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8132399 Reflective pulse rotary engine  
A rotary engine includes a rotor having one or more combustion chambers connected to an exhaust passageway extending radially outward from the combustion chamber to an exhaust port adjacent a...
8117824 Pollution free engine using hydrogen as a fuel  
A pollution-free propulsion engine includes a rotating arm, a hollow axle defining a fuel delivery chamber, and hydrogen and oxygen sources. The rotating arm is formed with a detonation chamber, an...
7963096 Reflective pulse rotary engine  
A rotary engine includes a rotor having one or more combustion chambers connected to an exhaust passageway extending radially outward from the combustion chamber to an exhaust port adjacent a...
7934368 Ultra-micro gas turbine  
The present invention provides an ultra micro gas turbine engine which includes a wave rotor. In various embodiments, the ultra micro gas turbine engine of the present invention includes a rotating...
7789200 Sump housing  
A sump housing for scavenging lubricant is disclosed herein. The sump housing includes an outer wall defining a chamber. A lubricated structure operable to rotate can be disposed within the sump...
7708522 Rotary heat engine  
A rotor of a supersonic rotary heat engine comprises a rotor axis about which the rotor is adapted and configured to rotate, a plurality of thrust matter passageways, and a plurality of cooling...
7637243 Rotary internal combustion engine  
This invention presents a compact, light, efficient and high power output rotary internal combustion engine utilizing the waste heat. The engine has a rotor rotatable within a housing, but has no...
7591129 Rotary piston engine  
A rotary piston engine having a housing defining an un-obstructed circular toroidal chamber, a toroidal segment piston in said chamber, a detonation chamber having an outlet substantially...
7404286 Orbiting combustion nozzle engine  
An orbiting combustor nozzle (OCN) engine, having a rotating assembly comprising a co-rotating compressor and nozzle wheel enclosed within a non-rotating outer casing, defining a rotating...
7337606 Rotary ramjet engine  
An engine for providing rotary power about an output shaft with a high power-to-weight ratio includes a plurality of flow guiding blades mounted on the inner surface of an annular thruster base....
7073319 Nuclear-fueled power generating system  
An apparatus for generating electricity that uses at least one jet-type engine fueled with fissile material. The nuclear fueled jet engine is affixed to a connecting member that projects from a...
7062900 Single wheel radial flow gas turbine  
A single wheel radial flow gas turbine having a single rotating wheel and a stationary shroud. The wheel has a radial flow compressor section at its inner portion and a turbine section at its outer...
6983604 Thermodynamic pressure generator  
A thermodynamic pressure generator having an oscillating valve that allows premixed fuel to enter a combustion chamber in turbulence, until it comes into contact with an annular spoiler, which...
6901955 Cryogenic rotary coupling, and use thereof in particular in articulated fluid feed lines, and in cryogenic propellant rocket engines  
The cryogenic rotary coupling comprises segments of a cryogenic line that are capable of turning relative to each other about a pivot axis of the rotary coupling. Radial retaining elements and...
6887609 Fuel cell system and method for operating the fuel cell system  
A fuel cell system and method of operation in which the fuel cell system has a fuel cell unit with anode and cathode, a media flow path for supplying substantially pure hydrogen to the anode, a...
6868664 Main propulsion engine system integrated with secondary power unit  
A main engine mounted auxiliary power unit comprises an auxiliary power unit integrated with a primary gas turbine engine into a single power plant suited for aircraft applications. The auxiliary...
6824575 Integrated coal gasification combined cycle power generator  
Embodiments of the invention provide an IGCC which achieves improved plant thermal efficiency by using a cooling steam supply system that cools the high-temperature sections of the gas turbine 34....
6694743 Rotary ramjet engine with flameholder extending to running clearance at engine casing interior wall  
A rotary ramjet engine. A rotary ramjet engine is provided operating with a very low axial flow component. The engine has a closely housed rotor and shaft mounted for rotary motion with respect to...
6672048 Rotary impeller driven turbine  
The invention relates to a rotary impeller driven caturbine whereby relatively small engines are placed at or near the ends of at least two opposing impeller blades on a rotor. The engines propel...
6565310 Steam-powered rotary engine  
A steam-powered rotary engine is provided in which a rotor arm assembly and an outer ring are positioned such that steam ejected from outlets at the two ends of the rotor arm assembly will impact...
6510683 Apparatus for power generation with low drag rotor and ramjet assembly  
An apparatus (100) for generation of mechanical and electrical power. Ramjet type thrust modules (102a, 102b) operate at supersonic speeds (preferably Mach 3 to 4) at the distal or tip ends (116a,...
6446425 Ramjet engine for power generation  
A ramjet engine power generator. Supersonic ramjets are provided along a portion of the circumference of a low aerodynamic drag rotor. The rotor is affixed at a central hub to a rotating shaft. The...
6347507 Method and apparatus for power generation using rotating ramjets  
A novel, improved method and apparatus for generation of mechanical and electrical power. Thrust module(s) is(are) provided on a low aerodynamic drag rotor. The rotor is affixed at a central hub to...
6295802 Orbiting engine  
An orbiting engine includes a plurality of combustion chambers (52) rigidly connected to and disposed equidistantly from a central shaft (54). The combustion chambers (52) are oriented so that...
6279309 Modular multi-part rail mounted engine assembly  
A modular power plant apparatus, and method of power plant assembly. An inlet air module is provided on feet which are mounted on self centering rugged linear roller guides which are linearly...
6263660 Apparatus and method for fuel-air mixing before supply of low pressure lean pre-mix to combustor for rotating ramjet engine driving a shaft  
Fuel air mixing apparatus, and a method for design and operation of fuel-air mixing apparatus. An axial inlet air fan provides inlet air to an annular passageway having therein fuel supply...
6212874 Propulsion system  
A propulsion system or aircraft engine for a helicopter or other aircraft includes an aerodynamic pod with a forward facing inlet for receiving a flow of ram air and a rearwardly facing exhaust or...
6180684 Process and an integrated plant for the production of synfuel and electrical power  
The present invention relates to a process and an integrated plant to be used in the process for the preparation of synthetic fuel (synfuel) and production of electrical energy. A part of the...
6032458 Turbine powerplant having rotors with concentric rows of impeller blades  
A turbocompressor assembly includes a first rotor stage mounted on a rotary shaft and including circular rows of impeller blades on one surface thereof separated by radial gaps in which opposed...
5984635 Keller pressure jet rotor system  
A helicopter aircraft with an upper hollow center circular plenum in gaseous communication with a plurality of hollow hinged attached rotor blades. Below the plenum and in gaseous communication...
5946902 Gas turbine engine with tilted burners  
A high degree efficiency in a gas turbine is assured by imposing a rifling swirl on the operating medium. The gas turbine has a turbine shaft and a number of burners that discharge into a...
5934873 Helicopter rotor tip jet  
A helicopter includes a rotor tip jet engine which combines ram compression and centrifugal compression to increase the thrust. A first flow of fuel is dispersed in the ram air and is carried into...
5803936 Reactor for the continuous production of a flammable gas  
A gasification reactor comprising of a slow turning rotation chamber (1) with tapered end pieces (7) and sealed by stationary closures (8, 9). The chamber is divided by rings (3, 3') into three...
5660038 Rotary jet engine  
A rotary jet engine including a housing having intake and exhaust zones separated from each other. At least one combustion jet is mounted on a rotor having an intake spaced from the axis of...
5636509 Flywheel engine improvements  
Improvements in a flywheel engine are described which includes a flywheel with non radial propulsion units for generating thrust by combustion to rotate the flywheel in a first direction about a...
5372005 Method and apparatus for power generation  
Thrust modules are provided at the distal ends of a low aerodynamic drag rotor. The rotor is affixed at a central hub to a shaft, and rotates about an axis defined by the shaft. In the preferred...
5313784 Solid fuel pinwheel power plant and method  
A low noise power plant (100) for providing thrust to a missile (102) having a solid fuel propellant (114) for generating a pressurized gas. A revolving turbine (104) which is integral with the...
5282356 Flywheel engine  
A flywheel engine includes a flywheel body made up of laminated disks, pressed one into another on a central drive shaft. Individual ones of the disks are stamped with recesses which accommodate...
5239821 Underwater turbojet engine  
A solid particle fuel is introduced into a reaction zone of a continuous w conduit between pump and turbine flow sections thereof within a turbojet engine. The fuel reacts on contact with the...
5185541 Gas turbine for converting fuel to electrical and mechanical energy  
An energy converting apparatus is provided for converting liquid fuel to electrical and mechanical energy, including an exhaust chamber with external walls and an exhaust port; a gas turbine rotor...
5161368 Stationary reactor and rotary motor  
A stationary reactor is provided having a disc-shaped combustor having a top plate and a bottom plate spaced apart from each other. The space between the plates defines a combustion chamber having...
5118961 Turbine generator  
A turbine generator with a rotor having magnets secured in a receptacle shaped portion and spinning about a stationary core to produce electricity. Jets of fluid impinge tangentially upon a...
5050374 Gasification/combustion system  
A gasification/combustion system (10) for the gasification/combustion of non-gaseous fuels with single or combinable oxidants and sulphur sorbants is described. The system (10) includes a rotary...
4897995 Liquid turbojet engine  
A liquid turbojet engine includes an elongated shaft, a housing mounted about the shaft with the shaft being rotatable relative to the housing about the shaft longitudinal axis, a conduit fixed to...
4724670 Turbine engine  
A turbine engine includes an elongated motor having a power source and a drive shaft. A first compressor connected to a fuel inlet, and a second compressor having an air inlet are coaxially mounted...
4707978 Flow energy conversion machine  
The invention relates to a flow energy conversion machine having a substantially circular flow-through cross-section and comprising stationary guide blades disposed in at least one plane...
4706452 Engine  
The present invention provides an internal combustion engine comprising a main body portion defining a combustion chamber in the form of a toroidal cavity with a generally circular axis, an air...
4646515 Two-phase engine  
An engine includes an elongated shaft, a housing mounted about the shaft with the shaft being rotatable relative to the housing about the shaft longitudinal axis, a conduit fixed to the shaft...
4625509 Combustion engine  
A combustion engine has a plurality of equidistantly spaced jets disposed about a drive shaft. Fuel flows through the center of a two-piece drive shaft and combines with air in jets for combustion...
4577460 Method and apparatus for generating energy  
This is a new method and apparatus for providing electrical or mechanical power output from the energy in low cost fuels in which a mechanism is mounted for rotation with one or more jet propulsion...
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