Patent ID: 6363723
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: B60K,B60T,B60W,F01B,F02B,Y02T

Abstract:
A reacceleration method for a vehicle equipped with a pollutant-free or pollutant-controlling engine, comprising an external combustion chamber (2), into which, in operation with air, a quantity of additional compressed non-pollutant gas, coming from a main external reservoir (23) in which this compressed gas is stored under high pressure and substantially at ambient temperature, is introduced substantially after the compressed air, without fuel, coming from a suction and compression chamber (1) has been admitted into the said combustion chamber, this vehicle also being equipped with a high-pressure on-board compressor (25) activated during decelerations and brakings, so as to fill the main external reservoir (23), wherein the air, compressed at high pressure by the compressor (25), is diverted to a reacceleration reservoir and stored in order to be maintained at high temperature and high pressure, and in that this air is utilized as soon as the vehicle is put into action again or restarted, by being injected into the combustion or expansion chamber of the engine (2).