rotary engine
Cylinders orbit crankshaft
A rotary engine is an internal combustion engine where the combustion chambers rotate around a fixed shaft, rather than pistons moving up and down.
The term usually refers to the Wankel engine, which uses a triangular rotor spinning in an oval housing—famously used in some Mazda sports cars.
Earlier rotary engines had cylinders arranged radially around a crankshaft, spinning with the propeller in early aircraft.
- crankshaftRotating engine shaft
- pistonReciprocating cylinder component
- camshaftLobed rod operating valves
- fuel injectorEngine's liquid atomizer
- turbineBlade-driven energy converter
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Motor with oscillating pistons
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Motor with oscillating pistons
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