By Targeted News Service

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Applied Nanotech Holdings, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,245,951) developed by Richard Lee Fink, Austin, Texas, and Nan Jiang, Austin, Texas, for an "electrostatic atomizing fuel injector using carbon nanotubes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in a charge injector to assist in atomizing fuel for engine applications. A CNT charging unit is positioned in front of a fuel injector. A voltage is applied on a CNT coated mesh to charge the fuel stream when it passes. Then the charged stream goes through a grounded metal cage. The fuel is thereby electrostatically charged causing repulsive forces on surfaces of liquid in the fuel resulting in the liquid splitting into droplets."

The patent application was filed on April 22, 2009 (12/428,292). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,245,951.PN.&OS=PN/8,245,951&RS=PN/8,245,951

Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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