The internal combustion engine recited in claim 1, wherein the fuel supplying mechanism further includes a reformed liquid fuel storage unit disposed downstream of the fuel reforming unit, and configured and arranged to store the reformed liquid fuel produced by the fuel reforming unit.Ĥ.

The internal combustion engine recited in claim 1, wherein the fuel supplying mechanism further includes a reformed gaseous fuel storage unit disposed downstream of the fuel reforming unit, and configured and arranged to store the reformed gaseous fuel produced by the fuel reforming unit.ģ. An internal combustion engine comprising: a main combustion chamber an auxiliary combustion chamber that is communicated with the main combustion chamber a fuel supplying mechanism including a fuel reforming unit configured and arranged to reform a fuel to produce a reformed gaseous fuel and a reformed liquid fuel and a control unit configured to control the fuel supplying mechanism to selectively supply the reformed gaseous fuel to the auxiliary combustion chamber when a first operating condition of the internal combustion engine exists and to selectively supply the reformed liquid fuel to the main combustion chamber bypassing the auxiliary chamber when a second operating condition of the internal combustion engine exists that is different from the first operating condition.Ģ.

Micro plasmatron fuel converter valve