Stator-rotor piston internal combustion engine
This patent describes a stator-rotor piston internal combustion engine, comprising: a pair of mirror-image stator halves having an inner section in abutment and operatively connected to one another; cylinders disposed in an outer section of the stator halves, the stator halves having an equal number of cylinders with one another, each cylinder having, a piston disposed therein, a single connecting rod operatively connected at one end to the piston; an individual crankshaft for each piston operatively connected to another end of a respective one of the connecting rods, and a drive gear mounted coaxially with each of the crankshafts; a flat rotor connected to an output engine shaft via a connection means, the rotor being disposed between and within the stator halves; a pair of internal gear rings surrounded by the rotor, one fixed to each side of the rotor being spaced apart and on opposite sides of the connecting means, the gear rings having gear teeth on a radially inner portion thereof; a pair of spaced apart auxiliary gears disposed radially inwardly, a pair of annular plates, one each mounted between each stator half and the rotor adjacent an outwardly facing surface of a respective one of the internal ring gears; and a pair of engine lids, one each mounted on an outer side, away from the rotor, of each stator half.
- Assignee:
- NOV; NOV-85-029612; EDB-86-192458
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4616604
- OSTI ID:
- 5030790
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 28 Sep 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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