Multi-chamber internal combustion engine
OwnerJorge Artolainventor
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Abstract
An internal combustion engine includes a piston dividing a cylinder into first and second variable volume chambers on either side thereof. One chamber admits and compresses air which is delivered to another chamber for combustion. The other chamber admits combustion gasses, causing the piston to translate in the cylinder. In one embodiment, combustion of fuel occurs in a combustion chamber separate from the first and second variable volume chambers. In one embodiment, the translation of the piston effects movement of a connecting rod connected to an output shaft. In another embodiment, the piston is mounted on an output shaft and translation of the piston causes the piston to rotate, thus effecting rotation of the output shaft.
Claims14
An internal combustion engine comprising a body defining a cylinder, a piston movably mounted in said cylinder and dividing said cylinder into a first variable volume chamber and a second variable volume chamber, a combustion chamber, said combustion chamber having an inlet in communication with said first variable volume chamber, and an outlet, said outlet in communication with said second variable volume chamber, said engine having an intake, said intake leading to said first variable volume chamber and said engine having an exhaust, said exhaust in communication with said second variable volume chamber, such that air is drawn through said intake to said first variable volume chamber, is compressed, is delivered to said combustion chamber, is expanded and delivered from said combustion chamber to said second variable volume chamber, and is expelled from said second variable volume chamber to said exhaust.
An output shaft drive configuration for an engine comprising:
- a cylinder having a first end and a second end and defining an interior space;
- an output shaft extending through said cylinder from said first end to said second end;
- at least one piston mounted in said interior space of said cylinder, said at least one piston mounted on said output shaft, said at least one piston dividing said interior space into a first variable volume chamber and a second variable volume chamber, said first variable volume chamber in communication with an air intake and a combustion chamber external to said interior space and said second variable volume chamber in communication with said combustion chamber and an exhaust, whereby air is compressed in said first variable volume chamber for delivery to said combustion chamber and combustion gasses are delivered from said combustion chamber to said second variable volume chamber, said at least one piston configured to rotate said output shaft when said at least one piston translates in said cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.