Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – External-combustion engine type
Patent
1980-12-15
1984-07-10
Koczo, Michael
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
External-combustion engine type
60722, F02G 302
Patent
active
044584806
ABSTRACT:
An external combustion engine has at least two axially spaced banks of radially disposed cylinders formed in a rotating engine block. A reciprocating piston is mounted in each cylinder. The block is rotatably mounted in an external engine housing and rotates about a first axis. A drive shaft is rotatably mounted in the external housing along a second axis parallel to but displaced from the first axis. The drive shaft extends through the central portion of the engine block and has a polygonal cross section with as many faces as there are pistons in each bank. Each piston engages a respective face of the polygonal drive shaft so that as the drive shaft and the engine block rotate together, the relative eccentric motion therebetween causes the pistons in each bank to reciprocate within their respective cylinders. A first bank of pistons is dedicated to the intake and compression of air drawn in from an air intake port in the external housing. A combustion chamber is mounted on the external housing within which fuel is continuously combusted with the compressed air supplied by the first bank of cylinders. The second bank of pistons is dedicated to converting the energy generated by the expanding exhaust gases in the combustion chamber into useful mechanical energy.
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