Heat engine
OwnerSoo-Joh Chaeinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a heat engine following an intermediate form between an ideal Carnot engine and a Stirling engine and having high thermal efficiency. The heat engine includes a cylinder in which operating gas is filled; a high temperature heater which heats a front end part of the cylinder and thermally expands the operating gas; a low temperature cooler which cools a rear end part of the cylinder and contracts the operating gas; and a piston which is accommodated inside the cylinder to rectilinearly reciprocate as the operating gas is thermally expanded and contracted, and includes a heat opening to make the operating gas directly contact the high temperature heater or the low temperature cooler.
Claims51
A heat engine comprising
- a cylinder in which operating gas is filled;
- a high temperature heater which heats a front end part of the cylinder and thermally expands the operating gas;
- a low temperature cooler which cools a rear end part of the cylinder and contracts the operating gas;
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- a piston which is accommodated inside the cylinder to rectilinearly reciprocate as the operating gas is thermally expanded and contracted, and comprises a heat opening to make the operating gas directly contact the high temperature heater or the low temperature cooler.
A heat engine comprising
- a cylinder which is filled with operating gas inside opposite end parts thereof;
- a pair of high temperature heaters which heat opposite front end parts of the cylinder and thermally expand the operating gas;
- a pair of low temperature coolers which cool opposite rear end parts of the cylinder and contract the operating gas;
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- a piston which comprises opposite ends contacting the operating gas, is accommodated inside the cylinder to rectilinearly reciprocate as the operating gas is thermally expanded and contracted, and comprises heat openings at opposite ends to make the operating gas directly contact the high temperature heater or the low temperature cooler.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.