Stirling engine combustion assembly
AssigneeKommanditbolaget United Stirling (Sweden) AB & Co.
InventorJohn Osvald Berntell
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Abstract
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 radially extending heater pipes to keep manifold volumes small and temperatures on the heater pipes high.
Claims4
A multiple-cylinder double-acting hot gas engine having a single burner unit having a plurality of regenerator-cooler units interconnected with respective ones of said cylinders by heater pipes wherein the burner unit has a heater head disposed about a central axis to direct combustion gases toward said heater pipes, wherein said cylinders are disposed about said central axis with said regenerator-cooler units clustered around said central axis inside said cylinders, and wherein the regenerator-cooler units are mounted in a common housing.
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