Machine element or mechanism – Elements – Cranks and wrist pins
Reexamination Certificate
2000-08-14
2004-08-10
Bucci, David A. (Department: 3682)
Machine element or mechanism
Elements
Cranks and wrist pins
C074S603000, C123S192200, C123S192100, C123S197400
Reexamination Certificate
active
06772654
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to engines, compressors and other apparatus that manipulate the transmission of mechanical forces; and most specifically, those force-transmitting assemblies relating to the function of crankshafts.
With regards to the general nature of crankshafts, there are those crankshafts with inertia-generating lobes and those without such lobes. The present invention is concerned with a fundamental revolutionary design of lobes for those crankshafts with lobes, as well as appropriately for those traditionally non-lobe crankshafts that will accommodate this new design.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
With today's intense concern over air-pollution and its causation of global warming, there is respectively pressing demand to reduce energy consumption in engines and other force transmitting apparatus. For example, the combustion engine continues to operate at relatively low efficiency, as any further notable increase in efficiency may arrest some of our environmental worries. Wherefore, if further consideration could be given as to how to continue to manipulate the dynamics of force-transmission, then perhaps newly discovered/developed kinetic forces can arise to harness higher efficiency.
It is this purview of consideration that has manifested the present invention, otherwise known as the Coriolis Crankshaft. Hence, the term, “Coriolis,” represent a focused model of the earth's “Coriolis force.” As, this force is a result of the earth's continuous kinetic forces that keep air masses bent toward the earth and moving in the same relative direction, therewith.
However, it is understood that such air-mass governance is the mere end-result of the earth's gravitational force. For, the earth's land and water masses are the primary kinetic energy sources that gives rise to gravity, as again, being the root cause of the Coriolis force.—Earth's center axis, which revolves a far less distance than, for example, its furthest outer mass (at the equator) to complete a rotation, respectively rotates at significantly lower velocity than such outer mass. Therefore, gravity is the force generated by this higher velocity that the outer masses must maintain to travel/rotate and keep pace with its axis points. Since the outer mass obviously moves in the same direction as the axis point, the resulting gravitational pull, therefrom, must follow, and ensuing its bent toward the earth. Respectively, the gravitational pull is always lagging at a traversal right angle to any given point around the axis, since it is “forever trying to catch up” with that point.
This explains why the denser air masses are confined to moving across the earth's surface and provide for directional trade winds, and thus, the “Coriolis effect.”
To this end, the kinetic relationship between earth's rotating forces is consistent with Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, whereas the higher velocity of the outer mass and lower velocity of the axis are distinctly different realities within the same movement of a body; the outer mass exhibiting “positional authority” over the other.
Accordingly, the design elements of the Coriolis crankshaft effectively simulate the Coriolis force so that at least 99% of the crankshaft's inertial load moves in the same direction and being in parallel with crankshaft rotation, itself, to render significantly higher engine/apparatus apparent output power. This, of course, is remarkable, as, by contrast, conventional crankshaft lobes yield only 50% output of their generated inertial load because the inertia moves perpendicular to the rotating direction of the crankshaft. Therefore, the Coriolis design is much superior.
For further clarification, the Summary Of The Invention includes a description with illustrations of a simple experiment that demonstrate the Coriolis force, which affirm factually sound scientific law.
Even so, to boost efficiency further, the present invention may employ another fundamental “manipulation” of force dynamics. If we reduce the weight between the crankshaft's rotating axis and its lobes' outer structures, i.e., the respective sections of the lobes that do not contribute to forward rotating inertia, then rotation resistance is further reduced, for even greater apparent output force. Such sections stem directly from integration with the crankshaft, thus not being effectively right-angular, thereof, such as the remaining respective outer structures of the lobes.
As a matter of course, placement of such sections is synonymous with conventional crankshafts, as a respective illustration shows. Consequently, should these sections be weighted, then their resulting inertial load, again, would “pull” perpendicular to the rotating direction of the Coriolis crankshaft and counter-acts the inertia that rotates in the same/parallel direction, thereof.
Therefore, the Coriolis crankshaft represents a fundamental redesign of the conventional crankshaft. Appropriately, the complex relationship between the kinetic angles-of-attack of the various motion elements and crankshaft components is re-examined.
Hence, what is sought is a crankshaft that can help to render higher apparent output power, so that notably less fuel consumption is required for outputs of contemporary standards, such as in engines. This is in lieu of the fact that contemporary crankshafts have not undergone significant improvement for many years. Ergo, a revolutionary design, such as the Coriolis crankshaft, may well provide the impetus needed to spurn other important kinetic-based developments.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The Coriolis crankshaft, as aforementioned, is the present invention, and comprises a crankshaft with placement of journals for interfacing bearings and other force-transmitting apparatus, such as the connecting-rod assembly, and a lobe design in which the lobe-weight (at least the heavier part, thereof) branch from crankshaft integration to a single traversal side of such integration. Thus, such heavier part of the lobes are therefore respectively right-angular to such integration. These lobes are called “Coriolis lobes,” as ideally, their construct also continually extend and are right-angular to crankshaft integration, and upon extending from the integrated area, they broaden in size and weight so as to develop stronger rotational inertia during crankshaft operation.
Even more specifically, the Coriolis lobes are unrestrained, structured limbs that form curvatures about the traversal axis of crankshaft rotation. This circular shape, being similar to the outer shape of the conventional lobe design, is necessary if the Coriolis effect is to be fully achieved.
The purpose of this design is so that the rotational inertia developed by the Coriolis lobes move/rotate in the same direction and in parallel with the rotating crankshaft, in which the crankshaft aggregates at least 99% of the lobes' inertial force.
Furthermore, the Coriolis lobes may be balanced and weighted in accordance with their forward momentum and respective rotation with the crankshaft, so as to achieve proper operation, thereof. This “right-angular balancing” will provide for improved balancing, less bearing-wear, and overall reduced rotation resistance because, again, the inertial load moves in parallel with the crankshaft.
Another important feature of the present invention is that a Coriolis lobe may be composed of two distinct materials, and thus being a multi-piece lobe. A very heavy material, such as lead, may comprise the portion of the lobe that is right-angular. This heavy portion is called the “loaded portion” because the heavier such portion then the stronger the inertial force that will be induced. And conversely, the other portion, which is called the “benign portion,” integrates directly with the crankshaft and not necessarily being effectively right-angular, thereof, and may be composed of a much lighter-weight material, such as a polymer composite. The benign portion, by nature of its relative placement, is non-effectual in
Bucci David A.
Johnson Vicky A.
Stites and Harbison PLLC
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