Liquid fuel to gas converter for engines
A description is given of a liquid fuel to gas converter for internal combustion engines: housing means; elongate fuel conveying means made of high heat conductive material mounted within said housing means; said elongate fuel conveying means having a fuel inlet end constructed for liquid fuel input from liquid supply means, and an outlet end positioned for delivery of molecular gaseous state fuel to engine fuel intake means; a heating system with heating element means mounted within said housing means to heat said elongate fuel conveying means sufficiently to ensure substantially complete transformation of fuel from the liquid state to the molecular gasified state as fuel is passed through said elongate fuel conveying means after initial warmup; wherein said elongate fuel conveying means is tubular element means formed primarily as coil means contained in foreshortened form within said housing in an efficiently packaged structure; with said heating system means in close contiguous relation to said coil means for optmized heat transfer to and through said coil means to the fuel being passed through the tubular element means formed into said coil means; wherein said heating system means is in concentric relation with said coil means; said heating system means includes an electric resistance element means formed into a cylindrical structure in close contiguous relation to said coil means; and wherein an air intake passage structure is provided with an air passage for feeding intake air to an internal combustion engine; and wherein a portion of said air passage is through, and surrounded by said heating system means and said coil means for heat transfer to intake air prior to admission of fuel in the heated molecular gasified state.
- Assignee:
- IFI; ERA-06-001010; EDB-80-123556
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4213433
- OSTI ID:
- 5013606
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 31 Oct 1977
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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