Patent ID: 7066156

Claim:
A system for vaporizing liquid fuel, the system comprising: a fuel delivery system for delivering liquid fuel; a vaporization system for vaporizing liquid fuel delivered by the fuel delivery system, the vaporization system providing a vaporized fuel temperature of at least about 5 degrees cooler than the ambient temperature of air adjacent to the vaporization system, wherein the vaporization system is comprised of: a backing plate having a surface with an indentation; a transmissive plate having a surface which is connected to the surface of the backing plate and forms a vaporization chamber bounded by a portion of the surface of the transmissive plate and the indentation, the vaporization chamber having an inlet for liquid fuel and an outlet for exiting vaporized fuel; and at least one laser source for imparting an energy beam through the transmissive plate and onto a portion of the vaporization chamber to vaporize liquid fuel flowing through the portion of the vaporization chamber to obtain vaporized fuel which exits the outlet of the vaporization chamber.