Internal combustion engine intake and exhaust valve control apparatus

Claim 1

An intake and exhaust valve control apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a reciprocal piston mounted in a cylinder, the apparatus comprising: a body mountable on the engine, the body having inlet and outlet ports extending therethrough disposed in fluid flow communication with the cylinder in the engine; first and second horizontally extending through bores formed in the body, the first through bore intersecting the inlet port, the second through bore intersecting the exhaust port in the body; first and second valves rotatably mounted in the first and second through bores, respectively, each of the first and second valves having a through bore extending therethrough substantially perpendicular to the axial length of the valve; magnet means of opposed polarity mounted on one end of each of the first and second valves; magnetic core means mounted on the body and disposed in magnetic coupled relationship with the magnet means; a coil mounted on the magnetic core means for inducing a magnetic field in the magnetic core when electric current flows through the coil; and control means, connected to the coil, for generating an electric current in the coil of one of two opposed directions, for inducing a magnetic field in the magnetic core having one of first and second magnetic field orientations to cause selective rotation of the magnet means and the first and second valve means between first and second positions in which the through bore in each of the first and second valve means alternates between fluid flow communicating and fluid flow blocking positions between the inlet and outlet ports in the body.