US 6,981,366 B2
Turbineless jet engine
Thomas H. Sharpe, 55 Dorr Dr., North Augusta, S.C. 29841 (US)
Filed on Dec. 19, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/739,082.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/466790, filed on May 01, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0216447 A1, Nov. 04, 2004
Int. Cl. F02K 7/00 (2006.01); F02K 7/10 (2006.01); F02K 7/12 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 60—269 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A continuous combustion reaction engine devoid of internal moving parts, comprising:
a forwardly disposed air inlet section, having a forward end and a rearward end opposite said forward end;
a centrally disposed fuel injection section;
a rearwardly disposed, annular combustion section;
a large diameter, concentrically disposed exhaust gas recirculation duct, extending forwardly from said combustion section through said fuel injection section to said air inlet section;
said exhaust gas recirculation duct having an open rearward end communicating with said combustion section, and a forward end opposite said rearward end;
a plurality of radially disposed pressure generators within said air inlet section, defining a corresponding plurality of air inlet passages therebetween;
each of said pressure generators having an inner end, an outer end opposite said inner end, a forwardly disposed, open air inlet side, a rearwardly disposed airflow passage therethrough communicating with said air inlet side, and a plurality of airflow guide louvers disposed within said air inlet side;
said exhaust gas recirculation duct further having a plurality of radially disposed exhaust gas passages adjacent said forward end thereof, each communicating with a corresponding said airflow passage of one of said pressure generators;
an annular airflow passage surrounding said air inlet section and extending rearwardly to said fuel injection section;
each said airflow passage of said pressure generators further having an outer end communicating with said annular airflow passage; and
a plurality of air entrainment venturis disposed in an annular array about and forwardly adjacent said rearward end of said exhaust gas recirculation duct.