Refrigeration – Gas compression – heat regeneration and expansion – e.g.,...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-23
2008-10-14
Doerrler, William C (Department: 3744)
Refrigeration
Gas compression, heat regeneration and expansion, e.g.,...
Reexamination Certificate
active
07434409
ABSTRACT:
An improved pulse tube cooler having a resonator tube connected in place of a compliance volume or reservoir. The resonator tube has a length substantially equal to an integer multiple of ¼ wavelength of an acoustic wave in the working gas within the resonator tube at its operating frequency, temperature and pressure. Preferably, the resonator tube is formed integrally with the inertance tube as a single, integral tube with a length approximately ½ of that wavelength. Also preferably, the integral tube is spaced outwardly from and coiled around the connection of the regenerator to the pulse tube at a cold region of the cooler and the turns of the coil are thermally bonded together to improve heat conduction through the coil.
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Doerrler William C
Foster Frank H.
Kremblas, Foster Phillips & Pollick
Sunpower, Inc.
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