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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2016
Applicant:
Thermolift, Inc., Stony Brook, NY (US);
Inventors:
Erik Kauppi, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
David Yates, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Peter Hofbauer, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Matthew Duthie, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
ThermoLift, Inc., Stony Brook, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B 9/14 (2006.01); F25B 30/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B 9/14 (2013.01); F25B 30/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some heat pumps have displacers mechatronically-controlled via springs and coils acting upon a ferromagnetic plate. In some prior art heat pumps, the components are housed in hot parts of the heat pump and in others, the components are housed in a cold part of the heat pump, but the components are offset from a central axis of the heat pump. A heat pump with the mechatronic driver components collinear with a central axis of the heat pump has the components in a cold part of the heat pump.