Claims
- 1. A Circular Internal Thrust engine comprising:
- a rotor for internal fluid flow;
- a plurality of impeller vanes;
- a gas combustor rigidly attached to said rotor;
- a plurality of combustor vanes; and
- a counter rotator which includes one or more rings of power turbine blades;
- with said impeller vanes effective for ensuring that internal fluid rotates with said rotor;
- with said gas combustor, rotating with the rotor, capable of generating combustion gas;
- with said combustor vanes effective for directing fluid away from the rotor, causing the rotor to turn;
- with said counter rotator coaxially aligned with the rotor; and
- with said power turbine blades effective in extracting energy from fluid expelled from the rotor, causing the counter rotator to rotate opposite to the rotation of the rotor.
- 2. An engine according to claim 1, further comprising:
- a plurality of rings of compressor blades attached to and turned by the rotor; and
- a plurality of rings of compressor blades attached to and turned by said counter rotator;
- with said rings of compressor blades attached to the rotor interdigitated with said rings of compressor blades attached to the counter rotator; and
- with the compressor blades attached to both rotor and counter rotator effective for compressing intake gas for combustion in said gas combustor.
- 3. An engine according to claim 1, further comprising:
- a stator which includes one or more rings of stator blades;
- with said stator coaxially aligned with said rotor and said counter rotator;
- with the stator held stationary by external support;
- with said ring or rings of the stator interdigitated with said rings of power turbine blades of the counter rotator; and
- with said stator blades of the stator effective in redirecting fluid expelled from the rotor and flowing through the counter rotator power turbine blades to permit more energy to be extracted by subsequent rings of counter rotator power turbine blades.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 07/615,596, filed Nov. 19, 1990, now abandoned.
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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