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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1985
Lyle O Hoppie, Birmingham, MI (US);
Richard Chute, Troy, MI (US);
David H Scharnweber, Milford, MI (US);
Kenneth P Waichunas, Milford, MI (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
An arrangement and method is disclosed for enabling hypergolic combustion of a fuel mixture in the combustion chamber of a combustion device such as an internal combustion engine by irradiation of the fuel and/or of the fuel-air mixture with a beam of ultraviolet radiation to produce disassociation of a relatively high proportion of the fuel molecules to enable hypergolic combustion. Various arrangements are disclosed for accomplishing UV irradiation of the fuel in the context of an internal combustion piston engine, and a mercury vapor lamp or a laser are alternatively employed as a UV beam generator.