The RKM News

RKM GbR sold all patents to an investor and no longer owns any patents.

RKM GbR will participate in ICSAT 2010 (International Conference on Sustainable Automotive Technologies) to be held on February, 24-26, 2010 in Bavaria, Germany. Dr. Schapiro and other members of the RKM team are submitting to the conference committee five scientific papers on various aspects of the RKM Technology and will make presentations at several ICSAT 2010 meetings.

ICSAT is a major bi-annual event for the automotive industry held alternatively in Germany and Australia. ICSAT conferences are attended by lead scientists and engineers representing major automakers and their key suppliers: GM, Ford, Volkswagen/Audi, Daimler, Toyota, Kia, Bosch, Eaton, and many others.

The RKM Technology received wide acclaim following its presentation by Dr. Schapiro at ICSAT 2008 in Melbourne, Australia.

Following the Dealán-Dé Director's visit to the RKM GbR's office in Berlin, RKM GbR received a glowing letter of praise for the RKM Technology. (Please see the "Praised by Experts" section of the RKM web site.)

Dealán-Dé is a company in Ireland developing innovative energy-generating technologies. It hopes to use the RKMs in lieu of steam-driven turbines in solar electric power generators and in several other applications.

The fourth type of RKM machine (RKM-4) was co-invented by Ivan Pyatov and Dr. Schapiro.

The RKM-4 engine is projected of achieving rotational speeds in excess of 30 000 RPM. While related to the Wankel motor, the RKM-4 will allow to realize the Diesel process in a one-stage machine. Demonstration models of the RKM-4 machine have already been executed in plastic and steel.

Mr. Pyatov is an industrialist and one of Russia's foremost authorities on rotary machines.

Thus, the RKM family of machines has been expanded even further and now includes low-speed RKMs 1 and 2 high-speed RKMs 3 and 4. Patent applications for the latter are pending.

The European Academy of Natural Sciences awarded its 2009 Leonardo da Vinci Medal to Dr. Boris Schapiro, the principal inventor of the RKM Technology and RKM GbR's Managing Partner. This prestigious award is bestowed on individuals in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the development of science. The award ceremony took place at the EANS Headquarters in Hanover, Germany.

RKM GbR began preparing patent documentation for the third type of the RKM engine (RKM-3).

The new rotary machine will have extremely high power density and be capable of running at speeds of up to 20000 RPM. It also has many features of the previously patented RKMs with one and two power transfer shafts, e.g., few components, which bring high reliability and low production and maintenance costs.

The third type of the RKMs expands the RKM family of machines and augments the list of their possible applications with devices capable of competing with superchargers, thereby opening up a variety additional usages.

RKM GbR made important progress in developing a technical concept for Steam Driven Vehicle (SDV) with the RKM engine. The project is being developed by RKM GbR in cooperation with Russia's leading scientists and R&D institutions.

Preliminary estimates indicate that the SDV would have at least twice the run of a vehicle (of the same useful volume) powered by an electric battery of equal weight. As an added benefit, production costs for the SDV are expected to be significantly lower that those for battery-powered cars.

Designing and building a production prototype of a 4-wheel-drive SDV is a stand-alone project of RKM GbR, which is expected to take four years to complete. Essentially, this will lead to the development of an automobile running on plain water.

RKM GbR released "SRM - Schapiro Rotating Machines", an updated comprehensive business plan for the development of the RKM Technology and other promising rotational machines and related technologies. The plan is the reflection of a new marketing concept, which includes the following key elements:

• Assembling related and competing technologies in the filed of volume-displacement rotary machines,
• Combining those advanced technologies to develop new applications and products,
• Bringing the resulting super-machines to user markets.

Also, in the opinion of our marketing advisers the name of the principal inventor of the RKM Technology in the title of the project will facilitate investment and expedite entry into user markets. To receive a copy of the SRM Business Plan please contact RKM GbR.

The RKM Technology was successfully presented by Dr. Boris Schapiro at the ICSAT 2008 (International Conference on Sustainable Automotive Technologies) in Melbourne, Australia. "RKMs: New Class of Machines". A scientific paper on the technology co-authored by Dr. Schapiro and Leonard Terlitsky, was published in the conference proceedings. To receive a copy of the article, please contact RKM GbR.

ICSAT is a major bi-annual event for the automotive industry held alternatively in Germany and Australia. ICSAT 2008 was attended by over 250 lead scientists and engineers representing major automakers and their key suppliers: GM, Ford, Volkswagen/Audi, Daimler, Toyota, Kia, Bosch, Eaton, and many others.

The participants gave the RKM Technology full recognition and loud praise as break-through rotary machines of an entirely new type, and as an elegant technological scheme based on an important scientific discovery. They unequivocally agreed that the RKMs will have a wide-spread and lasting impact on the world of machine building.

Director and Deputy Director of the R&D Department of Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co.KG, one of the world's leaders in pump manufacturing, visited RKM GbR's office in Berlin. The result of the visit is Kaercher's strong interest in utilizing the RKM Technology in a variety of its products.

the/sustainability/challenge (t/s/c), an international cooperative, was formally established in Switzerland. The bjective of the new venture is to pool membership fees from individuals around the world to create a capital fund for the development of new environment-friendly technologies. Development of the RKM Technology tops the list of several innovative projecs supported by the t/s/c.

The cooperative's initial fundraising goal is set at €120 million. The t/s/c has a well-developed multi-track marketing plan. The venture plans to launch operations within 8 weeks, and expects to begin providing funding to the RKM Project by April 2009. For more information see www.thesustainabilitychallenge.net

An article on the RKM Technology was published in the English-language Wikipedia, a leading Internet-based encyclopedia. The article is expected to be expanded in the near future and to appear in the German-language version of the encyclopedia (as "Schapiromotor").

RKM GbR recruited two top European professionals, an engineer and an industrial manager, to serve as a CEO and Director of Production for the RKM Project's development team. Both candidates currently hold lead positions with a major European industrial production company managing more than 1500 engineers and workers.

RKM GbR is also in negotiations with several top financial managers for the position of the RKM Project's CFO. One of the candidates is currently serving as Director of Finance for a major European chemical company.

DLR (the German Aero-Space Agency), one of the world's leaders in space exploration, took a high-level positive decision on cooperation with RKM GbR. DLR has expressed strong interest in developing the RKM Technology for application in the following areas:

• New concepts of moving vehicles and drives of fundamentally new design, especially for use in expeditions to the planets of the Solar System and for a radical renewal of vehicles used on Earth,
• Using the RKM Technology in a new type of engine powered jointly by solar-heated steam and conventional fuel,
• Developing pumps, compressors and drives based on the RKM Technology for on-board systems used in airplanes and space vehicles,
• Developing pumps and compressors for chemical and pharmaceutical industries and general machine building.

DLR is in the process of coordinating with various institutions within it structure the future R&D effort to utilize the RKM Technology. DLR is prepared to actively support the effort to capitalize the RKM Project, and is ready to provide its extensive, state-of-the-art testing and production facilities and research and engineering staff to the development of the RKM Technology.

A major article about the RKM Technology appeared in the May 2008 issue of the Nauka i Zhizn (Science and Life), Russia' leading popular science monthly. To view the full article (in Russian) please go to http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/13966/

The Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation nominated Dr. Boris Schapiro for the German Future Award 2008, the highest award of the Federal Republic of Germany for outstanding achievements in the field of technological development and innovations.

Following Dr. Schapiro's presentation at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Technion, the Israel Technical University in Haifa, the country's Ministry of Industry agreed to identify funding for R&D work at Technion to develop specific applications of the RKM Technology.