http://www.google.com/patents/US7753036
This is a comprehensive web site on the rotary turbo compound.
Most of the recent patents are assigned to Pratt & Whitney.
One of the persons named as an inventor was on the news letter
for years back in the late 90's and early 2000's. That is Jonathan Lauter.
I suspect this is an attempt to keep somebody from making
them, certifying them and selling them competing with the PT6 :-)
Some of the patents run out in 2017.
You can use
http://www.pat2pdf.org/ to get free copies
of the patents
Here is a short list. You can cut and paste them into pat2pdf
5471834
7753036
7775044
20090007882
04074655
Attached is the most relevant patent.
Also a screen capture of some of the patent text
mentioning the Mazda rotary :-)
Much of this was before the Iannetti silicon nitride seals increased
the apex seal life to 20,000 hours.
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