The invention discloses an annular
cylinder engine. The annular
cylinder engine is characterized in that a main shaft (2) is arranged at the center of an annular air cylinder (1) which is internally provided with a rotary
piston (4), a shaft hub (3) of the main shaft is in sealing movable fit with the annular air cylinder by
cutting in the side surface of the annular air cylinder, the opening end of the shaft hub is fixedly connected with the rotary
piston, and a rotary drum (5) which is parallel to the main shaft and is provided with a notch is in sealing movable fit with the opening end of the shaft hub by
cutting in the annular air cylinder from an opposite side of the shaft hub until the opening end of the rotary drum is attached to the opening end of the shaft hub and is in sealing movable fit with the opening end of the shaft hub; the rotary drum and the rotary
piston are reversely rotated at the same speed, the notch of the rotary drum is rotated into an inner cavity of the annular air cylinder at the right moment, the notch of the rotary drum is rotated out of the inner cavity of the annular air cylinder after the rotary piston penetrates through the notch in a barrier-free way, the inner cavity is sealed by the wall of the rotary drum, a sealed
combustion chamber is formed by enclosing the
tail end of the rotary piston, the inner cavity of the annular air cylinder, the outer wall of the rotary drum and the opening end of the shaft hub at the moment,
flammable gas is sprayed in a gas inlet (6),
combustion is carried out by igniting an ignition plug (7), the rotary piston and the main shaft are pushed to do work in a circulation rotating way, and
waste gas is exhausted by a gas exhaust outlet (8). The annular
cylinder engine disclosed by the invention can be connected with various machines in parallel and in series, the size is small, the weight is light, and high efficiency and energy saving are realized.