Patent Publication Number: US-2003230251-A1

Title: Water tank lid for delivering oxygen and hydrogen

Description:
TECHNICAL FIELD  
       [0001] This invention relates generally to a water tank lid, in particular, a water tank lid for delivering hydrogen and oxygen.  
       BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
       [0002] In general, with fuels used in internal combustion engines, external combustion engines, and other combustion apparatus, exhaust gases are generated by combustion to release various types of noxious chemical substances into the atmosphere, thus causing an environmental pollution. These noxious chemical substances include, for example, CO, HC, NOx, and SOx. Heretofore, to suppress generation of such noxious chemical substances, fuel combustion efficiency has been improved by improving the quality of fuels used or by improving various combustion devices. In addition, the exhaust gases released have been treated by a variety of exhaust gas removing devices using catalysts to prevent pollution. However, such prior art methods have been insufficient to reduce pollutive substances, and the improvement of fuel quality has been difficult in view of the costs. To overcome the defects, recently, the industry intends to use fuel activation devices to enhance combustion and reduce harmful gases. In the U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,605,498, 4,711,271, 5,055,189, 5,044,346, 5,080,080, 5,460,144, 5,632,254 and 5,873,353, magnetic field effect or far infrared ray is used to activate fuel to decompose the fuel molecule and therefore enhance combustion and reduce the harmful gases.  
       [0003] Combustion includes fuel, hydrogen in the fuel and oxygen in the air. Activating fuel only improves one element of combustion. Fuels like gasoline are composed mainly of carbon-hydrogen chemical compound with different molecule structures. The main elements of the compounds are carbon and hydrogen. The fuels, which contain high percentage of hydrogen usually, are easily ignited to produce power. Carbon and hydrogen are active elements. They can easily combine with oxygen and then blaze. Therefore if we can provide sufficient air (oxygen is about 20% of air), the combustion of the fuels will be efficient and less harmful gas will be produced. Adding more hydrogen and into combustion equipments like engines can reduce the consumption of fuels and adding oxygen can help the hydrogen both in the fuel and in the air burn and avoid the combine of carbon and hydrogen since usually carbon and hydrogen will combine as harmful gases.  
       [0004] However, the conventional water tank lid is only designed to tighten the lid to the entry of the water tank or to release the pressure inside the water tank. They cannot accept oxygen and hydrogen from engine since the top of conventional water tank lid is closed.  
       SUMMARY OF INVENTION  
       [0005] It is therefore a primary objective of the present invention to provide a water tank lid that can input oxygen and hydrogen from an engine.  
       [0006] The present invention, briefly summarized, in one embodiment discloses a water tank lid used in a water tank, which can input oxygen and hydrogen from an engine, characterized in that on top of the lid directly facing the entry of the water tank has an opening for connecting a tube, the tube connected to the engine in order to input oxygen and hydrogen from the engine. The water tank lid can further comprise an adapter mounted to the opening for connecting to the tube. A storage chamber can be used to store the hydrogen and oxygen from the water tank and then deliver the oxygen and hydrogen into the cylinders of the engine. Therefore the apparatus can help to enhance combustion of the engine. 
     
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS  
     [0007] The invention will be more clearly understood after refer to the following detailed description read in conjunction with the drawings wherein:  
     [0008]FIG. 1 is a functional diagram of the embodiment used in a engine system that can collect oxygen and hydrogen;  
     [0009]FIG. 2 is a exploded view of how the embodiment connected to a water tank and a tube; and  
     [0010]FIG. 3 is sectional view of another embodiment. 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS  
     [0011] With reference to FIG. 1, the embodiment is used in an engine system that can collect hydrogen and oxygen. The system has an engine  10  with several cylinders  11  and an cooling device  20  connected to the engine  10 , the cooling device  20  has at least one water tank  21  for outputting cooling water to the engine  10  and inputting heated cooling water from the engine  10 . Part of the heated water is decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen because of high temperature. The separator chamber  50  is for separating liquid and gas, which comprises: an input  52  connected to the engine  10  for receiving heated cooling water; a first output  53 , connected to the water tank  21 , for outputting the heated cooling water to the water tank  21 ; and a second output  54 , connected to the water tank  21 , for outputting the oxygen and hydrogen to the water tank  21 . The oxygen and hydrogen will follow the route of the cooling water (indexed as “a” in FIG. 1) flow into the separator chamber  50 . Since gas is lighter and the flowing speed is faster, so hydrogen and oxygen can flow into the water tank  21  earlier. The temperature inside the water tank  21  is high enough to produce more hydrogen and oxygen.  
     [0012] The storage chamber  60  with sufficient space  61  has an input  62  connected to the water tank  21  for receiving oxygen and hydrogen inside the tank  21  and an output  63  connected to the engine  10  for outputting the oxygen and hydrogen to the cylinders  11 .  
     [0013] With reference to FIG. 2, in order to let the hydrogen and oxygen from the engine  10  can be inputted into the water tank  21 , the inventor invent a water tank lid  22  characterized in that on top of the lid directly facing the entry of the water tank has an opening  221  for connecting a tube  222 , the tube  222  connected to the engine  10  in order to input oxygen and hydrogen from the engine  10 . With reference to FIG. 2, the water tank lid  22  can further comprises an adapter  223  mounted to the opening  221  for connecting to the tube  222 . The adapter  223  can be plug-in type or with thread surrounding outside the adapter.  
     [0014] Numerous characteristics and advantages of the invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the invention, and the novel features thereof are pointed out in appended claims. The disclosure, however, is illustrated only, and changes may be made in detail, especially, in matters of shape, size and arrangement of parts, materials and the combination thereof within the principle of the invention, to the full extend indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.