Patent ID: 6070565
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: F01C,F02B

Abstract:
A rotary internal combustion engine comprising:an engine housing having a chamber therein having a base and intake and exhaust ports, and said housing having a cover attached thereto;a rotor having a plurality of vane control slots, said rotor being rotatably mounted in said engine housing chamber and having a pair of rotor support portions extending therefrom and rotatably mounted to said housing between said base and said cover, and said rotor having a hollow center portiona vane control shaft mounted in said rotor hollow center portion, said vane control shaft having two end portions, one said end portion being fixedly attached to said engine housing and said vane control shaft having at least two vane position control portions between said two end portions;a plurality of vanes slidably mounted in said rotor plurality of vane control slots for rotation with said rotor, each said vane having a pair of blades thereon and having a slotted yoke positioned therebetween and mounted over one said vane control shaft vane position control portion for controlling the sliding of each said pair of vane blades in each pair of said rotor slots in a predetermined path during the rotation of said rotor to draw in an air-fuel charge through said intake port and compress said air-fuel charge as said rotor rotates in said engine housing and to discharge exhaust through said exhaust port; andignition means positioned in said housing to ignite an air-fuel charge compressed by said rotating vanes; whereby a rotary engine slides a plurality of vanes in and out of a rotating rotor for compressing an intake air-fuel charge and ignites a compressed air-fuel to power a rotary internal combustion engine.