Patent ID: 6135743
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: F04C

Abstract:
In a rotary-piston mechanism including, a housing with a spherical chamber, accommodating a rotary-piston group, configured as a modified Hooke joint, shafts of the joint being directed towards the interior of the housing, shafts of the joint, perpendicular to axes thereof, being mounted in sleeves with articulated joints in a cruciform, having a spherical shape, parts of articulated joints of its axes with shafts being located in the central part of the cruciform, one on each axis, the parts having the shape of concave surfaces of a rotating girdling spherical contour of the cruciform along diametrical lines in planes positioned at an angle with respect to each other and accommodating the sleeves of the shafts, the sleeves of the shafts being arc-shaped half-sleeves, and the cruciform functionally representing a rotor of the rotary-piston mechanism, while the arc-shaped half-sleeves are double pistons of the said mechanism, the improvement comprising:the housing being shaped as a disc, and said housing being divided into two parts by a plane, defined by axes of the shafts.