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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jean-Pierre Budliger, Onex, CH;
Assignee:
Battelle Memorial Institute, Geneva, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62-6 ; 60517 ; 60520 ;
Abstract
A Stirling-cycle assembly comprises an engine with a displacer piston mounted in a cylinder and defining a compression compartment and an expansion compartment respectively of a gaseous working fluid. These compartments communicate via a heat exchanger associated with a hot source, a regenerator and a heat exchanger associated with a heat sink. The engine is coupled to a heat pump having the same structure, via a resonance tube acting as an oscillatory drive member. The displacer piston of the heat pump is associated with a return means, e.g. a rod mounted in sealing-tight relationship in a closedchamber disposed on the compression compartment side.