Engine
OwnerRoland Grant Heapinventor
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Abstract
An engine is disclosed that incorporates components purely or predominantly rotational components. An engine including a rotor and a stator, in which a combustion chamber is defined in the stator and a fluid receiving chamber is defined in the rotor, in which combustion gas can expand from the combustion chamber into the receiving chamber, whereby momentum is transferred from the combustion gas to the rotor.
Claims44
An engine including a combustion assembly comprising a rotor and a stator, in which a combustion chamber is defined in the stator and a fluid receiving chamber is defined in the rotor, in which combustion gas can expand from the combustion chamber into the receiving chamber, whereby momentum is transferred from the combustion gas to the rotor, in which the rotor has a plurality of rotor expansion chambers of successively increasing volumes into which combustion gas can expand in turn, and the stator has a plurality of stator expansion chambers of successively increasing volumes into which gas can expand from the chambers of the rotor.
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