CA2417543A1

CA2417543A1 - Revolutionary cannon

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Publication number: CA2417543A1
Application number: CA 2417543
Authority: CA
Inventors: Nikolay Tikhovskiy
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2003-01-30
Filing date: 2003-01-30
Publication date: 2004-07-30

Description

Description.
Internal combustion engine with two crank shafts and two pistons in one cylinder.
At the beginning, when the reciprocating internal combustion engine was invented and developed, the fuel economy (diesel and petroleum) - wasn't live issue.
While engineering continued to develop, the main attention was attended to engine power, where was improved fuel mix, spraying of fuel and etc.
Now, when the quantity of the cars, planes, ships, locomotives, agricultural technics and any technics, using reciprocating internal combustion engine in each field of industry, hardly multiplied, the problem of fuel economy and engine power increase with the same fuel expense, became urgent.
The basic idea of how reciprocating internal combustion works can give us device commonly known as potato cannon. This example explained and could be found at http://www.howstuffworks.com/engine.htm/printable.
Say that you took a big piece of plastic sewer pipe and put a cap on the end of it.
Then you sprayed a little WD-40 into the pipe or put in a tiny drop of gasoline. 'Then you stuffed a potato down the pipe. When you introduce a spark, you can ignite the fuel.
The potato cannon uses the basic principle behind any reciprocating internal combustion engine: if you put a tiny amount of high energy fuel (like gasoline) in a small, enclosed space and ignite it, an incredible amount of energy is released in the form of expanding gas.
The best example is an old Revolutionary War cannon (we load the cannon with the gun powder and a cannon ball and light it) - that is internal combustion.
If you can create a circle that allows you to set off explosions like this hundreds of times per minute and, if you can harness that energy in a useful way, what you have is the core of a car engine.
Almost all cars currently use what is called four-stroke combustion circle to convert gasoline into motion:
- intake stroke;
compression stroke;
combustion stroke;
exhaust stroke.
Principle of how reciprocating internal combustion engine works (on petroleum and diesel) we explained on example of shooting cannon, where in use only the energy, released from the ball's shot, flying straight ahead. But there is no use for kick-energy of cannon itself, which is equality to energy of cannon's ball.
Due to above-mentioned, our idea of improvement of reciprocating internal combustion engine consist in more efficient energy using, that allow us to increase engine power in two times with the same fuel expense. For using of kick-energy we suggest to use two crank shafts in engine and two pistons in each cylinder.
In enclosed bulb - the pressure at each side of it dispart evenly (as known from physics).

It could fmd use in two- and four-stroke, petroleum and diesel reciprocating internal combustion engines.
If we would consider two- or four-stroke reciprocating internal combustion engine, working on petroleum or diesel, than the engine we're suggesting work by the same principle, like currently using.
In applying drawings we didn't identify spark plug and injector.
Let's review in one engine 2 crank shafts and in one cylinder -2 pistons, which move up and down, as shown in the Figure I and Figure 9/l.
1 Cycle (compression) Figure l: Two pistons compresses fuel, moves to each other with close valves intake and exhaust. When pistons reach the point 5-10% before the top dead center, the spark plug emits spark to ignite the gasoline.

2 Cycle (combustion) Figure 2: After pistons hits the top dead center, the gasoline explodes (gases expand in capacity many times), and it create the pressure inside the cylinder, which driving the pistons down (pressing on both pistons evenly). Pistons push both crank shafts with evenly energy and make it to rotate. Valves intake and exhaust still close until pistons will reach bottom dead center.

3 Cycle (exhaust) Figure 4: After pistons hits bottom dead center of crank shafts, the exhaust valves opens, intake valves still close and let out exhaust, till pistons will reach top dead center.

4 Cycle (intake) Figure 6: After pistons hits top dead center - the exhaust valves will close and intake valves will open. Next goes the intake cycle of new charge of gasoline, till pistons reach the bottom dead center.
Now engine will go through all these cycles again consistency.
Figure 9: Pay-load goes on flywheel with assistance of crank shaft's cogwheels.
This pay-load could be use the same way at the currently using engines.
Figure 9/l: Describes parts of engine.
Figure 10: If we would follow our idea: valves - intake and exhaust - possible to place not only in the center, but also around the cylinder and in any cylinder's point.