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US 10,253,724 B2Granted
Variable volume transfer shuttle capsule and valve mechanism
AssigneeTour Engine, Inc.
InventorsHugo Benjamin Tour, Oded Tour, Gilad Tour, Ehud Sivan, Michael H. Wahl
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Abstract
An engine includes a compression chamber that intakes and compresses working fluid; an expansion chamber that expands and exhausts working fluid; and a transfer chamber that receives working fluid from the compression chamber and transfers working fluid to the expansion chamber, wherein an internal volume of the transfer chamber decreases during the transfer of working fluid.
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An engine comprising:
- a compression chamber that intakes and compresses working fluid;
- an expansion chamber that expands and exhausts the working fluid;
- and
- a transfer chamber that receives the working fluid from the compression chamber, moves reciprocally between and perpendicularly to the compression and expansion chambers, and transfers the working fluid to the expansion chamber;
- and
- a compression piston that compresses working fluid in the compression chamber and into the transfer chamber, wherein an internal volume of the transfer chamber decreases during the transfer of the working fluid to further compress the working fluid in the transfer chamber.
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A method of operating an engine comprising:
- compressing working fluid in a first chamber and into a second chamber;
- transferring the working fluid from the first chamber to the second chamber;
- moving the second chamber reciprocally between and perpendicularly to the first chamber and a third chambers;
- decreasing an internal volume of the second chamber while the working fluid is within the internal volume to further compress working fluid in the second chamber;
- transferring the working fluid from the second chamber to the third chamber;
- and
- expanding the working fluid in the third chamber.
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An engine comprising:
- a compression chamber that intakes and compresses working fluid;
- an expansion chamber that expands and exhausts the working fluid;
- a transfer chamber that receives the working fluid from the compression chamber, moves reciprocally between and perpendicularly to the compression and expansion chambers, and transfers the working fluid to the expansion chamber;
- a compression piston that compresses working fluid in the compression chamber and into the transfer chamber, wherein an internal volume of the transfer chamber decreases during the transfer of the working fluid to further compress the working fluid in the transfer chamber;
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- a heat exchanger, for transfer of thermal energy from an external heat source to the working fluid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.