Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (fka CYPW)

[BuddyWhazhizname]

Hey Tom,

You'll have to forgive me for being a little slow here trying to figure this company out.

I'm going to disagree with you a little bit about building the first engines as radials. Machining a round crankcase from bar stock isn't a big deal, and if the cylinders are not exactly 120 degrees apart it won't matter. An inline engine would require a crankshaft with three throws and four main bearings. Making 300 of those while using roller bearings is a real challenge. (I take it they need roller bearings because of the water "lubrication".)

But if you don't build any engines, the cylinder arrangement isn't a problem whatever it is.

I just looked over their US patents on Google. First thing is that almost all of them have this at the bottom:

Sep 5, 2013 AS Assignment Owner name: TCA GLOBAL CREDIT MASTER FUND, LP, FLORIDA

It appears that Cyclone doesn't own much IP any more.

The one patent on waste heat engines US 7992386 describes an engine with that spider bearing, pushrod operated valves and an attached condenser. The OSU-CAR design doesn't have any of those, so it's not covered by the patent.

It might have been one of your older posts I saw that described how the spider bearing US 7900454 would do nothing but bang around. Well no wonder. You can look at the drawing and imagine holding the crank still. The spider can be rotated one way until it jams against a connecting rod, then rotate the other way until it jams against another rod. There's nothing to keep it from flopping around and beating up the con rods until they fatigue and break. For the life of me I can't think of any advantage of this thing, (other than maybe providing some more patent certificates to use as wallpaper at about $50K per square foot).

That just leaves a bunch of patents on the "heat regenerative engine", which I guess is the Mark 5.

Has anyone witnessed a dyno pull on one of these? There was some bragging about 108 hp and 1050 lb-ft of torque. A dyno pull takes less than a minute (this is an example), so it should be easy to show visiting shareholders.

I know I'm being a little slow. I'm just trying to figure out what this company has been doing other than selling stock.

Tom -- I don't need a bridge. How 'bout some Arizona ocean front?