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Stirling cycle machine

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6726994
This patent describes an improvement in a Stirling cycle machine including first and second variable-volume, compression-expansion chambers containing a gas a regenerator interconnecting the chambers and for conducting the gas therebetween, and eccentric drive means for driving the first and second chambers. It comprises: the eccentric drive means comprising a pair of rotatably mounted shafts, at least one pair of eccentric disks fixed on the shafts in phase with each other, and means for causing the shafts and thereby the eccentric disks to rotate in opposite directions.
Assignee:
CDC Partners, San Diego, CA (USA)
Patent Number(s):
US 4930314; A
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-404605A
OSTI ID:
6726994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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