Owner Rehco, LLC

Inventors Rehkemper, Jeffrey; Hartlaub, Charles

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2003216471

PCT Number PCT/US03/06260

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/083271

Priority 10/112,665 28.03.02 US

Filing date 28 February 2003

Wipo publication date 13 October 2003

Acceptance publication date 7 September 2006

F01L 15/14 (2006.01) Valve-gear or valve arrangements specially adapted for steam engines, or specially adapted for other positive-displacement machines or engines with variableworking-fluid distribution

F01B 9/02 (2006.01) Reciprocating-piston machines or engines characterised by connections between pistons and main shafts and not specific to groups

F01B 17/02 (2006.01) Reciprocating-piston machines or engines characterised by use of uniflow principle

F01L 21/00 (2006.01) Use of working pistons or piston-rods as fluid-distributing valves or as valve-supporting elements, e.g. in free-piston machines

F01L 23/00 (2006.01) Valves controlled by impact of piston, e.g. in free-piston machines