Internal combustion engine
CA 2099446 C · Owner: Coventry University · Inventors: Merritt, Dan
Overview
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An internal combustion engine has first and second cylinders (12 14), the first cylinder (12) having a larger swept volume than the second cylinder (14) and the second cylinder being formed in the crown of the first cylinder. First and second pistons (16 18) are reciprocable respectively in the first and second cylinders (12, 14), the second piston (18) being formed as a protrusion on the crown of the first piston (16). The first cylinder has an air inlet (25) and an exhaust outlet (27) whilst a first fuel source (34) provides fuel to the second cylinder (14). The second piston has a crown (35) which is spaced from and connected to the crown (36) of the first piston and which has an edge …
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- Filed June 30, 1993 and granted May 30, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 30, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 30, 2015.
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