Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136510 | Apparatus for improving efficiency and emissions of combustion An apparatus improves the efficiency and emissions of a combustion process by producing sufficient amounts of ozone in the air flow to the combustion chamber to enable more complete and cleaner combustion of the fuel. A plurality of ozone elements for producing ozon... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8028682 | Apparatus for improving efficiency and emissions of combustion with perpendicular ozone elements An apparatus improves the efficiency and emissions of a combustion process by producing sufficient amounts of ozone in the air flow to the combustion chamber to enable more complete and cleaner combustion of the fuel. An ozone cell comprises a plurality of cylindric... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7798133 | Apparatus for improving efficiency and emissions of combustion An apparatus improves the efficiency and emissions of a combustion process by producing sufficient amounts of ozone in the air flow to the combustion chamber to enable more complete and cleaner combustion of the fuel. The apparatus may include a plurality of cell el... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7650877 | Device for preconditioning of combustion air A device for pre-conditioning combustion air at an inlet path to a combustion chamber, in which the inlet includes a set of two or more magnetic fields arranged along the inlet path. Each magnetic field has a corresponding north pole and a south pole and a magnetic ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7341049 | Apparatus for improving efficiency and emissions of combustion An apparatus increases the efficiency and emissions of a combustion process by producing sufficient amounts of ozone in the air flow to the combustion chamber to enable more complete and cleaner combustion of the fuel. Embodiments of the invention include a pluralit... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7331336 | Power air-fuel levitation compression Apparatus for magnetically conditioning incoming air and fuel to an internal combustion engine to improve engine operation. Magnets are applied in a bipolar arrangement to the fuel system and air intake apparatus of an internal combustion engine system for reducing ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318858 | Gas separator for providing an oxygen-enriched stream A system for separating oxygen from air operates at a pressure less than atmospheric. The oxygen separation system includes an entry port for ambient air, and at least two separate exhaust ports through which separate exhaust streams are drawn by separate suction so... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7299793 | EGR metallic high load diesel oxidation catalyst A compression ignition engine (10) has an EGR loop (22) that contains a metallic DOC (30) for treating recirculated exhaust gas obtained directly from cylinder exhaust through an exhaust manifold (16) before the exhaust gas passes through... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7252810 | Multi-sectional system for continuous gas separation A system for separating a gaseous constituent from a gaseous mixture includes a substantially sealed passageway extending between a first exhaust port and a second exhaust port. An entry port for a gas mixture to be separated opens into the passageway. At least thre... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7215021 | Electronic device The conductor wire surface for constituting a circuit formed by print or junction on a substrate formed from a composite member of ceramics, resin, and an inorganic member and from a resin member is coated with glass, resin, solder, or silver paste, thus the corrosi... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7128044 | Engine control with variable control valve A method of operating an internal combustion engine. The method includes disabling at least one piston cylinder of the engine. While said at least one piston cylinder is disabled, turbulence is selectively varied in an air intake pathway of an enabled piston cylinde... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7100583 | Filter screen and the apparatus for aiding vehicle fuel combustion and purifying exhausting gas using said filter screen Disclosed is a filter screen and the apparatus for aiding vehicle fuel combustion and purifying exhaust gas using said filter screen which has a metallic screen body treated in a treatment tank containing a discharge electrode plate and a receiving electrode plate b... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7078000 | Apparatus and method for mat protection of non-thermal plasma reactor A non-thermal plasma reactor is provided. The non-thermal plasma reactor includes a plasma-generating substrate, a housing and a mat. The plasma-generating substrate has one or more flow paths for an exhaust gas. The housing has an inlet and an outlet. The mat retai... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7051719 | Combustion enhancement device A combustion enhancement device for internal combustion engines using alpha and/or beta particles to add ions to air intake thereby facilitating complete combustion. There is a base material with holes. Tabs form the walls of the holes or channels. On the base mater... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7021297 | Apparatuses, devices, systems and methods employing far infrared radiation and negative ions Apparatuses, devices, systems and methods employing a material or combination of materials capable of emitting both far infared radiation and negative ions are provided. The material at least include a first part of, for example, a bio-ceramic, and a second part tha... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7004152 | Device for reforming gas vapors of an internal combustion engine A device for reforming gas vapors of an internal combustion engine having an air induction system, a combustion chamber, and positive crankcase and fuel tank associated therewith, the device comprising a voltage multiplier unit, a gas vapor treatment means and a gas... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6990965 | Combustion-engine air-intake ozone and air ion generator An engine power booster comprises an electronic voltage generator that converts the direct current (DC) battery voltage of a vehicle at a power input, into an AC ripple voltage of 2.8–5.0 KV peak-to-peak at 2.4–14.0 KHz, that includes a DC voltage of 2.0–3.5. ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6974560 | Electro-kinetic air transporter and conditioner device with enhanced anti-microorganism capability An electro-kinetic air conditioner for removing particulates from the air creates an airflow using no moving parts. The airflow is subjected to UV radiation from a germicidal lamp within the device. The conditioner includes an ion generator that has an electrode ass... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6958134 | Electro-kinetic air transporter-conditioner devices with an upstream focus electrode An electro-kinetic air conditioner for removing particulates from the air creates an airflow using no moving parts. The conditioner includes an ion generator that has an electrode assembly including a first array of emitter electrodes, a second array of collector el... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6953556 | Air conditioner devices An air conditioner includes an ion generator that provides ions and safe amounts of ozone. The ion generator includes a high voltage generator that provides a voltage potential difference between first and second electrode arrays. At least one of the first and secon... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6948473 | 4-cycle, rotary, electromagnetic, internal combustion engines Four-cycle rotary engines, with an even number of hinged-hub impeller vanes, utilize dependently rotating, joined, hinged-hub impellers, with interdigitated, alternating hub sections, on a shared, power output shaft, and electromagnetic fields, and timing of impelle... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6923841 | Filter element of an air filter with far infrared energy A filter element of an air filter includes a main body and a substrate. The far infrared emission powder substances are embedded at certain grain sized and at certain ratio to the substrate, thereby forming the main body that is adapted in form to various internal c... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6911186 | Electro-kinetic air transporter and conditioner device with enhanced housing configuration and enhanced anti-microorganism capability An electro-kinetic air conditioner for removing particulates from the air creates an airflow using no moving parts. The airflow is subjected to UV radiation from a germicidal lamp within the device. The conditioner includes an ion generator that has an electrode ass... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6908501 | Electrode self-cleaning mechanism for air conditioner devices An air conditioner with a cleaning member having an opening, through which a wire-like electrode passes. The member is moved along the wire to frictionally clean the wire-like electrode when a collector electrode array is moved. A lifting arm is mounted to the colle... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6902778 | High stiffness plastic wall for molded plastic products Plastic parts are formed to have a relatively high wall stiffness by utilizing a pair of spaced plastic plates. One of the plates may be a simple plate. The other plate has a plurality of ribs extending from a base. The ribs are welded to the other plate. Use of the... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6895945 | System and method for conditioning of intake air for an internal combustion engine A system for conditioning intake air for an internal combustion engine includes an oxygen separation system. The oxygen separation system includes an entry port for ambient air, and at least two separate exhaust ports through which separate exhaust streams are drawn... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6871641 | Air-activating device The invention relates to an air-activating device made of material with magnetism or far infrared radiation. The air-activating device has a plurality of vent holes that are extended parallel to each other and whose internal diameter becomes smaller from inlet towar... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6769420 | Ionizer An ionization electrode consists of a plate-like positive pole (31a) formed with plural pointed ends (31b) on its outer edge, and a spheric negative pole (32a) opposing a flat surface of the positive pole (31a)... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6675780 | Fuel saving and pollution emission reduction system for internal combustion engines A fuel saving and pollution emission reduction system (10) that utilizes an air ionizer (58) that is easily attached inline between a vehicle air-intake hose (106) and a fuel injection throttle body (108) or a carburetor air-intake structure (110). The ai... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6653646 | Material activating method and device for carrying out the same A material activating device (10) comprises a radioactive layer (11) of a radioactive means that generates radioactive rays for irradiating a material to be activated, and conductive metal layers (12,13) disposed on one side of the radioactive layer (11) ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6604513 | Power enhancement control system for combustion engine An oil-saving accelerating control device of eliminating the black smoke mainly comprising a power-increasing means and a pressure increasing auxiliary device in cooperative the inlet branch of the gas-combustion engine, by means of the high-voltage outpu... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6601570 | Self contained air flow and ionization method, apparatus and design for internal combustion engines This invention method combines numerous disciplines to enhance the performance of internal combustion engines. No prior art embodies the discipline of physics in the creation of a swirling vortex, principles of electrostatics in using tribology and coulom... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6536418 | Combustion enhancement device for internal combustion engines A combustion enhancement device for internal combustion engines installed in front of the carburetor (or fuel injection pump) comprised of tourmaline crystal or mildly radioactive tritium isotope mineral elements. The tourmaline is directly utilized for t... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6523529 | Integration of air separation membrane and coalescing filter for use on an inlet air system of an engine An intake air separation system suitable for combustion air of an internal combustion engine. An air separation device of the system includes a plurality of fibers, each fiber having a tube with a permeation barrier layer on the outer surface thereof and ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6516787 | Use of exhaust gas as sweep flow to enhance air separation membrane performance An intake air separation system for an internal combustion engine is provided with purge gas or sweep flow on the permeate side of separation membranes in the air separation device. Exhaust gas from the engine is used as a purge gas flow, to increase oxyg... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6463917 | Device for improving combustion and eliminating pollutants from internal combustion engines I have invented a device, which will introduce ozone into the combustion chambers of all internal combustion engines by passing ambient air through the intake manifold and between the electrodes of a high voltage silent discharge, where the oxygen with tw... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6427639 | Method and apparatus for warming intake air to an internal combustion engine The present invention provides a method and apparatus for chemically heating one or more components of, or intake air flowing to, an internal combustion engine by feeding hydrogen to a catalyst. In accordance with the invention, condensation of fuels on c... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6263865 | Combustion promoting device A combustion promoting device. The device, which includes a heat resistant substrate with ceramic and titanium oxide attached thereto, disperses ionized clusters of cohering atoms or molecules charged with electricity and makes said ionized clusters into ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6244254 | Power activating device A power activating device with several energy emitters provided in the air passing throughway of the fuel inlet system of an internal combustion engine. The energy emitters can emit preset energy (e.g., far infrared rays, electromagnetic field). Parallel ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6176977 | Electro-kinetic air transporter-conditioner An electro-kinetic electro-static air conditioner includes a self-contained ion generator that provides electro-kinetically moved air with ions and safe amounts of ozone. The ion generator includes a high voltage pulse generator whose output pulses are co... | 01/23/2001 |
