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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7938097 | Low speed valveless horizontally opposed piston rotary internal combustion engine Presented is a very low speed, high torque, horizontally opposed, rotary, valveless, Otto cycle piston engine producing four power strokes per revolution, the engine consisting of a fixed engine case assembly having upper and lower plates, the engine rotor assembly ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7669577 | Gerotor and method of assembling the same A gerotor and methods for assembling the gerotor are disclosed. The gerotor includes a pump housing having a channel and a rotor positioning cavity, a pump shaft, an inner rotor, and an outer rotor. The pump shaft has central pump shaft axis and the inner rotor has ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7434563 | Rotary engine The rotary engine includes a cylinder body having a cylinder chamber, an intake port, an exhaust port, and a spark plug, and a rotor which is received in the cylinder chamber to eccentrically rotate while coming into contact at seal faces thereof with an inner circu... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7415961 | Piston for internal combustion engine, compressor or the like A piston for internal combustion engine, compressor or the like, includes a piston ring, a piston skirt having a piston skirt wall. One or more lubricant channels and reservoirs are provided on an outer surface of the piston skirt. Lubricant is conducted to an outer... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7398757 | Toroidal engine method and apparatus A rotary motion device having piston valves that define an open region that are adapted to engage a power tooth of the power ring as the power ring rotates around the piston valves and the piston valves rotate about their own separate axis that is fixed with respect... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398756 | Bottom plate for a crankcase In a bottom plate for closing a crankcase of an internal combustion engine wherein the bottom plate includes openings and channels for collecting and conducting fluids, the bottom plate consists of a number of individual plates which are joined together after the ch... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389763 | Cylinder block integrated with crankcase A structure of crankcase-integrated cylinder block for a small internal combustion engine is posed to increase strength and rigidity in order to reduce particularly vibration and noise. A cylinder part and a crankcase part are formed into a box-like shape being cast... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7357115 | Wafer clamping apparatus and method for operating the same A wafer clamping apparatus is provided to secure a wafer within a chamber during wafer processing. The wafer clamping apparatus creates a pressure differential between a top surface and a bottom surface of the wafer. The pressure differential serves to pull the wafe... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350500 | Inverted cardioid engine An internal combustion engine comprising a support structure, including a tube and a hollow stator core, supported by and rigidly affixed to the tube. Additionally, a rotor assembly is eccentrically and rotatably mounted about the stator core and having a pair of pa... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341040 | Supercharged two-cycle engines employing novel single element reciprocating shuttle inlet valve mechanisms and with a variable compression ratio This invention relates to novel reciprocating shuttle inlet valves, effective with every type of two-cycle engine, from small high-speed single cylinder model engines, to large low-speed multiple cylinder engines, employing spark or compression ignition. Also permit... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7281513 | Inverted Wankel An internal combustion engine comprising a support structure, including a tube and a hollow stator core, supported by and rigidly affixed to the tube. Additionally, a rotor assembly is eccentrically and rotatably mounted about the stator core and having a pair of pa... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7051698 | Rotary drive mechanism A rotary drive mechanism for use as a motor, pump or compressor. The mechanism includes a housing having a chamber defined by a peripheral wall. A rotor is rotatably mounted in the chamber and has two longitudinal seal edges in contact with the wall. The rotor is mo... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052420 | Over-running clutch pulley with coating material The over-running clutch pulley (10) includes a sheave member (20), a hub member (22) a clutch member (24), and a coating (26), which cooperate to rotationally engage an input device (12) and an output device (14). The... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7034481 | Power transmission device for hybrid vehicle To provide a power transmission device that can increase the range of speed variation between an engine and a power output shaft and effectively achieve reduction in size and cost of the device arrangement. The speed reduction ratios from an engine 1 to first... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6948473 | 4-cycle, rotary, electromagnetic, internal combustion engines Four-cycle rotary engines, with an even number of hinged-hub impeller vanes, utilize dependently rotating, joined, hinged-hub impellers, with interdigitated, alternating hub sections, on a shared, power output shaft, and electromagnetic fields, and timing of impelle... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6860251 | Rotary piston engine A rotary engine includes separate chambers for receiving pressurized air and fuel. An air chamber stories pressurized air that is routed into a combustion chamber to be mixed with fuel for combustion to drive a piston. The combustion chamber is forced open during a ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6782866 | Rotary machine and thermal cycle A rotary machine having a housing with rotary components disclosed within. The rotary machine is configurable as an internal combustion rotary engine, an external combustion rotary engine, a gas compressor, a vacuum pump, a liquid pump, a drive turbine, or a drive t... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6718938 | Hinged rotor internal combustion engine A rotary internal combustion engine comprises a four-segment hinged rotor assembly accommodated in a coaxial housing such that the rotor assembles deforms and continuously adapts to the housing internal profile during its rotation. The closed non-circular rotor hous... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6672275 | Rotary machine and thermal cycle A rotary machine having a housing with rotary components disclosed within. The rotary machine is configurable as an internal combustion rotary engine, an external combustion rotary engine, a gas compressor, a vacuum pump, a liquid pump, a drive turbine, o... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6484687 | Rotary machine and thermal cycle A rotary machine having a housing with rotary components disclosed within. The rotary machine is configurable as an internal combustion rotary engine, an external combustion rotary engine, a gas compressor, a vacuum pump, a liquid pump, a drive turbine, o... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6250279 | Rotary internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine with an interior annular surface. A rotary piston mount rotates within an engine block interior space. Several spherical pistons are urged radially outwardly from the rotary piston mount by an urging means, and move in a radi... | 06/26/2001 |
| 5819702 | High efficiency vehicle and engine The efficiency of a vehicle having a body and a reciprocating piston four-stroke internal combustion engine is increased substantially by greatly reducing the size of the engine relative to the weight of the body. The great reduction in engine size relati... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5388557 | Combustion engine having a substantially constant temperature and pressure Combustion engine of high efficiency comprising a stator and a rotor, a duct shaped as a closed circle between said stator and rotor, at least one vane sliding in the duct and being fastend to the rotor, wherein the expansion takes place at a substantiall... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5359971 | Rotary steam/internal combustion engine and rotary hydraulic motor A self starting, quick start-up rotary steam/internal combustion engine and a rotary hydraulic motor, with a positive displacement, powered through 360° of each revolution and comprising: a flattened cylindrical flywheel with two diametrically opposed, r... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5033429 | Internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine having a pair of stationary housings of generally triangular configuration with sidewalls of each housing converging into one end of the opposite ends of a common output shaft, a compression chamber being disposed in each sid... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4562802 | Flexible cylinder engine An internal combustion engine comprising at least one flexible cylinder or semicylinder (chamber) formed from (a) at least one flexible, rectangular sheet attached to a rotor, which in turn is connected to a rotatable shaft, and (b) a pair of parallel end... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4453508 | Flexible cylinder engine A pumping or combustion engine having one to four cylindrical or semi-cylindrical chambers formed by at least one flexible sheet attached to a rotor, which sheet and/or rotor contact a plane, rigid plate at both sides thereof, containing inlet and exhaust... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4089162 | Accommodating device for thermal transient expansions An accommodating device for thermal transient expansions in an expander ene wherein a configured valve support includes a spring-nut arrangement for controlling and minimizing the force changes due to the temperature variations of the valve because of th... | 05/16/1978 |