Global Patent Index - EP 1658417 A1

EP 1658417 A1 20060524 - MULTICYLINDER BARREL-TYPE ENGINE

Title (en)

MULTICYLINDER BARREL-TYPE ENGINE

Title (de)

AXIALZYLINDERBRENNKRAFTMASCHINE

Title (fr)

MOTEUR POLYCYLINDRE A BARILLET

Publication

EP 1658417 A1 20060524 (EN)

Application

EP 04766214 A 20040714

Priority

  • EP 2004051484 W 20040714
  • EP 03017057 A 20030725
  • EP 04766214 A 20040714

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2005012692A1] A Multi-cylinder barrel engine having a centre line (C/L), and a centre point O, comprising: -a casing (12) on which a plurality (N) of cylinders (11) are parallely disposed in a circular row around C/L; - a corresponding number (N) of pistons (13), each mounted inside each of said cylinders; - a crankshaft (16) comprising two co-axial end sections (17,18) and an intermediate section (19) whose axis (w-w) intersects the common axis (C/L) of the end sections at the centre point O with a tilt angle alpha, whereby said crankshaft is rotatably mounted on the casing through a first couple of bearings (20,20') operating between the casing and the two end sections, the latter being solidly connected to the extremities of the intermediate section by at least one connecting crank (21); - a wobbling body (15), substantially axial-symmetric, rotatably mounted, through a second couple of bearings (22,22'), on the crankshaft's intermediate section (19) so that its axis (w-w) coincides with the central axis of said body, said pistons being connected and carried at the peripheral edge (14) of said wobbling body, whereby said pistons and wobbling body connected together form a single piece called Wobbling Unit (WU); - a first couple of flat bevel gears (26,27) having identical primitive cones with a vertex angle µ = pi - alpha/2, said gears being fixedly mounted the one (26) on the casing (12) and the other (27) on the WU, in opposed position and such that the vertexes of their primitive cones coincide with the centre point O of the engine, whereby the axis of the one gear (26) coincides with the C/L, and the axis of the other gear (27) coincides with the common axis (w-w) of the WU and intermediate section (19), said first couple of gear providing, by their meshing, a constraint against the rotation of the WU around the C/L.

IPC 1-7

F01B 3/02; F01B 3/00; F01B 3/10

IPC 8 full level

F01B 3/02 (2006.01); F01B 3/00 (2006.01); F01B 3/10 (2006.01); F02B 75/02 (2006.01); F02B 75/18 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

F01B 3/0002 (2013.01); F01B 3/02 (2013.01); F01B 3/101 (2013.01); F02B 75/021 (2013.01); F02B 2075/027 (2013.01); F02B 2075/1828 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2005012692 A1 20050210; AT E448385 T1 20091115; DE 602004024082 D1 20091224; EP 1658417 A1 20060524; EP 1658417 B1 20091111

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 2004051484 W 20040714; AT 04766214 T 20040714; DE 602004024082 T 20040714; EP 04766214 A 20040714