Crossover valve in double piston cycle engine
AssigneeTour Engine, Inc.
InventorsHugo Benjamin Tour, Oded Tour, Gilad Tour
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Abstract
An internal combustion engine, including a combustion chamber with a first aperture; a compression chamber with a second aperture; and a crossover valve comprising an internal chamber, first and second valve seats, a valve head, and first and second valve faces on the valve head, wherein the first aperture allows fluid communication between the combustion chamber and the internal chamber, the second aperture allows fluid communication between the compression chamber and the internal chamber, the first valve face couples to the first valve seat to occlude the first aperture, and the second valve face couples to the second valve seat to occlude the second aperture.
Claims13
An internal combustion engine, comprising:
- a combustion chamber with a first aperture;
- a compression chamber with a second aperture;
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- a crossover valve comprising an internal chamber, first and second valve seats, a valve head, and first and second valve faces on the valve head, wherein
- the first aperture allows fluid communication between the combustion chamber and the internal chamber,
- the second aperture allows fluid communication between the compression chamber and the internal chamber,
- the first valve face couples to the first valve seat to occlude the first aperture,
- the second valve face couples to the second valve seat to occlude the second aperture;
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- the valve head moves within the internal chamber so that the crossover valve alternatively occludes the first aperture and the second aperture;
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- a bias that provides a force to assist the valve head move within the internal chamber in the direction of both the first and the second apertures, wherein the bias further comprises a camshaft, a camshaft follower, a rocker, a return spring, and a push rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.