Rotating cylinder block piston-cylinder engine
Patent
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OSTI ID:5527013
A rotating cylinder block piston-cylinder engine is described comprising: a stator means; a hollow rotor housing rotatably mounted on the stator means for rotation around a rotor housing axis of rotation; a plurality of cylinders radially positioned in the peripheral wall of the hollow rotor housing; a piston slidable in each of the cylinders and having a piston rod rigidly mounted thereon and extending radially of the rotor into the hollow rotor housing; means connected to the cylinders and the pistons therein for supplying a gas into the cylinders which is caused to expand for driving pistons radially inwardly in the cylinders and for exhausting the expanded gas from the cylinders; a rotatable reaction member in the hollow rotor housing and rotatably mounted on the stator means for rotation around a fixed axis offset from the rotor housing axis of rotation and having radially spaced peripherally extending rolling engagement surfaces beyond the periphery thereof.
- Assignee:
- Future Power, Inc., Greeley, CO
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4836149
- OSTI ID:
- 5527013
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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