Energy transfer machine
Assignee1159718 B.C. Ltd.
InventorsJames Brent Klassen, Javier Peter Fernandez-Han
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Abstract
An energy transfer machine includes a piston and cylinder. The piston can have a rocking motion as it enters and exits the cylinder, for example due to one being on a rotor and the other on a stator. The piston and cylinder form a primary chamber, and as they move relative to each other can form a seal separating the primary chamber into first and second sub-chambers which then unseals before the piston exits the cylinder. The first sub-chamber may reach a maximum geometric compression ratio, for example for the purpose of compression ignition, before the unsealing of the sub-chambers.
Claims8
An engine comprising a piston and a cylinder, the piston arranged to enter the cylinder and seal against the cylinder to form a primary chamber, and to exit the cylinder to unseal the primary chamber;
- the piston having one or more electrically conductive elements located at predetermined locations such that they interact with one or more high-voltage elements in the cylinder causing an electrical arc to occur between an electrically conductive element of the one or more electrically conductive elements and a high voltage element of the one or more high-voltage elements at a timing determined at least in part by when a motion of the piston within the cylinder brings the electrically conductive element into sufficient proximity with the high-voltage element to cause the electrical arc.
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