I don't remember if this was posted here way back but there's a man named Raphial Morgado who invented a rotary engine called the MYT in something like 2006. I'm not sure if this was posted on here at some point. At any rate, it was somewhat unusual in its design and although it seemed somewhat promising due to its low weight, nobody in the US wanted to buy it without also getting ownership of the patents.

At any rate, on another board I saw a post where apparently the Russians are using a somewhat similar design for their first hybrid electric car.
http://pesn.com/2011/04/23/9501814_R...esign_its_own/

There is computer animation on there that shows more or less how it works. The idea is that this sort of rotary is more fuel efficient and weighs less than a traditional reciprocating ICE.

 

I may be wrong (and likely am in this case) but I do believe there were a couple of Aussies working with this engine a couple of years ago.

I'll do a search later and look in to it.

 

Interesting design. In years of hybrids, small, high reving, fuel efficient engines seem to be the coming wave. Although, everytime I see something like this, the regular ICE seems to develope to a new point and sticks around.

 

I think you're thinking about the Ox2.
http://www.ox2engine.com/

 

I remember that MYT the mighty engine..

 

The interesting thing about this sort of arrangement is that it makes a lot of torque at relatively low revs. The arrangement gives it a lot of displacement relative to its weight. With the lack of valvetrain, I agree that it also has reving potential.

At any rate if this works as advertised it certainly has potential, especially as a lightweight powerplant to run an electric generator.

 

Hmmmm... it always seems to me that engines like this lack the sort of control over combustion events that make them viable from an emissions standpoint. The 4 stroke may not have the power density of the MYT or a two stroke or a rotary, but it makes managing the combustion process alot easier.

 

Hmph... looks like somebody stole an old GM R6 AC compressor and made it run on gasoline