Engineering:Beare-head engine

The Beare-head engine internal combustion engine technology combines a four-stroke engine bottom end and piston, with a ported cylinder head closely resembling that of a two-stroke engine. The head piston is smaller and moves at half cycling of the bottom piston. Functionally, the cylinder-head piston replaces part of the valve mechanism of a conventional four-stroke engine, and protects the remainder from the higher pressures. This configuration has been described as a six-stroke engine based on adding together the four strokes per cycle of the bottom piston and the two strokes of the cylinder head piston, but there are essentially only 4 strokes, just with an alternative form of valving.

References

• "After 16 years' work –- the six-stroke engine" (PDF). Border Chronicle (Bordertown, South Australia) (Vol. 87 - No. 4365). November 10, 1994. http://www.sixstroke.com/images/history/border_november_1994.pdf. 

External links

• www.six-stroke.com
• Australian Federal Court judgment — Jack Brabham Engines Limited v Beare [2010] FCA 872, Federal Court (Australia).
• Costs judgment — Jack Brabham Engines Limited v Beare [2010] FCA 1096, Federal Court (Australia).