US PATENT SUBCLASS 60 / 616
.~.~ Having means to transfer heat energy between engine exhaust and motive fluid for fluid motor

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597  DF  FLUID MOTOR MEANS DRIVEN BY WASTE HEAT OR BY EXHAUST ENERGY FROM INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE {5}
614  DF  .~ Having fluid motor motive fluid treating, controlling or conditioning means {3}
616.~.~ Having means to transfer heat energy between engine exhaust and motive fluid for fluid motor {2}
617  DF  .~.~.~> And having means to add fluid to motive fluid
618  DF  .~.~.~> Motive fluid is vaporized liquid

DEFINITION

Classification: 60/616

(under subclass 614) Apparatus, wherein the motive fluid for the fluid motor is generated, heated, or cooled in a heat exchange which employs, as its source of energy, the exhaust energy from the associated internal combustion engine or other waste heat from the engine.

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604, for a fluid motor in which heat from the exhaust of an internal combustion engine generates the motive fluid, the motor driving a pump supercharging the engine.