Thermal engine
Patent
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OSTI ID:6786235
A thermal engine utilizing a strip of nitinol material or other thermally responsive shape memory effect material to drive a reciprocating output shaft, said strip of material forming a common wall between two different alternating temperature sources which thermally cycle the material.
- Assignee:
- EDB-84-110615
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4423596
- OSTI ID:
- 6786235
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 28 Dec 1981; Other Information: PAT-APPL-334728
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
42 ENGINEERING
NITINOL HEAT ENGINES
DESIGN
ELASTICITY
ENERGY STORAGE
HEAT SOURCES
NITINOL
OPERATION
SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT
SPRINGS
TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS
THERMAL CYCLING
WORKING FLUIDS
ALLOYS
ENGINES
FLUIDS
HEAT ENGINES
MACHINE PARTS
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
NICKEL ALLOYS
STORAGE
TENSILE PROPERTIES
TITANIUM ALLOYS
425007* - Engineering- Power Cycles- Other- (1980-)
NITINOL HEAT ENGINES
DESIGN
ELASTICITY
ENERGY STORAGE
HEAT SOURCES
NITINOL
OPERATION
SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT
SPRINGS
TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS
THERMAL CYCLING
WORKING FLUIDS
ALLOYS
ENGINES
FLUIDS
HEAT ENGINES
MACHINE PARTS
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
NICKEL ALLOYS
STORAGE
TENSILE PROPERTIES
TITANIUM ALLOYS
425007* - Engineering- Power Cycles- Other- (1980-)