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This invention is a hybrid engine employing a reciprocating piston in conjunction with an electromagnetic transducer for control and power output. The transducer is essentially a specialized linear motor/generator. The piston is rigidly connected by means of a rod to a permanent magnet (or equivalen

This invention is a hybrid engine employing a reciprocating piston in conjunction with an electromagnetic transducer for control and power output. The transducer is essentially a specialized linear motor/generator. The piston is rigidly connected by means of a rod to a permanent magnet (or equivalent). The piston-rod-magnet unit is constrained by bearings to move translationally along one axis. The magnet can move linearly into and out of the yoke of the magnetic transducer to generate an electric current in the windings of the yoke. At the same time computer control of the effective impendences of these windings as well as computer controlled currents (provided by an electric storage battery or electrical energy storage indicator) flowing through some (or all) of these windings control the motion of the magnet and hence of the piston. Computer control is also exercised over other devices to regulate ignition timing, fuel injection, air intake, valve motion, etc. The power output may be used to drive A.C., D.C. or A.C./D.C. motors or it may be wholly or partially rectified to charge batteries and/or power A.C./D.C. or D.C. motors or to power other devices.

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In an internal combustion engine which includes at least one cylinder, a piston reciprocal therein, fuel and air intake means operatively connected to said cylinder, exhaust gas means also operatively connected to said cylinder and a source of fuel/air ignition also operatively connected to said cyl

In an internal combustion engine which includes at least one cylinder, a piston reciprocal therein, fuel and air intake means operatively connected to said cylinder, exhaust gas means also operatively connected to said cylinder and a source of fuel/air ignition also operatively connected to said cylinder; the improvement comprising in combination, support structure, a connecting rod secured by one end to said piston and reciprocal therewith along a common axis, bearing means mounted on said supporting structure for supporting said connecting rod for reciprocal movement, a transducer in the form of a linear generator, which includes a magnet, operatively secured to said connecting rod and being reciprocal therewith, and a yoke and coil combination mounted on said supporting structure in a stationary, operative relationship with said magnet, a position indicator also on said supporting structure, operatively connected to said connecting rod for indicating at selected locations and/or time intervals, the position, speed and acceleration of said piston rod as a function of time, and computer means operatively connected to said position indicator and to said engine to control the operational characteristics of said engine depending upon the operation requirement parameters at any given time frame of operation.