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Title:
METHOD OF OPERATING FUEL FEEDER IN FUEL COMBUSTION ENGINE OF AUTOMOBILE AND ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM OF AUTOMOBILE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009144720
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a method of operating a fuel feeder in an engine which uses two or more different fuels such as gasoline and ethanol and to which the user does not need to supply two or more different fuels.

This method of operating a fuel feeder comprises a separation step 140 of so separating a fuel vapor 172 including at least an alcohol component and a hydrocarbon component into a first fuel 177 and a second fuel 178 that the first fuel includes the fuel vapor and an alcoholic component higher in concentration than the second fuel, a compression step 150 of compressing the separated first fuel 177 to move the first fuel from a gaseous phase state to a liquid phase, and a feed step of feeding the first fuel 179 in the state of compressed liquid phase to an engine 120 to burn the fuel in the engine 120.


Inventors:
PURSIFULL ROSS DYKSTRA
DEARTH MARK ALLEN
Application Number:
JP2008316043A
Publication Date:
July 02, 2009
Filing Date:
December 11, 2008
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC
International Classes:
F02D19/08; F02D41/02; F02M31/16; F02M37/00; F02M43/00; F02M63/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hiroshi Maeda
Hiroshi Takeuchi
Takahisa Shimada
Yuji Takeuchi
Katsumi Imae
Atsushi Fujita
Kazunari Ninomiya
Tomoo Harada
Iseki Katsumori