Abstract: An exhaust passage for connecting to an exhaust port of a cylinder is provided. The exhaust passage includes a first path extending in a direction generally orthogonal to the central axis of the exhaust port. A second path connects the first path and the exhaust poil and a control valve is provided in the first path. The rotational axis of the exhaust control valve is generally parallel to the direction in which the first path extends. The surface area of an opening connecting the first path and the second path is variable as the exhaust control valve rotates, so as to carry out controlled combustion and exhaust timing. This makes it unnecessary to provide a hollow section for housing an exhaust control valve and bearing at a position close to the exhaust. It is also possible to reduce the size of a cylinder block and to realize smooth flow of exhaust gases by making the inner peripheral surface of the exhaust passage smooth.

Abstract: In an inlet system for a two-cycle internal combustion engine which includes a cylinder with a piston reciprocating therein between a top dead center position and a bottom dead center position and in which at least two rows of scavenging air flow passages are arranged in separate flow planes around the cylinder adjacent the bottom dead center position of the piston which are closed by the piston when it is remote from the bottom dead center position, each of the separate flow planes includes independent air flow control components for independently controlling the admission of scavenging air to the scavenging air passages in the different flow planes.

Abstract: The present invention is an internal combustion engine having a rotary sleeve valve mechanism with a sleeve valve which has an opening formed in the outer peripheral surface for suction of fuel and discharge of exhaust gas. The present invention achieves an improvement in the admission and exhaust efficiency and simplification of the valve mechanism by employing a rotating sleeve valve. The rotary sleeve-valve internal combustion engine has a cylindrical rotary cylinder valve (3) which is rotatably supported in an engine block (1). An opening (5) which is provided in the outer peripheral wall surface of the rotary cylinder valve (3) provides communication with an inlet port (10) during admission and with an exhaust port (15) during exhaust. A seal ring (40) is provided around the periphery of the opening (5) to effect gas seal for the area between the engine block (1) and the inner peripheral wall surface (7).

Abstract: A two-cycle internal combustion engine includes two opposed pistons reciprocatable within a cylinder, between which an air-fuel mixture is injected and ignited. One of the pistons, a compression piston, is connected to a rotatable flywheel for storing energy from reciprocation of the compression piston during the adiabatic expansion stroke. The other piston, a power piston, is attached to a pump piston which operates in a hydraulic pump to displace a hydrostatic fluid at a constant reaction pressure but at a variable stroke. Work is removed from this engine through the hydrostatic fluid, which can be fed to a hydrostatic drive unit. The flywheel is not connected to the primary load, but is used principally to drive the compression piston upward during the compression stroke of the engine. During the compression stroke, the air-fuel mixture is compressed and ignited to a pressure determined by the hydraulic reaction pressure in the hydraulic pump.

Abstract: A reciprocatory machine having a cylinder defining with at least one piston a working chamber. Each piston is reciprocable in the cylinder by a respective crankshaft. The machine has intake and exhaust ports disposed at opposite ends of the working part of the cylinder and has respective valves additional to the pistons for opening and closing the ports. The valves are driven by the crankshaft(s) and have provision for adjusting the timing relationship between the displacement of the crankshaft(s) and the valves and thereby the timing relationship between the respective valves. The location of the ports at opposite ends of the working part of the cylinder permits considerably greater adjustment of the timing than is possible with conventional closely spaced porting arrangements. The machine preferably operates as a two-stroke internal combustion engine but may also operate as a pump or compressor.

Abstract: Two stroke cycle internal combustion engine comprising; a ported cylinder, a cylinder head with an opening, a piston with an opening, a ported sleeve which is axially displaced inside the cylinder, extending through the cylinder head opening and the piston opening to form an annular combustion chamber. The position of the port in the sleeve is adjustable, longitudinally and latitudinally to control port timing, duration and the direction of the gasses flow inside the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A lengthwise scavenging system for a two stroke internal combustion engine comprising a ported cylinder, a piston, a wave formed sleeve which is attached to the piston, and a reentrant cylinder head which provide annular recess for the sleeve. The inlet ports and the exhaust ports are displaced longitudinally and latitudinally at different levels relative to the cylinder. The uppor ports are controlled by the top portion of the sleeve, and the lower by the bottom to perform lengthwise scavenging.

Abstract: A two-stroke engine comprises a cylinder which accommodates a piston and which has inlet and outlet ports, means for injecting fuel into the cylinder and control means for controlling the amount of fuel injected. The engine also includes a vent passage communicating with the interior of the cylinder and a first valve which is arranged to prevent communication between the interior of the cylinder and the vent passage and is connected to be opened and closed in synchronism with movement of the piston. Situated in the vent passage downstream of the first valve is a second throttling valve which is coupled to the control means and is arranged to be opened to an increasing extent to permit an increasing proportion of the inlet charge to be discharged as the control means is operated to reduce the amount of fuel which is injected into the cylinder thereby achieving homogeneous combustion at a constant air fuel ratio.

Abstract: A two-cycle internal combustion engine with electronically controlled fuel injection and electronically controlled exhaust flow, the exhaust flow being regulated by a displaceable slide valve which covers or exposes a plurality of exhaust ports around the top of the combustion chamber for optimizing exhaust flow in accordance with the actual operating conditions of the engine.

Abstract: The invention engine comprises a compressor with a rotary piston in a cylinder bore in a stator and a U-shaped box-like combustion-expansion compartment, conveniently called a U-box, immediately above and riding on the rotary piston, the U-box and the compressor unit contained between the same parallel end walls. The rotary piston is eccentrically mounted on a shaft which is concentric with the cylinder bore and is supported in bearings in the end walls. A wiper blade is fitted in a groove across the piston head to yieldably sweep the cylinder bore to generate a suction stroke behind it, drawing in air via a one-way inlet port in the perimeter of the cylinder, and a compression stroke ahead of it to compress the air drawn in during the preceding suction stroke. The U-box is in the shape of a rectangular plate bent upward at two places to form two parallel vertical sides of equal height and a base plate between them.

Abstract: A torch ignition apparatus and method, the apparatus including a secondary, torch ignition piston interconnected to the primary piston and operable to produce through compression ignition of a carbureted fuel/air mixture a jet of hot gases capable of igniting a fuel and air mixture compressed in a primary combustion chamber by the primary piston. The apparatus also includes a secondary fuel system for supplementing a low ratio fuel/air mixture in the combustion chamber and a novel hoop valve and exhaust port system for providing a unique, highly efficient flow-through system for exchanging gases in the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A two-stoke cycle combustion-engine with crank-chamber compression is described, free of charging transfer passages external to the cylinder, with pumping-displacement exceeding working-displacement for responsive intake and thorough scavenging of spent-gas residue, and featuring an annular water-cooled cell, suspended from the cylinder-head by several water-conduits, and cooperating with an annular recess in the piston-head so as to form, and transversely separate, a plain working-chamber and an annular working-chamber, longitudinally scavengeable in series, bottom-to-top and top-to-bottom, respectively, with minimal loss of charge to exhaust-port, such a system of scavenging also reducing piston cooling-problems and misfiring associated with charge-dilution (in gasoline-engines operating under partial-charge conditions). In addition, a more general scavenging principle is enunciated and claimed, applicable to rear-compression and separately-scavenged two-stroke engines.

Abstract: Disclosed are intake and exhaust assemblies for forced air intake, reciprocating piston, internal combustion engine. Alternate embodiments of the air intake valve assembly include a hollow tube defining the intake port with means operatively coupling the tube and piston to respectively open and close the intake port in response to the reciprocation of the piston. The exhaust valve assembly includes operatively interrelated valve stem, spring retainer, rocker arm, and camming assemblies for alternatingly opening and closing the exhaust port for predetermined time intervals.

Abstract: A lubrication and sealing system for the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine having a sleeve valve mounted for rotation therein, said sleeve valve having intake slots therethrough which register periodically, as the valve rotates, with air intake ports in the cylinder to permit air to enter the cylinder. The sleeve valve is provided with one or more helically shaped sealing rings carried in the wall of the valve facing the wall of the cylinder, which said rings, as the valve rotates, sweep the wall of the cylinder to circulate lubricant oil within the clearance space between the valve and the cylinder to thereby lubricate and seal the clearance space. The circulation of lubricant also has a beneficial cooling effect.