Split cycle engines

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1996-03-16

1998-09-01

McMahon, Marguerite

Internal-combustion engines

Transmission mechanism from piston

Crankshaft and connecting rod

F02B 7532

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057996369

ABSTRACT:
An internal combustion engine has a compression stroke which is shorter than the corresponding the expansion (power) stroke. In a preferred class of designs this is accomplished by carrying the crank pin on a planetary gear such that the crank pin traces out a substantially hypocycloid path.

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patent: 4966043 (1990-10-01), Frey
patent: 5067456 (1991-11-01), Beachley et al.
patent: 5158047 (1992-10-01), Schaal et al.

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