Abstract: The invention provides an engine for obtaining kinetic rotational energy from the explosive decomposition of individual cartridges of an energetic material. The cartridges are individually ignited as needed, producing a bolus of hot, expanding gas, the energy of which is captured by a piston moving in a circular track. Each cartridge ignition produces a single circuit of the piston around the track. A gearing mechanism transfers the angular momentum of the piston to a flywheel. The engine may be coupled to an electrical generator to form a portable, on-demand electric generator system.

Abstract: The invention relates to an engine (1) including: —a chamber (3) designed to accommodate a working fluid, —a first piston (4) defining the volume of said chamber (3), —a first passage (5) located in said first piston (4) to supply the chamber (3) with working fluid and/or to discharge from the chamber (3) the burned fluid resulting from the combustion of the working fluid, —a first valve (6) mounted on the first piston (4) to monitor the opening and closing of said first passage (5), —an output shaft (8) that engages with the first piston (4) to convert the motion of the first piston (4) into rotational motion of the output shaft (8), characterized in that the output shaft (8) and the first valve (6) engage to convert the motion of output shaft (8) into motion of the first valve (6).

Abstract: An engine including a block that has first and second intersecting pathways, and first and second rotors positioned within the first and second pathways, respectively. The first and second rotors are moveable within the first and second pathways, respectively, between first and second combustion positions. A first combustion chamber is formed within the first pathway between the first and second rotors when they are in the first combustion position, and a second combustion chamber is formed within the second pathway between the first and second rotors when they are in the second combustion position. The pathways and rotors are preferably torus shaped, and the rotors preferably have concave leading and trailing ends. The engine block preferably has a single intake for both of the first and second combustion chambers. Recesses are preferably formed in the block to receive seals that engage the rotors.

Abstract: A rotary engine includes a compressor assembly and two power assemblies that receive compressed air from the compressor assembly. Each assembly includes at least two intermeshing rotors. The rotors of the compressor assembly compress air, either alone or in an air/fuel mixture, in a compression chamber located in that assembly. The compressed air is transferred to the expansion chambers of the power assemblies, where fuel is ignited to initiate a power stroke. A line bisecting the axes of the rotors of the compressor assembly is inclined at an acute angle relative to a line bisecting the axes of the rotors of the power assemblies. The power assemblies operate 180° out of phase with respect to one another to minimize power fluctuations in the engine.

Abstract: A combustible fluid-operated orbital engine having sets of cooperating cylinder and piston members with respective parallel axes of rotation. Respective cylinder and piston carrier wheels with respective axes of rotation parallel to the piston/cylinder axes of rotation carrying the pistons/cylinders circularly and orbitally and at all times in opposed relation on a common longitudinal axis along intersecting counter paths. Respective gearing structures or belts/sprockets supported by the cylinder and piston carrier wheels rotate the pistons/cylinders counter to their circular motion direction to maintain their opposed relation for their periodic interfittment when their respective paths intersect. A combustible fluid supply is provided to the cylinder member for combustion coincident with the periodic interfittment in engine operating relation. The pistons/cylinders may include ceramic material. The compression sealing system is located in the entry of each cylinder rather than being connected to the piston.

Abstract: A rotary piston engine with a frame, a cylinder liner mounted rotatably therein, a rotor mounted coaxially in the cylinder liner and a gear mechanism connecting the frame, the liner and the rotor, where the gear mechanism is outside a working space arranged between liner and rotor and where the gear mechanism couples the cylinder liner and the rotor for a relative movement periodically oscillating between positive and negative rotational speed. The gear mechanism and the liner form with the rotor a transmission with five rotational joints with a degree of freedom of one and one rotational/prismatic joint, where the gear mechanism has a rotational element mounted rotatably by a first rotational joint on the frame and a connecting rod connected rotatably by a second rotational joint to the rotational element and rotatably by a third rotational joint to the cylinder liner and by the rotational/prismatic joint to the rotor.

Abstract: A Brayton cycle internal combustion engine of the open, or constant pressure type, in which rotary power is produced by the pressure of hot gasses against confined, rotor protrusions.

Abstract: A bi-directional converter between pressure and rotational force includes engaging rotation members that continue to rotate while being adjacent to each other without collision; the rotation members and an outer wall form an enclosed space; rotation shafts of the rotation members are mutually engaged by gear wheels; the rotation members are synchronized and rotate in opposite directions; the rotation members are rotated by a volume change of the enclosed space by application of pressure from outside; and the volume of the enclosed space is changed by rotational force to generate a pressure difference. The bi-directional converter includes an open-close mechanism opening and closing supply exhaust paths inside the rotation member and disposed to the rotation shaft or the outer wall according to a rotation angle.

Abstract: The problems of prior compressor structures relying upon conventional check valves are obviated by using, instead, flow control passages which operate to control flow while avoiding mechanical moving elements which may become problematical.

Abstract: A method for increasing the power output in an engine, pump, or similar device, which includes a cylinder, inside which is a lever piston pivoted to make a reciprocating motion and a rotating piston mounted eccentrically in a bearing to make a rotating motion, as well as an inlet opening opening into the work chamber of the cylinder and an exhaust opening leading out of the exhaust chamber of the cylinder. At least the rotating piston is hollow or manufactured from a material lighter than the pressurized medium used in the device. The lever piston too can be hollow or manufactured from a material lighter than the medium used.

Abstract: The object of the invention of developing a rotary piston machine, which is to be embodied as a prime mover or as a work machine consisting of two piston mounts rotatably mounted on an axle and being capable of performing a relative movement, wherein they are connected to a straight-line thrust crank mechanism, which serves to generate a relative movement, which causes a conversion of a uniform movement into an non-uniform straight-line movement of the piston mount, was solved in that a center axle of each piston liner stands at right angles on a diameter of a piston mount and in that each piston mount comprising elliptical gearwheels, which are turned relative to one another by 90° and the gearwheels, as mating gears being turned relative thereto by 90°, are fixedly connected to an output, wherein they are rotatably mounted on the axle in the point of intersection of the smallest and of the greatest diameter, on the one hand, and are connected to the output shaft on the other hand, and the working pistons in

Abstract: A rotary positive displacement control system and apparatus includes a transmission assembly, at least a compression assembly and buffer assembly, and an expansion assembly, the buffer assembly disposed between the compression and expansion assembly. The compression assembly includes multiple compression rotors with lobes intermeshing with each other, and the expansion assembly including expansion rotors with lobes intermeshing with each other. An intake and exhaust port respectively located at the compression assembly and expansion assembly. The buffer assembly has a buffer chamber being able to efficiently lead compressed gases to the expansion assembly; meanwhile, residual gases can be discharged from a first and second exhaust slots both disposed on the expansion assembly.

Abstract: A positive displacement rotary device and method of use are provided. The rotary device includes coupled chamber halves with a drive disc having at least one drive plate rotatably engaged with the drive disc. The drive disc is mounted on a drive shaft and positioned between the coupled chamber halves. The drive plates include at least two drive lobes with the drive plates rotating about an axis of rotation 90° and tangent to the drive shaft axis of rotation while the drive disc sweeps the drive plates around the drive shaft. The chamber halves include camming chambers that are shaped to follow the path of the drive lobes on the drive plates as they are swept around the drive shaft. The rotary device can be used as a motor, a pump, or even an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An engine is disclosed including at least one piston which is positioned within a toroidal piston chamber. A method of operating an engine is disclosed wherein a piston is advanced in a toroidal piston chamber past a first valve and the first valve is closed to form a first ignition chamber area located within the piston chamber between the first valve and the rear side of the piston. A second valve is closed ahead of the piston to form a first exhaust removal chamber area located within the piston chamber between the second valve and the front side of the piston, the exhaust removal chamber including exhaust gases from a preceding ignition which occurred in the first ignition chamber area. A fuel mixture is introduced into the first ignition chamber area and ignited thereby advancing the piston further along the toroidal piston chamber.

Abstract: A modular revolving cylinder engine including at least two interdependent flywheels driven in rotation by a driving device (1) that rotates them in synchronization and in opposite directions. Each flywheel includes a plurality of equally spaced hollow pushrods that are reciprocally movable along stroke lines that are parallel and offset with respect to the central axis of rotation thereof and through which combustion gases from associated combustion chambers pass outwardly of the flywheels. End portions of the opposing pushrods engage during each rotation of the opposing flywheels during which time the oppositely directed combustion gases passing through the pushrods impinge on the outer end portion of the opposite pushrod to thereby provide thrust to drive the opposing flywheel in rotation in opposite directions.

Abstract: An engine including a housing formed with a pair of side-by-side intersecting substantially cylindrical cavities, and a pair of counter-rotating power rotors rotatably mounted within the cavities. The pair of power rotors include intermeshing lobes that each define open ended combustion chambers.

Abstract: A non-reciprocating engine comprising a hollow cylindrical shaft driver (13) located in a cylindrical stator cavity (14) of a stator. A number of expansion chambers (43) form between the outer wall of the shaft driver, the stator wall and movable dividers (25) which extend from the stator to bear on the shaft driver. The expansion chambers expand and contract during operation of the engine. An output shaft passes centrally through the stator cavity and shaft driver and has offset bearings (34) which bear on the inside surface of the shaft driver. Inlet ports in a removable inlet end plate of the stator allow pressurised air or air/fuel mixture, for example, to be introduced into the expansion chambers. Sequential expansion and contraction of the chambers around the circumference of the shaft driver causes a combination of orbital and rotational movement of the shaft driver and consequential rotation of the output shaft.

Abstract: A modified spiral internal combustion engine is disclosed having a cylindrical housing, an intake end and a combustion end. A central shaft to which at least 2 spirals are attached is interposed through the housing. Fuel mixture enters the housing through an intake port and travels along the spirals toward the combustion end. The rotation of each of the spirals forms a sealed combustion chamber in the combustion end of the housing as they pass over the indentation in the end plate, which has the ignition devise. Ignition of the fuel within the chamber exerts a force on the combustion chamber portion of the spiral causing the central shaft to rotate. The rotation of the central shaft causes the combustion chamber portions of each spiral to individually pass by an exhaust port in the housing after they have ignited, allowing the spent gases to escape.

Abstract: A rotary engine utilizing an expansion chamber and crescent piston to capture the energy of expanding combustion gases throughout substantially all of each revolution of the piston. The rotary engine uses a crescent piston, the movement of which is guided by the combined action of a hub having a saddle supporting the piston and a can track. The invention burns fuel in a separate combustion chamber charged from a coaxially mounted compressor and controlled by a pass gate sentry valve. The rotary engine of the invention is cooled by an internal coolant injection system. The coolant solution may contain an alkaline reagent to react with and neutralize acidic components of the combustion gases which would otherwise remain in the exhaust and contribute to air pollution. The rotary engine of the present invention is adaptable to compression ignition fuels and spark ignition fuels. The invention may be constructed of conventional metallic materials as well as composites and ceramics.

Abstract: A rotary gear device comprises a housing a preferably multiple pairs of rotatable meshing gears in coaxial relation defining spaced teeth which extend helically in the direction of the axis of each gear. First chambers are formed by the meshing gears which move substantially longitudinally while shrinking in size to substantially zero volume as they rotate toward a dead center plane. Second chambers are formed between the spaced teeth rotating away from the dead center plane and increasing in volume. Various improvements are provided to this type of device, which maybe used as an internal combustion engine, a pump or as a chemical reactor.

Abstract: A rotary engine utilizes an expansion chamber and an oscillating rotary piston to capture the energy of expanding combustion gases through out substantially all of each revolution of the piston. The movement of the oscillating rotary piston is guided by the combined action of a hub having a saddle supporting the rotary piston and a cam track. The invention bums fuel in a separate combustion chamber charged from a coaxially mounted compressor and controlled by a pass gate sentry valve. The rotary engine of the invention is cooled by an internal coolant injection system. The injection fluid coolant solution may contain a alkaline reagent to react with and neutralize acidic components of the combustion gases which would otherwise remain in the exhaust and contribute to air pollution. The rotary engine of the present invention is adaptable to compression ignition fuels and spark ignition fuels. The invention may be constructed of conventional metallic materials as well as composites and ceramics.

Abstract: The invention relates to a 4-phase rotary piston combustion engine. The embodiment of the engine consists of the engine body (1) where the main cylinder (2) is located; the piston (4) which revolves in the main cylinder and a cylindrical piston body is a fixed shaft (5). Thus the shaft functions as the driving shaft of the engine. The engine is operated by two valves (6, 9) which either open or close the space existing between the main cylinder surface and the piston body. The rotation of the piston is achieved when the gas mixture compressed into explosion volume is closed in between both the valves (6, 9) in such a way that also the piston stays between the valves. When the piston moves towards the valves in front (9) it pushes the combustion gas from the front side of the piston to its back side through a groove (13) located in the surface of the main cylinder. When the combustion gas has moved to the back side of the piston, the explosion takes place and the valve in front of the piston opens.

Abstract: A rotary engine utilizes an expansion chamber and crescent piston to capture the energy of expanding combustion gases through out substantially all of each revolution of the piston. The rotary engine uses a crescent piston, the movement of which is guided by the combined action of a hub having a saddle supporting the piston and a can track. The invention burns fuel in a separate combustion chamber charged from a coaxially mounted compressor and controlled by a pass gate sentry valve. The rotary engine of the invention is cooled by an internal coolant injection system. The coolant solution may contain a alkaline reagent to react with and neutralize acidic components of the combustion gases which would otherwise remain in the exhaust and contribute to air pollution. The rotary engine of the present invention is adaptable to compression ignition fuels and spark ignition fuels. The invention may be constructed of conventional metallic materials as well as composites and ceramics.

Abstract: A thermal design and method of operation of a rotary internal combustion engine having at least one housing, a rotor rotating within the housing, and a mechanism for combusting mixture of fuel air and steam supplied into the housing to drive the rotor, in which the temperature of the inner walls of the combustion region which are in contact with combusting gases attains 700° C., and in which the temperature of the combusting gases does not exceeds 1800° C. The thermal design includes: lining of the surface of the combustion zone with heat resistive materials such as a refractory metal; the use of material with low heat conductivity such as iron for the construction of the body of the engine in order to minimize heat loses by heat transfer to ambient; and the effective cooling of the body of the engine with boiling heat transfer by water which is circulated in cooling channels passing throughout the engines structure.

Abstract: An engine is constructed with a rotor housing having a rotor chamber formed in a cylindrical shape in the inside thereof and sealed at the opposing ends, such as by a cover at each end. At least one combustion chamber is provided which is coupled through the rotor chamber in one side thereof to provide a combustion space for a fuel mixture. A suction expansion valve is provided for opening and closing a passage directed into the combustion chamber and an intake pipe in the rotor chamber of the rotor housing. A compression exhaust valve is provided for opening and closing a passage directed into the combustion chamber and an exhaust pipe, in the rotor chamber of the rotor housing. A rotor is installed in an axial relationship within the rotor chamber of the rotor housing. The rotor includes at least one movable lug projecting therefrom. The movable lug is preferably formed on an outer circumference face of the rotor and performs suction. compression, expansion and exhaust strokes according to a cycle.

Abstract: A combustion engine comprised of (i) at least one compression stage, (ii) at least one combustion unit, and (iii) at least one expansion stage is described. The compression and expansion stages include tongue and groove cylindrical rotors in sealing relation to one another for fluid volume displacement and transfer of rotational force from expansion of compressed fluid volumes following combustion. Related methods of providing a rotational force to a drive shaft are also described.

Abstract: A rotary engine with one or more toroidal chambers defined by rotors that rotate within cylindrical housings. Pistons project into the chambers from the rotors. The pistons cooperate with valves to define compression regions and expansion regions in the chambers. The rotors, the pistons, the valves, or a combination thereof define or include combustion regions of constant volume wherein a fuel-air mixture compressed in the compression regions burns and then is ejected to the expansion regions. Fuel is injected into both the compression regions and the expansion regions, so that the engine operates according to the Trinkler cycle. In a first embodiment of the engine, the valves are rotary and include recesses that accommodate the pistons as the pistons pass the valves. As a piston transits from a compression region to an expansion region via a valve, the space in the valve recess not occupied by the piston is the combustion region.

Abstract: A rotary engine with one or more toroidal chambers defined by rotors that rotate within cylindrical housings. Pistons project into the chambers from the rotors. The pistons cooperate with valves to define compression regions and expansion regions in the chambers. The rotors, the pistons, the valves, or a combination thereof define or include combustion regions of constant volume wherein a fuel-air mixture compressed in the compression regions burns and then is ejected to the expansion regions. Fuel is injected into both the compression regions and the expansion regions. In a first embodiment of the engine, the valves are rotary and include recesses that accommodate the pistons as the pistons pass the valves. As a piston transits from a compression region to an expansion region via a valve, the space in the valve recess not occupied by the piston is the combustion region.

Abstract: A rotary gear pump comprises a housing and at least a pair of rotatable, meshing gears positioned within the housing. The meshing gears define spaced teeth which extend helically in the general direction of the axis of each gear rotation. A flow inlet and flow outlet are provided, each positioned in the housing to permit flow of fluid substantially longitudinally of the rotation axes between the meshing gears as the gears rotate said teeth through a tooth-meshing area. At least one first vane covers the teeth of each gear at a rotational position upstream of the tooth-meshing area, to shield the covered teeth from an energy-consuming backflow of fluid from said tooth-meshing area as the gears rotate. Also, fixed-volume furnaces are used to receive and distribute compressed, burning gases from closing chambers formed between the teeth to opening chambers across the top dead center position.

Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine including a rotary screw compressor for receiving and compressing a mixture of air and fuel, a rotary positive displacement pump for receiving the compressed air and fuel mixture from the rotary screw compressor and pumping the mixture of compressed air and fuel therethrough, the pump having igniting means for igniting the mixture of compressed air and fuel inside of the pump, and a rotary screw expander for receiving the ignited mixture of compressed air and fuel and for expanding the volume of the ignited mixture of air and fuel therethrough.

Abstract: The rotary piston (6) with rotation axis C performs a relative rotation in an annular cylinder (1) with rotation axis O which is displaced with respect to said piston axis (C) by an eccentricity e. The cylinder (1) comprises three chambers (2) having cylindrical surfaces (3) which engage the piston (6). The piston (6) has two semi-cylindrical surfaces connected by connecting surfaces (8). Each connecting surface (8) has a shape generated by replacing one of the three rollers with a machine tool (5') and displacing the piston with the other two rollers (5). The surface of said piston (6) is continually supported on three rollers (5) of said cylinder (1). The relative position, i.e. the relative movement of said piston (6) and said cylinder (1), is rigidly determined by the support of the piston on rollers (5) and by the eccentricity (e) between the piston and the cylinder axes. The machine can be used as a combustion engine, a volumetric pump, or as a hydraulic motor.

Abstract: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine having separate rotary compression and expansion sections and a combustion chamber (16) having valved inlet and outlet ports (21,22) communicating with the compression and expansion chambers respectively. Each section is a rotary device comprising a first rotor (14b) rotatable about a first axis (11) and having at its periphery a recess (R) bounded by a curved surface; and a second rotor (14a) counter-rotatable to the first rotor (14b) about a second axis (10), parallel to the first axis (11), and having a radial lobe (P) bounded by a curved surface, the rotors intermeshing whereby, on rotation thereof, a transient chamber of progressively increasing (expansion section) or decreasing (compression section) volume is defined between them.

Abstract: A continuous combustion rotary engine (100) is provided for powering such vehicles as aircraft, boats and automobiles with an efficiency which approaches the total expansion of combustion gases. The continuous combustion rotary engine (100) includes a plurality of power stages (110, 130 and 150) for sequential progressive expansion of combustion exhaust gases in order to generate rotative forces on a plurality of main rotors (112, 114, 132, 134, 152, 154). Simultaneously, the driven rotors (112, 114, 132, 134, 152 and 154), acting in pairs, progressively compress air for use in supporting the continuous combustion in the central portion of the expansion section (92) within stage (110). The use of the same rotors to both be driven by the expanding combustion gases and compress the inlet air provides the instrumentality for cooling the rotors, the heat transferred therefrom serving to increase the efficiency of the compression process.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a compressor and an expander of the type having a pair of multilobed, intermeshing rotors rotatably installed in a casing, and a combustion chamber communicating with said compressor and expander through their respective discharge and intake ports. Valve means are disposed at the discharge and intake ports to control fluid flow. The expander is provided with a higher volumetric capacity than that of the compressor to promote a complete expansion of the gases. The compressor delivers successive and separate charges of compressed air-fuel mixture to the combustion chamber. Heat is added at constant volume to said compressed mixture to produce high pressure gases which are thereafter, transferred to the expander to produce mechanical work.

Abstract: A positive displacement rotary mechanism has four identical rotary helical intermeshing lobes that cooperate with a stationary cylindrical member extending centrally thereof to define repetitive working space internal of the lobes having boundaries along and between the lobes and along and between the lobes and the cylindrical member which boundaries move on rotation of the lobes to effect expansion and contraction of the working space while repetitively moving same from one of the ends of the lobes toward their other end.

Abstract: A positive displacement rotary mechanism has three and alternatively four identical rotary helical intermeshing lobes of continuously varying pitch that cooperate with a stationary cylindrical member extending centrally thereof to define a repetitive working space internal of the lobes having boundaries along and between the lobes and along and between the lobes and the cylindrical member which boundaries move on rotation of the lobes to effect expansion and contraction of the working space while repetitively moving same from one of the ends of the lobes toward their other end.

Abstract: The disclosure is of an axial flow rotary internal combustion engine constructed in three sections, a compressor section, a combustion section and an expander section. The compressor section includes male and female rotors with complementary, single turn lobe and groove in which an air-fuel mixture is compressed and discharged from a port at the end of the groove as the port overtakes and traverses an arcuate intake port in the cylindrical combustion block, which is rotating at a slower speed. After the intake port is traversed and sealed off, an ignition port in the combustion chamber exposes a spark plug and the mixture is ignited. Substantially complete combustion takes place while the combustion chamber is sealed off and isolated. Then an entry port into the helical groove of female expander rotor overtakes and traverses an arcuate combustion chamber exhaust port and the combusted gases are discharged and expanded into the expander section.

Abstract: A positive displacement rotary mechanism has three identical rotary helical intermeshing lobes that cooperate with a stationary cylindrical member extending centrally thereof to define a repetitive working space internal of the lobes having boundaries along and between the lobes and along and between the lobes and the cylindrical member which boundaries move on rotation of the lobes to effect expansion and contraction of the working space while repetitively moving same from one of the ends of the lobes toward their other end.

Abstract: A rotary combustion engine has two segregated chambers which communicate with each other via passageways. Combustion occurs in the first chamber and expansion occurs in the second chamber. Each chamber includes two sidewise abutting cylinder lobes with a piston-like rotor and a cylindrical hub being rotatably mounted in each cylinder lobe. Compressed gas is ignited in the first chamber in a constant volume, the ignited gas then flows into the second chamber, where it expands, and thereafter the expanded gas is discharged under constant pressure.

Abstract: A positive displacement rotary mechanism has three and alternatively four identical rotary helical intermeshing lobes that cooperate with a stationary cylindrical member extending centrally thereof to define a repetitive working space internal of the lobes having boundaries along and between the lobes and along and between the lobes and the cylindrical member which boundaries move on rotation of the lobes to effect expansion and contraction of the working space while repetitively moving same from one of the ends of the lobes toward their other end.

Abstract: This machine can serve as a compressor or motor and, more specifically combines a compressor and a motor to constitute an internal combustion engine with compressed air injection. A toothed rotor is rotatable in a fluid displacement chamber and in sealing contact with a sealing rotor having peripheral cavities for receiving the teeth of the toothed rotor. Both rotors are axially curved, so as to better resist differential axial thrust exerted on the same and, therefore, maintaining better sealing contact. The teeth of the toothed rotor are generally of a hemispherical shape to facilitate the provision of effective sealing segments.

Abstract: A twin rotor engine has a combustion chamber in which the fuel and air mixture is periodically exploded, and an inlet valve selectively delivers the expanding gasses to an expansion chamber defined by a housing and by the rotors. An outlet valve serves to vent the combustion chamber and both valves are driven from a cam shaft which may be geared to one of the rotors, or which may be rotated independently of the rotors so that rotor speed need not have a fixed relationship to valve timing. An alternative embodiment has two combustion chambers with a spool valve automatically shifted between two positions so each combustion chamber delivers its charge to the same expansion chamber during each engine cycle.

Abstract: A rotary internal combustion engine having separately housed compression and power rotors, and wherein there is a pair of sealing rotors positioned adjacent to diametrically opposite peripheral edges of each rotor to form two sealed pressure chambers in each housing.

Abstract: Internal combustion engine includes a rotary oxidizing gas compressor, a constant volume combustion chamber with pneumatically controlled intake and exhaust valves and a fuel injector, and a rotary combustion gas expander. Each of the rotary compressor and rotary expander has a pair of tangential rotors dependently rotatable in a housing, one rotor having a vane and the other a notch for allowing passage of the vane, to form a fluid tight segmented annular region through which the vane moves. The respective one of the intake valve and the exhaust valve admits a mass of high pressure compressible fluid to the region through a triangular port for expansion or from the region after compression, the mass of fluid being confined in a part of the region between the vane and the surface of the notched rotor and changing in pressure because of the change in arcuate length and volume of the confined part. The respective pairs of rotors are included on the same respective shafts.

Abstract: Internal combustion engine includes a rotary oxidizing gas compressor, a constant volume combustion chamber with pneumatically controlled intake and exhaust valves and a fuel injector, and a rotary combustion gas expander. Each of the rotary compressor and rotary expander has a pair of tangential rotors dependently rotatable in a housing, one rotor having a vane and the other a notch for allowing passage of the vane, to form a fluid tight segmented annular region through which the vane moves. The respective one of the intake valve and the exhaust valve admits a mass of high pressure compressible fluid to the region through a triangular port for expansion or from the region after compression, the mass of fluid being confined in a part of the region between the vane and the surface of the notched rotor and changing in pressure because of the change in arcuate length and volume of the confined part. The respective pairs of rotors are included on the same respective shafts.

Abstract: The major components of this rotary engine are two equal sized rotary units, the housing containing them along with associated ignition and cooling systems. Each of the rotary units consists of a shaft, gear, two outer compressor wheels, and one center power wheel which has twice the axial thickness as the compressor wheel. All the wheels are cylindrical in shape with a lobe section comprising a 180.degree. arc on the periphery of each wheel which forms an expanding and contracting volumetric chamber by means of leading and trailing lips. The lobes of the first rotary unit are situated 180.degree. opposite the lobes of the second adjacent mating rotary unit, thus lobes can intermesh with its corresponding wheel.

Abstract: Rotary engine having an annular space formed between the housing and the rotor, the annular space being divided into an intake-compression chamber and air expansion-exhaust chamber.

Abstract: A rotary machine with lenticular pistons and valves usable for internal and external combustion engines, expansion motors and pumps. A flat central stator housing is provided with two lateral cover housings. A plurality of rotating elements enclose the interior of the stator housing and rotate on stationary parallel shafts pivoted on bearings inside the cover housing. The parallel shafts are interconnected by a synchronizing gear train which causes the shafts to rotate in one direction and at the same angular speed. A cylindrical central cavity extends in the central stator housing throughout its entire thickness, and intersects smaller cylindrical equidistant surfaces distributed around the periphery. The cylindrical equidistant surfaces contact the cavity by a rotor-piston with lenticular cross section with associated valves also of lenticular cross section and surrounding the rotor-piston. The rotor-piston and rotor valves maintain continuous contact and form hermetic chambers of variable volumes.

Abstract: A rotary piston engine whose two pistons each have one or more sectors of greater radial dimensions sealingly engaging inner walls of two cylindrical, intersecting cavities respectively receiving the pistons, and one or more sectors of smaller radial dimensions which engage the larger sectors in all angular positions of the piston and radially bound working chambers with the inner casing wall. The pistons are coupled for simultaneous rotation of equal angular velocity, and the working chambers expand and contract cyclically because they are circumferentially bounded by the larger piston sectors and by a sealing arrangement connecting the engaged piston portions. A compressor drivingly connected to one of the rotary pistons supplies compressed fluid to the working chamber when it is at its minimum volume, and explosion of the fluid expands the chamber and turns the piston.

Abstract: A Brayton cycle internal combustion engine of the open, or constant pressure type, in which rotary power is produced by the pressure of hot gasses against confined, rotor protrusions.