Abstract: A rotary piston internal combustion engine has a rotor journalled on an eccentric portion of an engine shaft. A sealing arrangement comprises a first radially extending annular face connected to the engine shaft, a disc connected to the rotor and having a second radially extending annular face, and a sealing ring disposed between the first and second faces. A spring biases the sealing ring to maintain sealing contact of the sealing ring with one of the first and second faces. An O-ring is disposed between the sealing ring and that one of the rotor and engine shaft which is in rotatable unison with the other one of the first and second faces.

Abstract: A suction system of an internal combustion engine, comprising a reed valve in the suction pipe in the vicinity of the suction port for opening and closing the passage of the suction pipe thereby preventing the backward flow of gases, said reed valve having a valve seat member with a valve opening thereon, a support pin pivotally and eccentrically supporting the valve seat member, and a reed fixed on the valve seat member so as to open and close the valve opening of the valve seat member, and means for opening the passage of the suction pipe by rotating the valve seat member only when the engine speed is high.