Patent ID: 7444230

Claim:
An injector-ignition fuel injection system for dispensing fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, the fuel injection system comprising: an ECU controlling a heated catalyzed fuel injector for heating and catalyzing a next fuel charge, wherein the ECU uses a one firing cycle look-ahead algorithm for controlling fuel injection; wherein the heated catalyzed fuel injector comprises: an input fuel metering system for dispensing a next fuel charge into a pressurizing chamber; a pressurization ram system including a pressurization ram for compressing the fuel charge within the pressurizing chamber, wherein the fuel charge is heated in the pressurization chamber in the presence of a catalyst; and an injector nozzle for injecting the heated catalyzed fuel charge into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine, wherein injector pressure is high enough that the fuel charge operates as a super-critical fluid at a selected temperature setting.