181 |
ORBITING PLANETARY GEARING SYSTEM AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE EMPLOYING THE SAME |
US14036694 |
2013-09-25 |
US20140020651A1 |
2014-01-23 |
Heinz-Gustav Reisser |
The innovation concerns an orbiting planetary gearing system and an internal-combustion engine employing the same. In aspects, the engine can comprise an engine housing having a first wall delimiting a first combustion chamber, a first primary member having a first piston and a second primary member having a second piston. The pistons can also delimit the first combustion chamber. The first wall defines at least a section of a toroid, and the pistons are guided along a curved path defined by the section of the toroid. The primary members can be coupled to an intermediate member. In various embodiments, the intermediate member can couple motion of the primary members to a crankshaft via an orbiting planetary gearing system. |
182 |
Rotary Internal Combustion Engine |
US13410117 |
2012-03-01 |
US20130228149A1 |
2013-09-05 |
Heping Ma |
The present invention is a rotary internal combustion engine, comprising an outer stator shell which forms several equal-sized stator chambers and an oscillating axle which forms several pistons corresponding to the stator chambers and separating each stator chamber into two sealed combustion chambers. When operating, the combustions of the combustion chambers cause the oscillating axle to oscillate. The oscillating motion is then translated to a mono-directional rotary motion, which provides the power output. |
183 |
Cycloid rotor engine |
US13551032 |
2012-07-17 |
US08523546B2 |
2013-09-03 |
Nikolay Shkolnik; Alexander C. Shkolnik |
A rotary engine has a cycloid rotor and a sealing grid including a face seal that rotates with the rotor, and including other seals that do not rotate with the rotor. As the rotor rotates within a housing, the rotor, housing and seal grid form at least one working chamber between them, the chamber undergoing a change from initial volume V1 to V2, which is less than V1, thus compressing a working medium, and subsequently expanding to volume V3, which may be larger than V1, such that the chamber volume is a smooth and continuous function of rotor's rotational angle. |
184 |
TURBINE HAVING COOPERATING AND COUNTER-ROTATING ROTORS IN A SAME PLANE |
US12975729 |
2010-12-22 |
US20120160209A1 |
2012-06-28 |
Bobby BOUCHER |
The present disclosure relates to turbine comprising a housing having an input port and at least one output port. The turbine also comprises two rotors enclosed within the housing. The rotors counter-rotate within a same plane. In their rotation, the two rotors cooperate to create chambers within the housing. A chamber is created and starts to expand while another chamber having been created earlier continues its own expansion. One of these expanding chambers is connected to the input port. A third chamber is in contact with an output port. The turbine may be used as a compressor, an energy generator, a pump or as a building block of a motor. |
185 |
Piston machine |
US12771540 |
2010-04-30 |
US08141475B2 |
2012-03-27 |
Herbert Huettlin |
A piston machine comprises a housing, in which at least one first piston is arranged which can be moved to and fro between two end positions in order to periodically increase and reduce the size of a working chamber adjoining a first end face of the at least one first piston, the at least one first piston having at least one guiding member, which is in engagement with a control curve which is formed on a curve member arranged in the housing, the curve member extending concentrically and circumferentially in the housing, all the way round an axis of revolution which is fixed relative to the housing, and being arranged radially to the outside of the piston in relation to the axis of revolution, a second piston being situated opposite the at least one first piston and performing opposing reciprocating movements relative to the first piston, the second piston having a second end face, which faces the first end face of the first piston, and the working chamber being situated between the end faces. The curve member is mounted in the housing in such a way that it can revolve about the axis of revolution, while the at least one first piston and the second piston cannot revolve about the axis of revolution, with the result that the at least one first piston and the second piston perform reciprocating movements in a plane of movement which is fixed relative to the axis of revolution when the curve member revolves about the axis of revolution. |
186 |
Piston valve internal combustion engine |
US12100420 |
2008-04-10 |
US08136503B2 |
2012-03-20 |
Craig Louis Althen |
An internal combustion engine of two perpendicular, toroidal cylinders intersecting at two junctions with each cylinder containing one piston filling half of its volume. The pistons are 180 degrees out of phase; each alternately occluding one intersection or the other. Each piston completes a full power, exhaust, intake, and compression stroke in one revolution. Endplates of 45 degrees allow the combustion chamber junction to be permanently filled and sealed at all times; first by one piston, then by the tips of both pistons as the complementary-angled endplates tangentially slide past one another, and then by the other piston. Compressed gases are shunted into the crossing cylinder's combustion chamber. Both pistons orbit continuously, one-way. Airflow is also one-way. Each piston is mounted to a sealed, 360-degree, counterbalanced ring gear. One ring gear is positioned centrally and the other peripherally to prevent interference. These maintain coordination between the pistons and provide output. |
187 |
ROTARY PISTON AND CYLINDER DEVICES |
US13060752 |
2009-08-28 |
US20110174095A1 |
2011-07-21 |
Stephen F. Lindsey |
A transmission assembly for a rotary piston and cylinder device, comprising a first gear (120) and a gear sub-assembly (15, 16, 17, 18, 19), the first gear connectable to a rotatably mounted shutter (12) of the device, and the first gear extending from a side of the shutter, and the first gear connected to the gear sub-assembly which converts rotation to an axis of rotation different to that of the shutter. |
188 |
OLIVE-SHAPED ROTARY ENGINE |
US12991123 |
2009-04-30 |
US20110126795A1 |
2011-06-02 |
Feng Hua |
This invention involves internal combustion engine, especially the olive-shaped rotary engine. The olive-shaped rotary engine not only overcomes the defects of large reciprocating inertia the existing piston reciprocating engine has, complex structure and large volume but also overcomes the defects of small output torque the existing rotary internal combustion engine has, the fuel not being able to fully combust and high manufacturing process requirements. If the fuel can't be fully combusted, it will lead to a higher amount of fuels. This invention consists of crankshaft, shell and triangle rotor. Within centre hole of the triangle rotor is equipped with connecting handle, which is connected with crankshaft through gear set. The shuttle-like moving path when the rotor of the connecting handle is connected with the centre of the crankshaft results from the driving of the gear set, realizing the basic working process of the internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine is of simple structure, small volume and light weight. In addition, it operates stably, produces small vibration, improves output torque and makes fuel fully combust. It's of wide range of available fuels and minor mechanical wear. |
189 |
ROTARY INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE |
US12738420 |
2008-04-02 |
US20100300400A1 |
2010-12-02 |
Jose Fernando Bittencourt |
Internal Combustion Engine, Rotary Engine Type, with Distinct Conception, Durability and Performance, Applied to all Types of Vehicle or Industrial Equipment, represented by an inventive solution of a rotary engine, which aggregates value by promoting a distinct conception and reliability to an engine based on the functional concept of this nature, thus providing a greater durability to the engine, levering the same one to a condition of singular competitiveness, where to this attribute be obtained, its innovation is related to a constructive concept based on the formation of a set of divisors components (17), mainly divisors components of chambers, which are distinct by promoting a radial movement with perpendicular angle (Θ2) constant equal to 90° related to the internal cavity of the jacket (6), which is perfectly cylindrical, in all kinematics of movement, which describes its functionality, mainly when it describes the phases of intake; compression; explosion/expansion and also depletion, respectively, being this inedited condition of perpendicularity is obtained due to a peculiar constructive concept, defined by a rotor component (13), which can present a cylindrical shape, where its fissures (13a), which allow the free movements of the divisor components (17), having this rotor (13) an orbital movement resulting from the action of the cam of the main axis component, crankshaft type (8), and rotation movement around its own axis, resulting from the interference between the fixed planetary gear (20) assembled to a static element of the engine (A) and the satellite gear (13c) fixed to this rotor component (13), whose synchronized combination of the referred movements allows the chambers (F), formed among each pair of divisors (17) and the sectors of the rotor (13) and of the jacket (6), defined by this pair of divisors, expand and contract in defined moments and points of the functional cycle, generating the phases of intake, compression/explosion, expansion and depletion (exhaustion), phases that perform the classical phases of an internal combustion engine or “explosion engine”, two- or four-stroke-cycle. |
190 |
Gerotor Apparatus for a Quasi-Isothermal Brayton Cycle Engine |
US12761432 |
2010-04-16 |
US20100266435A1 |
2010-10-21 |
Mark T. Holtzapple; George A. Rabroker |
According to one embodiment of the invention, a gerotor apparatus includes an outer gerotor having an outer gerotor chamber, an inner gerotor, at least a portion of which is disposed within the outer gerotor chamber, and a synchronizing apparatus operable to control the rotation of the inner gerotor relative to the outer gerotor. The inner gerotor includes one or more entrance passages operable to communicate a lubricant into the outer gerotor chamber. |
191 |
FLUID MOTOR HAVING IMPROVED BRAKING EFFECT |
US12520438 |
2007-12-19 |
US20100178186A1 |
2010-07-15 |
Dieter Peters; Peter Krebs; Joachim Wiendahl |
The invention relates to a motor having an inner motor compartment (18). A rotatable rotor (20) can be driven by applying a pressure medium to it, wherein the pressure medium expands in a working region (40) of the motor compartment (18). A brake element (22) for braking the rotor (20) is disposed axially adjacent thereto. The brake element (22) and the rotor (20) are axially displaceable in relation to one another and form a spring-loaded friction pair (48, 50). In order to be able to achieves a higher braking effect due to stronger springs (52), a pressure chamber (60) is provided, the extension of which in the cross-section thereof is larger than the cross-sectional extension of the motor compartment (18) in the working region (40). The pressure chamber (60) is delimited axially at least on one side by the brake element (22). A pressure in the pressure chamber (60), and optionally between the brake element (22) and the adjacent face of the rotor (20), brings about a force for separating the friction pair (48, 50) counter to the spring force. The pressure chamber (60) is disposed such that the pressure medium reaches the pressure chamber (60) when it is applied to the motor (20). |
192 |
Waste heat utilizing system |
US10797087 |
2004-03-11 |
US07748226B2 |
2010-07-06 |
Shigeki Iwanami; Hironori Asa; Keiichi Uno; Yasushi Suzuki; Shigeru Hisanaga; Atsushi Inaba; Koichi Ban; Takashi Yamanaka; Yasushi Yamanaka; Kazuhide Uchida; Tadashi Hotta |
A waste heat collecting system for an internal combustion engine has an object to collect waste heat from the engine and make most use of the collected waste heat to achieve the maximum effect of improving fuel consumption ratio. The waste heat utilizing system has a waste heat collecting cycle for collecting waste heat from an internal combustion engine and having an expansion device for generating rotational driving force from the collected waste heat, a refrigerating cycle having a compressor device for compressing a refrigerant and a power transmitting means rotationally driven by a driving force generating means and operatively connected to the compressor device to rotationally drive the same. In this system, the expansion device is operatively connected to the compressor device to rotationally drive the same. |
193 |
DRIVE FOR ROTATING STRUCTURE |
US12601658 |
2008-05-23 |
US20100162706A1 |
2010-07-01 |
Toshiyuki Sakai; Shigetoshi Shimoo |
A hydraulic excavator includes a rotation motor (31) for rotating an upper rotating structure. The rotation motor (31) includes an electric motor (32), a hydraulic motor (40), and a reduction gearbox (33). The hydraulic motor (40) includes a motor mechanism (50) and a clutch mechanism (70). The motor mechanism (50), which is a vane-type hydraulic motor, is engaged with/disengaged from a motor shaft (37) by the clutch mechanism (70). When rotation speed of the upper rotating structure is low, and a required value of output torque of the rotation motor (31) is high, an operation of driving the output shaft (35) by the hydraulic motor (40) is performed in the rotation motor (31). |
194 |
Fluid pump having expansion device and rankine cycle using the same |
US11386719 |
2006-03-23 |
US07735335B2 |
2010-06-15 |
Keiichi Uno; Hironori Asa; Yasuhiro Takeuchi; Hiroshi Kishita; Kazuhide Uchida; Hiroshi Ogawa |
A complex fluid machine has an expansion-compressor device, a pump, and a motor generator. The expansion-compressor device, the pump, and the motor generator are operatively connected and arranged in series. A portion of an outlet side passage formed in the fluid machine, through which the working fluid flows from the expansion device, is arranged adjacent to a portion of a pump outlet-side passage formed in the fluid machine, through which the working fluid flows from the pump, so that heat of the working fluid in the outlet side passage is transferred to the working fluid in the pump outlet-side passage. |
195 |
Gerotor apparatus for a quasi-isothermal brayton cycle engine |
US11041011 |
2005-01-21 |
US20100003152A1 |
2010-01-07 |
Mark T. Holtzapple; George A. Rabroker; Michael K. Ross |
According to one embodiment of the invention, a gerotor apparatus includes a first gerotor, a second gerotor, and a synchronizing system operable to synchronize a rotation of the first gerotor with a rotation of the second gerotor. The synchronizing system includes a cam plate coupled to the first gerotor, wherein the cam plate includes a plurality of cams, and an alignment plate coupled to the second gerotor. The alignment plate includes at least one alignment member, wherein the plurality of cams and the at least one alignment member interact to synchronize a rotation of the first gerotor with a rotation of the second gerotor. |
196 |
Rotary Motor With Intermittent Movements of the Rotors |
US12085524 |
2006-11-27 |
US20090297385A1 |
2009-12-03 |
Ben Cornelius |
The invention provides a rotary motor comprising a first rotor member rotatable about a first axis; and a transmission system for rotating the first rotor member and the second rotor member; characterised in that the first rotor member and the second rotor member are adapted to rotate at variable angular velocities. |
197 |
Internal combustion engine |
US11442401 |
2006-05-30 |
US07600490B2 |
2009-10-13 |
Heinz-Gustav A. Reisser |
The invention concerns an internal-combustion engine, the engine comprising an engine housing having a first wall delimiting a first combustion chamber, a first connecting rod having a first piston and a second connecting rod having a second piston. The pistons also delimit the first combustion chamber. The first wall defines at least a section of a torus, and the pistons are guided along a curved path defined by the section of the torus. The connecting rods are coupled to an intermediate member, which travels bi-directionally between two end positions and the intermediate member is coupled to a crankshaft. |
198 |
System and Method for Maintaining Relative Axial Positioning Between Two Rotating Assemblies |
US11828905 |
2007-07-26 |
US20080026855A1 |
2008-01-31 |
Mark T. Holtzapple; George A. Rabroker |
According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for maintaining relative axial positioning between two rotating assemblies comprises a first rotatable assembly and a second rotatable assembly. The first rotatable assembly has captor plates. The captor plates form a cavity between a first of the captors plates and a second of the captor plates. The second rotatable assembly has a thrust plate. The thrust plate comprises a disc positioned within the cavity of the captor plates. The first rotatable assembly is axially positioned with respect to the second rotatable assembly through a rolling interaction between the thrust plate and the captor plates, or the second rotatable assembly is axially positioned with respect to the first rotatable assembly through a rolling interaction between the thrust plate and the captor plates. |
199 |
Eccentric shaft for an internal combustion engine |
US11062259 |
2005-02-18 |
US07234374B2 |
2007-06-26 |
Wolfgang Baier; Manfred Mäthner; Dankwart Eiermann; Rudolf Klotz; Michael Schirmer |
An eccentric shaft for an internal combustion engine, especially for a rotary combustion engine, the working unit of which comprises essentially a peripheral housing, side housing plates, and a triangular piston mounted on an eccentric of an eccentric shaft, the tips of the piston moving along an epitrochoidal orbit inside the peripheral housing to form three separate working spaces, where the rotary combustion engine can have several working units. The eccentric shaft consists of several parts, which have radial teeth at their ends, by means of which these shaft parts can be connected positively to each other by the use of a tie rod. In rotary piston engines with more than one working unit, as many inner shaft parts of identical design as there are working units can be used in modular fashion to construct the eccentric shaft. |
200 |
Transmission Between Rotary Devices |
US11532385 |
2006-09-15 |
US20070006672A1 |
2007-01-11 |
Gilbert Staffend |
The present invention is a system for translating angular rotation between rotary components. The system includes a rotor and a contact wheel. The rotor is rotatable about a rotary axis at a rotary angular velocity. The rotor includes a radial distance which extends between an exterior radius and an interior radius. The contact wheel is rotatable about a contact axis at a contact angular velocity. The contact axis extends in parallel relationship to the radial distance. The contact wheel is disposed in rotational contact with the radial distance. Rotation of one of the rotor and contact wheel is translated to rotate the other one of the rotor and contact wheel by virtue of the rotational contact between the rotor and contact wheel. |