Patent Application
20170260934
This invention relates to apparatus and methods for manipulating fuel characteristics in a combustion mechanism, and, more particularly, relates to devices and methods for manipulating charge characteristics of fuel moving through a conduit.
When a combustion fuel is more efficiently burned it will deliver more heat and power with less pollution. It has long been suspected that when any liquid or gaseous fuel is charged (or “ionized”) it will burn more thoroughly.
Liquid and gaseous fuels most often enter a burner from a fuel delivery line in molecule clusters. These clusters are susceptible to less efficient burning than if the molecules where presented at the burner more discretely. Fuel line magnetic charging apparatus, sometimes referred to as magnetic fuel ionizers or particle chargers, have been heretofore suggested and/or utilized in an effort to cause these clusters to break apart. Such apparatus have been suggested for use in association with water heaters, furnaces, boilers, cookers or various engines. Some of these apparatus are attached to a motor's or burner's main fuel delivery line to directly expose the line to the magnets' charge. For an overview of a variety of various magnet actuating configurations and arrangements see, for example, U.S. Patent Application Publication Nos. 2013/0327304, 2014/0262939, 2013/0074803, and 2009/0095267, and U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,386,187, 6,041,763, 8,999,158, 7,490,593, 5,816,227, 8,517,000, and 8,432,159.
Most of these apparatus have been implemented with charge orientations or charge manipulation that impede their efficiency. Moreover use of such apparatus in high heat or high vibration environments (such as with gasoline or diesel motors) has often led to apparatus failure or duty cycle curtailment due to inadequate consideration of mounting stability and magnet shielding. Further improvement in this field could thus still be utilized.
This invention provides devices and methods for enhancing efficiency of various fuel combustion devices such as burner, combustion chambers and the like. In particular, fuel charging devices and methods are provided which are implemented with a monopole charge orientation. The devices are implemented so that a long duty cycle is obtained even in high heat or high vibration environments.
The fuel charging devices of this invention are mountable at a length of non-ferrous fuel delivery conduit and include an array of magnets (at least three individual magnets having positive and negative poles). Each one of the magnets is oriented and spaced in the array to be located at a different circumferential location around the conduit with a common pole of each magnet contacting the conduit thereat (preferably the negative pole for most implementations, though a positive monopolar orientation could also be utilized). The magnets are arrayed radially to define polar axes through about the center of the conduit and through the magnets' poles, each magnet located off polar axis of any other one of the magnets in the array.
A one piece orienting mount having insert formations equal in number to the number of the individual magnets in the array is provided, the insert formations spaced a selected distance from each other and sized to receive and hold at least a part of one of the magnets therein. The magnets are each oriented in a different one of the insert formations with the poles of each of the magnets facing the same directions in the mount.
The fuel molecule charging methods of this invention includes the steps of orienting a plurality of magnets with a common pole of each facing the same direction and securing the magnets to a fuel delivery conduit adjacent to an area of fuel combustion so that the common pole of each of the magnets contacts the conduit and an opposite pole of each is spaced from and faces away from the conduit.
It is therefore an object of this invention to provide devices and methods for enhancing efficiency of various fuel combustion devices.
It is another object of this invention to provide fuel charging devices and methods which are implemented with a monopole charge orientation.
It is still another object of this invention to provide fuel molecule charging devices that are implemented to achieve long duty cycles in high heat and/or high vibration environments.
It is another object of this invention to provide a fuel charging device mountable at a length of non-ferrous fuel delivery conduit, the device including an array of magnets including at least three individual magnets having positive and negative poles, each one of the magnets oriented and spaced in the array to be located at a different circumferential location around the conduit with a common pole of each contacting the conduit at its the different circumferential location, the magnets arrayed radially to define polar axes through about the center of the conduit and through the poles of each one of the magnets, each one the magnets located off polar axis of any other one of the magnets in the array.
It is still another object of this invention to provide a monopole fuel molecule charging device for mounting on a fuel delivery conduit that includes at least three individual magnets having positive and negative poles, a one piece orienting mount having insert formations equal in number to the number of the individual magnets and spaced a selected distance from each other, each of the insert formations sized to receive and hold at least a part of one of the magnets therein, and each one of the magnets oriented in a different one of the insert formations of the mount with the poles of each of the magnets facing the same directions in the mount.
It is yet another object of this invention to provide a fuel molecule charging method that includes the steps of orienting a plurality of magnets having positive and negative poles with a common pole of each facing the same direction, and securing the magnets to a fuel delivery conduit adjacent to an area of fuel combustion so that the common pole of each of the magnets contacts the conduit and an opposite pole of each is spaced from and faces away from the conduit to thereby define a monopole magnet array around the conduit.
With these and other objects in view, which will become apparent to one skilled in the art as the description proceeds, this invention resides in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts and methods substantially as hereinafter described, and more particularly defined by the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the herein disclosed invention are meant to be included as come within the scope of the claims.
The accompanying drawings illustrate a complete embodiment of the invention according to the best mode so far devised for the practical application of the principles thereof, and in which:
One preferred embodiment 11 of a fuel charging device of this invention mountable at a length of non-ferrous fuel delivery conduit 13 is illustrated in
Magnets 17 each have an elongated contact face 23 at common pole 21. Contact faces 23 are each preferably at least about 10 cm in length, the contact faces oriented so that the lengths are positionable along the length of conduit 13 (see
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Orienting mount 25 (as best illustrated for this embodiment in
Each of formations 27 is sized to receive and hold at least a middle part of one of magnets 17 therein with the poles of each of the magnets facing the same directions in mount 25. Mount 25 is formed of flexible material, preferably non-ferrous metallic sheet material (for example, aluminum) suitable to disperse heat and configured to secure the magnets against damaging vibrations. Non-metallic materials suitable to the task at hand could also be utilized. Where magnets 17 are bar magnets, formations 27 are preferably an array of substantially parallel u-channels having channel bottoms 31. In such case, the common poles 21 of magnets 17 (preferably most often the negative poles) are positioned at the open ends 33 of the u-channels while the opposite poles 35 (preferably most often the positive poles) face their respective channel bottoms 31 when mounted therein.
Device 11 may employ any suitable means for securing mount 25 and magnets 17 around fuel delivery conduit 13 with magnets 19 contacting the fuel delivery conduit as illustrated. Depending on the installation objectives, known securement devices could be utilized such as plastic ties 36 (where there is adequate ventilation such that excessive heat will present little problem) or metal straps (see
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Thus in use, a plurality of magnets 17 are oriented with a common pole 21 of each facing the same direction and secured to a fuel delivery conduit 13 adjacent to an area of fuel combustion. The common pole of each of the magnets thereby achieves contact with the conduit. The opposite pole 35 of each magnet 17 is spaced from and faces away from conduit 13 to thereby define a monopole magnet array around the conduit. Device 11 should be secured to the main fuel conduit 13 as close as possible to the injector pump, carburetor, or combustion chamber. A device 11 is preferably mounted on each injector conduit.
As any fluid fuel passes through the monopole magnetic field, the fuel becomes similarly charged thus spreading the fuel more evenly throughout the air that the fuel is dispensed, injected or sprayed into. This results in a greater portion of each fuel molecule being burned providing a more efficient combustion which results in less unburned fuel and other general pollutants of combustion.
Orienting mount 25 may be formed using rotary die. It is then preferably anodized or provided with some other heat resistant coating to prevent the aluminum material from corroding or degrading. The magnet material is preferably Y9 to Y33 steel, preferably about a Y12 to Y14, which is strong, stable and highly resistant to vibration. The magnets can be made out of any material, for example neodymium, alnico, ceramic, ferrite, injection-molded composite of various types of resin and magnetic powders, flexible magnets composed of a high-coercivity ferromagnetic compound (usually ferric oxide) mixed with a plastic binder, rare-earth or rare-earth-free, lanthanoid, samarium-cobalt, neodymium-iron-boron (NIB), and all other types of permanent magnets, or any type of coil or non coil electromagnet where an available charge source can be tapped.
Alternative configurations of the devices of this invention include specially constructed conduits segments wherein magnets 17 are incorporated into the or inside conduit material or wherein magnets 17 are mounted inside the tubing. Other alternatives would see the magnets mounted inside the burner or injector or built into the burner, injector, pump, nozzle, dispenser, or the like.
