Updated: 13-Oct-2024
TAUPIN
(France)
Another variable compression engine by varying the piston stroke, but unlike the Andreau mechanism, it uses an epicyclic system with three counter-rotations.
-More information on this engine is being sought. Although the tests were carried out on a Citroën engine, it may have remained a theoretical concept only.
-It suffered from abnormal stresses because the epicyclic system systematically produced movement breaks.