Tschudi engine
Tschudi engine
[′chü·dē ‚en·jən] (mechanical engineering)
A cat-and-mouse engine in which the pistons, which are sections of a torus, travel around a toroidal cylinder; motion of the pistons is controlled by two cams which bear against rollers attached to the rotors.
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