Rotary internal combustion engine

Patent · Mon Feb 24 23:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:5327426

Murray, J L; Mosca, J O

This patent describes a rotary internal combustion engine. It includes a housing; a cam track internally disposed within the housing and adapted to receive a cam follower; an engine block disposed within the housing, the engine block being relatively rotatable within the housing about a central axis; means connectable to an external drive member for translating the relative rotation of the engine block with respect to the housing into useful work; at least one radially arranged cylinder assembly on the block, each cylinder assembly including a cylinder having a longitudinal axis extending generally radially outwardly from the rotational axis of the block, the cylinder including means defining an end wall, a piston member disposed within the cylinder and adapted to reciprocate within the cylinder; the piston, cylinder and cylinder end wall together.

• Assignee: Jerome L. Murray, Budd Lake, NJ (United States)
• Patent Number(s): A; US 5090372
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-725221
• OSTI ID: 5327426
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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