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US 2025/0035035 A1Published application
Scalable energy generator
AssigneeWB Development Company, LLC
InventorWalter T. Bonin
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present innovation relate to a scalable energy generator. In one arrangement, the scalable energy generator includes an alternator disposed in operable communication with a rotary valve engine. Each rotary valve includes a rotary drive mechanism which includes a first rotary valve gear coupled to a transmission gear associated with the compression assembly of the engine and a second rotary valve gear connected to a corresponding rotary valve via a shaft. Each of the first rotary valve gear and second rotary valve can be configured as a spiral bevel gear having a set of helically shaped teeth.
Claims22
An engine, comprising:
- a housing defining:
- an annular combustion channel disposed at an outer periphery of the housing, and
- an annular compression channel disposed at an outer periphery of the housing and disposed at an axial location parallel to the annular combustion chamber;
- a set of combustion pistons disposed within the combustion channel;
- a set of compression pistons disposed within the compression channel;
- a set of rotary valves, each rotary valve of the set of rotary valves disposed within both the combustion channel and the compression channel;
- and
- a rotary drive mechanism connected to each rotary valve of the set of rotary valves, the rotary drive mechanism comprising a first rotary valve gear coupled to a transmission gear associated with the set of combustion pistons and a second rotary valve gear connected to a corresponding rotary valve via a shaft, the rotary drive mechanism configured to position each rotary valve of the set of rotary valves:
- between a first position to align each rotary valve in the combustion channel to allow a combustion piston of the set of combustion pistons to travel within the combustion channel from a first location to a second location relative to each respective rotary valve of the set of rotary valves and a second position to define a combustion chamber relative to the combustion piston at the second location, and
- between a first position to align each rotary valve in the compression channel to allow a compression piston of the set of compression pistons to travel within the compression channel from a first location to a second location relative to each respective rotary valve of the set of rotary valves and a second position to define a compression chamber relative to the compression piston at the second location.
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An energy generator, comprising:
- an engine, comprising:
- a housing defining:
- an annular combustion channel disposed at an outer periphery of the housing, and
- an annular compression channel disposed at an outer periphery of the housing and disposed at an axial location parallel to the annular combustion chamber;
- a set of combustion pistons disposed within the combustion channel;
- a set of compression pistons disposed within the compression channel;
- a set of rotary valves, each rotary valve of the set of rotary valves disposed within both the combustion channel and the compression channel;
- and
- a rotary drive mechanism connected to each rotary valve of the set of rotary valves, the rotary drive mechanism comprising a first rotary valve gear coupled to a transmission gear associated with the set of combustion pistons and a second rotary valve gear connected to a corresponding rotary valve via a shaft, the rotary drive mechanism configured to position each rotary valve of the set of rotary valves:
- between a first position to align each rotary valve in the combustion channel to allow a combustion piston of the set of combustion pistons to travel within the combustion channel from a first location to a second location relative to each respective rotary valve of the set of rotary valves and a second position to define a combustion chamber relative to the combustion piston at the second location, and
- between a first position to align each rotary valve in the compression channel to allow a compression piston of the set of compression pistons to travel within the compression channel from a first location to a second location relative to each respective rotary valve of the set of rotary valves and a second position to define a compression chamber relative to the compression piston at the second location;
- and
- an alternator disposed in operative communication with the set of combustion pistons an alternator via a shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.