Internal-combustion engines – Charge forming device – Diverse fuel supply
Patent
1988-11-08
1990-04-10
Cross, E. Rollins
Internal-combustion engines
Charge forming device
Diverse fuel supply
123 1A, 123454, A02B 1300
Patent
active
049150847
ABSTRACT:
A combustion engine has apparatus effective to provide a fuel mixture of one or more liquid fuels such as gasoline of variable aromatic content, normal alcohols, cosolvents, octane improvers and hydrocarbons having different energy contents in an unknown combination and combine it with air in a controlled A/F ratio with an input from a fuel mixture dielectric constant sensor. The sensor comprises a capacitor in the fuel line near the engine so that the dielectric constant of the fuel mixture about to enter the engine determines the capacitance, a resistor in series with the capacitor, an oscillator providing an oscillating voltage across the resistor and capacitor at a high frequency of at least 1 MHz but less than a frequency requiring microwave components, and an electric circuit responsive to a capacitively determined electrical parameter of the capacitor such as the voltage thereacross to determine the capacitance thereof and therefore the dielectric constant of the fuel mixture. The high frequency of the circuit avoids problems of high conductivity in fuel mixtures having high alcohol concentrations which would short out the capacitor at lower frequencies and offers additional advantages over optical and microwave sensors.
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Cross E. Rollins
General Motors Corporation
Sigler Robert M.
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