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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