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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9322373 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2014

Multi-fuel plasma injector

Applicant:

Thrival Tech, Llc, Ashland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Garrett Hill, Ashland, OR (US);

Scott Lazar, Ashland, OR (US);

Dustin Stonehouse, Ashland, OR (US);

Assignee:

ThrivalTech, LLC, Ashland, OR (US);

Attorney:

Fish & Tsang LLP

Primary Examiner:

Mahmoud Gimie

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F02B 23/04 (2006.01); F02M 61/16 (2006.01); F02B 19/16 (2006.01); F02M 61/18 (2006.01); F02M 57/00 (2006.01); F02M 57/06 (2006.01); F02M 61/06 (2006.01); F02P 23/04 (2006.01); F02B 31/04 (2006.01); F02B 19/10 (2006.01); F02B 17/00 (2006.01); F02B 19/14 (2006.01); F02D 41/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02M 61/162 (2013.01); F02B 19/16 (2013.01); F02B 23/04 (2013.01); F02B 31/04 (2013.01); F02M 57/00 (2013.01); F02M 57/06 (2013.01); F02M 61/06 (2013.01); F02M 61/1806 (2013.01); F02M 61/1893 (2013.01); F02P 23/04 (2013.01); F02P 23/045 (2013.01); F02B 17/005 (2013.01); F02B 19/10 (2013.01); F02B 19/14 (2013.01); F02D 41/0025 (2013.01);
Abstract

The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods for treating and delivering a fuel to a combustion chamber of an engine in order to improve efficiency of the engine. In one aspect of the invention, a fuel injector that cooperates with an internal combustion engine to combust a first fuel to produce power is presented. The fuel injector includes a fuel inlet, a pre-conditioning vortex chamber, and an excitation chamber. The fuel injector includes a vortex chamber that conforms a pulsed amount of the first fuel to produce a vortex that includes a coherent dynamic pressure wave. The fuel injector also includes an excitation mechanism that at least partially ignites the fuel.

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