A free-piston engine is a linear, 'crankless' internal combustion engine, in which the piston motion is not controlled by a crankshaft but determined...

opposed-piston engine is a piston engine in which each cylinder has a piston at both ends, and no cylinder head. Petrol and diesel opposed-piston engines have...

A reciprocating engine, more often known as a piston engine, is a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert high temperature...

supplied from outside the engine's interior space (cylinder). As the fluid expands, mechanical work is extracted by a piston, which is coupled to a displacer...

The free-piston engine linear generators can be divided in 3 subsystems: One (or more) reaction section with a single or two opposite pistons One (or...

A swing-piston engine is a type of internal combustion engine in which the pistons move in a circular motion inside a ring-shaped "cylinder", moving closer...

The Stelzer engine is a two-stroke opposing-piston free-piston engine design proposed by Frank Stelzer. It uses conjoined pistons in a push-pull arrangement...

is the free-piston gas generator, which combines the functions of compressor and combustion chamber in one unit. Most high-compression jet engine use axial...

A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors, hydraulic cylinders and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar...

Free-piston engine Motorjet Rocket turbine engine Turbo-compound engine Gunston, Bill (2006) [1995]. The Development of Jet and Turbine Aero Engines (4th ed...

In an engine, the cylinder is the space in which a piston travels. The inner surface of the cylinder is formed from either a thin metallic liner (also...

A flat engine is a piston engine where the cylinders are located on either side of a central crankshaft. Flat engines are also known as horizontally opposed...

piston engines, along with variants, such as the six-stroke piston engine and the Wankel rotary engine. A second class of internal combustion engines...

Piston valves are one form of valve used to control the flow of steam within a steam engine or locomotive. They control the admission of steam into the...

An interference engine is a type of 4-stroke internal combustion piston engine in which one or more valves in the fully open position extends into any...

the engine without adding to its diameter. Four-stroke radials have an odd number of cylinders per row, so that a consistent every-other-piston firing...

between frictional losses and refrigerant leakage. A free-piston variant of the Stirling engine can be built, which can be completely hermetically sealed...

Look up piston in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A piston is an engineering component of engines and pumps. Piston(s) may also refer to: Misnomer for...

A camless or free-valve piston engine is an engine that has poppet valves operated by means of electromagnetic, hydraulic, or pneumatic actuators instead...

diesel engine powered the gas-turbine which drove the wheels through a two-speed gearbox and propeller shafts.: 142–3  The free-piston engine was patented...

inventor from Argentina who specialized in automobiles, helicopters and free-piston engines. Pescara is credited for being one of the first people to successfully...

The Volvo Modular Engine is a family of straight-four, straight-five, and straight-six automobile piston engines that was produced by Volvo Cars in Skövde...

the pistons) to be drawn into the cylinder for the next cycle. The advantage of the split-single engine compared to a conventional two-stroke engine is...

diesel engine runaway). The fuel-free air mix that is compressed on the compression stroke now starts to act as an air spring. After the piston reaches...

The Toyota AZ engine family is a straight-4 piston engine series. The AZ series uses an aluminium engine block with cast iron cylinder liners and aluminium...

Protection Europe, a vehicle manufacturer Fokker–Planck equation Free-piston engine Fuchs Petrolub, a German lubricant manufacturer Fuel Price Escalator...

is one of the energy-saving methods.[citation needed] Vacuum pump Free-piston engine Gas compressor Pneumatics Gas cylinder "The Blue Air Compressor" Wikimedia...

A straight-six engine (also referred to as an inline-six engine; abbreviated I6 or L6) is a piston engine with six cylinders arranged in a straight line...

portable engines, or may refer to the piston or turbine machinery alone, as in the beam engine and stationary steam engine. As noted, steam-driven devices such...

called a compound engine. Similarly, proposed engines that use a free piston engine to drive a turbine would not be called compound engines, as only the second...