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Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-06
2007-02-06
Nguyen, Hoang (Department: 3748)
Power plants
Motor operated by expansion and/or contraction of a unit of...
Unit of mass is a gas which is heated or cooled in one of a...
C060S517000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11238287
ABSTRACT:
An improved, free-piston, Stirling machine having at least three pistons series connected in an alpha Stirling configuration. Each cylinder is stepped so that it has a relatively larger diameter interior wall and a coaxial, relatively smaller diameter interior wall. Each piston is also stepped so that it has a first component piston having an end face facing in one axial direction and matingly reciprocatable in the smaller diameter cylinder wall and a second component piston having an end face facing in the same axial direction and matingly reciprocatable in the larger diameter, cylinder wall. One of the piston end faces bounds the compression space and the other end face bounds the expansion space. Preferably, each stepped piston has peripheral, cylinder walls that are axially adjacent and joined at a shoulder forming the end face of the larger diameter component piston. Stirling machines with these stepped features are also arranged in various opposed and duplex configurations, including arrangements with only one load or prime mover for each opposed pair of pistons. Improved balancing or vibration reduction is obtained by connecting expansion and compression spaces of a four cylinder in-line arrangement in a 1, 3, 2, 4 series sequence. Three cylinder embodiments provide a highly favorable volume phase angle of 120° and are advantageously physically arranged with three, parallel, longitudinal axes of reciprocation at the apexes of an equilateral triangle.
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Berchowitz David M.
Kwon Yong-Rak
Foster Frank H.
Global Cooling BV
Kremblas, Foster Phillips & Pollick
Nguyen Hoang
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