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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117826 | External combustion engine with rotary piston controlled valve The present invention provides an engine comprising a housing that defines a chamber. The engine also includes a driveshaft positioned within the housing such that the driveshaft extends from the chamber and passes through a wall of the housing such that devices may... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112981 | External combustion engine An external combustion engine comprising a pipe-shaped main container in which a working fluid is sealed flowably in a liquid state, a heated part formed at a location of one end of the main container and heating part of the working fluid in the main container in or... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8109074 | Gas turbine engine system An engine system comprises at least a first volumetric device, and a second volumetric device in which said second volumetric device is larger in volume than said first volumetric device, in which, during continuous flow of a compressible fluid from said first to sa... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8096103 | External combustion engine with a general wheel rotation power motor General Wheel Rotation Power Motor(GWRPPM) systems, apparatus, devices and methods of using a pressure generation, storage and control element: a pressure conversion to rotational force unit with reverse and neutral capability and components to transfer said rotatio... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8037670 | Bi-directional converter between pressure and rotational force A bi-directional converter between pressure and rotational force includes engaging rotation members that continue to rotate while being adjacent to each other without collision; the rotation members and an outer wall form an enclosed space; rotation shafts of the ro... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7913484 | Catalytic burner apparatus for stirling engine The invention provides a method for transferring heat by conduction to the internal heat acceptor of an external combustion engine. Fuel and air are introduced and mixed to form an air/fuel mixture. The air/fuel mixture is directed into a catalytic reactor that is p... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7765785 | Combustion engine A combustion engine that has at least a plurality of power strokes during a complete cycle of engine operation that is of compact packaging and Brayton cycle operable. In a preferred embodiment, a piston-cylinder arrangement used to compress air and deliver it to a ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7762055 | Externally heated engine An externally heated engine is provided which has at least two pistons. The first piston has a first side (working side) and a second side opposite the first side. The first side of the first piston and the first cylinder define a first working chamber containing wo... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7654074 | Thermal improvements for an external combustion engine An external combustion engine having an exhaust flow diverter for directing the flow of an exhaust gas. The external combustion engine has a heater head having a plurality of heater tubes through which a working fluid is heated by conduction. The exhaust flow divert... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7634902 | Method and device for converting heat energy into mechanical energy The invention relates to a method for converting heat energy into mechanical energy by modifying the volume, pressure and temperature of a working medium, wherein the working medium in the first state (1) is suctioned and the volume of said first stage (1 | 12/22/2009 |
| 7493751 | External combustion engine An external combustion engine is disclosed, comprising a container (11) for sealing a working liquid (12) in a way adapted to allow the liquid to flow therein, a heater (13) for heating and vaporizing the working liquid (12) in the contai... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7469527 | Engine with an active mono-energy and/or bi-energy chamber with compressed air and/or additional energy and thermodynamic cycle thereof An engine uses a top dead center piston stop device. It is fed by compressed air, via a working capacity, which, in the bi-energy version, includes a device for heating the air supplied by additional energy. The active expansion chamber consists of a variable volume... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7434551 | Constant temperature internal combustion engine and method Internal combustion engine and method with compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, a combustion chamber, a variable intake valve for controlling air intake to the compression chamber, a variable outlet valve for controlling communication between the c... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7424871 | Internal combustion engine and method Internal combustion engine and method with compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, a combustion chamber, a variable intake valve for controlling air intake to the compression chamber, a variable outlet valve for controlling communication between the c... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421982 | Independent combustion chamber-type internal combustion engine The present invention is directed to an internal combustion engine for making suction, compression, explosion, expansion and exhaust strokes in an operating chamber of variable volume defined between a housing and a piston. The internal combustion engine includes: a... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418929 | Internal combustion engine and method Internal combustion engine and method with compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, a combustion chamber, a variable intake valve for controlling air intake to the compression chamber, a variable outlet valve for controlling communication between the c... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415947 | Internal combustion engine and method Internal combustion engine and method with compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, a combustion chamber, a variable intake valve for controlling air intake to the compression chamber, a variable outlet valve for controlling communication between the c... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415948 | Internal combustion engine and method Internal combustion engine and method with compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, a combustion chamber, a variable intake valve for controlling air intake to the compression chamber, a variable outlet valve for controlling communication between the c... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7340879 | Locally powered water distillation system A system for distributed utilities including electrical power and water. A generation device is provided for converting an available resource to a desired utility; the resource may be water, in which case the generator is a purifier for purifying untreated water, or... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340918 | Magnetostrictive drive of refrigeration systems A liquid-phase cooling device of a refrigeration system has an outer tubular housing enclosing a heat exchanger through which a mixture gases and liquid constituting a working fluid media is heated and cooled while undergoing compression and expansion within a cavit... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7308996 | Gas combustion-type impact device An injection nozzle 21 for injecting a combustible gas into an annular combustion chamber 10 formed above a driving cylinder 4 is formed so as to face the interior of the combustion chamber 10, in which a rotary fan 24 for mixing a... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308787 | Thermal improvements for an external combustion engine An external combustion engine having an exhaust flow diverter for directing the flow of an exhaust gas. The external combustion engine has a heater head having a plurality of heater tubes through which a working fluid is heated by conduction. The exhaust flow divert... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7284362 | Integrated air separation and oxygen fired power generation system An integrated air separation and oxygen fired power generation system includes an air separation unit and a gas turbine including an air compressor to provide compressed air for the air separation unit. The system further includes a gas turbine expander and at least... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284510 | Combustion-engined setting tool A combustion-engined setting tool for driving fastening elements in constructional components includes a member (32) arranged in the combustion chamber (13) for generating turbulence of an oxidant-fuel mixture filling the combustion chamber (13)... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281383 | Reciprocating four-stroke Brayton refrigerator or heat engine A thermal machine that can function as either a refrigerator or an external combustion heat engine is disclosed. A working gas undergoes four thermodynamic processes that comprise a Brayton cycle. Two of these processes, adiabatic compression and adiabatic expansion... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275511 | Intake manifold assembly An intake assembly is provided for a sequentially fired eight cylinder V-type internal combustion engine including a cylinder block having a first band of cylinders and a second bank of cylinders. The assembly includes first, second, third, and fourth intake plenums... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277777 | Method and system for real time reporting of boiler adjustment using emission sensor data mapping A method to adjust a boiler having a flue gas duct including: sensing flue gas emissions in the gas duct with a plurality of emission sensors arranged in an array; generating a multidimensional graphical depiction of the flue gas emissions by plotting sensor data ca... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7246576 | Combustion-engined setting tool A combustion-engined setting tool for driving fastening elements such as, e.g., nails, blots, etc. in constructional components includes a combustion chamber (13) for combusting therein an oxidant-fuel mixture, a turbulence generating element, arranged in the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7217304 | Electric power generation with heat exchanged membrane reactor This invention is directed to a heat exchanged membrane reactor for electric power generation. More specifically, the invention comprises a membrane reactor system that employs catalytic or thermal steam reforming and a water gas shift reaction on one side of the me... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210445 | Piston-cam engine A piston-cam engine includes a drive cylinder, a drive piston operably disposed therein having a piston head and a shaft, a support frame having a drive shaft rotatably movably connected thereto, a cam connected to the drive shaft having a peripheral surface and hav... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7178487 | Combustion-engined setting tool A combustion-engined setting tool for driving fastening elements in constructional components includes a combustion chamber (14) for combusting therein a full gas-oxidant mixture, at least one guide element (20) arranged coaxially with a longitudinal a... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178339 | Closed-loop cooling system for a hydrogen/oxygen based combustor A closed-loop cooling system is provided for a hydrogen/oxygen based combustor. A combustion reaction between hydrogen and oxygen in the combustor produces steam. The steam is used to generate work from a turbine shaft, which is used to drive a propulsion system for... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171810 | Stirling engine with hydraulic output A heat engine has a region within which a working fluid travels and an hydraulic fluid provided in a reservoir and the output from the heat engine drives the movement of the hydraulic fluid. ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7152584 | Combustion-engined setting tool The present invention relates to a combustion-engined setting tool for driving fastening elements such as nails, bolts, pins and the like in a constructional component and including a fuel source (11), a fuel conduit (12), from the fuel source (11 | 12/26/2006 |
| 7140182 | Energy storing engine The Energy Storing Engine is the mechanization of a hot air engine cycle. Constant temperature compression is achieved by using a multi-stage-intercooled compressor. Energy is stored in a compressed air tank. Heat is added at constant pressure by an exhaust gas to c... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7134270 | External combustion engine An external combustion engine comprising a body (8), at least one working chamber (18), combustion chamber (13), crankcase (21) and compression chamber (6), at least one working piston (20), compression piston (7) and... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7128030 | Combustion-engined setting tool A combustion-engined setting tool for driving fasting elements such as nails, bolts, pins in an object, includes a combustion chamber (13), a fuel source (11), a fuel conduit (12) connecting the fuel source (11) with combustion chamber ( | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121097 | Control strategy for flexible catalytic combustion system A control system for a catalytic combustion system on a gas turbine includes a flame preburner, a fuel injector positioned downstream of the preburner and a catalyst positioned downstream of the fuel injector. In such systems, a portion of the fuel combusts within t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114485 | Over expanded two-stroke engines A method for combusting fuel in an engine involving decreasing a first volume of a homogeneous lean fuel/air charge to a second volume, in two stages, while increasing the pressure and temperature of that charge (a compression process having a chosen compression rat... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7114334 | Impingement heat exchanger for stirling cycle machines Impingement style heat exchanger through which significant heat transfer improvements can be obtained. The heat exchanger of the present invention operates such that the bulk of heat transfer between the heat source and the working fluid occurs during the portion of... | 10/03/2006 |
