摘要:
Free piston assembly, comprising at least one piston accommodating device, at least one piston device having a first piston surface and a second piston surface facing away from the first piston surface, which is moveable in a linear manner in the corresponding piston accommodating device, and an expansion space which is arranged in the piston accommodating device and delimited by the first piston surface, wherein the piston device is arranged to be driven by the action of a medium which expands in the expansion space, wherein a resilience space arranged in the at least one piston accommodating device is delimited by the second piston surface, and wherein the resilience space is connected to at least one pre-compression chamber in fluidic manner.
摘要:
A displacement generator (10) has a housing (12) defining a chamber (14) containing an incompressible liquid (15). A port (22) of the housing (12) is closed by a movable member (24). Within the chamber (14), opposing, convex, flexible walls (16.1, 16.2) form an internal modulating chamber (18), which optionally contains a compressible gas. Opposed ends of the walls (16.1, 16.2) can be displaced toward and away from each other by a motion transducer, e.g. a stack of ceramic piezoelectric members (20), respectively to pressurize and depressurize the chamber (14) and thus to displace the member (24) to and fro to form an output of the displacement generator.
摘要:
This invention uses a body force to trap the liquid component of a fluid in local potential minimums in a continuous cavity in an expander. Shaping of the cavity traps the vapor components of the fluid between these "liquid pistons". In the external combustion embodiment, the cavities have a continuously increasing cross section. Therefore, the surface pressure of the fluid generates an unbalanced force on the containing expander. The cavities are shaped such that components of the unbalanced forces combine to generate a torque, which rotates the expanders. In the preferred embodiment, some of this rotational force is fed back by gearing to revolve the expanders around a rotor axis. This revolving generates a centrifugal body force on the fluid in the expander cavities. In the internal combustion embodiment, the expander stages are preceded by decreasing cross section stages which compress the fuel air mixture. The mixture is ignited and expands in the following stages. This expansion allows external work to be done.
摘要:
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method for operating a hydraulic free piston engine includes receiving, at an engine controller for a hydraulic free piston engine, an energy parameter that is representative of an amount of fluid energy to be output by the engine, and a measured fluid pressure value of a fluid load of the engine, determining a piston trajectory of a piston within a hydraulic chamber of the engine, determining a fuel volume value and a servo valve actuation parameter, based on the energy parameter and the measured fluid pressure value, providing a fuel control signal to a fuel control device of the engine based on the fuel volume value, and providing, based on the servo valve actuation parameter and the piston trajectory, a servo valve control signal to a servo valve.
摘要:
A two piston hydraulic fluid separated internal combustion cylinder system utilizing a cylinder having fuel inlet ports, ignition means, a viewing window, a filling plug; a first piston, hydraulic fluid cushion and a smaller piston which may be connected to a crankshaft.
摘要:
A device is provided for use in examining the piston rings of free-floating piston engines wherein power from the pistons is transmitted to the engine''s power output shaft through a hydrostatic motion converter system. The device includes piston detector means associated with each of the pistons in the engine for respectively producing a continuous output signal corresponding to the momentary or instantaneous position of their associated piston. A shaft detector is located adjacent the engine''s output shaft and is adapted to produce an output signal corresponding to the momentary or instantaneous angular position of the shaft. Independent comparator means are operatively connected between each of the piston detectors and the shaft detector for comparing the signals produced thereby and generating separate synchronization error signals for each of the pistons. Fluid control means is operatively connected to the comparator means for selectively adding liquid to or removing liquid from the hydrostatic converter system in response to the synchronizing signal so that the synchronization error between the pistons and the shaft is reduced. An adjustable signal generator for selectively producing output signals corresponding to predetermined output shaft positions, is selectively connected to the comparator means by a switch so that when the signal generator is connected to the comparators, the latter generate predetermined synchronization error signals to operate the fluid control means and thereby move the pistons to predetermined positions independently of the actual position of the engine''s output shaft.