AUTOMOBILE Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering. SUBSTANCE: proposed automobile has frame with running gear which carries cab, body and engine with power train. Novelty in automobile is that engine is made in form of sealed housing pneumatically coupled through shutoff device with high-pressure compressed air cylinders. Housing accommodates pneumostatic engine whose rotor is provided with special channels and is mechanically coupled with control mechanism and with output shaft with flywheel through hermetically sealed device for transmission of rotation. Rotor is set into rotation by compressed air delivered into engine housing under action of static air pressure onto bottom of each channel. Torque is transmitted to output shaft through transmitting device and, from output shaft, torque is transmitted through clutch, gearbox and propeller shaft to driving wheels. EFFECT: enhanced performance characteristics, reduced harmful effect on environment. 3 cl, 12 dwg