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US 2017/0009701 A1Published application
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.
Claims24
An engine comprising:
- 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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A method of operating an engine comprising:
- compressing working fluid in a first chamber;
- transferring working fluid from the first chamber to a second chamber;
- decreasing an internal volume of the second chamber while working fluid is within the internal volume;
- transferring working fluid from the second chamber to a third chamber;
- and
- expanding 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 working fluid;
- 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;
- and
- a heat exchanger, for transfer of thermal energy from an external heat source to working fluid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.