Patent ID: 8485163

Claim:
An apparatus for increasing the efficiency of combustion comprising: a housing suitable for being disposed between an air intake and a combustion chamber to supply air to the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine; a plurality of adjacent cylindrical ozone elements arranged in the housing for creating a plasma field in the housing around and between the ozone elements; wherein the ozone elements each comprise: a cylindrically shaped outer electrode of conductive material perforated with a pattern of holes; a cylindrically shaped inner electrode of conductive material disposed inside the outer electrode; a cylindrically shaped insulator between the inner and outer electrodes; and wherein the ozone elements driven by a voltage and connected to the engine provide reduced particulate matter in an output exhaust of the engine with an increase in NOx (nitrogen oxides NO and NO 2 ) in the exhaust of less than about 5 percent.