A Scuderi cycle is a thermodynamic cycle is constructed out of the following series

of thermodynamic processes:[1]

 A-B and C-D (TOP and BOTTOM of the loop): a pair of quasi-parallel adiabatic
processes
 D-A (LEFT side of the loop): a positively sloped, increasing pressure, increasing volume
process
 B-C (RIGHT side of the loop): an isochoric process
The adiabatic processes are impermeable to heat: heat flows rapidly into the loop through
the left expanding process resulting in increasing pressure while volume is increasing; some
of it flows back out through the right depressurizing process; the heat that remains does the
work.
The Scuderi engine, formally called the Scuderi Split Cycle Engine, is a split
cycle, internal combustion engine invented by Carmelo J. Scuderi (April 13, 1925 – October
16, 2002).[1] Scuderi Group, an engineering and licensing company based in West
Springfield, Massachusetts and founded by Carmelo Scuderi's children, is testing a working
prototype of the engine that was officially unveiled to the public on April 20, 2009.[2][3][4]
The Scuderi engine is under development by Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio,
Texas. Scuderi Group released video footage of a naturally aspirated one-liter prototype of
the Scuderi engine firing on its own in the laboratory in October, 2009.