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.
Claims23
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 be positioned at the high temperature heater or the low temperature cooler,
- wherein the operating gas directly contacts the high temperature heater or the low temperature cooler through the heat opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.