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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7273030 | Crankshaft support structure of internal combustion engine A crankshaft support structure of an internal combustion engine, comprising a crankshaft having journal portions a saddle-shaped bearing caps respectively mounted on an undersurfaces of the journal support bases formed in a lower portion of the cylinder block in suc... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7152568 | Internal combustion engine A cylinder block for an internal combustion engine which, in use, supports a rotary crankshaft 40, the block having pairs of opposed lock width surfaces 37 formed thereon for forming an interference fit with respective co-operating lock width surfaces ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 5435232 | Multi-connecting rod reciprocating machine A reciprocating piston (2) without any skirt is stabilized throughout its reciprocating motion by two or more connecting rods (4) connected between parallel spaced apart small ends (10) and parallel spaced apart crankshafts (5).... | 07/25/1995 |
| 4553473 | Valve actuating mechanism for engines A DOHC engine of the V-type has two cylinder heads each detachably secured to a cylinder block. A crank shaft on the block drives two intermediate shafts, one on each cylinder head, by means of an endless flexible element. An additional flexible endless e... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4112826 | Variable displacement reciprocating piston machine Variable displacement reciprocating piston engine arrangements are disclosed wherein pistons drive a variable displacement oscillating rocker member connected with an oscillating lever that in turn drives a rotating shaft through a crank mechanism. The ro... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4094227 | Fluid motor An opposed piston fluid motor having a pair of angularly related cylinders rigidly joined at adjacent ends in a common plane is mounted above a base with the common plane normal to the base and the cylinders inclined downwardly from the common plane towar... | 06/13/1978 |
| 3932989 | Resonant gas-expansion engine with hydraulic energy conversion An illustrative system is disclosed for use as a rotary-drive engine, utilizing combustible fuel and a hydraulic system of energy conversion. An engine block defines a pair of expansion cylinders (combustion chambers) and an associated concentric pair of ... | 01/20/1976 |
