Patent Application
20110030652
The Internal Rotation Inertial Combustion Engine, here on referred to as the IRICE, uses rotational pistons, here forth referred to as a cystons, to achieve torque while expending the kinetic energy of the moving cyston(s) to more efficiently preform the compression and exhaust stages of a conventional four stroke piston engine. The IRICE consist of two or more adjacent cystons, each symmetric around their aligned centers of gravity, contained within the housing, which alternate their motions to produce work. The IRICE is more efficient than a conventional piston engine by negating loses caused by reciprocation of the pistons.
The IRICE contains two or more adjacent cystons with at least one head per cyston. These heads create chambers by separating a continuous volume, like a toroid, contained with in the housing. Cystons alternate their motions via a powering force, called the pf, with in at least one chamber, the powering chamber(s), causing the heads that form said chamber to move away from one another. At any time at least one head is static in relation to the other, the SIP cyston, and exhorting it's force against a part of housing called the clampcan, which may be mounted to the housing. The other cyston that forms the powering chamber will therefore be in motion in relation to the SIP cyston and is the MOP cyston. The MOP cyston exhorts it's force against the pushcan. It is the pushcan where torque is created to preform the work output. Pf, both used and unused, is moved through chambers via inlets and outlets respectfully.
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The field of this invention includes any application where torque or current is desired. It is the wide range in engine sizing that makes this engine design near limitless in it's application. Although the inventor seeks to file this invention under field of combustion engines, he is well aware of the potential for retro-fitting this design to function as either a pneumatic drive, a pump, an electric motor or power generator or combination of all.
Throughout written history, man has used power in the form of torque to do work. The application of such work has gone through revolutionary improvements with in the last few hundred years. It has gone from being powered by animal input, which was the case since it's infancy, to being produced by fossil fuels and nuclear power in the last hundred years or so. Although these later forms of power produce greater output, these application have generated worries to mankind in the form of environmental concerns. This invention hopes to help in these concerns by decreasing consumption by increasing efficiency over the conventional piston driven engines that exist today.
The origin of the invention began when the question was posted to the inventor, ‘How can the inefficiency of the conventional internal combustion engine be improved through the elimination of piston reciprocation?’. It was the quest to come up with a better kind of engine that lead to this invention. The IRICE's main improvement over other patented rotary engines is in it compression ratio. It is through these higher compression ratios that the inventor hopes that this invention can some day run off of low octane fuels, diesel, bio-fuels and/or even alcohols.
One of the problems with the Wankel rotary engine deals with the sealing off of adjacent combustion chambers with in the engine housing. Patents have been issued in the past to improve upon the original engine patent by addressing this seal issue. This invention improves upon the Wankel engine by better separating the combustion chambers with in the engine housing while offering a mechanism that can be distinctively different from the patent issued to Wankel over a half century ago. The inventor claims separation from all Wankel patents issued because discovery of the Wankel patent came post concert of the cyston design & the inventor believes the difference in the two designs is obvious.
It was later in the conception of the IRICE that methods of powering this style of engine was broadened to include such methods as steam and electromagnetic flux. The concept of a two cyston two headed style was also found to be to limiting to the multiple applications that this engine style can be utilized to preform. Therefore, previously envisioned claims were eliminated and others were built upon to produce this patent that exist now.
In brief the IRICE is simply cyclic piston rotary engine that is more efficient than conventional internal combustion engines.
The IRICE shown in the drawing is an example of a 2 cyston IRICE with 2 heads per cyston, 18 head-triggered valued inlets & outlets, a mounted outside clampcan and inner pushcan with ratcheted contact-triggered MOP & SIP grips. This particular representation of the IRICE is an equivalent of a gasoline 4-stoke engine but does not aim to limit the claims of this patent to either 4-stoke engines, gasoline as a pf or engines as opposed to generators. It is simply for the purposes of IRICE mechanics explanation.
It is also worth noting that all angle measurements within this description zero at the top of referenced images (12 o'clock) and sweep in a clockwise direction. An additional point of interest is that although the chambers mentioned change in both volume & position on the drawings, they do not change in their order. In
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In this particular case of IRICE geometry, both cystons have now moved 160° each, moving the pushcan 320°. Thus by the time all chambers have fired, 1 cycle, the pushcan has been moved 640° (
The IRICE engine can be used in a host of current and future applications. Although the inventor envisions this engine to primary serve as a more efficient mean of powering automobiles, it can also be used in any application where torque is used to do work or conventional power generators are needed. The inventor also believes that the IRICE engine can be used in such applications as, 2-wheeled drive motorcycles, in-wheel engines, free lane aerial roadsters and kinetic impulse deep space engines, to name a few. The inventor prefers that this invention be used in a way that both benefits the whole of mankind whilst simultaneously augmenting the inventor with profligacy.
