Panasonic Corporation

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

National Maritime Research Institute

Koichi Hirata

Teruyuki Akazawa

Takeshi Hoshino

Masakuni Kawada

A high efficient stirling engine with excellent thermal efficiency, which can increase the heating temperature of a high temperature section, is obtained by preventing the heat from being lost in a member connecting the high temperature section and a low temperature section. The high temperature sectionand the member (a regenerator housing) connecting the high temperature section and the low temperature section are formed to have a split configuration by using different materials for the each, in which the high temperature sectionis formed of a heat resistant/high heat conductive material having high heat resistance property and high heat conductivity, the regenerator housingconnecting the high temperature sectionand the low temperature sectionis formed of a heat resistant/low heat conductive material having low heat conductivity, and the both are bonded integrally to each other to obtain an integral sealed structure.

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Mitaka, Japan

Koichi Hirata