Rotary internal combustion engine

Patent · Tue May 26 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:6484414

Hansen, C N

A rotary internal combustion engine is described comprising: housing means having an inside surface surrounding chamber means for accommodating a compressed combustible air and fuel mixture. The housing means have intake port means and exhaust port means. Means for directing a supply of an air and fuel mixture to the chamber means comprises a rotary valve member having a passage sequentially open to the chamber means and open to a supply of an air and fuel mixture under pressure. Rotor means rotatably mount on the housing means located within the chamber means. First vane means movably mount on the rotor means. First means are operable to move the first valve means to a contiguous sealing relation with the inside surface during rotation of the rotor means. Second vane means are movably mounted on the housing means to separate the intake port means from the exhaust port means. Second means are operable to move the second vane means to a contiguous sealing relation with the rotor means.

• Assignee: Hansen Engine Corp., Minnetonka, MN
• Patent Number(s): US 4667468
• OSTI ID: 6484414
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CONTROL EQUIPMENT
DESIGN
DISPERSIONS
ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
EXHAUST SYSTEMS
FLOW REGULATORS
FLUID FLOW
FUEL-AIR RATIO
GAS FLOW
HEAT ENGINES
IGNITION SYSTEMS
INTAKE STRUCTURES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
MIXTURES
OPERATION
ROTARY ENGINES
ROTORS
VALVES