Internal combustion engine with pistons that rotate about a center line

US5722361A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Huschang Sabet · DE

Inventors

• Huschang Sabet
• Willi Springer · Göppingen, DE
• Dietrich Eckhardt · Esslingen am Neckar, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 24, 1996
• Grant date: Mar 3, 1998
• Expiry date: Jan 24, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/12
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An internal combustion engine with rotating pistons works on the basis of the cat and mouse principle. The charge is axially exchanged over one of the housing lids (28) and the adjacent rotary side disk (24). The combustion chambers (34) are formed by axially open recesses in the pistons (24) of the outer rotor (12) which communicate transversely to the axial direction with the adjacent working chambers (20). The fuel is supplied by injection nozzles (30) oriented in the corresponding housing lid (28) in the direction of the rotary side disk (24).