Shape memory element engine

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1981-06-18

1983-07-19

Ostrager, Allen M.

Power plants

Motor operated by expansion and/or contraction of a unit of...

Mass is a solid

60529, F03G 706

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043936547

ABSTRACT:
An engine for conversion of low grade thermal energy into useful rotational energy incorporates a plurality of hollow deformable shape memory elements coupled in series with the crankpins of a crankshaft and with load limiting members. Hot and cold fluids are alternately directed through the crankshaft to the inner surface of the shape memory elements to provide rotation of the crankshaft.

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