Patent ID: 7032565
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: F01B,F01C,F02B

Abstract:
1. A rotary combustion engine comprising; a pair of parallel hollow shafts, opposing flywheels mounted on each of the hollow shafts, each flywheel having a rotational axis which is parallel to the rotational axis of the opposing flywheel, drive connection means for engaging the pair of hollow shafts such that the shafts rotate at the same velocity but in opposite directions, each of the opposing flywheels including a plurality of equally spaced combustion chambers each having a fuel inlet that cooperatively receives fuel passing from an outlet in the corresponding hollow shaft as the flywheels and the hollow shafts rotate, a hollow pushrod support extending from each combustion chamber at an angle which is perpendicular to the rotational axis of the corresponding flywheel and toward the opposing flywheel, a hollow pushrod reciprocally mounted within each pushrod support for receiving combustion gases from the corresponding combustion chamber, each pushrod having an outer end portion extending from a periphery of the corresponding flywheel that includes a discharge opening therein through which the combustion gases are directed toward the opposing flywheel, and each pushrod having an elongated axis that extends parallel to but spaced at a distance from a line extending between the axes of rotation of the opposing flywheels such that exhaust gases exiting the pushrods is directed offset from the rotational axis of the opposing flywheel and in a direction to impinge on the end portion of an opposing pushrod of the opposing flywheel so as to drive the opposing flywheel in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the corresponding flywheel, resilient means for urging each pushrod toward an outermost position relative to the corresponding flywheel, and said outer end portions of the pushrods of one of said flywheels having a configuration to cooperatively receive the outer end portion of the opposing flywheel as the flywheels are driven in rotation by the combustion gases passing from the discharge openings of the pushrods.