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US 6,877,476 B1Granted
Internal combustion engine
AssigneeIndexica, Ltd.
InventorRoss Bradsen
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Abstract
An apparatus that can be utilized as an internal combustion engine, a compressor, a pump or the like has an indexer which defines a plurality of slots. A pinwheel has a plurality of pins which, when the pinwheel and the indexer are rotated, engaged a respective slot to form a compression chamber. As rotation of these two components continues, each pin sequentially engages a slot to continuously form compression chambers.
Claims40
An internal combustion engine comprising:
- a housing defining a single combustion chamber;
- a fuel injector rotatably disposed with respect to said housing and in communication with said combustion chamber, said fuel injector being movable rotatively between a first and a second position, said fuel injector spraying fuel to a first location when in said first position, and said fuel injector spraying fuel to a second location when in said second position, said second position being different than said first position.
An apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a first disc rotatably disposed with respect to said housing, said first disc defining a first and a second slot;
- a second disc rotatably disposed with respect to said housing;
- a first pin mounted to said second disc;
- a third disc rotatably disposed with respect to said housing, said first disc being disposed between said second and third discs;
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- a second pin mounted to said third disc;
- wherein rotation of said first, second and third discs with respect to said housing causes said first pin to engage said first slot to define a first compression chamber between said first pin and said first disc and said second pin to engage said second slot to define a second compression chamber between said second pin and said first disc.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a first disc rotatably disposed with respect to said housing, said first disc defining a first, a second, a third and a fourth slot;
- a second disc rotatably disposed with respect to said housing;
- a first and second pin mounted to said second disc;
- a third disc rotatably disposed with respect to said housing, said first disc being disposed between said second and third discs;
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- a third and fourth pin mounted to said third disc;
- wherein rotation of said first, second and third discs with respect to said housing causes said first pin to engage said first slot to define a first compression chamber between said first pin and said first disc, said second pin to engage said second slot to define a second compression chamber between said second pin and said first disc, said third pin to engage said third slot to define a third compression chamber between said third pin and said first disc and said fourth pin to engage said fourth slot to define a fourth compression chamber between said fourth pin and said first disc.
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