Internal combustion engine with central chamber

• US 5,743,220 A
• Filed: 07/29/1996
• Issued: 04/28/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Enrique Eduardo Guarner-Lans
• Original Assignee: Enrique Eduardo Guarner-Lans
• Inventors: Guarner-Lans, Enrique Eduardo
• Primary Examiner(s): Okonsky, David A.
• Application Number:
  US08/681,850
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 123/56.9, 123/56.1, 123/56.2, 123/56.3
• US Class Current: 123/56.9
• CPC Class Codes: F01B 3/045 by two or more curved surfaces, e.g. for two or more pistons in one cylinder
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 75/26 Engines with cylinder axes coaxial with, or parallel or inclined to, main-shaft axis; Engines with cylinder axes arranged substantially tangentially to a circle centred on main-shaft axis

Abstract

The present invention relates to a central combustion chamber engine consisting of an assembly formed by pistons that move from ends opposed to a combustion chamber, in which said chamber has intake and exhaust control means for the combustion gases (valves), ignition means or spark plug to induce the combustion of said gases and movement transmission means from the pistons activated by the expansion of the combustion gases in compression ratios similar to the ones of conventional internal combustion engines, towards the main engine shaft, which is located longitudinally along the same motor assembly, and rotates using sliding means, and achieving thus better operation performance, because it uses optimal pathways of the finite-time thermodynamic cycle, balance of the running engine and total symmetry with respect to the ignition point which will favor a more complete fuel combustion.

Claims

1. A central combustion chamber engine comprising:

an assembly formed by a main shaft;

circular means connected to the longitudinal ends of said shaft having radial guides;

axially opposing pistons connected to the circular means;

assemblies of valves for the intake, sealing and exhaust of combustion gases actioned by a cam assembly; and

central combustion chambers with corresponding ignition means and sealed expansion chambers wherein lateral sides of said combustion chambers are conformed mainly by the valve'"'"'s parallel faces and the head of the pistons.

2. The central combustion chamber engine of claim 1, wherein said valves for the intake, sealing and exhaust of combustion gases are positioned for movement perpendicular to the main shaft and to a radial axis between the central axis of the main shaft and the center of the combustion chamber.

3. The central combustion chamber engine of one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the diameter of said valves for the intake, sealing and exhaust of combustion gases are approximately equal to the piston'"'"'s diameter.

4. The central combustion chamber engine of claim 1, wherein an upper portion of each cylinder converges into a smaller diameter leading into the central combustion chamber.

5. The central combustion chamber engine of claim 3, wherein an upper portion of each cylinder converges into a smaller diameter leading into the central combustion chamber.

6. The central combustion chamber engine of claim 1, wherein the intake stroke is longer than the other strokes.

7. The central combustion chamber engine of claim 3, wherein the intake stroke is longer than the other strokes.

8. The central combustion chamber engine of claim 1, wherein the main shaft receives impulses of approximately sixty-six degrees.

9. The central combustion chamber engine of claim 1 having a plurality of central combustion chambers having said axially opposing pistons.

10. The central combustion chamber of claim 1, with additional cams to close the valves in a given combustion chamber when the pistons are moving toward said combustion chamber and open the valves in said combustion chamber when the pistons are moving away from said combustion chamber and whereby the main axle shaft is driven to convert the engine into an air compression system and conversion of compressed air into movement.