Rotary Engine with Rotating Fuel and Exhaust Distributor

摘要

An internal combustion engine having combustion chambers that rotate about a main shaft axis in a step-wise manner. A first and second rotor each have elongate pistons that are interdigitated so that when one rotor rotates with respect to the other rotor, some combustion chambers between the interdigitated pistons decrease in volume and other combustion chambers increase in volume. Fuel mixture and exhaust apparatus forms one end wall of the combustion chambers to feed a fuel mixture to the increasing-volume chambers and extract the exhaust gasses from other decreasing-volume chambers. The fuel mixture and exhaust apparatus rotates in a direction opposite the first and second rotors, and twice the rotational rate of such rotors.

主权项

1. An internal combustion engine, comprising:
a main shaft rotatable in a first rotary direction for delivering torque to a load; a first rotor having pistons; a second rotor having pistons interleaved with the pistons of the first rotor; a respective combustion chamber located between the pistons of said first rotor and the pistons of said second rotor, each combustion chamber increasing in volume and decreasing in volume as the first rotor and the second rotors rotate in said first rotary direction and drive said main shaft, and each said combustion chamber undergoing an intake cycle, a compression cycle, an ignition cycle and an exhaust cycle; and a fuel and exhaust distributor forming a wall to the combustion chambers, said fuel and exhaust distributor having a fuel port and an exhaust port, and said fuel and exhaust distributor rotatable in a rotary direction opposite to the first rotary direction of said main shaft to align the fuel port with combustion chambers that are increasing in volume and to align the exhaust port with combustion chambers that are decreasing in volume.