Rotating Internal Combustion Engine Pyramidal Chamber Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional internal combustion engines face limitations in achieving high torque and horsepower while minimizing fuel consumption and emissions, particularly due to inefficiencies in combustion chamber design and fuel usage.
Innovation Solution
A rotating internal combustion engine with a novel combustion chamber design featuring a rotor with multiple pyramidal-shaped combustion chambers around its circumference, utilizing an external compressor for pressurized air and high-pressure fuel injection, allowing for simultaneous firing impulses and efficient combustion pressure usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If conventional combustion chamber design is used, then engine structure is simple, but torque and horsepower are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The combustion chamber is divided into multiple pyramidal chambers arranged around the rotor circumference, with each chamber capable of simultaneous firing. This segmentation allows multiple power strokes to occur concurrently, significantly increasing torque and horsepower output while maintaining a relatively simple rotating engine structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from conventional linear piston motion to rotational movement with pyramidal chambers arranged circumferentially around the rotor. This dimensional change from reciprocating to rotational architecture enables continuous power delivery and higher power density, resolving the contradiction between power output and structural simplicity.
2Power
If fuel consumption is reduced, then emissions are lower, but torque and horsepower decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The rotating engine design with multiple pyramidal chambers enables continuous combustion and power delivery throughout the rotation cycle. Multiple chambers fire simultaneously or in rapid sequence, ensuring continuous useful action that maintains high torque and horsepower output while improving fuel efficiency through optimized combustion continuity.
Solution Approach 2:
The pyramidal chamber geometry and rotational motion parameters are optimized to improve combustion efficiency and fuel burn completeness. The extended effective torque moments and higher compression ratios achieved through the pyramidal design allow more complete fuel utilization, producing more power per unit of fuel consumed and reducing emissions.
3Power
If combustion efficiency is improved, then power output increases, but fuel consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The external compressor pre-compresses the oxidant before it enters the pyramidal combustion chambers, and high-pressure fuel injection systems prepare the fuel for optimal combustion. These preliminary actions ensure that when combustion occurs, it is highly efficient and complete, maximizing power output while minimizing fuel consumption through optimized air-fuel mixing and compression before the power stroke.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The engine achieves higher torque and horsepower with reduced fuel consumption and cleaner emissions by optimizing combustion efficiency through the pyramidal chamber design and simultaneous firing, leading to improved power output and reduced emissions.
Implementation Method 1
The present internal combustion engine further provides these improvements while emitting cleaner emissions for the volume of fuel consumed
Implementation Method 2
the present teachings of the internal combustion engine employ an external, yet attached, compressor to supply compressed oxidant
Implementation Method 3
high pressure fuel injection supplying a preferred fuel to the engine
Data Source
AI summary
An engine design of a rotating pistonless, non-reciprocating internal combustion engine having an engine block having a drive chamber formed in an interior combustion surface having a drive surface and a sloped transitionary portion, and a rotor rotatably supported within the engine block. The rotor having a radially extending disc portion having a plurality of rotor combustion chambers. Each of the rotor combustion chambers has a pyramidal-shaped volume having a driven surface and a sloped transitionary portion, wherein combustion pressure in the rotor combustion chamber and drive chamber is exerted upon the drive surface of the drive chamber and the driven surface of the rotor combustion chamber resulting in driven rotation of the rotor.