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ET-MOTOR : MODULAR REVOLVING CYLINDER ENGINE WITH TANGENTIAL COMBUSTION
Brevet français N° FR 0306455    /    European Patent Office n° EP 1423588    /     USA Application n° 10/515904
CLAIMS
1. A modular revolving engine with tangential explosions, with two intake flywheels (Va) or one intake flywheel (Va) and a driving flywheel (Vm), perfectly in line, a slide-free driving system (1) which makes them rotatably interdependent by causing them to rotate in opposite directions to each other in a same plane perpendicular to their respective axes, this engine being characterized in that it comprises:
- groups of components essential for optimum recovery of the explosion power, distributed at perfectly equal intervals on the periphery of each flywheel,
- each group being positioned so that its own axis is parallel to the line passing through the center of each flywheel at a distance from the latter, strictly identical for all the groups,
- these groups of components consisting of pushrod supports (5) communicating with their explosion chamber (4), sliding hollow pushrods with a ball head end (7) or with a half-shell head end (7B), compression springs (6),
- these groups being locked on each flywheel so that each ball end of the pushrod of the group of one flywheel always comes and interlocks during rotation with the half-shell end of the pushrod of the matching group of the other flywheel,
- the whole being completed by a system acting on each pushrod, limiting its linear stroke, a system preventing it from rotating on itself, a system limiting the centrifugal force which it undergoes during the rotation of the flywheel, an ignition system,
- each intake flywheel freely rotating via hubs or bearings on its hollow shaft (9) which includes an intake slot (2), this flywheel including chamber slots (3),
- one of the flywheels including said sliding hollow pushrods with a ball head (7), the other flywheel including said hollow sliding pushrods with a half-shell head (7B).
2. The engine according to claim 1, characterized in that, the system limiting the centrifugal force on each pushrod is a rocker (16) with a counterweight (12) with spring return (22), oscillating by means of an axis (14) on a yoke (15) with a lug (21).
3. The engine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the stroke of the pushrods is either limited by a pin (20) fixed on the pushrod holder and penetrating the housing of suitable length, of the pushrod, or by a lug (21) existing on the yoke (15) limiting the oscillation of the rocker and at the same time the stroke of the pushrod, or by a flange on the front portion of the pushrod, stopped by a cap also including a smaller port, which is fixed on the pushrod support.
4. The engine according to claim 3, characterized in that the rotation of the pushrods is either prevented by the pin (20) or by the fork of the rocker (16) clamping on either side, flats provided on each pushrod body or by the fact that the pushrod bodies have a tab in a housing or that their section is partly square or hexagonal, with sliding into a port of the pushrod support, with a matching section.
5. The engine according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the pushrods (7, 7B) and the intake shafts (9) on their cylindrical portion and the intake shaft (9) on the periphery of its slot (2), include sealing components.
6. The engine according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the ends of the pushrods ducts include a funnel-shaped throat acting as a nozzle.
7. The engine according to claim 1, characterized in that the driving of the flywheels (1) occurs through gears or gear trains, with variable thicknesses and sizes, two by two, and also with variable gear teeth, two by two.
8. The engine according to claim 1, characterized in that the engine includes either a single module or batteries of several modules, angularly shifted with respect to the previous one in order to obtain turbine- like rotating groups, or unshifted in order to obtain a multiplied resultant explosion force, or a mix of shifted and unshifted modules.
9. The engine according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that it may be operated in either direction of rotation.

   
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