed at a first end to an external source of gas and receiving said selected quantities of liquid fuel from said fuel metering valve, and configured at an opposite, second end to be sealably fitted to said port, a plurality of turbulence-inducing devices mounted inside said tube, whereby as said selected quantity of liquid fuel flows past said turbulence-inducing devices, said liquid fuel is processed into size-limited droplets by a portion of said liquid fuel flashing into a fuel vapor, said size-limited fuel droplets and said fuel vapor being mixed with aninduction airflow of said internal combustion engine.