Internal combustion engine and method for the operation of an internal combustion engine
OwnerEdmund Ferdinand Nagelinventor
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Abstract
In an internal combustion engine with one or more combustion chambers for burning fuel in timed explosions while forming a combustion gas under pressure, the combustion chambers are connected with at least one work chamber which is separate from the combustion chambers and which has a piston for converting energy of the combustion gas formed in an explosion cycle into mechanical energy or work. At least one injection nozzle which opens into the work chamber is provided for spraying in a cooling liquid to initiate an implosion cycle following the explosion cycle, and one or more precompression pumps which are driven by the movement of the piston during the implosion cycle are provided for compressing air to be introduced into the combustion chambers.
Claims16
An internal combustion engine comprising:
- one or more combustion chambers for burning fuel in timed explosions while forming a combustion gas under pressure;
- said combustion chambers being connected with at least one work chamber which is separate from the combustion chambers and which has a piston for converting energy of the combustion gas formed in an explosion cycle into mechanical energy or work;
- at least one injection nozzle which opens into the work chamber being provided for spraying in a cooling liquid to initiate an implosion cycle following the explosion cycle;
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- one or more precompression pumps which are driven by movement of the piston during an implosion cycle being provided for compressing air to be introduced into the combustion chambers.
A method for operating an internal combustion engine in which a fuel is burned in timed explosions in one or more combustion chambers, comprising the steps of:
- allowing the combustion gas formed in the explosion cycle to flow out of the combustion chambers into a work chamber which is separate from the combustion chambers and which has a changeable volume and in which the combustion gas performs mechanical work by displacing a piston;
- and
- subsequently, in order to initiate an implosion cycle, reducing the pressure of the combustion gas to a pressure below atmospheric pressure by spraying a cooling liquid into the work chamber;
- wherein one or more precompression pumps are driven by this displacement of the piston of the work chamber which is caused or supported by this negative pressure in order to compress air to be introduced into the combustion chambers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.