New German Motor

[stealth1]

Someone sent me this link.

I don't pretend to completely understand what is going on here.

Maybe a German / American translator would help.

Be sure to click on the animation link at the bottom.

https://kugelmotor.peraves.ch/

 

[ionbeam]

In Engrish including the animation.

Clever idea. I see so many engineering, manufacturing and materials obstacles to overcome.

 

[mscott]

WOW, that's pretty cool, kind of like an internal compressed rotary. Can't translate for you, but looking at the way it's designed, the only limit to RPMs would be the bearings or metalurgy. Can we say 50,000rpms? Bet it sounds wicked!

 

[v65]

English version of the animation:

. Apparently also known as a Wolfhart motor, the Kugelmotor brand is Swiss, here is an Englsh version of their website: Kugelmotor.
Can't help with the translation.

 

[stealth1]

Thanks for the English links :clapping:

 

[charismaticmegafauna]

WOW, that's pretty cool, kind of like an internal compressed rotary.

Reminds me of a Wankel, too....

And the poem:

"Twinkle twankle little Wankel,

How I wonder if your crank'll

Torque enough to turn itself,

Or, if you'll end-up on the shelf?"

 

[markjenn]

Clever idea, but it has all the problems of the Wankel (sealing huge areas, surface to volume ratio problems, etc.), only moreso. The piston engine persists partially due to engineering inertia, but it also has some inherent technical advantages that are tough to beat. A round/cylindrical combustion chamber shape inherently maximizes ratio of combustion volume to surface area (critical for fuel mileage and emissions) and piston rings are devilishly simply and effective.

We'll probably see radical new engine designs in the next twenty years but ICE's will likely continue to use pistons.

- Mark

 

[bikesniffer]

Someone sent me this link.I don't pretend to completely understand what is going on here.

Maybe a German / American translator would help.

Be sure to click on the animation link at the bottom.

https://kugelmotor.peraves.ch/

Let me know what you want to have translated...if any, since you found the english version.

Alfred

 

[bikesniffer]

Someone sent me this link.I don't pretend to completely understand what is going on here.

Maybe a German / American translator would help.

Be sure to click on the animation link at the bottom.

https://kugelmotor.peraves.ch/

oh and before I forget...the Swiss don't like it if their invention is called "a new GERMAN Motor"

 

[teerex51]

...the Swiss don't like it if their invention is called "a new GERMAN Motor"

Must have been a typo on the teleprompter

 

[stealth1]

Someone sent me this link.I don't pretend to completely understand what is going on here.

Maybe a German / American translator would help.

Be sure to click on the animation link at the bottom.

https://kugelmotor.peraves.ch/

oh and before I forget...the Swiss don't like it if their invention is called "a new GERMAN Motor"

I don't need the translation now.

I would have realized it was Swiss if I had found the English language page before I posted.

I would correct the thread title, but I have no idea how to do it.

 

[v65]

Someone sent me this link.I don't pretend to completely understand what is going on here.

Maybe a German / American translator would help.

Be sure to click on the animation link at the bottom.

https://kugelmotor.peraves.ch/

oh and before I forget...the Swiss don't like it if their invention is called "a new GERMAN Motor"

But is it really theirs? Similar German design h34r:

 

[bikesniffer]

Someone sent me this link.I don't pretend to completely understand what is going on here.

Maybe a German / American translator would help.

Be sure to click on the animation link at the bottom.

https://kugelmotor.peraves.ch/

oh and before I forget...the Swiss don't like it if their invention is called "a new GERMAN Motor"

I don't need the translation now.

I would have realized it was Swiss if I had found the English language page before I posted.

I would correct the thread title, but I have no idea how to do it.

No need to be too serious about my comments, it was meant in jest...

 

[wfooshee]

That's pretty cool, but even bigger edges to seal than a Wankel, any oil past the seal goes out the exhaust (can anybody say "emissions regs?") and I wonder what those pins are made of, and what those grooves are surfaced with? Oil out the exhaust is why rotaries have side ports for exhaust nowadays. Lastly, it looks like bigger gets heavier more so than a piston engine, unless those pieces are hollow, like for water passages for cooling. So now I need to pump oil and water into and out of something that has no connection to the containing case.

It makes my head spin.

Hey, maybe we can power something off of that!

EDIT!!! Ooh! Ooh! What's DMG's displacement allowance gonna be on that thing??!??!