Posted on 09/13/2008 10:24:53 PM PDT by djf
Please keep in mind that what you’ve just posted qualifies as “publication,” and you may be ineligible to obtain a patent on said idea if you delay filing your patent application more than 365 days from today.
From someone who has multiple patents ... in mechanical patents, there is a BIG DIFFERENCE between paper and working prototype. Invest in the time / effort / money to build a working model. Once you can show that it will work, you will have much more capital available to you. Until then, it’s just another (good) idea.
I hope you get rich, make tons of money, live a life of total luxury and donate portions of your largess to worthy charities.
Well, then, I suppose the clock is ticking!
Seriously, from everything I’ve heard, ALL PATENTS ARE BREAKABLE.
But I’ve sat on this for quite a while, and am extremely, extremely interested in what the actual operational characteristics would be, and the applications.
A buddy of mine who is a fairly good engineer in his own right takes a look and he practically started drooling...
“motorcycles...”
Just seems to me there is no way you could build this thing and have it not be far, far more efficient than a standard 4 or 6 cylinder engine. You never lose any of the angular momentum.
It doesn't really even need to work. Just call it "green," say that it will reduce carbon emmissions and hack into Amazon's database for the names of people who bought algore's books and movie.
These are the suckers who'll be willing to throw good money your way whether it actually works or not.
Neither do jet engines, but that makes them powerful...not fuel efficient.
I just forwarded this to myth busters
"Neither do jet engines, but that makes them powerful...not fuel efficient."Gas turbine engines are very fuel efficient per horsepower/pound.
With any other piston type engine, the piston goes up, then stops, then goes down. Each time it reverses direction, you are losing momentum.
Doesn’t happen in this design. The piston is continuously rotating right along in the rotor.
The actual angle of the cylinder in terms of the exposed face determines the operation characteristics.
I have designs of these with not even straight cylinders, but arced cylinders. And arced pistons.
Like I said, the varieties are huge. And each variety may suit a particular application.
The only questions I had when I first thought of it was whether it was able to be built and run a long time without extensive wear. But after discussions with a couple folks, I know it’s well within the tolerances of current technologies.
It is, for all intents and purposes, a passive rotor.
Need a new engine? Pull up to the joint, he pulls a bunch of bolts and yanks out this round, flat cylindrical shaped thing, and drops a new one in.
Presto chango.
Now I am getting 350-360 miles on a full tank. Cost of installation with my mechanic = $450 + $97 for the e-book!!
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The piston is in it’s rest position. When compressed, it pushes into the cylinder against the spring.
The rotor turns counterclockwise.
Where does combustion take place? Why the spring? It will just absorb the energy, and convert it to heat. Why?
How does the fuel/air fed to the system? Why a piston at all? Why not just a chamber or bucket of sorts, for the expanding gases to react against?
Why is the piston so small? How much energy transfer do you expect to get from such a small surface area?
How is this an improvement over a standard rotary engine?
The drawing is way to basic to make any kind of assessment.
When you build the prototype, you’ll find out why it won’t work.
I know, it was just a quick drawing I made. The entire unit rotates, and is housed in something else that has actual combustion chambers or compressed air feeds.
There is no way you can supply mechanical energy to the piston and compress it against the spring and NOT have the unit rotate on you.
That’s what it’s designed to do.
It looks like the design of a sliding vane pump.
Is it similar to the diagram in post 9?
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