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Nagoya Day Three: Learning the Scuderi Cycle
The Nagoya Eco Clean Car Fair wrapped up today and was full of more visits from local OEM representatives and others from the Japanese automotive community who have heard about the Scuderi Engine and wanted to take the opportunity to meet those involved and learn more about what is expected to be the world’s most fuel efficient internal combustion engine. Some of those visitors over the past three days have been from the Japanese academic community. Yesterday, professors from the Department of Transportation Engineering from Meijo University in Nagoya met with Vice President and Patent Attorney Stephen Scuderi, who is overseeing the technical development of the engine, to ask questions about the technology and learn more about this new internal combustion process, sometimes called the Scuderi Cycle. Apparently, the Scuderi technology has made it into various engineering and thermodynamic lectures given at the university. Students are being exposed to this new technology, which is the most significant advancement in internal combustion engines since the introduction of the Otto Cycle over 120 years ago. Today, others from the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology also met with Stephen to learn more about the breakthrough engine and discuss the potential applications appropriate for this technology. Often considered an automobile engine, the Scuderi Engine is also applicable to most piston-driven environments, such as generators, airplanes, lawn mowers, trains, and military apparatus. After today, the team travels to Tokyo for meetings with a local OEM, its Japanese patent law team, and the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO), who is advising the Scuderi Group on doing business in Japan.
Nagoya Day Two: An alternative to The Alternatives
The second day of the Nagoya Eco Clean Car Fair brought more exposure to the new technologies that the automotive industry is looking at to be the next generation of vehicles. And, as the Scuderi Group engineers have learned, the Scuderi Engine can give boosts in power and efficiency to even the alternative fuel-powered cars. One such vehicle on display this weekend in Nagoya is the natural gas-powered car. The base split cycle Scuderi Engine has the ability to operate a natural gas automobile at a higher compression ratio than a conventional engine being powered by natural gas. One of the limitations with conventional natural gas engines is that there is a tendency to prematurely combust more rapidly than a typical gasoline engine. Because the Scuderi Engine operates at higher pressures and fuel is injected very late in the combustion process, it doesn’t give the natural gas much time to combust. These findings have resulted in OEMs looking at the Scuderi Engine as not only a cleaner and more efficiency way to burn gasoline and diesel, it also gives many of the same benefits to other mobile applications using alternative fuels.
Nagoya Day One: Hello Japan!
The Scuderi Group Friday for the first time publicly introduced its breakthrough Scuderi Engine and its air-hybrid capabilities to the Japanese automotive market as part of the Nagoya Eco Clean Car Fair'08. Held in what is considered to be the "Detroit of Japan," the event is anticipated to draw up to 30,000 Japanese automotive engineers and other "green" car professionals through the weekend. Flanked by its engineering experts, the Scuderi marketing team also debuted the Japanese version of its DVD, which can also be viewed now on the company's web site homepage. Crowds on the first day were extremely curious about the engine's design, particularly how it achieves historical gains in fuel efficiency while emitting up to 80 percent less toxins than all the engines on the road today. With the use of interpreters and other Japanese-focused materials, the group was able to engage the people and explain the many aspects of the Scuderi Engine and its revolutionary internal combustion process very clearly. Scuderi's participation in the event is a result of an invitation by the Japanese government and its Japanese External Trade Oganization (JETRO), which searches the world for technologies that could benefit Japanese society. JETRO extended invitation to the Scuderi Group and is also advising the company on continuing to establish its presence in the country.