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Old 09-20-2013, 09:35 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Don't they do the "Atkinson cycle" because they do not want to pay royalties for the Otto cycle?
James Atkinson developed the original Atkinson-cycle engine to overcome Nikolas Otto's patent rights, but the currently so-called Atkinsons are actually Otto.
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