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4392351 Multi-cylinder stirling engine  
A multi-cylinder Stirling engine comprises a stationary casing, working fluid, at least one heat source, a first heat exchanger for carrying the working fluid and for transferring heat from the...
4389844 Two stage stirling engine  
A two-stage harmonic reciprocating Stirling engine has a primary heater and a pair of regenerators with an intermediate heat exchanger disposed in the fluid flow between the two regenerators. High...
4387566 Independently variable phase and stroke control for a double acting Stirling engine  
A phase and stroke control apparatus for the pistons of a Stirling engine includes a ring on the end of each piston rod in which a pair of eccentrics is arranged in series, torque transmitting...
4372116 Stirling engine control mechanism and method  
A reciprocating-to-rotating motion conversion and power control device for a Stirling engine includes a hub mounted on an offset portion of the output shaft for rotation relative to the shaft and...
4365474 Module for constructing a double-acting four-cylinder Stirling engine  
A module for a double-acting four-cylinder Stirling engine includes a heater, two upper cylinder portions, two regenerator/cooler units which each have a flexibly interconnected regenerator and a...
4330994 Double-acting hot gas engine assemblage  
A number of hot gas engine units each having a plurality of pistons working upon two parallel crank shafts may form an assemblage of relative short axial length by axially connecting one crank...
4327551 Multi-cylinder hot-gas engine with automatic air and gas supply  
The temperature of the working gas in the heating chamber of each of a number of cylinders is continuously measured. An electronic selection circuit selects the lowest measured temperature as a...
4307569 Double-acting four-cylinder Stirling engine  
A double-acting Stirling engine has a central axis and four cylinders disposed along a straight line which intersects the central axis. Four regenerator/cooler units are disposed in a circle which...
4290264 Stirling cycle apparatus  
Stirling cycle apparatus including a compressor or expander for cyclically compressing or expanding a working gas, a displacer for cyclically displacing the working gas, a rotatable shaft, and a...
4285197 Isothermal chamber and heat engines constructed using said chamber  
Isothermal chamber comprising deformable walls and acting as a heat exchanger. It is constituted by two walls 3,3a of complementary shape defining between them an enclosure 4 containing a gas, the...
4261173 Hot gas engine heater head  
A heater head for a multi-cylinder, double-acting hot gas engine in which each cylinder is surrounded by an annular regenerator unit, and in which the tops of each cylinder and its surrounding...
4261172 Six-cylinder double-acting hot gas engine  
A compact six-cylinder, double-acting hot gas engine having a single central combustion chamber with the cylinders arranged in two groups of three and clustered around the combustion chamber axis...
4255929 Hot gas engine with dual crankshafts  
A hot gas engine, such as a Stirling engine, which comprises a displacer portion and an expander portion with a heat exchanger connected therebetween. The expander portion has an expander piston...
4249378 Thermally actuated heat pump  
A thermal machine utilizing a positive displacement element which oscillates at a damped resonant frequency is disclosed. The positive displacement element controls the volume of expander and...
4214447 Dual-crank Stirling engine with quad cylinder arrangement  
An improved multicylinder Stirling engine is disclosed. A dual crank drive is provided in place of the conventional swash plate drive. The use of a dual crank creates a more compact engine as well...
4199945 Method and device for balanced compounding of Stirling cycle machines  
A multi-cycle thermal reciprocating machine of the type commonly known as Stirling engine, which operates on a closed cycle with a compressible fluid as the operational medium. Double-acting...
4195554 Multi-cylinder double-acting hot gas engine  
A hot gas engine of the Stirling type having a cylinder and associated piston, piston rod and cross-head, wherein the seals for the cylinder and piston rod are carried in a seal assembly unit...
4191019 Double-acting hot gas engine assemblage  
Hot gas engine units of the type having parallel cylinders in two parallel rows and containing pistons connected to two parallel crank shafts engaging a common third output shaft are juxtaposed...
4183214 Spring and resonant system for free-piston Stirling engines  
A free-piston Stirling engine having a double acting, gas spring system for applying bi-directional, resilient spring forces to the displacer piston rod and also a free-piston Stirling engine...
4152945 Power transmitting mechanism  
A power transmitting mechanism for converting the thrust of reciprocating pistons to a rotary output shaft at speeds independent of the frequency of piston reciprocation. Power developed by...
4138847 Heat recuperative engine  
A heat engine employs counterrotating rotors disposed in different cavities of a stator. The engine provides a heat recuperator which removes heat from working medium confined in a rotating...
4138897 Balanced crankshaft mechanism for the two piston Stirling engine  
A balanced crankshaft mechanism for the two piston Stirling engine which permits the use of a single crankpin and eliminates side forces on the pistons. A triangular yoke has connected to its...
4117679 Hot gas engine heater head  
A heater head is arranged about the central axis of a multiple cylinder hot gas turbine with a manifold ring of a diameter substantially smaller than the combustion chamber and connected to...
4107925 Stirling engine  
An eight cylinder rotary Stirling cycle engine ncludes first and second cylinder banks each comprising four cylinders having a fire box about the upper end of the cylinders and cooling fins about...
4103491 Stirling cycle machine  
A Stirling cycle machine comprises a normal temperature housing having a rotor disposed therein to define normal temperature chambers therein. The machine further includes a high or low temperature...
4077216 Stirling cycle thermal devices  
A multi-cylinder Stirling cycle thermal device is provided having free floating piston members arranged without a solid mechanism connected to the piston members to derive power therefrom. The...
4069671 Stirling engine combustion assembly  
In a double-acting multi-cylinder V-configuration Stirling cycle engine having a single burner unit, the regenerator-cooler units are clustered around a central axis of the heater head with...
4057962 Device for decreasing the start-up time for stirling engines  
The closed fluid working system of a Stirling cycle engine is disclosed having incorporated therein an improved regenerator assembly which modifies the thermodynamic responsiveness of the working...
4045978 Hot-gas reciprocating machine  
A hot-gas reciprocating machine having a plurality of working spaces connected via ducts to a common control member for controlling working medium flows to the working spaces from a source of...
4044559 Rotary closed series cycle engine system  
The rotary closed series cycle engine system is a rotary version of the latest type of series or double-acting reciprocating Stirling cycle engine. Identical rotary units are mounted in a tandem...
4033134 Heat engine  
A heat engine comprising a cylindrical heat chamber having an end wall of insulating material and on which is mounted a cylinder. An opening in the end wall communicates between the heat chamber...
4030404 Swash-plate drive mechanism  
A device comprising at least three reciprocable piston-shaped bodies, each of which is provided with a drive rod which cooperates, via a drive rod head accommodating sliding bodies, with a plate...
4030297 Hydrogen compression system for Stirling engine power control  
A closed working fluid system for a regenerative Stirling engine is disclosed. The system employs double-acting pistons arranged with each low temperature (compression) space connected to one hot...
4026114 Reducing the starting torque of double-acting Stirling engines  
A closed working fluid system for a regenerative type Stirling engine is disclosed. The system has pistons therein arranged to be of the double-acting type. A compensating system is employed to...
4020635 Power plants  
A power plant comprising combustion means for generating heat for use in a power plant with at least two hot gas engines, comprising first and second working fluid spaces, reciprocating means for...
4019322 Hot-gas reciprocating engine  
A hot-gas reciprocating engine comprising at least three piston-like bodies which each separate a hot space and a cold space in the relevant cylinder. Each of the hot spaces communicates, via a...
3994136 Hot gas engine  
A multi-cylinder self-starting hot gas engine according to the present invention consists of two parallel pairs of opposed displacer cylinders with respective displacer members mounted for movement...
3984981 Rotary stirling engine  
A rotary Stirling cycle engine wherein the rotors are utilized as internal heat exchangers and the displacers are utilized as heat regenerators. This engine in its simple configuration consists of...
3958422 Rotary stirling cycle engine systems  
The rotary Stirling cycle engine system consists of multiple rotary units mounted together for a combined power output. Each rotary unit is comprised of an eccentric rotor, multiple vane rotary...
3940934 Stirling engines  
An internal combustion Stirling V-engine is disclosed having individual heat exchangers for each cylinder disposed between two adjacent cylinders. A central preheater is disposed centrally between...
3914940 Stirling engine power control means  
Control of the power in a Stirling cycle engine by means of the control of the volume of working gas is accomplished without loading the pumping mechanism continuously by way of selectively...
3898841 External combustion hot gas piston engine  
Two or more burners heat separate heater sections, with the hot combustion products passing through rows of heater tubes and then giving up more of their heat to a preheater for the air of a...
3890785 Stirling cycle engine with common heat exchanger housing  
A heat insulated chamber is provided for commonly housing a plurality of burner units of a Stirling cycle hot gas engine. A heat exchanger within the chamber preheats the combustion air. Cylinders...
3854284 ENGINES  
An engine comprising a rotary piston support defining a piston bore, a porting surface and a conduit extending from the bore to the porting surface, a cam movable relative to the support and...
3848413 HOT GAS ENGINE POWER CONTROL DEVICE  
A Stirling type hot gas engine controls power by means of a dead volume chamber coupled to the low temperature working space of each cylinder wherein a movable wall in each chamber is connected for...
3845626 HOT GAS STIRLING CYCLE ENGINE WITH IN-LINE CYLINDERS  
In a Stirling cycle engine an even number of cylinders are disposed in line with two arcuate shaped heater pipe systems comprising a cylindrical combustion chamber disposed along the line adjacent...
3822550 MULTICYLINDER THERMODYNAMIC RECIPROCATING MACHINE IN WHICH THE FUEL SUPPLY TO BURNER DEVICES IS CONTROLLED BY MEANS OF TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS  
A multicylinder thermodynamic reciprocating machine in which a fuel supply and a supply for air of combustion communicate with each burner device, in which the ends of the fuel supplies remote from...
3813882 HOT-GAS ENGINES  
A double-acting hot gas engine includes four or a higher even number of cylinders which comprise pairs whereof the cylinders are phase-displaced through a 180° crank angle. An expansion chamber of...
3811283 MULTI-CYLINDER STIRLING GAS MOTOR WITH DOUBLE-ACTING PISTONS  
Multi-cylinder Stirling gas motor with double acting pistons which are rigidly coupled with hydraulic pump pistons by piston rods. The hydraulic pumps provide pressure fluid driving two identical...
3807176 MULTIPLE CYLINDER STIRLING ENGINE WITH EQUALIZED HIGH PRESSURE IN CELL CYLINDERS  
In a multiple cylinder Stirling engine that has higher and lower pressure gas chambers separated by pistons in each cylinder the pressure in the various cylinders is equalized by a valve assemblage...
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