Refrigeration – Gas compression – heat regeneration and expansion – e.g.,...
Patent
1993-07-08
1995-02-28
Tanner, Harry B.
Refrigeration
Gas compression, heat regeneration and expansion, e.g.,...
622281, 364165, 318561, 318646, F25B 900
Patent
active
053926072
ABSTRACT:
A Stirling-cycle cryogenic cooler that employs a vibration control procedure based on adaptive feedforward principles. The vibration control procedure is particularly adapted for use as a spacecraft cryogenic cooler, and may be used to cool a detector array or other sensor located on the spacecraft. The vibration control procedure suppresses vibrational forces that occur during operation of the cooler. The cooler comprises an expander module and a compressor module. The expander and compressor modules employ separate motors that respectively drive an expander piston and a compressor piston, and a balancer piston is employed to dynamically balance the respective expander and compressor pistons. In the control procedure, current command signals are injected into a selected motor drive of either the compressor or expander module. The injected current command signals comprise higher-order harmonics with adaptively determined phases and amplitudes that provide for complete force cancellation in the cooler. The desired phases and amplitudes of the injected current command signals are estimated in real time using outputs of force sensors, such as load cells, coupled to the cooler housing that measure higher-order harmonic forces. In operation, when operational parameters of the cryogenic cooler have reached equilibrium, the harmonic content of its vibration force is very stable in time. Because of this unique characteristic, the phases and amplitudes of injected current command signal do not have to be determined quickly. Thus, the computation throughput required for the present control procedure are significantly reduced.
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Denson-Low Wanda K.
Hughes Aircraft Company
Sales Michael W.
Tanner Harry B.
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