Solution

Innovation

Simplifying all transmission systems in engines. Achieving fuel savings between 10 and 20 % without loss of power. Saving materials and battery. The system can be a kit applicable to all engines already used. It is a more efficient motorization system in its use of fuel simplifying the distribution system of all internal combustion engines. It does not require a camshaft, tappets, transmission wheels, transmission chain, gear wheels, desmodromic distribution, intermediate bearing, or belt distribution. The system eliminates the conventional distribution drags existing in current internal combustion engines. The system allows, compared to current engines, to have greater performance, more acceleration and less fuel use. The system is a device attached to the crankshaft that informs and acts directly on the cylinder valves.

This system can be conceived as an information system using the movement of the crankshaft to give the engine times. This is thanks to, among other devices, a rotor (cf illustration in 3d and in plan)  attached to the crankshaft that, contained in a housing, activates, by its movement, pushrods or electrical sensors that give their times to the valves of the pistons  connected by systems that are either electrical, mechanical or hydraulic. The system is adapted to be connected to indirect transmission systems such as alternators, air conditioning, etc. The system can be adapted as a kit to all existing internal combustion engines in use. This kit can give vehicles a 10 to 20% fuel saving. For buses and trucks the total installation price would be amortized in a maximum of one year.

New engines can also be developed based directly on the system.

Impact

Efficiency improvements and/or energy savings 10 to 20% fuel savings without loss of power in all internal combustion engines modified with the system. Possibility of reducing the battery in these vehicles. Savings in fuel and construction materials in new engines using our technology.

Expected social and economic impacts

Job creation: two moderately qualified people are needed for 4 to 8 hours to apply the kit in a vehicle. Considering that the potential market is all trucks and coaches in circulation in the world, the labor impact could be considerable. The fuel savings achieved would be a huge relief for the road transportation sector and maritime transport by ships using diesel.

Environmental impacts

Significant reduction in CO2 and other pollutant emissions in all engines adapted or created with the system. In new engines based on the system, metal savings and a smaller battery are

possible.

Potentially interested companies

All road transport companies using buses, coaches, trucks with internal combustion engines. Companies using machines (bulldozers etc.) with internal combustion engines. Maritime transport companies using ships with internal combustion engines. For the development of new engines using the technology directly all motorist and automotive industry. Possible application on aircrafts turboprops engines and aeronautical companies.

Advantages

With the fuel savings of the technology, it is estimated that in less than a year of use, the kit installed in a vehicle dedicated to transport is amortized. The rest of the vehicle life is a pure gain of 10 to 20% in its fuel use. Also, such a vehicle would suffer much fewer breakdowns and problems with its transmission and repairs would be much easier and faster. This makes the system a must for companies dedicated to the transport of goods or people. It partially solves (10 to 20%) the energy dependence for the use of internal combustion engines. In the same way, it reduces the pollution generated by these engines.

Costs

It is estimated that a kit including installation, staff costs and profit of 1000 euros would be worth 3000 euros per vehicle. If we assume using a pessimistic hypothesis that a transport vehicle travels an average of 600 km per day, using 20 liters of diesel per 100 km and being used 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year, taking a diesel price of 1 euro per liter, the fuel cost of such a vehicle is 120 euros per day, 30,000 euros per year. If a kit is applied, saving 10% on fuel, it now saves 3000 euros per year,

which is equivalent to a kit of the same value in one year.