Toroidal internal combustion engine

Internal-combustion engines – Rotating cylinder – Parallel to shaft

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418 35, 418 36, F02B 5300

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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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