Abstract: A two-stroke internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder with a combustion chamber defined between the cylinder head and a reciprocating piston, and a carburetor which delivers a rich fuel and air mixture to a compressor with a reciprocating piston driven by the engine to compress the mixture until the mixture is under sufficient pressure to open a differential pressure injection valve and thereby inject the mixture directly into the engine combustion chamber. The mixture is ignited by a spark plug to drive the engine piston through its power stroke and rotate its associated crankshaft which is connected to a crankshaft of the compressor to reciprocate its piston and thereby compress the fuel and air mixture and inject it into the cylinder in timed relation with the engine piston.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine in which the piston (10) rocks about a pivot point (60) with the piston (10) being connected adjacent the end remote from the pivot point (60) to a connecting rod (12) to drive a crankshaft. The piston (10) has a first arcuate sealing surface (41) and a second arcuate sealing surface (42) which is offset radially from the first sealing surface (41) with the first and second sealing surfaces (41, 42) being connected by a floor (44). The first arcuate sealing surface (41) seals against a correspondingly arcuate wall (51) of the combustion chamber (20) and the second arcuate sealing surface (42), which forms one wall of the combustion chamber (20), seals against a wall (52) of a boost chamber (53). The engine can be compression ignition or spark ignition and can be of the two-stroke cycle or four-stroke cycle.

Abstract: Process and device for supplying air to the cylinder of a two-stroke internal combustion engine, with at least one set of two cylinders arranged at 180 degrees, supercharged by a post-filling effect. Said device is characterized in that it comprises a volumetric pimp defined by the natural movement of a piston between its top dead center and its bottom dead center and inversely, connected to intake air transit means (8A, 8B) for the air supply thereto. Advantageously the volumetric pump is formed by the pump casing of the cylinder which is in the scavenging phase. In a variant, this device comprises at least one transfer passage (30) intermittently connecting the transit means (8A, 8B) with the upstream pump casing (6B, or 6A) associated therewith. The device of the invention provides, at all times, the required aie supply and hence correct operation of the engine even at low loads or during start-up, and in an easy manner.

Abstract: A method and device for introducing a carburetted mixture into a first cylinder of an internal combustion engine under pressure, this engine comprising at least one other cylinder with a pump crankcase, further comprising a connecting duct between the crankcase and the first cylinder, with an angular non zero shift between the cycle of each of the cylinders, and at least one of the gas transfer ports of said other cylinder is positioned so that a back-flow occurs therein during a part of the cycle.

Abstract: In a regeneratively operating two-stroke reciprocating internal combustion engine with at least one working cylinder, a supercharger cylinder (2) is associated with the combustion cylinder (3), the supercharger cylinder being connected to the combustion cylinder (3) by way of a connecting line (4) wherein a regenerator (1) is provided. The pistons (6, 7) of the combustion cylinder (3) and of the supercharger cylinder (2) and, respectively, their crankshafts (14, 23, 24) operate in a phase shift with respect to each other by an angle of between 30.degree. and 90.degree., the piston (7) of the combustion cylinder (3) being the leading entity.

Abstract: Adiabatic positive displacement gas cycle machinery is designed with explicit control of the heat flow between the gas and the walls. The control is achieved by maintaining near-laminar flow and a small wall area to volume ratio. The most stable near-laminar flow in a cylinder is an axial vortex because of symmetry, and hence the induction port design should establish an axial vortex and a low velocity. Induction and exhaust port designs to achieve this flow are applied to a vane pump, an adiabatic air compressor, a diesel engine, and two and four stroke Otto cycle engines. The gain in thermal efficiency for these designs can be significant, up to a factor of 2, since the largest inefficiency in nearly all positive displacement machinery is imperfect control of heat flow.

Abstract: A two stroke internal combustion engine with piston and cylinder has a crankshaft having peripheral gears and a cam both affixed to the same crankshaft throw. A trough is in the engine crankcase whereby the gears pass through lubrication.