-
公开(公告)号:US11300071B2
公开(公告)日:2022-04-12
申请号:US14732496
申请日:2015-06-05
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: Kevin B. Fuqua
摘要: A cylinder for opposed-piston engines includes a liner with a bore and longitudinally displaced intake and exhaust ports near respective ends thereof. An intermediate portion of the liner between the exhaust and intake ports contains a combustion chamber formed when the end surfaces of a pair of pistons disposed in opposition in the bore are in close mutual proximity. A compression sleeve encircles and reinforces the intermediate portion of the liner. An annular grid of pegs disposed between the intermediate portion and the compression sleeve supports the compression sleeve against the liner and defines a turbulent liquid flow path extending across the intermediate portion in a direction that parallels the longitudinal axis of the liner.
-
公开(公告)号:US10941733B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-09
申请号:US16408330
申请日:2019-05-09
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: Fabien G. Redon
IPC分类号: F02M26/08 , F02B37/04 , F01B7/14 , F02B75/28 , F02B25/08 , F02M26/43 , F02M26/23 , F02B39/10 , F02B75/02
摘要: The air handling system of an opposed-piston engine is equipped with an externally-assisted pumping element such as an electrically-assisted compressor, an electrically-assisted supercharger, or an electrically-assisted turbocharger.
-
公开(公告)号:US10935134B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-02
申请号:US16046050
申请日:2018-07-26
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: James U. Lemke , Bryant A. Wagner
摘要: In ported engine constructions, cooling of piston crowns and cylinder liners results in reduction or elimination of bore/liner distortions, thus ensuring circularity of the bore/piston interface throughout engine operation. Consequently, the need for heavily-tensioned piston rings is eliminated. Such engine constructions incorporate annular low-tension compression seals on the pistons, which substantially reduce port bridge wear during all phases of engine operation while also limiting blow-by during combustion.
-
4.
公开(公告)号:US20200182114A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-11
申请号:US16782918
申请日:2020-02-05
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: JOHN KOSZEWNIK
摘要: An exhaust plenum chamber with a thermal barrier coating for an opposed-piston engine reduces heat rejection to coolant, while increasing exhaust temperatures, fuel efficiency, and quicker exhaust after-treatment light-off. The exhaust plenum chamber can include a coating on the inside surface of the chamber. Posts which are structural and provide cooling channels or passageways can be present in the exhaust plenum chamber and coated with the thermal barrier coating material.
-
公开(公告)号:US20200018166A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-16
申请号:US16556028
申请日:2019-08-29
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: FABIEN G. REDON
摘要: A cylinder for an internal combustion opposed-piston engine includes a bore, either as part of the cylinder directly or of a liner. The bore has a surface for guiding a pair of pistons disposed for opposing movement in the cylinder. The cylinder bore has three zones of surface finishes: an inner zone extending between and including exhaust and intake ports, where only piston compression rings travel on the bore surface; two instances of an outer zone where only piston oil control rings travel on the bore surface; and two instances of a port zone where both types of rings travel on overlapping paths in the same bore surface portion. Each zone may have a particular surface finish that is tailored to specific requirements including oil control, ring wear, and scuff resistance relevant to the zone.
-
公开(公告)号:US10458327B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-29
申请号:US16119526
申请日:2018-08-31
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: Clark A. Klyza , Fabien G. Redon
摘要: In an opposed-piston engine, two or more fuel injectors are mounted to a cylinder for direct side injection into the cylinder. The injectors are controlled so as to inject either a single fuel pulse or a plurality of fuel pulses per cycle of engine operation in order to initiate combustion during varying engine speeds and operating conditions.
-
公开(公告)号:US10450985B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-22
申请号:US15990409
申请日:2018-05-25
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: Nishit Nagar , Arunandan Sharma
IPC分类号: F02D41/22 , F02B33/34 , F02B39/16 , F02B25/08 , F02B37/04 , F02D23/02 , F02D41/00 , F02B75/02 , F02D41/18
摘要: On-board diagnostic monitoring of a two-stroke cycle, opposed-piston engine includes diagnostic monitoring of an air handling system equipped with a supercharger to determine whether the supercharger is functioning properly.
-
公开(公告)号:US10422272B2
公开(公告)日:2019-09-24
申请号:US14932002
申请日:2015-11-04
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: John M. Kessler
摘要: A compact construction for an opposed-piston engine includes a cylinder liner with longitudinally-spaced exhaust and intake ports in which the exhaust port has inner and outer edges presenting a port height that causes the exhaust port to be fully open before a piston associated with the exhaust port reaches bottom dead center during an expansion stroke and the end surface of the associated piston to be spaced outwardly of the outer edge when the piston is at bottom dead center.
-
9.
公开(公告)号:US20190264639A1
公开(公告)日:2019-08-29
申请号:US16408330
申请日:2019-05-09
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: FABIEN G. REDON
摘要: The air handling system of an opposed-piston engine is equipped with an externally-assisted pumping element such as an electrically-assisted compressor, an electrically-assisted supercharger, or an electrically-assisted turbocharger.
-
公开(公告)号:US10329996B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-25
申请号:US15830972
申请日:2017-12-04
申请人: ACHATES POWER, INC.
发明人: John J. Koszewnik
摘要: An opposed-piston engine system equipped for full hybrid compressed-air/combustion includes capacity for storing air compressed by the engine during a combustion mode of operation. The hybrid opposed-piston engine system includes a control mechanization for operating the opposed-piston engine in a combustion mode by provision of fuel, in a compressed-air mode by provision of stored compressed air, and in a combustion mode supplemented by provision of stored compressed air. A method of operating a hybrid vehicle equipped with an opposed-piston engine includes storing air compressed by the engine during a combustion mode of operation and operating in the vehicle a compressed-air mode by provision of stored compressed air.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-