Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Sekiya

Eiji Fukuda

Takashi Inoue

Takeo Komatsubara

Nobuo Koumoto

Kazuya Sato

Takahiro Nakamura

Hiroshi Nishikawa

Hiroshi Kanai

Masahisa Otake

Yasuo Sakamoto

Takayuki Mizuno

Toshikazu Ishihara

Denji Mashimo

Yoshiaki Kurosawa

Junji Matsue

Mitsuhiko Ishino

Hirotaka Kakinuma

Ryousuke Tuihiji

Itsuo Nakazaki

Ryouichi Katohno

Izumi Okamoto

A Stirling refrigerator, which prevents oil rising, makes oil seal bellows have long-life, and includes a housing, cylinder, piston, piston rod and an oil seal bellows. The oil seal bellows seals a space between the housing and the cylinder, wherein a tip end of the oil seal bellows is sealed and fixed on the piston or on the piston rod inside the cylinder, and a base end of the oil seal bellows is installed on the housing. The oil seal bellows reciprocates with a stroke, wherein the tip end of the oil seal bellows is compressed to a compression side from a position of free length then returns to the position of free length.

Stirling refrigerator

Stirling refrigerating machine

There is disclosed a Stirling cycle refrigerator in which oil rising is prevented, and an adverse influence onto oil sealing bellows by a pressure rise accompanying the temperature rise of the crank chamber is prevented. The oil sealing bellows are disposed between a space in a housing and compression and expansion cylinders, and a buffer tank provided with the pressure adjusting bellows is disposed between a space on the back surface side of the compression and expansion pistons and the space in the housing, so that the pressure rise in the housing and the pressure fluctuation of the space are absorbed.

Stirling device

A fin structure for cooling cold-heat refrigerant and another fin structure (slender grooves or the like) constituting a working gas flow passage are formed on the outer and inner surfaces of the heat exchange housing constituting a low-temperature heat exchanger by a lost was casting method so that these fin structures are formed integrally with the heat exchange housing. In addition, a fin structure and another fin structure constituting a working gas flow passage are integrally formed on the outer and inner surfaces of a high-temperature side heat exchanger (heat rejector). Accordingly, the heat exchangers of a Stirling machine can be manufactured in a simple structure by the lost wax casting method, whereby the workability can be enhanced and the manufacturing cost can be reduced. In addition, the precision for the workability can be enhanced, and the heat exchange efficiency and the reliability can be enhanced.

Stirling machine with heat exchanger having fin structure

A Stirling cycle engine includes: a housing having at least one cylinder; a motor element disposed in the housing; and a Stirling refrigerator portion driven by the motor element. The cylinder is made to be a cross guide for a piston or a displacer of the Stirling refrigerator portion. Thus, it is possible to provide a desired Stirling cycle engine, for example, a Stirling refrigerator, a Stirling engine generator, etc. with a single configuration.

Stirling cycle engine

A Stirling refrigerating system comprising a freezing chamber, a Stirling refrigerator, and a heat carrying means including a pipe arrangement thermally connected to a cooling portion of the Stirling refrigerator so as to carry low temperature heat of the cooling portion to the freezing chamber by means of a refrigerant, wherein when the Stirling refrigerator is driven, the refrigerant circulates in the freezing chamber and the cooling portion through the pipe arrangement. Thus, it is possible to obtain a Stirling refrigerating system in which not only it can cope with the current flon regulation but also it can use ethyl alcohol or the like as a refrigerant other than HCFC or HFC which may be subjected to legal regulation in the future, and it can increase the refrigerating capacity and improve the coefficient of performance in comparison with the existing system.

Stirling refrigerating system

A free piston Vuillermier machine which is an external combustion heat machine using a regenerative cycle, wherein a low-temperature displacer is made hollow to form a low-temperature displacer gas spring chamber, a low-temperature displacer rod is made hollow to form a hollow chamber for accommodating a high-temperature displacer rod therein as well as a high-temperature displacer gas spring chamber. Further, in the above configuration, a gas spring chamber passage may be formed to make the high-temperature displacer gas spring chamber communicate with the low-temperature displacer gas spring chamber. A high-temperature displacer mechanical spring may be provided in the high-temperature displacer gas spring chamber, and a low-temperature displacer mechanical spring mounted on the low-temperature displacer rod may be provided in the low-temperature displacer gas spring chamber.

Free piston Vuillermier machine

Gas displacement volumes of a high temperature chamber and a middle temperature chamber in a high temperature portion of a hot gas machine are different. Alternatively, a gas displacement volume of a low temperature chamber and a middle temperature chamber in a low temperature portion are different.

Hot gas machine

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Ota, Japan

Hiroshi Sekiya