Internal-combustion engines – Rotating cylinder – Parallel to shaft
Patent
1991-11-08
1993-04-06
Koczo, Michael
Internal-combustion engines
Rotating cylinder
Parallel to shaft
418 35, 418 36, F02B 5300
Patent
active
051993910
ABSTRACT:
A rotary internal combustion engine including a plurality of toroidal cylinders and toroidal pistons that are slidably carried within the cylinders. Combustion of an air-fuel mixture within the respective cylinders provides a series of circumferential power strokes for more efficient operation. The pistons and cylinders are carried by a pair of side-by-side, coaxial drive rotors, the output power pulses of which are transmitted through a drive clutch and planetary gear assembly to an engine output drive shaft. The drive clutch and planetary gear assembly includes four overrunning clutches and a planetary gear train to smoothly transmit the successive intermittent engine power strokes to the output drive shaft.
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