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Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2012
Applicant:

Tokai University Educational System, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Shinya Hasegawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Yasuo Oshinoya, Kanagawa, JP;

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;

Tomohiro Kaneko, Kanagawa, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B 9/12 (2006.01); F25B 9/14 (2006.01); F02G 1/043 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B 9/145 (2013.01); F02G 1/043 (2013.01); F25B 2309/1403 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a thermoacoustic engine having: resonance pipes including a working gas; motors; and a branch pipe, where each of the motors has a regenerator, a heater, and a cooler, a temperature gradient is given between both ends of the regenerator to generate self-excited oscillation of the working gas, a channel cross-sectional area of the resonance pipe that is coupled to the heater is expanded by a same amplification factor of a work flow based on the self-excited oscillation or by an amplification factor within a range of ±30% of the amplification factor of the work flow to a channel cross-sectional area of a resonance pipe that is coupled to the cooler, and a channel cross-sectional area of the regenerator is set by 4 to 36 times of the channel cross-sectional area of the resonance pipe that is coupled to the cooler.


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