Abstract: Four elements (9a, 9b, 11a, 11b) are mutually articulated as a parallelogram deformable according to four parallel axes (A1, . . . A4). A crank (31) causes a circular motion of a first co-ordination axis (K1) connected to one (9a) of the elements. Another element (11b) is articulated to the frame along a second co-ordination axis (K2). A variable volume chamber (17) is defined between the cylindrical surfaces (S1, . . . S4) whose axes (C1, . . . C4) intersect the longitudinal axes (Da, Db) of the first elements (9a, 9b). Distribution orifices (19, 21) are selectively open and obturated by the elements as a function of the angular position of the crank (31). A sparking-plug is provided. Each first element (9a, 9b) carries two cylindrical convex surfaces (S1, S2; S3, S4) the rigidely interconnected. Each cylindrical surface is in dynamic sealing relationship with a cylindrical surface belonging to the other element and whose axis (C1, . . .

Abstract: A rotary machine includes a housing with spaced apart end walls for defining a chamber. A two-lobe lenticular rotor assembly is disposed in the chamber for eccentric rotation therein. A hole passes through a central portion of the rotor assembly. Four slots are cut in one end of the rotor assembly in a symmetric arrangement about the center of the rotor assembly. Each slot has two edges defining an open end continuous with the hole so that each slot extends radially outward from the hole. A rotor guide assembly includes two generally cylindrical guide posts of radius R. Each guide post extends in parallel fashion toward the slots in the rotor assembly so that the guide posts can engage the slots during eccentric rotation of the rotor assembly. A shaft extends through the hole with its center longitudinal axis offset from the center of the rotor assembly by an offset distance OD.

Abstract: An oil pump for a closed type compressor of the present invention is mounted in the inside bottom of a closed housing. In the oil pump, a rotor is driven to revolve by an eccentric shaft formed at the lower end of a rotary shaft for driving a compressing mechanism while the rotor is formed with a projection which is inserted into a slot of a cylinder chamber in order to inhibit the rotation of the rotor. In this arrangement, the root of the projection is cut away so that the projection is prevented from interfering with angled portions of an opening of the slot.

Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine, including all types of vehicles and equipments or apparatus provided with such rotary engines, or machines which principally consist of a two, three or four, either radially curved or flat, apex rotor and a radially arcaded or curved epicyclic or two or three lobed epitrochoid housing cavity, in which construction such rotary engine, the rotor (21 of FIG. 1), has its rotations integrated with the rotations of the main crankshaft (24 of FIG. 1), through the intermeshing gears train (37, 38, 37, 48, 51, 52 of FIG. 1) or through the planetary gears system or epicyclic gears train (324, 348, 459, 360, 361, 362 of FIGS. 5 and 6 and 362/I, 362/II of FIGS. 9 and 10) by which rotor will be rotated or rotates in accordance to its specific basic speed ratio (such as 1:2 for bi-apex rotor, 1:3 for tri-apex rotor, etc.

Abstract: An engine with a single correct direction of rotation and one or more pairs of two-sided rotary pistons (22A and 22B, 38A and 38B, 46A and 46B) with the two pistons of one pair having continuous, overlapping torque production for self-starting operation. Each pair of multiple pairs of pistons and their housings (24A and 24B, 40A and 40B, 48A and 48B) have identical cross sections and graduated thicknesses relative to the other pairs to sustain multiple expansion. Two sets of inlet valves for fuel, oxidizer and liquid (58A, 60A, 62A and 58B, 60B, 62B) feed two aphodid type combustion chambers (54A and 54B) at the inlet ports (26A and 26B) in the smallest volume pair of housings (24A and 24B).

Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine, including all types of vehicles and equipments or apparatus provided with such rotary engines, or machines which principally consist of a two, three or four, either radially curved or flat, apex rotor and a radially arcaded or curved epicyclic or two or three lobed epitroichoid housing cavity, in which construction such rotary engine, the rotor (21 of FIG. 1), has its rotations integrated with the rotations of the main crankshaft (24 of FIG. 1), through the intermeshing gears train (37, 38, 37, 48, 51, 52 of FIG. 1) or through the planetary gears system or epicyclic gears train (324, 348, 359, 360, 361, 362 of FIGS. 5 and 6 and 362/I, 362/II of FIGS. 9 and 10) by which rotor will be rotated or rotates in accordance to its specific basic speed ratio (such as 1:2 for bi-apex rotor, 1:3 for tri-apex rotor, etc.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating and/or measuring fluid flow and/or generating power from fluid flow comprises two combinations of a cylindrical cavity and a divider member rotatably disposed in the cylindrical cavity about an axis of rotation parallel and eccentric to the geometrical central axis of the cylindrical cavity, which divider member extends across the cylindrical cavity on a plane including the axis of rotation in all instances of rotating movement thereof, and a rotary motion coupling means coupling rotating motions of the two divider members in such a way that a phase angle difference of ninety degrees in the rotating motion between the two divider members is maintained, wherein fluid moving through the two cylindrical cavities and crossing each plane including the geometrical central axis and the axis of rotation in each of the two cylindrical cavities relates to rotating motion of the two divider members.

Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine which principally consists of a two, three or four, either radially curved or flat, apex rotor and a radially arcaded or curved epicyclic or two or three lobed epitrochoid housing cavity, in which construction such rotary engine, the rotor has its rotations integrated with the rotations of the main crankshaft through the intermeshing gears by which the rotor will be rotated in accordance to its specific basic speed ratio so thereafter the rotor rotates with an effective clearance during all relative rotations and therefore is able to maintain such permanent distance between the housing and the rotor.

Abstract: An eccentric part of a crank shaft rotated in a cylinder is made a large diameter and a thin-walled rolling piston is fitted to the outer circumference of the eccentric part so that an injection opening for supplying a refrigerant into the cylinder is covered in a certain section by only a side surface of the eccentric part or both the side surfaces of the rolling piston and the eccentric part.

Abstract: An eccentric part of a crank shaft rotated in a cylinder is made large in diameter and a thin-walled rolling piston is fitted to the outer circumference of the eccentric part so that an injection opening for supplying a refrigerant into the cylinder, the opening being formed in a bearing plate, is covered by only a side surface of the rolling piston or both the side surfaces of the rolling piston and the eccentric part.

Abstract: A rotary piston pump for the displacement of blood has a single-lobe trochoidal surface along the peripheral wall of a housing and an eccentrically displaced rotary piston having a pair of opposite edges confronting this surface. The edges confronting the surface are rounded of circular arc curvature with a radius less than the equidistant between the theoretical epitrochoid of the orbits of these edges and the surface. A gap seal is thus provided which prevents damage to blood vessels when the pump is used for the circulation of blood, e.g. in an artificial heart.

Abstract: An unsymmetrical cylinder-piston of a rotary compressor having a body with a bearing for receipt of a rotatable cylinder-piston shaft therein; two spaced walls extending from the body and having opposing parallel surfaces; a wall interconnecting the two spaced walls at their end remote from the body to form an opening in the cylinder-piston for receipt of a rectangular piston in slidable relation therein, the spaced walls being bolted to the body and connecting wall and the body being balanced making the center of gravity of the unsymmetrical cylinder piston on or close to the axis of the bearing located therein.

Abstract: A multi-fuel rotary power plant using novel internal cooling and energy saving thermodynamic cycles, gas pistons, the unique rotary centers of the ellipse in a novel compressor and a slurry type fuel made out of colloidal carbon, hydrocarbon and other solvents. These rotary power plants are designed for universal application such as engines for large industrial compressors, cars, electrical power plants, marine and jet propulsion engines. These multi-purpose engines do not require design changes other than sizing for each application and an exhaust pipe change for the case of jet propulsion applications.

Abstract: A rotary motor comprising a housing having an internal chamber formed therein. Energy input means power orbital movement of a rotor about the internal chamber and simultaneously power rotational movement of the rotor about a first rotational axis. An orbital coupling assembly causes the movement of the rotor to drivingly power rotation of an output shaft. The rotor has three lobes which define the vertices of an equilateral triangle having a circumscribed circle of radius R. The equations for the internal chamber, with the output shaft defining the z-axis, are:x=(A+B) cos .alpha.+R cos (.alpha./3)y=(A-B) sin .alpha.+R sin (.alpha./3)where A, B and R are arbitrary constants and where .alpha. is an angle ranging between 0 and 6.pi. radians.

Abstract: A rotary air compressor includes a rotor which rotates within a housing and controls communication through inlet and outlet ports provided on the housing and compresses air communicated through the inlet port for delivery to the outlet port. The inlet and outlet ports are provided with check valves controlling communication therethrough. After the rotor rotates through a dead-center position, the check valves in both the inlet and outlet ports are closed. The rotor then rotates into a position in which the apex seals carried by the rotor wipe across the inlet and outlet ports simultaneously, thereby opening a communication path bypassing the apex seals so that the pressure levels in the chambers across the rotor are equalized. As the rotor continues to rotate, air is compressed and communicated to the outlet port.

Abstract: A rotary machine particularly intended for use as a pump comprises a two-lobe lenticular rotor rotatably disposed within a pump chamber defined by an annular wall with an inner surface having at least in part a cardioidal configuration. A rectangular drive plate on a shaft is disposed within an elongated drive slot in the rotor while a circular guide disc fixed on an end wall of the pump casing extends into a second elongated guide slot in the rotor. The second guide slot is perpendicular to the first slot so that, during operation, the rotor effectively reciprocates and rotates relative to the guide disc. If desired, two such circular guide discs can be provided, one on each end wall of the pump casing, for reciprocation and rotation relative to two such second guide slots in opposite faces of the rotor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an artificial heart which comprises a rotary piston shaped like a trilobar or bilobar hypotrochoid or epitrochoid and a body which defines a cavity which is the rotor casing when the latter is driven both in circular translation of radius e equal to the eccentricity of the trochoid and in rotation about its center with an angular velocity of which the number of revolutions per minute is the same as the pulse of the patient.

Abstract: An improved work machine of the eccentric piston type which may be employed to translate force of pressurized fluid into rotary shaft motion in an external combustion type engine system, as a pump for pumping fluids in a fluid handling system, and as a fluid actuated motor. The work machine comprises a housing having an internal compartment with a peripheral lobe. An inner body is mounted for non-rotational orbital movement in the housing. The inner body housing, and a movable wall member located in a peripheral recess of the inner body form variable-volume fluid intake and discharge chambers in the housing compartment during orbital movement of the inner body. Pressurized fluid supplied to the fluid intake chamber of the housing imparts non-rotational orbital movement of the inner body in the housing and corresponding rotational motion to an output shaft on which the inner body is eccentrically mounted.

Abstract: A rotary compressor includes a casing 1 having a curved rotor chamber 2 in which is mounted a rotor 6. The compressor has an outlet valve 10 consisting of two valve units 10a, 10b which are located on inclined support surfaces 12 and outlet passages 11 from the chamber 2 open into the surfaces 12. Each valve unit 10a, 10b consists of a valve seat 15, a valve plate 13 and a limit plate 14, the valve seat 15 having apertures which register with passages 11 and the valve plate 13 having apertures which are staggered from the apertures in the valve seat 15. The support surfaces 12 are positioned close to the chamber 2 so that the length of the passages is small and the "dead volume" between the chamber 2 and the valve plate 13 is reduced.

Abstract: A rotary piston compressor of trochoidal type construction with a 1:2 step-up transmission gearing and operating in slip contact. The compressor has a side inlet with an inlet port control edge located in leading direction of piston rotation. A piston edge portion moves ahead and coincides with the inlet port control edge before the piston is located in its dead center position. A peripheral outlet port is provided having a control edge. A follower piston lobe at the same time traverses the peripheral outlet port to uncover it. The control edge of the inlet port which trails in the direction of rotation coincides with a trailing piston edge portion when the follower piston lobe is behind the outlet port in the direction of rotation.

Abstract: A power-converting device has a generally-elliptical rotor which is mounted within a generally-cylindrical chamber. That rotor reciprocates as it rotates within that chamber; and interacting surfaces which are wholly separate from, displaced bodily away from, and in addition to the shaft of that power-converting device halt continued movement of that rotor whenever it reaches an end of its path of reciprocation, and then smoothly start that rotor moving back toward the opposite end of that path of reciprocation.

Abstract: A rotary compressor having a housing with an epitrochoidal inner boundary and a rotor mounted on an eccentric shaft having an inlet port and exhaust port positioned in the working chambers at a neutral pressure zone where the ullage volume expands to a pressure equal to the pressure at the inlet port. The lubricant for the rotor apex seals is supplied under pressure through a restrictor to a lubricating slot positioned transversely in the epitrochoidal inner boundary of the housing adjacent to the inlet aperture at the neutral pressure zone.

Abstract: A rotary piston compressor utilizing a cylindrical housing which encloses a rotary piston pump mechanism comprising an oval rotary piston which is disposed at an intermediate position between the shaft on one side of an Oldham's coupling mechanism and another offset shaft. An intake, compression and discharge action of fluid occur due to variation of volume between the rotary piston and the inner circumference of the cylinder due to eccentric rotation of the rotary piston.

Abstract: A rotary piston compressor with inlet and outlet passages the confinements of which for the inlet and outlet of the medium to be conveyed to the working chambers have controlling functions in cooperation with sealing elements. When the piston is within the region from the dead point of the piston to a point as far as to a location of the piston being turned further by a few degrees measured relative to turning of the eccentric shaft the leading seal element in the direction of piston rotation is located immediately preceeding the start of the inlet passage which communicates with a space of relatively low pressure.

Abstract: A positive-displacement, steam-driven engine has a generally-elliptical rotor which is mounted within a cylindrical chamber. That rotor reciprocates as it rotates within that chamber; and interacting surfaces halt continued movement of that rotor whenever it reaches an end of its path of reciprocation, and then smoothly start that rotor moving back toward the opposite end of that path of reciprocation.

Abstract: A pressure compensated, variable volume, rotary piston device has a housing with an elongated cavity and inlet and exhaust ports; a reaction ring movable within the cavity and defining a cylindrical bore; a lenticular rotary piston rotatable and reciprocable radially within the bore and dividing it into first and second variable volume chambers; a shaft rotatably journalled in the housing and carrying a crankarm which constitutes the sole force transmitting means between shaft and piston and is operatively coupled to the piston so that shaft and piston rotate in a one-to-one ratio while the piston rocks relative to the crankarm and, without the use of phasing gears, the apices of the rotary piston remain in continuous contact with the bore in all positions of the rotary piston and in all positions of the reaction ring within the cavity and so cam the piston that it reciprocates within the bore as it rotates and varies the volume of the first and second chambers inversely from minimum to maximum and back to mi

Abstract: A two stroke mechanism is described which has rotary moveable piston and cylinder-piston elements. The piston and cylinder-piston elements both rotate within a stationary body forming two variable volume chambers. The first variable volume chamber formed between the piston and cylinder-piston elements may serve as a combustion or compression chamber. The second variable volume chamber formed around the piston and cylinder-piston elements and within the stationary body may serve as a precompression chamber. Methods for balancing, sealing, intake, discharge and cooling such mechanisms are disclosed. The mechanisms are especially useful as internal combustion primer movers, external combustion prime movers, pumps and compressors.

Abstract: A rotary piston expansible chamber device without phasing gears has a crankshaft whose axis is offset from the center of the closed curve defining the working chamber cross section and a rotary piston operatively connected to the crankshaft through a crankarm so that crankshaft and piston rotate together in a one-to-one ratio and the rotary piston is displaced as it revolves to maintain arcuately spaced apices thereon in continuous sliding and sealing engagement with the working chamber walls and vary first and second expansible chambers formed on opposite sides of the rotary piston from minimum to maximum and back to minimum during each revolution of the crankshaft.

Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine which principally consists of a two, three or four, either radially curved or flat, apex rotor and a radially arcaded or curved epicyclic or two or three lobed epitrochoid housing cavity, in which construction such rotary engine, the rotor has its rotations integrated with the rotations of the main crankshaft through the intermeshing gears by which the rotor will be rotated in accordance to its specific basic speed ratio so thereafter the rotor rotates with an effective clearance during all relative rotations and therefore is able to maintain such permanent distance between the housing and the rotor.