US Patent Issued to Tianjin University on Sept. 9 for "Precombustion chamber igniter and cold start control method for methanol engine" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,743, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tianjin University (Tianjin, China).

"Precombustion chamber igniter and cold start control method for methanol engine" was invented by Lei Zhou (Tianjin, China), Zongkuan Liu (Tianjin, China), Lijia Zhong (Tianjin, China) and Haiqiao Wei (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A precombustion chamber igniter with a retractable electric glow plug and a cold start control method for a methanol engine are provided. The precombustion chamber igniter includes a fuel injector, a spark plug, and an electric glow plug. The electric glow plug is retractable and has two working positions, at a fi...