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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2006
Applicants:
Makoto Suzuki, Mishima, JP;
Tomohiro Shinagawa, Sunto-gun, JP;
Masahiko Masubuchi, Mishima, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In an internal combustion engine using hydrocarbon fuel and hydrogen gas as fuels and including a fuel injection device that injects liquid fuel, a hydrogen-blended fuel in which hydrogen gas is contained in the form of minute bubbles in a liquid hydrocarbon fuel, that is supplied to the fuel injection device. The hydrogen-blended fuel is stored in a fuel tank. Hydrogen gas that has escaped from the hydrogen-blended fuel in the fuel tank is fed to a minute-bubble producing device, which forms the fuel gas into minute bubbles and mixes the minute bubbles back into the hydrogen-blended fuel.