Stirling engine

Patent · Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:5277383

Bolger, S R

This patent describes an engine. It comprises at least two variable volume compartments joined by a porous medium regenerator; heat exchangers in heat exchange relationships with the variable volume compartments; a fixed quantity of gas in the compartments; a piston in each of the compartments; means to control the pistons to vary the volumes of the gas transferring between the compartments in the form of overlapping quadrilateral waveforms to compress the gas in both compartments through the same cycle pressure ratio during a cycle compression step, to shift the gas between compartments and to expand the gas in both compartments through the same cycle pressure ratio during a cycle expansion step.

• Assignee: General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (United States)
• Patent Number(s): US 5095700; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-714667
• OSTI ID: 5277383
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 13 Jun 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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