Disclosed is a single-stroke internal combustion engine including a cylinder seat and a power wheel. The cylinder seat has a circular cylinder, at least one first explosion chamber disposed on a cylinder wall, and an ignition system, a fuel supply system, a compression means, an exhaust means and an intake means installed at the external periphery of the cylinder seat corresponsive to each respective first explosion chamber and communicating with the cylinder. Each ignition system is corresponsive to the first explosion chamber; the power wheel is slidably coupled to the circular cylinder of the cylinder seat, and has at least one compression chamber and a second explosion chamber disposed adjacent to each other and rotably corresponsive to the first explosion chamber, fuel supply system, compression means, exhaust means and intake means of the cylinder seat. After the power wheel is turned on, air enters into the intake means and fuel gas is supplied from the fuel supply means, and both air and fuel gas are compressed in the compression chamber by the compression means and collected into the first explosion chamber and the second explosion chamber and ignited by the ignition system for explosion, and the explosion produced by the compressed fuel gas has a high explosive yield to drive the power wheel to rotate by the second explosion chamber, so that the power wheel is rotated constantly in a single direction to provide high-efficiency kinetic energy.

Devices convert non-uniform rotational motion into uniform rotational motion and vice versa. A motion conversion mechanism includes a housing, a common shaft, a symmetrical differential reduction gear, rings for differential power flows, cams having an inner working surface, cams having an outer working surface, and sliders with fingers. The inner working surface cam profile is described by the polar radius as a function of the polar angle and is an equidistant curve distanced outwardly from a first-order derivative of a basic closed curve by the size of the finger's radius. The outer working surface cam profile is described by the polar radius as a function of the polar angle and is an equidistant curve distanced outwardly from a second-order derivative of a basic closed curve by the size of the finger's radius. In a single revolution of the shaft, each ring performs two half revolutions back and forth.

Devices convert non-uniform rotational motion into uniform rotational motion and vice versa. A motion conversion mechanism includes a housing, a common shaft, a symmetrical differential reduction gear, rings for differential power flows, cams having an inner working surface, cams having an outer working surface, and sliders with fingers. The inner working surface cam profile is described by the polar radius as a function of the polar angle and is an equidistant curve distanced outwardly from a first-order derivative of a basic closed curve by the size of the finger's radius. The outer working surface cam profile is described by the polar radius as a function of the polar angle and is an equidistant curve distanced outwardly from a second-order derivative of a basic closed curve by the size of the finger's radius. In a single revolution of the shaft, each ring performs two half revolutions back and forth.

A topological rotary engine includes a first transmission mechanism, a second transmission mechanism, a valve mechanism, a rotor, and a cylinder. The rotor is arranged in an inner chamber of the cylinder. A cross section of the rotor is a curved-side topological polygon having n sides. A cross section of the inner chamber of cylinder is a curved-side topological polygon having n+1 sides, and n is an even number greater than or equal to 4. An outer topological curved surface of the rotor is meshed with an inner topological curved surface of the cylinder. The rotor reversely revolves around an axis of the cylinder with an eccentricity as a radius while rotating, and divides the cylinder into n+1 independent chambers. The cylinder is provided with n+1 fuel injection nozzles and n+1 spark plugs, which cooperate with the rotor and the valve mechanism.

A topological rotary engine includes a first transmission mechanism, a second transmission mechanism, a valve mechanism, a rotor, and a cylinder. The rotor is arranged in an inner chamber of the cylinder. A cross section of the rotor is a curved-side topological polygon having n sides. A cross section of the inner chamber of cylinder is a curved-side topological polygon having n+1 sides, and n is an even number greater than or equal to 4. An outer topological curved surface of the rotor is meshed with an inner topological curved surface of the cylinder. The rotor reversely revolves around an axis of the cylinder with an eccentricity as a radius while rotating, and divides the cylinder into n+1 independent chambers. The cylinder is provided with n+1 fuel injection nozzles and n+1 spark plugs, which cooperate with the rotor and the valve mechanism.

Rotary vane internal combustion engine comprises of two side-by-side rotors, placed in a cylindrical housing, wherein each rotor has at least two radial vanes rigidly attached to the rotor that form chambers for intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust. Each rotor alternately engages with a shaft by overrunning one-way clutches and is held from turning back, through the damper, mounted on a corresponding flywheel and forming a part of the flywheel assembly, which is rigidly attached on the shaft. The assembled rotors from the outside are rigidly closed by flanges on each of which is mounted at least one blade. The blades are positioned into formed cavities between the rotors and caps of the housing, thereby forming two cooling cavities through which coolant circulates around rotors through openings in the housing and through longitudinal grooves in the shaft. On the vanes are mounted cylindrical and conical seals, which remove the need for lubrication.

Rotary vane internal combustion engine comprises of two side-by-side rotors, placed in a cylindrical housing, wherein each rotor has at least two radial vanes rigidly attached to the rotor that form chambers for intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust. Each rotor alternately engages with a shaft by overrunning one-way clutches and is held from turning back, through the damper, mounted on a corresponding flywheel and forming a part of the flywheel assembly, which is rigidly attached on the shaft. The assembled rotors from the outside are rigidly closed by flanges on each of which is mounted at least one blade. The blades are positioned into formed cavities between the rotors and caps of the housing, thereby forming two cooling cavities through which coolant circulates around rotors through openings in the housing and through longitudinal grooves in the shaft. On the vanes are mounted cylindrical and conical seals, which remove the need for lubrication.

An internal combustion engine including a pilot subchamber, a pilot fuel injector having a tip in communication with the pilot subchamber, an ignition element positioned to ignite fuel within the pilot subchamber, and a main fuel injector spaced apart from the pilot fuel injector. The engine includes a common rail in fluid communication with the main fuel injector and with the pilot fuel injector. The internal combustion engine may be a reciprocating engine. A method of combusting fuel in an internal combustion engine is also provided.

A light-weight, high-strength compressor component having at least one fluid delivery feature that is formed via additive manufacturing is provided. The component may have at least one interior region comprising a lattice structure that comprises a plurality of repeating cells. A solid surface is disposed over the lattice structure. The interior region comprising the lattice structure has at least one fluid delivery feature for permitting fluid flow through the body portion of the light-weight, high-strength compressor component. The fluid delivery feature may be a flow channel, a fluid delivery port, a porous fluid delivery feature, or the like that serves to transfer fluids through the component, such as refrigerant and/or lubricant oils. Methods of making such compressor components via additive manufacturing processes are also provided.

A compound engine system including a Wankel engine having a recess defined in the peripheral wall of the rotor in each of the three rotating chambers, the recess having a volume of more than 5% of the displacement volume of the chambers. The expansion in the turbine section compensates for the relatively low expansion ratio of the rotary engine.