Wankel Super Tec Gmbh

Mahle König Kommanditgesellschaft Gmbh & Co

Manfred Mäthner

Wolfgang Baier

Dankwart Eiermann

Michael Schirmer

Rudolf Klotz

Karlheinz Langner

A rotary combustion engine includes a peripheral housing, side housing plates, a piston, and an eccentric shaft, where the triangular piston mounted on the eccentric shaft rotates between the side plates around an epitrochoidal orbit with a long and short axis inside the housing to form three working spaces, where the gas exchange is controlled by an intake port and an exhaust port. Fuel is supplied by an injection nozzle located on the short axis of the peripheral housing, and combustion is initiated by a spark plug located shortly after the injection nozzle in the housing relative to the direction of rotation of the piston. Nozzle bores in the injection nozzle are designed in such a way that, in conjunction with a multi-fuel injection system, they guarantee reliable ignition of the fuel during each cycle.

Rotary combustion engine, designed for diesel fuel

A rotary combustion engine includes a peripheral housing, a front housing plate, a rear housing plate, a piston, and an eccentric shaft, where the piston rotates to form three working spaces separated from each other by the tips of the piston. Shaft seals and piston seals seal off the oil-carrying interior space of the internal combustion engine, and the piston is sealed off against the front and rear housing plates by arcuate strips, which are bounded radially on the inside by an envelope curve. The gas forming in the working space during the combustion phase is under high pressure. Some of this gas leaks around the arcuate strips and flows inward along the flat surfaces of the front and rear plates by way of ring-shaped channels in the piston, thus arriving in recessed areas inside the envelope curves, from which it is then escapes through vent channels.

Rotary combustion engine with an improved inner seal

An eccentric shaft for an internal combustion engine, especially for a rotary combustion engine, the working unit of which comprises essentially a peripheral housing, side housing plates, and a triangular piston mounted on an eccentric of an eccentric shaft, the tips of the piston moving along an epitrochoidal orbit inside the peripheral housing to form three separate working spaces, where the rotary combustion engine can have several working units. The eccentric shaft consists of several parts, which have radial teeth at their ends, by means of which these shaft parts can be connected positively to each other by the use of a tie rod. In rotary piston engines with more than one working unit, as many inner shaft parts of identical design as there are working units can be used in modular fashion to construct the eccentric shaft.

Eccentric shaft for an internal combustion engine

A rotary combustion engine with one or more working units, which include a peripheral housing, a front housing plate, a rear housing plate on the output side, an eccentric shaft, and a piston, where the eccentric shaft includes an eccentric, and front and rear sealing parts. Lubricating oil is conveyed by an oil pump from an oil tank through the eccentric shaft to first and second main bearings, and to an eccentric bearing, from which a bevel on the front sealing part conveys it to a piston space, from which it is conveyed by way of a bevel on the piston and a rear bevel back to the oil tank to close the oil circuit. The bevels direct the oil circulation from the front of the working unit to the rear, reduce splash losses, and increase the cooling action on the internal surfaces of the piston.

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