Isothermal chamber and heat engines constructed using said chamber
OwnerJean Cloupinventor
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Abstract
Isothermal chamber comprising deformable walls and acting as a heat exchanger. It is constituted by two walls 3,3a of complementary shape defining between them an enclosure 4 containing a gas, the said walls having a deformable zone 5 and a rigid zone 6 providing a variable capacity in heat exchange with an auxiliary fluid, in such a way that the gas contained in the enclosure will undergo substantially isothermal transformations. The invention is employed for the construction of gas compressors and heat engines.
Claims8
An isothermal chamber constituted by two walls of complementary shapes connected at their peripheries to define between them an enclosure containing a gas, the said walls having a deformable circumferential zone and a central rigid zone providing a variable capacity, means for passing an auxiliary fluid in heat exchange relation with said rigid zone, whereby the gas contained in the enclosure will undergo substantially isothermal transformations, the walls of the chamber being shaped to provide in the deformable circumferential zone the shape of a half torus, and in the central rigid zone grooves constituting the means for the passage of the auxiliary fluid.
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