Rotating cylinder engine and method of operating the engine

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1984-07-26

1985-12-17

Koczo, Michael

Internal-combustion engines

Rotating cylinder

Parallel to shaft

91197, 91273, 91395, 91398, 91410, 92 66, F02B 5700

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045586667

ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for producing rotation of a power output shaft comprises a plurality of peripherally spaced cylinders disposed in generally tangential relationship to the periphery of a housing defining a cylindrical fluid pressure chamber and connected at their inner ends to such fluid pressure chamber. The housing is mounted on, and co-rotatable with the output shaft. The gas pressure in such chamber is regulated to maintain a selected value above ambient. Cooperating pistons in each of the cylinders are interconnected by connecting rods to a unidirectional clutch mounted in the fluid pressure chamber on a fixed shaft, thus forcing the cylinders to rotate when pressured gas is introduced in the outer ends of the cylinders. Inlet and exhaust valves are provided in a cylinder head mounted in the outer end of each cylinder and are operable by contact with the outer face of the respective piston. A radial exhaust port is uncovered by each piston as it nears the end of its power stroke, thus reducing the fluid pressure on the outer piston face to ambient and permitting the regulated gas pressure in the fluid pressure chamber to effect the return of the pistons to their outermost positions relative to the respective cylinders, thus producing a net unidirectional torque on the housing to rotate the output shaft.

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