Pattakon engine.....legitimate alternative or just another fly-by-night
Here is the much called for thread on the Pattakon engine.
Here is your chance Manolis to answer all the questions people have about your engine design.
You have made some outrageous quotes over on other threads:
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I declare publicly today, to any one of pattakon’s investors to brink me their shares and I will buy them - immediately - a million times their initial price in US dollars (i.e. for each dollar the investor – any investor – gave, he will take a million dollars in return)."
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I wish I had just the one share :D
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I call any professional willing to have a test drive with pattakon’s cars to call me.
And a special offer – it is the challenge you asked for -for you: come for a test drive in Athens and if you see less than I claim, I will pay your first class airplane tickets.
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On top of that you have shown heaps of animations and theory. You have sounded more like a car salesman than an engine designer.
So let's get the ball rolling.
How long has this engine been in design phase? How close are you to production of this engine? Can you provide us with some independant third party results on power torque and fuel consumption or are the figures just your own theory? Can you advise whether you are in discussions with auto manufacturers? Have you presented the engine on a world stage?
Here's your big chance.
BTW here is the link to the site:
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Some of Pattakon's Patents
Pattakon Variable Valve Actuation patents and patent applications:
Variable Valve Gear:
1st Priority: GR20010100295
1st PCT Patent Application: PCT/GR02/00035
US Patent: US 6,892,684 (May 17, 2005)
Variable Valve Gear:
2nd PCT Patent Application: PCT/GR04/00043
US Patent Application Publication : 20060091344
Discrete Mode Variable Valve Gear
US Patent Application Publication : 20060196459
Improved Variable Valve Actuation (idling control)
1st Priority : GR20060100245
Pattakon Pulling Piston Engine patent : US 6,062,187 (May 16, 2000)
(four years later Honda received the US 6,763,796 and US 6,763,796 patents on the same exactly subject)
Pattakon Cam Drive Mechanism (GRECO crankless engine)
PCT Patent Application : PCT/GR04/00052
Pattakon Pulling Rod Engine
1st Priority: GR20060100048
PCT Patent Application: PCT/EP2007/050809
In Japan, China etc Patent Offices more data can be found.
Thanks
Manolis Pattakos