Abstract: An internal combustion engine having a generally rotary design is described. The engine includes a rotor that alternately rotates about first, second, and third axes of rotation as the rotor circulates within the engine. Each axis of rotation is about perpendicular to the other two axes of rotation. The rotor includes two flanges that alternately compress fluid in combustion chambers as the flanges rotatably enter and sweep through compression lobes. Detonation of compressed, combustible fluid occurs in the combustion chambers, force from the detonation driving the rotor about the axes of rotation. The rotor exerts maximum leverage on a power shaft at the point of detonation, and continues to exert similar leverage on the power shaft as the rotor rotates. The engine typically includes one or more power modules, each of the one or more power modules having three compression lobes and three combustion chambers.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine having a generally rotary design is described. The engine includes a rotor that alternately rotates about first, second, and third axes of rotation as the rotor circulates within the engine. Each axis of rotation is about perpendicular to the other two axes of rotation. The rotor includes two flanges that alternately compress fluid in combustion chambers as the flanges rotatably enter and sweep through compression lobes. Detonation of compressed, combustible fluid occurs in the combustion chambers, force from the detonation driving the rotor about the axes of rotation. The rotor exerts maximum leverage on a power shaft at the point of detonation, and continues to exert similar leverage on the power shaft as the rotor rotates. The engine typically includes one or more power modules, each of the one or more power modules having three compression lobes and three combustion chambers.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine having a pair of stationary housings of generally triangular configuration with sidewalls of each housing converging into one end of the opposite ends of a common output shaft, a compression chamber being disposed in each sidewall of a housing at the intersection of adjacent sidewalls; and a plurality of elongated connecting rods are mounted in each housing for rotation about a common axis of rotation, the rods disposed at pretermined angles to one another and each rod having a vane at an outer free end, the movement of one of the connecting rods parallel to one of the sidewalls in each housing causing rotation of the vane on another of the connecting rods into one of the compression chambers whereupon ignition of a fuel/air mixture in that chamber will impart movement of the other rod toward the next chamber in succession as it rotates the vane on the one rod through another chamber, and the successive, alternate firing of compression chambers in each housing causing rotation of