An engine with rotating assembly is disclosed. The engine includes a block defining a cylinder bore; a crankshaft mounted for rotation in the block; a piston disposed in the cylinder bore; a connecting rod interconnecting the piston to the crankshaft; and a cylinder head coupled to the block having a combustion chamber aligned with the cylinder bore and having an intake opening and an exhaust opening communicating therewith; an intake port; an exhaust port; a rotatable intake valve barrel disposed between the intake opening and the intake port; and a rotatable exhaust valve barrel disposed between the exhaust opening and the exhaust port. A first electric motor is connected to the intake valve barrel and a second electric motor is connected to the exhaust valve barrel, the first electric motor rotates the intake valve barrel and second electric motor rotates the exhaust valve barrel independently of the intake valve barrel.

A valve with an opening is driven by an electric motor to rotate around the cylinder of an opposed piston engine such that the opening separately matches an intake and exhaust opening on the cylinder to allow fuel to enter the combustion chamber of the engine and allow exhaust to be expelled. The intake and exhaust cylinder openings may be separated from each other by approximately sixty degrees of the outside of the cylinder.

Apparatus for controlling valve timing in an internal combustion engine locates a first valve port in a first side of the engine cylinder and a second valve port in a second side of the engine cylinder. A first rotating valve disc and a second rotating valve disc are respectively disposed next to the first and second valve port. Each rotating valve disc includes a valve port. Each disc rotates in synchronism with the crankshaft to align its' port with the respective first and second valve ports. A variety of intake devices coupled to the first rotating valve disc control intake air flow into the engine cylinder, and a variety of exhaust devices coupled to the second rotating valve disc control exhaust gas flow from the engine cylinder.

A plug valve with adjustable actuation phases for controlling a flow rate by means of plug axial movement includes a power disk, a bearing, an inner spline, an outer spline, a valve stem, a pushing ring, a pushing fork, a plug body and a valve body. The plug body, the valve stem, the pushing ring and the outer spline are integrally formed, and are in spline connection with the power disk and the inner spline. The plug body has a special-shaped through hole in which a left portion thereof is narrow and a right portion thereof is wide. The valve body has a radial valve through hole, and the valve through hole corresponds to the plug special-shaped through hole provided at the same axial position segment, so that an actuating member for controlling actuation of a passageway is formed.

A variable port engine assembly and method of use utilizing a rotating camshaft having different sized ports that are dynamically aligned with intake, combustion, and exhaust ports and timed to open and close with appropriate engine cycles to change gas flow volumes through the combustion chamber to modify fuel efficiency and power.

A valve with an opening is driven by an electric motor to rotate around the cylinder of an opposed piston engine such that the opening separately matches an intake and exhaust opening on the cylinder to allow fuel to enter the combustion chamber of the engine and allow exhaust to be expelled. The intake and exhaust cylinder openings may be separated from each other by approximately sixty degrees of the outside of the cylinder.

A cylinder head assembly for a cylinder of a four stroke internal combustion engine, including an intake rotor assembly that includes an intake rotor body, a first intake rotor shell portion, and a second intake rotor shell portion, and is operable to be rotatably received in at least one through bore of a cylinder head member. An exhaust rotor assembly includes an exhaust rotor body, a first exhaust rotor shell portion, and a second exhaust rotor shell portion, and is operable to be rotatably received in the at least one through bore of the cylinder head member. At least one of the first and second intake rotor shell portions or the first and second exhaust rotor shell portions are operable to be urged outwardly towards or against an interior surface of the at least one through bore of the cylinder head member so as to create a seal therebetween.

A thermostat valve for a coolant circuit includes a housing with a plurality of coolant connectors, and at least one hollow valve element mounted in the housing for rotation about a rotational axis. At least one opening in the circumferential face, the opening selectively connectable to one or more of the coolant connectors by way of rotation. A drive rotates the valve element and includes at least one actuator which can be switched between a first switching state for rotation in a first rotational direction and a second switching state for rotation in a second rotational direction. A two-point control device actuates the actuator in such a way that, if a setpoint value is exceeded and if the setpoint value is undershot, the actuator is switched from one switching state to the other. A damping mechanism damps the rotational movement of the at least one valve element.

A power system including a variable volume combustion chamber for a two-stroke engine having a controlled exhaust port, a fuel injector to the combustion chamber and an oxygen injector to the combustion chamber. The oxygen injector provides repeated oxygen injection pulses to complete a charge. The controlled exhaust port includes an oscillating rotatably mounted valve. A source of pressurized concentrated oxygen to the oxygen injector is in a closed case having a ceramic fiber membrane. An air inlet and a waste outlet are in communication with a first side of the ceramic fiber membrane. An oxygen outlet is in communication with a second side of the ceramic fiber Ionic transport membrane. The case has a heat transfer surface in communication with the controlled exhaust port from the combustion chamber.

An internal combustion engine (10) with variable valve timing has one or more valve shafts (38, 44) connected to stepper motors (54) for angularly positioning the one or more valve shafts (38, 44) relative to an engine block (12). Flow passages (50, 52) are formed into the one or more valve shafts (38, 44) for passing intake air and exhaust gases into and from the engine (10). Sensors (58, 60 and 62) are located adjacent a crankshaft (28) and the one or more valve shafts (38, 44) for determining crankshaft positions and valve shaft positions relative to the engine block (12). An engine control unit (56) receives crank shaft and valve shaft position signals and emits control signals to the stepper motors (54) to selectively operate the engine in two stroke, four stroke, six stroke, eight stroke, and ten stroke modes. Electrically controlled clutches (74 and 76) are mounted to respective ones of the crankshaft (28) and the valve shafts (38, 44), and connected by a timing chain (72) for actuating to provide backup valve shaft.