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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gregory W Swift, Sante Fe, NM (US);
Jeffrey R Olson, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Regent of the University of California, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62-6 ; 60520 ;
Abstract
Thermal insulation of the pulse tube in a pulse-tube refrigerator is maintained by optimally varying the radius of the pulse tube to suppress convective heat loss from mass flux streaming in the pulse tube. A simple cone with an optimum taper angle will often provide sufficient improvement. Alternatively, the pulse tube radius r as a function of axial position x can be shaped with r(x) such that streaming is optimally suppressed at each x.