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Self-starting, free piston Stirling engine

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5278013

A free piston, Stirling engine is provided with seals which permit a limited range of friction-free displacer piston movement for allowing a starting perturbation of displacer piston position. The seal is a sealing ring resiliently mounted to one of two slidably engaged members of the Stirling engine with a limited freedom of movement relative to that member and sealingly slidable along the other member.

Assignee:
TIC; EDB-78-039341; ERA-03-019569
Patent Number(s):
US 4036018
OSTI ID:
5278013
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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