Abstract: An internal combustion engine, including a piston, a cylinder, and an output shaft, wherein the piston is arranged for reciprocating motion within the cylinder, driven by combustion, and the piston is coupled to the output shaft by a coupling such that said reciprocating motion of the piston drives rotation of the output shaft, wherein the coupling includes a connecting rod coupled to the piston, a slider bearing located for reciprocating movement relative to the connecting rod, the coupling further including a crankshaft rotatably mounted within a slider bearing, the engine having a camshaft and a balance shaft wherein the balance shaft is housed in a hollow of the camshaft such that the camshaft and the balance shaft rotate about a common axis.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 29, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 30, 2024
Assignee:
ASF Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd
Inventors:
Graham Harry Fountain, Emmanuel Kavarnos, Dimitrios Psonis, Richard Terrence Tamba