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• Free-piston engine — The free piston engine is a linear, crankless combustion engine, in which the piston motion is not controlled by a crankshaft but determined by the interaction of forces from the combustion cylinder gases, a rebound device and a load device.The… …   Wikipedia

• Opposed-piston engine — This article is about existing engine designs. For the quite different concept proposed by Frank Stelzer, see Stelzer engine. Fairbanks Morse opposed piston diesel engines on the submarine USS Pampanito An opposed piston engine is a reciprocating …   Wikipedia

• Opposed piston engine — An opposed piston engine is one in which the cylinders are double ended, with a piston at each end and no cylinder head.ConfigurationsSome variations of the Opposed Piston or OP designs use a single crankshaft like the Doxford ship enginesCite… …   Wikipedia

• Swing-piston engine — 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 and further from each other to provide compression and expansion. Generally two sets of… …   Wikipedia

• free-piston-type engine — mašina su laisvuoju stūmokliu statusas T sritis Energetika apibrėžtis Dvitaktis tiesiasrovio prapūtimo variklis, kuriame nėra alkūninio mechanizmo ir stūmoklio, o grįžtamai slenkamas judesys neverčiamas alkūninio veleno sukamuoju judesiu. Mašinos …   Aiškinamasis šiluminės ir branduolinės technikos terminų žodynas

• Engine balance — is the design, construction and tuning of an engine to run smoothly. Engine balance reduces vibration and other stresses, and may improve the performance, efficiency, cost of ownership and reliability of the engine, as well as reducing the stress …   Wikipedia

• Engine configuration — is an engineering term for the layout of the major components of an internal combustion engine. These components include cylinders, pistons, crankshaft(s) and camshaft(s).For many automobile engines, the term ´block is interchangeable with engine …   Wikipedia

• Diesel engine — Diesel engines in a museum Diesel generator on an oil tanker …   Wikipedia

• piston and cylinder — In mechanical engineering, a sliding cylinder with a closed head (the piston) that moves up and down (or back and forth) in a slightly larger cylindrical chamber (the cylinder) by or against pressure of a fluid, as in an engine or pump. The… …   Universalium

• Piston (optics) — In optics, the term piston is the mean value of a wavefront or phase profile across the pupil of an optical system. The piston coefficient is typically expressed in wavelengths of light at a particular wavelength. Its main use is in curve fitting …   Wikipedia

• Free French Air Force — The Free French Air Force ( fr. Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres, FAFL) were the air arm of Free French Forces during the Second World War.Fighting for Free France mdash; the FAFL in French North Africa (1940 1943)On June 17, 1940, five days… …   Wikipedia