US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on April 14 for "Fuel reforming system for vehicle with engine mounted thereon" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,318, issued on April 14, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Fuel reforming system for vehicle with engine mounted thereon" was invented by Masahiro Horikoshi (Aki-gun, Japan), Yuji Harada (Aki-gun, Japan) and Kenji Uchida (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel reforming system includes a reciprocating engine; a decomposer that decomposes a hydrocarbon fuel; and a hydrocarbon fuel supply device. The reciprocating engine includes an intake port, an exhaust port, and a third port that allows a cylinder and the decomposer to communicate and that is opened and closed by an on-off valve. The on-off valve...