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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Variable valve timing (redirect from VVT engine)
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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Cylinder head porting (redirect from Porting (engine))
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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Reciprocating electric motor (redirect from Solenoid engine)
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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Homogeneous charge compression ignition (category Engines)
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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Crank (mechanism) (section Engines)
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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