Shaft engine

• US 5,351,659 A
• Filed: 12/14/1993
• Issued: 10/04/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kuo-An Chao
• Original Assignee: Kuo-An Chao
• Inventors: Chao, Kuo-An
• Primary Examiner(s): Argenbright, Tony M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCMAHON, MARGUERITE J
• Application Number:
  US08/167,588
• Time in Patent Office: 294 Days
• Field of Search: 123/61 R, 123/73 AA, 123/65 R, 123/61 V
• US Class Current: 123/61.00R
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 1/04 with fuel-air mixture admission into cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 43/00 Engines characterised by operating on gaseous fuels; Plants including such engines engines characterised by the gas-air charge being ignited by compression ignition of an additional fuel F02B7/06; engines convertible from gas to other fuel consumption F02B69/04
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 75/002 Double acting engines
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/30 Use of alternative fuels, e.g. biofuels

Abstract

A shaft engine including a piston moved in a cylinder to reciprocate at least one cylinder shaft causing it to turn a crank shaft, the at least one cylinder shaft having a respective longitudinal air passage linked to either raised air chamber on the cylinder through a respective extension tube on either raised air chamber for sending exhaust gas out of the cylinder.

Claims

1. A shaft engine comprising a cylinder having at least one spark plug and at least one raised air chamber, each raised air chamber having an extension tube extending outwardly from said cylinder, a piston moved up and down in said cylinder by means of the ignition of a fuel gas introduced into said cylinder, the ignition being accomplished by said spark plug, at least one cylinder shaft respectively received in said at least one raised air chamber and the corresponding extension tube, said cylinder shaft being reciprocated by said piston to move a crank shaft outside said cylinder, each cylinder shaft being peripherally mounted with seal rings to seal the gap between the extension tube in which it is mounted and said cylinder shaft having a longitudinal air passage which communicates, as the piston reciprocates, with the raised air chamber for exhausting gas from said cylinder to the surrounding atmosphere.

2. The shaft engine of claim 1 wherein said cylinder comprises a fuel gas intake pipe in the middle at one lateral side;

said at least one cylinder shaft includes two first cylinder shafts linked for sending out exhaust gas and two second cylinder shafts for cooling and lubrication, each first cylinder shaft comprising a first radial air hole near a top end thereof and a second radial air hole near a lower end thereof;

each extension tube has two radial through holes at different elevations respectively communicated with the raised air chamber, the radial through holes on the extension tube being closed upon the down stroke of said first cylinder shafts and opened upon the up stroke.

3. The shaft engine of claim 2 wherein said second cylinder shafts include a cylinder shaft having an upper longitudinal oil passage at its top linked to an inside space of said piston through a radial through hole thereof, and a second having a lower longitudinal oil passage at its bottom linked to said inside space of said piston through a radial through hole thereof.

4. The shaft engine of claim 2 wherein said piston is comprised of two symmetrical parts spaced at different elevations by an oil space;

said second cylinder shafts include a cylinder shaft having an upper longitudinal oil passage at its top linked to the oil space between the two symmetrical parts of said piston through a radial through hole thereof, and a second cylinder shaft having a lower longitudinal oil passage at its bottom linked to the oil space between the two symmetrical parts of said piston through a radial through hole thereof.

5. The shaft engine of claim 2 wherein said first cylinder shafts include a cylinder shaft having a longitudinal air passage for guiding a fuel gas into said cylinder, and the other cylinder shaft having a longitudinal air passage for sending exhaust gas out of said cylinder.

6. The shaft engine of claim 1 wherein said at least one cylinder shaft includes two cylinder shafts, one cylinder shaft having a longitudinal air passage for guiding a fuel gas into said cylinder, and the other cylinder shaft having a longitudinal air passage for sending exhaust gas out of said cylinder;

said at least one spark plug includes only one spark plug mounted on said cylinder at one end.

7. The shaft engine of claim 6 wherein the two cylinder shafts are linked by a transverse tube outside said cylinder for sending exhaust gas out of said cylinder;

said cylinder having a fuel gas intake pipe at one lateral side thereof.