Patent ID: 7527024
Filing Date: 2009-05-05
Classification: F02M

Abstract:
1. A liquid fuel reformer comprising: a first magnet holding case comprised of a first anisotropic magnetic material, the first magnet holding case forming a curve at each corner; and a second magnet holding case comprised of a second anisotropic magnetic material, the second magnet holding case forming a curve at each corner; wherein the first and second magnet holding cases are magnetically secured and touching, so as to constitute a magnetic induction closed circuit without magnetic flux leakage and to construct a part of the magnetic induction closed circuit at each commissure, and wherein the first and second magnet holding cases comprise a front plane and a back plane that each define a semicircular opening for pinching a connecting tube comprised of nonmagnetic material through which liquid fuel flows there between; wherein the magnetic fields generated by the first and second anisotropic magnetic material are orthogonal to the connecting tube; wherein the connecting tube comprises an outer tube comprised of a first nonferrous metal and an inner tube comprised of a second nonferrous metal, the first nonferrous metal being different from the second nonferrous metal, the inner tube being accommodated inside the outer tube, and wherein a flowing path extended from an inlet side to an outlet side of the connecting tube is constituted by between a surface of the inner tube and an inner surface of the outer tube; wherein the first non-ferrous metal generates positive unipolar potential, and the second non-ferrous metal generates negative unipolar potential; and wherein the first and second nonferrous metals are selected so as to generate an electric potential difference between the outer tube and the inner tube.