Internal combustion propulsion engine

Patent · Tue Jul 05 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6873880

Sing, P

An internal combustion propulsion engine is described which includes: a spherical engine body having an internal combustion chamber, the engine body being provided with a radially projecting nozzle which has an outwardly divergent conical exhaust opening centrally disposed therein, the nozzle being an extension in the wall of the engine body; a plurality of spaced support struts attached to and outwardly projecting from the spherical engine body parallel to the central axis of the exhaust opening in the nozzle; a planar annular ring carried by the plurality of support struts, the annular ring being fixedly spaced from the projecting nozzle and being positioned so that its plane is orthogonal to the central axis of the conical exhaust opening; a plurality of cross-rib members attached to, extending radially inwardly from, and coplanar with, the annular ring, the cross-rib members being joined at the center of the annular ring; a piston cylinder fixedly mounted centrally on the plurality of cross-rib members coaxially with and facing the exhaust opening in spaced relation thereto.

• Assignee: NOV; EDB-88-178008; NOV-88-027063
• Patent Number(s): US 4754602
• OSTI ID: 6873880
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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COMBUSTION CHAMBERS
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MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
PROPULSION
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
SUPPORTS