Circulating Piston Engine
    98.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200332708A9

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-22

    申请号:US15852522

    申请日:2017-12-22

    发明人: Walter T. Bonin

    摘要: An engine includes a housing defining an annular bore and a piston assembly disposed within the annular bore. The engine includes at least one valve configured to oscillate between a first position within the annular bore to allow the piston assembly to travel from a first location proximate to the at least one valve to a second location distal to the at least one valve and a second position to define a combustion chamber relative to the piston assembly at the second location. The engine includes an exhaust gas port disposed in fluid communication with the combustion chamber and a fuel distribution assembly configured to mix fuel from a fuel source and air from an air source into a fuel and air mixture at a location external to the combustion chamber and to deliver the fuel and air mixture to the combustion chamber.

    Toroidal engine
    99.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10801401B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-13

    申请号:US16155640

    申请日:2018-10-09

    申请人: Kevin M. Mueller

    发明人: Kevin M. Mueller

    摘要: A toroidal combustion engine is provided. The toroidal combustion engine includes a first and a second toroidal cylinder which share a single common intersection to define a combustion chamber. The first toroidal cylinder carries a first piston set, while the second toroidal cylinder carries a second piston set. The first and second piston sets are each rotatable about circular paths which are disposed in planes that are perpendicular to one another.

    INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE WITH ROTOR HAVING OFFSET PERIPHERAL SURFACE

    公开(公告)号:US20190003307A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-03

    申请号:US16124663

    申请日:2018-09-07

    摘要: A rotary engine where the rotor cavity has a peripheral inner surface having a peritrochoid configuration defined by a first eccentricity and the rotor has a peripheral outer surface having a peritrochoid inner envelope configuration defined by a second eccentricity larger than the first eccentricity. Also, a rotary engine where the rotor cavity has a peripheral inner surface having a peritrochoid configuration defined by an eccentricity, and a rotor with a peripheral outer surface between adjacent ones of the apex portions being inwardly offset from a peritrochoid inner envelope configuration defined by the eccentricity. The engine may have an expansion ratio with a value of at most 8. The rotary engine may be part of a compound engine system.