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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350501 | Planetary rotary internal combustion engine An apparatus for a rotary internal combustion engine. The engine has three rotating members that orbit about the center of a three-armed rotor as the rotor rotates within a housing with three lobes. The tips of the rotating members engage the lobes and a circular cu... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343894 | Modular rotary engine An internal combustion device, rotor self cooled, concentric and symmetric shape, dynamically variable compression ratio; capable of developing multiple Otto cycles per rotation, using modules, each made, mainly of a solenoid gate valve and three chambers operating ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7143737 | Rotary engine A rotary engine includes pistons disposed in operating chambers of a rotary member. The pistons are guided by guiding pieces engaged in a guiding groove formed at a housing so that the operating chambers are expanded. Each of the operating chambers includes an intak... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7100566 | Operating method for a rotary engine and a rotary internal combustion engine The invention relates to propulsion engineering and particularly to internal-combustion engines. The problem solved by the present invention is improving fuel efficiency and ecological compatibility, as well as providing the ability to set advance ignition at higher... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7044102 | Planetary rotary internal combustion engine An apparatus for a rotary internal combustion engine. The engine has three rotating members that orbit about the center of a three-armed rotor as the rotor rotates within a housing with three lobes. The tips of the rotating members engage the lobes and a circular cu... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6935300 | Rotary engine A rotary engine having a housing and a first and second intersecting cavity disposed therein. The rotary engine includes a rotor rotatably mounted in the first cavity, the rotor and the housing defining an annular chamber therebetween, and a piston extending radiall... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6932047 | Planetary piston rotary engine An apparatus for a rotary internal combustion engine. The engine has three rotating members that orbit about the center of a three-armed rotor as the rotor rotates within a housing with three lobes. The tips of the rotating members engage the lobes and a circular cu... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6125814 | Rotary vane engine The rotary vane engine of this invention includes a housing and a rotor. The housing is formed by a stator and front and rear covers. The rotor comprises hollow vanes set up in an inner space of the housing. The wall of the inner space and peripheral wall... | 10/03/2000 |
| 5640938 | Rotary engine with post compression magazine A rotary internal combustion engine includes a housing having a separate compression chamber and power chamber formed therein with a fuel and air mixture reservoir disposed intermediate the two chambers. A plenum chamber is disposed in the housing interme... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5605124 | Rotary screw internal combustion engine A rotary internal combustion engine including a rotary screw compressor for receiving and compressing a mixture of air and fuel, a rotary positive displacement pump for receiving the compressed air and fuel mixture from the rotary screw compressor and pum... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5595154 | Rotary engine A rotary engine is provided with a rotary piston that is rotatively mounted within a housing. The rotary piston includes a surrounding circumferential edge that is provided with a series of distinct depressions formed therein. Formed in the housing outwar... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5429083 | Rotary internal combustion twin engine A rotary internal combustion twin engine includes matching pairs of multilobed interengaging compression rotors compressing gas and air mixtures into compression chambers defined by concavities of transfer rotors. With a 180 degree rotation of transfer ro... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5247916 | Rotary engine A rotary engine is provided comprising a housing (12) and a rotor (14) comprising a compression eccentric (20) and a power eccentric (22). Gases are compressed within the space formed by the housing (12), the compression eccentric (20) and a compression g... | 09/28/1993 |
| 4909208 | Rotary internal combustion motor An internal combustion motor consists of three rotary units, namely a pump (A) with blades, a bladed motor (C) and a combustion space (B) which is a cylindrical chamber (7) including a rotor (8) performing a rotary motion in a sealed manner, having at lea... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4895117 | Internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine includes a set of gas chambers including a compression chamber for compressing a fuel/gas mixture and a combustion and exhaust chamber for combusting the fuel/gas mixture and for exhausting the waste gases. The compression ch... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4848295 | Axial flow rotary engine The disclosure is of an axial flow rotary internal combustion engine constructed in three sections, a compressor section, a combustion section and an expander section. The compressor section includes male and female rotors with complementary, single turn ... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4825827 | Shaft power generator A rotary combustion engine has two segregated chambers which communicate with each other via passageways. Combustion occurs in the first chamber and expansion occurs in the second chamber. Each chamber includes two sidewise abutting cylinder lobes with a ... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4515123 | Rotary internal combustion engine A rotary internal combustion engine is disclosed which provides a power rotor that rotates about its center on a shaft in a stator housing. The power rotor has spring-loaded sliding vanes seated in diametrically opposed radial slots thereon. The outer end... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4200084 | Rotary piston engine A disc is fixedly secured to a main shaft for rotation therewith between a cover member and a housing. The disc carries four piston lugs equally disposed about its periphery and which extend radially therefrom for rotary passage through an annular action ... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4170213 | Rotary engine A rotary engine, preferably operating on the 4-event Otto cycle, has a stator ring stationary on a base which also supports a shaft rotational about an axis. The stator ring has oppostie faces normal to the axis. A pair of rotor rings concentric with and ... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4167933 | Engine system The present invention teaches a novel internal combustion engine wherein a unique structural means of transmitting combustion-generated forces and motion is incorporated. A journalled rotor assembly having combustion cavities in each of opposing faces the... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4083663 | Rotary engine with pistons and lenticular valves A rotary machine with lenticular pistons and valves usable for internal and external combustion engines, expansion motors and pumps. A flat central stator housing is provided with two lateral cover housings. A plurality of rotating elements enclose the in... | 04/11/1978 |
