| 摘要 |
An internal combustion engine that uses stratification of gasses for compressing air is disclosed. The engine uses a combustion chamber that delivers products of combustion into an elongated compression chamber to drive the products of combustion against resident air within the elongated compression chamber, and push the resident air into a compressed air chamber. After driving the resident air into the compressed air chamber, the products of combustion are used with work-producing devices. Air is then driven into the compression chamber by an air pump or low-pressure compressor to once again fill the compression chamber with fresh air. The air in the compressed air chamber is then delivered to the combustion chamber and used for combustion. Fuel is delivered to the combustion chamber by a fuel injector, and ignited by the heat of the compressed air and/or a glow plug, spark plug, or similar ignition device. |
| 主权项 |
1. An internal combustion engine for delivering an exhaust gas to work producing expansion-engine for performing useful work with a resident gas, the internal combustion engine comprising:
an elongated compression chamber having a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to a combustion chamber that is in fluid communication with the compression chamber, the second end being connected to a compressed air chamber that has an inlet and an outlet, the inlet of the compressed air chamber being in fluid communication with the compression chamber through an entry valve that is located between the compression chamber and the inlet of compressed air chamber, the outlet of the compressed air chamber being in fluid communication with the combustion chamber through an inlet valve that is located between the combustion chamber and the compressed air chamber, the combustion chamber having a fuel inlet and a fuel igniter; and an exhaust valve that is in fluid communication with the compression chamber and adapted for releasing the exhaust gasses from the compression chamber, so that exhaust gasses created in the combustion chamber and released into the compression chamber may then be further expanded into the compression chamber to compress the resident gas, so that the compressed resident gas may then be captured for reuse in the next combustion-expansion/compression-exhaust-purge cycle, and then the exhaust gasses remaining in the compression chamber may be further expanded in a work producing expansion-engine for performing useful work. |
