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US 6,295,802 B1Granted
Orbiting engine
AssigneeDavid Lior
InventorsDavid Lior, Yeshayahu Levy
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Abstract
An orbiting engine includes a plurality of combustion chambers (52) rigidly connected to and disposed equidistantly from a central shaft (54). The combustion chambers (52) are oriented so that exhaust gases emerge therefrom tangentially to a circle concentric with the shaft (54), thereby causing the shaft to rotate. In preferred embodiments, a centrifugal compressor (62), radially inward from the combustion chambers (52) and driven by the shaft (54), compresses air that serves to oxidize fuel injected into the combustion chambers (52).
Claims5
An engine for driving a load shaft, comprising:
- (a) a power shaft;
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- (b) a plurality of combustion chambers, each of said chambers being substantially equidistant from said power shaft and rigidly connected to said power shaft, each of said chambers being provided with a nozzle oriented so that exhaust gases exit said chamber therethrough in a direction substantially tangential to a circle concentric with said power shaft;
- (c) an oxidizer supply mechanism for supplying oxidizer laterally to said chambers, said oxidizer supply mechanism including:
- (i) a compressor rotor, substantially coaxial with said power shaft;
- (ii) a diffuser, substantially coaxial with said power shaft and deployed between said compressor and said chambers;
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- (iii) a plurality of vanes, peripheral to said diffuser, wherethrough compressed air is introduced to said chambers;
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- (d) a fuel supply mechanism for supplying fuel to said chambers.
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