• A camless or free-valve piston engine is an engine that has poppet valves operated by means of electromagnetic, hydraulic, or pneumatic actuators instead...
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    blocking ignition, in response to input from an immobiliser In a camless piston engine (an experimental design not currently used in any production vehicles)...
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  • Koenigsegg TFG (category Straight-three engines)
    Koenigsegg TFG is an inline-3 engine. The TFG stands for "Tiny Friendly Giant." It is a Freevalve (camless piston engine), thus it does not have a camshaft...
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    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...
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  • while the rotor is oval. 2016: Qoros Auto shows a vehicle with a camless piston engine. In 2020, Koenigsegg showed the idea again. 2017: The 2019 Infiniti...
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    A single-cylinder engine, sometimes called a thumper, is a piston engine with one cylinder. This engine is often used for motorcycles, motor scooters...
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  • systems and next-generation reciprocating engine technologies. Koenigsegg has also developed a camless piston engine which found its first application in the...
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    Koenigsegg Gemera (category Rear mid-engine, all-wheel-drive vehicles)
    powered by a compact engine weighing only 70 kg (150 lb). The engine was so small because it was supposed to be a camless piston engine using Koenigsegg's...
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    The 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...
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    A W engine is a type of piston engine where three or four cylinder banks use the same crankshaft, resembling the letter W when viewed from the front....
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    Camshaft (category Engine components)
    bike. Camless piston engine, which use electromagnetic, hydraulic, or pneumatic actuators. First used in turbocharged Renault Formula 1 engines in the...
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    Valvetrain (category Engine valvetrain configurations)
    the valvetrain at high engine speeds (RPM). Cam-in-block Camless piston engine Brain, Marshall (5 April 2000). "How Car Engines Work". HowStuffWorks. Retrieved...
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    utilization efficiency (AFUE) ACEA agreement Alternative propulsion Camless piston engine Carbon dioxide equivalent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)...
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    An overhead camshaft (OHC) engine is a piston engine in which the camshaft is located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber. This contrasts...
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  • The Atkinson differential engine was a two piston, single cylinder four-stroke engine that also used a displacer piston to provide the fuel air mixture...
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  • A straight-14 engine or inline-14 engine is a fourteen-cylinder piston engine with all fourteen cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase...
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    and camless systems. Increasingly strict emissions regulations are causing many automotive manufacturers to use VVT systems. Two-stroke engines use a...
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    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...
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  • balance of all the factors for the engine requirements. Further complicating the system is the fact that the piston dome, the signal source, continually...
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    Swashplate (redirect from Swashplate engine)
    axial engine in place of a crankshaft to translate the motion of a piston into rotary motion. Such engines are the only variation of the cam engine to have...
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    the steam engines of the day, simply replacing the piston-and-cylinder with an electromagnetic solenoid. Page's reciprocating electric engine 1844 Grüel...
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  • Variable valve lift (VVL) is an automotive piston engine technology which varies the height a valve opens in order to improve performance, fuel economy...
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  • perform in an engine context. Mercedes DiesOtto engine Mazda Skyactiv-X Internal combustion engine Gasoline engine Diesel engine Free-piston engine Variable...
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  • Variable displacement (category Engine technology)
    Management Honda Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) Camless engine Saab Variable Compression engine Start-stop system "Cylinder Deactivation Reborn - Part...
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    elements for constructing a steam engine (invented in 1712) — Hero's aeolipile (generating steam power), the cylinder and piston (in metal force pumps), non-return...
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    1864, all power came from steam engines, which had a piston moving in a straight-line up and down a cylinder. This piston needed to keep a good seal with...
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    Rhombic drive (category Piston engines)
    for two separately oscillating pistons. It was originally developed around 1900 for the twin-cylinder Lanchester car engine where it allowed perfect balancing...
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  • range at full lift or the high RPM capability to do anything like this. “Camless” electromagnetic/hydraulic systems do have similar duration/lift ranges...
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