Rotating piston internal combustion engine

US10030578B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MWI Micro Wave Ignition AG · DE

Inventors

• Armin Gallatz · Empfingen, DE
• Volker Gallatz · Herrenberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 6, 2016
• Grant date: Jul 24, 2018
• Expiry date: Aug 4, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F02P15/005
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A rotating piston internal combustion engine including a housing which includes a housing wall that forms an operating chamber, and in which housing a rotatable rotating piston is arranged which extends through the operating chamber and moves edges of the rotating piston along the housing wall that forms a running surface, wherein a portion of the operating chamber functions as a combustion chamber together with an associated combustion chamber wall for igniting a fuel that is arranged in the operating chamber, characterized in that at least one microwave window is arranged in the combustion chamber wall, wherein a device for injecting microwave energy in a form of microwaves into the combustion chamber of the operating chamber is arranged at a side of the microwave window that is oriented away from the combustion chamber.