Internal cooling passage structure for rotary engine
An internal cooling passage structure for rotary engine, which includes a rotary engine body, having a front frame, a mid-frame, a rear frame and a rotor, wherein the rotor has cooling passages beneath the rotor triangular apexes, and both front and rear frames respectively have corresponding openings; a rotor, rotating in the mid-frame, having the core cooling passages in full or partial connection with the openings in both front and rear frames in the engine operation; and a guide vane along the opening edge, wherein external air is guided into the rotor core cooling passages by the guide vane which avoids generating heat vortices and helps to increase the cooling air so as to lower the temperature on the rotor and its assemblies.
1. An internal cooling passage structure for a rotary engine, comprising:
a rotary engine body, having a front frame, a mid-frame and a rear frame, wherein the front and rear frames respectively have corresponding openings;
a rotor, rotating in the mid-frame, having core cooling passages respectively beneath rotor triangular apexes, in full or partial connection with the corresponding openings in the front and rear frames in engine operation; and
a guide vane attached to a structural rib of the front frame and set along an outside edge of an opening in the front frame, wherein external air is guided into the core cooling passages by the guide vane which avoids generating heat vortices and helps to increase cooling air so as to lower the temperature of the rotor.
2. The internal cooling passage structure for rotary engine of claim 1 , wherein the front frame further has a vent inlet and the rear frame has a vent outlet.
3. The internal cooling passage structure for rotary engine of claim 2 , wherein the guide vane extends to the inlet vent.