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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
May. 21, 2014
Achates Power, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Kevin B. Fuqua, San Diego, CA (US);
John J. Koszewnik, San Diego, CA (US);
Suramya D. Naik, San Diego, CA (US);
Fabien G. Redon, San Diego, CA (US);
Gerhard Regner, San Diego, CA (US);
Rodrigo Zermeño-Benitez, San Diego, CA (US);
ACHATES POWER, INC., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An opposed-piston engine has a cylinder block with a plurality of cylinders arranged inline, with each cylinder including an intake port longitudinally separated from an exhaust port. The engine is equipped with an air handling system that includes intake and exhaust chambers inside the cylinder block. All of the cylinder intake ports are contained in the intake chamber to receive charge air therein. The intake chamber includes elongated air inlets opening through opposing sides of the cylinder block. The exhaust chamber includes at least one exhaust outlet opening through a side of the cylinder block; all of the cylinder exhaust ports are contained in the exhaust chamber to discharge exhaust thereinto.