Optimized high pressure internal combustion engines
First Claim
1. An internal combustion engine comprising an engine housing including a cylinder with a circular cross section with opposed pistons reciprocal in the cylinder, and at least one fuel injector for injecting fuel into the cylinder, the cylinder having:
- a central regional combustion chamber comprising a constricted portion of the cylinder with a central bore open to the opposed pistons for concentrating and mixing air compressed by the pistons and fuel injected by the injector,wherein the constricted portion of the cylinder is formed with a constriction collar having side faces, wherein the pistons each have a piston head with a top face portion that positions opposite and proximate one of the side faces when the pistons are at top dead center, wherein a squish of compressed air is forced from between the side face of the collar and the top face of the piston to improve turbulent mixing of fuel injected into the central regional combustion chamber, and wherein the collar forms a central bore having a cross sectional area that is non-circular such that the squish of compressed air forced from between the side face of the collar and the top face of the piston is not uniformly radially directed.
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An improved high pressure, high r.p.m. engine having a single cylinder with opposed pistons reciprocating in the cylinder and each piston being connected to dual connecting rods that are connected to counterrotating crankshafts, the cylinder having a central collar between the heads of the opposed pistons that form a specially configured combustion chamber for high turbulence mixture of air and fuel injected from a plurality of fuel injectors peripherally arranged around the cylinder, the pistons being operated with a cycle phase shift to prolong the period of peak compression and provide a double squish action for improved fuel air mixture, the air being supplied under high compression from a counterrotating turboblower assembly that is in part driven by the engine drive train and in part driven by the expansion gases of the combustion process, the engine being provided with specially designed high pressure pistons that have an axially symmetrical piston head and a spherical bearing mount to a wrist pin assembly having dual rolling wrist pins for eliminating side thrust of the piston head and maximizing the projected surface area for transmission of piston thrust forces from a piston head to the connecting rods and crankshafts.
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30 Claims
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1. An internal combustion engine comprising an engine housing including a cylinder with a circular cross section with opposed pistons reciprocal in the cylinder, and at least one fuel injector for injecting fuel into the cylinder, the cylinder having:
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a central regional combustion chamber comprising a constricted portion of the cylinder with a central bore open to the opposed pistons for concentrating and mixing air compressed by the pistons and fuel injected by the injector, wherein the constricted portion of the cylinder is formed with a constriction collar having side faces, wherein the pistons each have a piston head with a top face portion that positions opposite and proximate one of the side faces when the pistons are at top dead center, wherein a squish of compressed air is forced from between the side face of the collar and the top face of the piston to improve turbulent mixing of fuel injected into the central regional combustion chamber, and wherein the collar forms a central bore having a cross sectional area that is non-circular such that the squish of compressed air forced from between the side face of the collar and the top face of the piston is not uniformly radially directed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An internal combustion engine comprising an engine housing including a cylinder with opposed pistons reciprocal in the cylinder, and at least one fuel injector for injecting fuel into the cylinder, the cylinder having:
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a central regional combustion chamber comprising a constricted portion of the cylinder with a central bore open to the opposed pistons for concentrating and mixing air compressed by the pistons and fuel injected by the injector, wherein the constricted portion of the cylinder is formed with a constriction collar having side faces, wherein the pistons each have a piston head with a top face portion that positions opposite and proximate one of the side faces when the pistons are at top dead center, wherein a squish of compressed air is forced from between the side face of the collar and the top face of the piston to improve turbulent mixing of fuel injected into the central regional combustion chamber, and wherein the cylinder has intake ports proximate the top face portion of the piston head of one of the pistons when that piston is at bottom dead center and the cylinder, has exhaust ports proximate the top face portion of the other piston when that piston is at bottom dead center, the cylinder, the intake ports, and the exhaust ports each having an effective cross sectional area, wherein the collar forms a central bore with a cross sectional area which is smaller than the effective cross sectional area of the cylinder and larger than the effective cross sectional area of the intake ports which in turn is larger than the cross sectional area of the exhaust ports.
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10. An internal combustion engine comprising an engine housing including a cylinder with opposed pistons reciprocal in the cylinder, and at least one fuel injector for injecting fuel into the cylinder, the cylinder having:
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a central regional combustion chamber comprising a constricted portion of the cylinder with a central bore open to the opposed pistons for concentrating and mixing air compressed by the pistons and fuel injected by the injector, wherein the constricted portion of the cylinder is formed with a construction collar having side faces, wherein the pistons each have a piston head with a top face portion that positions opposite and proximate one of the side faces when the pistons are at top dead center, wherein a squish of compressed air is forced from between the side face of the collar and the top face of the piston to improve turbulent mixing of fuel injected into the central regional combustion chamber, wherein the internal combustion engine includes a first crank assembly connected to one of the opposed pistons and a second crank assembly connected to the other of the opposed pistons and the crank assemblies each have a cycle of operation with one cycle having a phase shift from the other cycle, wherein one piston has a top face portion that positions proximate the opposite side face of the constriction collar prior to the positioning of the top face portion of the other piston proximate to the other side face of the constriction collar wherein a sequential double squish of compressed air is forced from between the respective side faces of the collar and the top face portions of the pistons for further improved turbulent mixing of fuel injected into the central combustion chamber, and wherein the engine includes at least one additional fuel injector and means for sequentially injecting fuel into the central regional combustion chamber in timed coordination with the sequential double squish of compressed air in the cylinder with one fuel injector injecting fuel proximate the time of the first piston squish and with the other fuel injector injecting fuel proximate the time of the second piston squish. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An internal combustion engine comprising an engine housing including a cylinder with opposed pistons reciprocal in the cylinder, and at least one fuel injector for injecting fuel into the cylinder,
a central regional combustion chamber comprising a constricted portion of the cylinder with a central bore open to the opposed pistons for concentrating and mixing air compressed, by the pistons and fuel injected by the injector, and comprising further a dual connecting rod assembly connected to each of the opposed pistons each connecting rod assembly having two connecting rods connected to counterrotating crank shafts, each connecting rod having a wrist pin which in a paired arrangement form dual, rolling contact, wrist pins engageable as a pair with each piston, wherein the pistons have a piston assembly including: -
an axially symmetrical piston head with a top face, a cylindrical side skirt and an internal, substantially spherical bearing surface; a bearing structure having a complimentary spherical bearing surface in part slidably engageable with the spherical bearing surface of the head and including an internal contact bearing thrust surface engaging side by side, dual wrist pins in rolling contact with one another, and having further, spaced bridge sections with a bearing surface seating end portions of the dual wrist pins; and
,a cylindrical closing skirt connected to the piston head side skirt, with an internal bearing surface engageable with the spherical bearing surface of the bearing structure, wherein the bearing structure has limited articulation with reference to the piston head and the closing skirt, and, the connecting rod wrist pins are seated in mutual rolling contact within the bearing structure and are articulatable therein. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. In an internal combustion engine having a piston cylinder, spaced first and second counter-rotating crank shafts, first and second connecting rods having first ends connected to the first and second crank shafts and second ends having dual cylindrical wrist pins connected thereto, an improved piston assembly reciprocal in the piston cylinder comprising:
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an axially symmetrical piston head having a top face, a cylindrical side skirt and an internal spherical bearing surface; a bearing structure having an upper spherical bearing surface in engagement with the spherical bearing surface of the piston head, a central bearing surface in engagement with the wrist pins arranged side by side in the bearing structure in mutual rolling contact with one another, and a lower spherical bearing surface; and
,an axially symmetrical closing skirt having means for connecting the closing skirt to the piston head, the closing skirt having an outer cylindrical surface and an inner spherical bearing surface in engagement with the lower spherical bearing surface of the bearing structure, wherein the piston head and closing skirt are articulatable on the bearing structure and, in combination, are axially symmetrical for uniform deformation by thermal and structural stress. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A unitary, counterrotating turboblower in combination with an internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder with at least one piston reciprocal in the cylinder wherein the piston and cylinder in part form a working combustion chamber, an air intake system, a combustion gas exhaust system, and a drive train connected to the piston, the turboblower comprising:
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a first compressor rotor with a first shaft connectable to the drive train of the engine and operable in a first rotary direction for delivering compressed air to the intake system of the engine, a second compressor rotor with a second shaft, a turbine rotor connected to the second shaft of the second compressor rotor, the turbine rotor communicating with the combustion gas exhaust system and driving the second compressor rotor in a rotary direction counter to the rotation of the first compressor rotor by expanding exhaust gases in the turbine rotor with the compressor rotors having a common axis of rotation and being staged for compressing air for the engine wherein air compressed by one compressor rotor rotating in one direction is dischargeable directly to the other counterrotating compressor rotor. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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