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Title: Sequencing means for stirling cycle, ericsson cycle or like apparatus

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6306896

In Stirling Cycle or similar apparatus having a compressor, a cold finger and a displacer within the cold finger, sequencing between the compressor and the displacer is effected by a piston effecting displacement of the displacer in response to pressure variations in the compressor and a combination of piston valves and one-way valves preventing flow between the compressor and the cold finger until desired displacements of the displacer have been effected.

Assignee:
British Aerospace Public Limited Co. (United Kingdom)
Patent Number(s):
US 4528818
OSTI ID:
6306896
Resource Relation:
Patent Priority Date: Priority date 27 Jun 1983, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK); Other Information: PAT-APPL-508105
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English