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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1976
Kunihiko Masunaga, Okazaki, JP;
Masakatsu Kani, Toyota, JP;
Hirohiko Hoshi, Susono, JP;
Kazuhiko Ishiguro, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A control method and system for efficient operation of an internal combustion engine by controlling the volume of gas mixture supplied from a car-mounted fuel reformer to the internal combustion engine and the mixing ratio, as well as the volumes of air and fuel supplied to the car-mounted fuel reformer. To be more specific, efficient operation of the internal combustion engine is provided by controlling the mixing ratio of air and liquid fuel supplied to a car-mounted fuel reformer, which produces a hydrogen-containing gas from a liquid fuel through the reaction of partial oxidation, and at the same time adding a controlled volume of air to the hydrogen-containing gas discharged from the car-mounted fuel reformer and supplying the resultant mixture of the hydrogen-containing gas and air to the engine.