It only ran for a few minutes before destruction from the powerful combustion process. Persistence paid ... on in development and promotion of the Otto-cycle engine in automobiles.

The four-cycle engine, or Otto-cycle as it's often called ... cylinder's intake and exhaust ports in-time with the ...

According to claims made by the Scuderi Group, this process, where fuel is ignited every revolution instead of every two revolutions, as seen in the Otto cycle, saves energy and reduces toxic ...

Your standard Otto cycle is the one with which you're most ... this cycle involves leaving the intake portion of your 4-stroke process open for a bit longer so it carries over into the compression ...

Simply put, it's a valve timing adjustment to the standard Otto cycle, which all modern gasoline engines use, to make the engine a bit more efficient. The Atkinson cycle modifies that process by ...

The Atkinson design uses the four strokes of the Otto cycle to complete the combustion process, but unlike the Otto cycle, Atkinson's late closing of the intake valves produces an effective ...