MUMBAI, India, Feb. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641006861 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Jan. 23, for 'hybrid pneumatic starting system for internal combustion engines.'
Inventor(s) include Nihal Vishnu C; and Sugumaran V.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 6, under issue no. 06/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system (100) and a method (300) for starting an internal combustion engine (140) of a vehicle. The system (100) includes a vehicle electrical power source (102), an electric motor (104), a compressor (106) mechanically coupled to the electric motor (104) to compress ambient air (108), and a pneumatic storage tank (110) configured to store compressed air. A pneumatic motor (136) is mechanically coupled to an engine cranking mechanism (138). During a normal operating condition, compressed air from the pneumatic storage tank (110) is selectively supplied to the pneumatic motor (136) through an electronically controlled pneumatic flow path (128) to crank the internal combustion engine (140). During an electrical failure condition, a manually actuated pneumatic override mechanism (130) delivers compressed air to the pneumatic motor (136) independently of the vehicle electrical power source (102), thereby enabling engine starting in both operating conditions."
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