Patent ID: 7377268

Claim:
A compact inline magnetic fuel conditioner, interposed along a fuel supply path of a fuel combustion engine for improving fuel efficiency, the magnetic fuel conditioner comprising: an inlet mouth piece, fluidically coupled to an upstream connection point of the fuel supply path, for receiving pre-conditioned fuel flow there from; an outlet mouth piece, fluidically coupled to a downstream connection point of the fuel supply path, for delivering post-conditioned fuel flow there to; and a hollow device body disposed between and in fluidic communication with said inlet mouth piece and said outlet mouth piece for accommodating a fuel flow there between, said hollow device body further comprises an internal magnetic manifold for surrounding the fuel flow while simultaneously imparting a magnetic field there to so as to magnetically condition the molecular structure of the fuel thereby cause a more complete combustion of the fuel in the fuel combustion engine hence improving its fuel efficiency; wherein said magnetic manifold further comprises a plurality of permanent magnets such that the resultant imparted magnetic field is a permanent magnetic field; wherein said magnetic manifold further comprises a plurality of fuel baffles placed along a first side of the fuel flow and, correspondingly, said plurality of permanent magnets are placed along a second side of the fuel flow such that the resultant imparted magnetic field crosses the path of the fuel flow; wherein each of said fuel baffles is further shaped into a thin plate oriented perpendicular to the global direction of the fuel flow and, correspondingly, each of said permanent magnets is further shaped into another thin plate matching said fuel baffles so as to form two interleaved arrays, arranged along the global direction of the fuel flow, thereby cause the local path of the fuel flow to become zigzag-shaped hence increasing the total path length thus dwell time of the fuel flow under magnetic conditioning without increasing the overall length of the magnetic manifold; wherein said magnetic manifold is structured to be essentially cylindrically symmetrical having a cylindrical hull with its cylindrical axis parallel to the global direction of fuel flow; the plurality of fuel baffles being annular-shaped, placed near the cylindrical surface side of the fuel flow and anchored to the cylindrical hull; and the plurality of permanent magnets being disk-shaped, placed near the cylindrical axis side of the fuel flow and anchored to the cylindrical hull.