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US3101597A
US3101597A US126733A US12673361A US3101597A US 3101597 A US3101597 A US 3101597A US 126733 A US126733 A US 126733A US 12673361 A US12673361 A US 12673361A US 3101597 A US3101597 A US 3101597A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02G—HOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F02G1/00—Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants
    • F02G1/04—Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants of closed-cycle type
    • F02G1/043—Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants of closed-cycle type the engine being operated by expansion and contraction of a mass of working gas which is heated and cooled in one of a plurality of constantly communicating expansible chambers, e.g. Stirling cycle type engines
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B9/00—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point
    • F25B9/14—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point characterised by the cycle used, e.g. Stirling cycle
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02G—HOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F02G2243/00—Stirling type engines having closed regenerative thermodynamic cycles with flow controlled by volume changes
    • F02G2243/02—Stirling type engines having closed regenerative thermodynamic cycles with flow controlled by volume changes having pistons and displacers in the same cylinder
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02G—HOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F02G2243/00—Stirling type engines having closed regenerative thermodynamic cycles with flow controlled by volume changes
    • F02G2243/02—Stirling type engines having closed regenerative thermodynamic cycles with flow controlled by volume changes having pistons and displacers in the same cylinder
    • F02G2243/04—Crank-connecting-rod drives
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02G—HOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F02G2244/00—Machines having two pistons
    • F02G2244/50—Double acting piston machines
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02G—HOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F02G2270/00—Constructional features
    • F02G2270/42—Displacer drives
    • F02G2270/425—Displacer drives the displacer being driven by a four-bar mechanism, e.g. a rhombic mechanism
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02G—HOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F02G2270/00—Constructional features
    • F02G2270/85—Crankshafts

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  • the invention relates to a gas refrigerator having one or more cycles traversed by a working medium and two piston-shaped members for each cycle. During operation of the refrigerator, one of these piston-shaped members has a lower average temperature than the other.
  • each of the pistonshaped members having the higher average temperature is constructed as a double-acting member and, with its surface remote from the associated working space, varies the volume of an auxiliary space likewise containing working medium.
  • this refrigerator means are available to admit, during the compression in the -working spaces, Working medium from the auxiliary spaces in question to the associated working spaces and to allow working medium to escape, during the expansion in the working spaces, from these latter spaces to the associated auxiliary spaces.
  • channels with controlled stop members are provided between the spaces. situated on either side of the double-acting piston.
  • receivers will be provided in those channels.
  • Another embodiment of a gas refrigerator according to the invention having two cycles is characterized in that, whereas the movements of the piston-shaped members which are associated with one cycle show a phase difference with the movements of the piston-shaped members which are associated with the other cycle, the side of the double-acting pistons associated with each of the two cycles and remote from the working spaces varies the volume of an auxiliary space which contains working medium in which in each auxiliary space the piston in question performs its compression and expansion stroke respectively substantially in phase with the compression and expansion which takes place in the working space with which the auxiliary space is connected.
  • a driven piston machine which for each cycle is provided with a first space of variable volume, which space is in open connection with a second space which also has a variable volume and in which a higher average temperature prevails than in the first space.
  • a regenerator is available in the connection between the two spaces, while a gaseous working medium may flow to and fro between the spaces via the regenerator so as to transport heat from a lower temperature level 3 ,101,597 Patented Aug. 27, 1963 to a higher temperature level.
  • the lower temperature level is for example -200 C. and the higher level for example +20 C.
  • the machine is a refrigerator.
  • the lower level is for example +15 C. and the higher level forexample +400 C.
  • the machine, in which consequently the refrigerator cycle is carried out is a socalled heat pump.
  • FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a gas refrigerator according to the invention having only one cycle
  • FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of that refrigerator constructed with two cycles and of which the movements of the piston-shaped members of the one cycle show a phase difference of 180 with the movements of the piston-shaped members of the other cycle.
  • gears are not shown in the drawing; the rods of the two piston-shaped members are connected to the gear in a manner commonly used in gas refrigerators.
  • the embodiment of the refrigerator shown in FIG. 1 has a housing '1 commonly used in gas refrigerators in which a can-shaped member 2 is provided coaxially.
  • the refrigerator contains the piston-shaped members 3 and 4 which show a certain phase difference in their up and down motions in the manner which is normal in this type of gas refrigerators.
  • displacer and the piston-shaped member 4 which ample hydrogen or helium.
  • piston during operation of the machine has the higher average temperature
  • the working space of the machine is filled with a gaseous medium, for ex- -
  • the said phase difference is chosen so that when the piston 4 makesits forward or expansion stroke, the
  • v medium is contained principally in the freezing space 5 of variable volume. It on the other hand this piston makes its backward or compression stroke, the working 'medium is contained principally in the cooled space 6 of variable volume.
  • the displacer 3 can be moved up and down in the can-shaped member 2.
  • the piston 4 moves in the guide box 7. 'Ihe freezing space 5 is connected to the cooled space '6 via the heat exchange 8 which is termed freezer, the regenerator '9, and the second heat exchanger 10 which is the 'so-called cooler. So far, the gas refrigerator described does not in principle differ from those known so far.
  • the piston 4 is constructed as a double-acting piston.
  • This piston influences, with its lower side, the volume of an additional space 11 of variable volume, which space is the so-called auxiliary space.
  • This auxiliary space is connected to the cooled space 6 via a duct 12 in which comprises an outlet valve 13, a receiver 14 and a controlled valve or slide 15 are arranged. Through the duct .12, medium can flow only from the auxiliary space in the direction of the arrows shown to the cooled space 6.
  • the cooled space 6 in its turn is connectedto the auxiliary space 11 through the tube 16 comprising a controlled valve or slide 17, a receiver 18, and a suction .valve a gas refrigerator.
  • the controlled valve or slide 17 is opened so that for the expansion of the :gas not only the working space proper of the machine is available but also the space available in the receiver 18. This means that the expansion in the refrigerator cycle can be continued to a lower final pressure than when the receiver 18 would not be available. This means in addition that at the freezer 8 a lower final temperature occurs.
  • the valve 19 opens automatically in the ascending stroke of the piston 4 so that then the gas present in the receiver may flow into the auxiliary space 11.
  • a cooler 20 which serves for cooling as much as possible the compressed gas flowing from the auxiliary space 11.
  • valves 13, 15, 17 and 19 and the receivers 14 and 18 are necessary in the embodiment shown. At every moment, the condition changes to which the working medium is exposed as the upper and lower sides of the piston 4 differ in phase by 180. If above the piston 4 an expansion of the working medium takes place, the medium below the piston 4 is compressed at that instant and conversely.
  • the embodiment of the refrigerator according to the invention having two cycles as shown in FIG. 2 differs from that shown in FIG. 1 in that the displacer 31 and the piston 32 which move in the cylinder 33 have a phase difference in their movements of 180 with respect to the displacer 35 and the piston 36 which move in the cylinder 34.
  • the cranks (not shown) on the crankshaft of this machine are at an angle with each other of 180. The result is that when the piston 32 makes its descending or expansion stroke, the piston 36 makes its ascending or compression stroke, all this with respect to the refrigerator cycles occurring above these pistons. In this manner a permanently opened connection 38 may be provided between the working space of the refrigerator cycle which occurs in the cylinder 33 and the auxiliary space 37 which is present in the cylinder 34 below the piston 36.
  • a cold gas refrigerator having two cycles comprising two cylinders each having a pair of piston-shaped members mounted for reciprocation therein, one of which is double-acting, the piston-shaped members in one of said cylinders having a predetermined phase dilference with the movements of said piston-shaped members in the other of said cylinders, a main Working space between the piston-shaped members in each cylinder, an auxiliary working space on the side of said double-acting member remote from said main working space, conduit means connecting the main working space in one of said cylinders to the auxiliary working space in the other of said cylinders, the side of said double-acting piston associated with each of said two cycles remote from said main working spaces in each cylinder functions to vary the volume of said auxiliary working space containing working medium and to force working medium through one of said conduit means to a main working space in another cylinder, said piston operating its compression and expansion stroke in said auxiliary working space substantially in phase with the expansion and compression which takes place in the main working space with which said auxiliary working space is connected through said conduit means.
  • a cold-gas refrigerator having two cycles as claimed in claim 1 wherein the movements of the piston-shaped members in one of said cylinders are approximately out of phase with the movements of the piston-shaped members in said other cylinder.

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US3274786A (en) * 1964-07-27 1966-09-27 Little Inc A Cryogenic refrigeration method and apparatus operating on an expansible fluid
US3318100A (en) * 1964-07-25 1967-05-09 Philips Corp Hot-gas reciprocating apparatus
US3372554A (en) * 1965-04-06 1968-03-12 Philips Corp Arrangement for producing cold at very low temperatures
US3400544A (en) * 1966-03-02 1968-09-10 Philips Corp Fluid cooling employing plural cold producing machines
US3521461A (en) * 1969-07-22 1970-07-21 Gas Dev Corp Cooling process employing a heat-actuated regenerative compressor

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US2484392A (en) * 1945-08-30 1949-10-11 Hartford Nat Bank & Trust Co Hot-air engine actuated refrigerating apparatus
US2794315A (en) * 1951-06-05 1957-06-04 Philips Corp Hot-gas reciprocating apparatus
US2943453A (en) * 1954-01-22 1960-07-05 Philips Corp Gaseous medium leakage prevention arrangement for a hot-gas reciprocating machine

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US3318100A (en) * 1964-07-25 1967-05-09 Philips Corp Hot-gas reciprocating apparatus
US3274786A (en) * 1964-07-27 1966-09-27 Little Inc A Cryogenic refrigeration method and apparatus operating on an expansible fluid
US3372554A (en) * 1965-04-06 1968-03-12 Philips Corp Arrangement for producing cold at very low temperatures
US3400544A (en) * 1966-03-02 1968-09-10 Philips Corp Fluid cooling employing plural cold producing machines
US3521461A (en) * 1969-07-22 1970-07-21 Gas Dev Corp Cooling process employing a heat-actuated regenerative compressor

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