ENERGY CONVERTER

Japanese Patent JP2009216100

A

To provide a method for starting an energy converter in an advantageous way.

The method is for starting the energy converter provided with a free piston engine 1 provided with at least one piston 2 and 3, at least one combustion chambers 6 and 7 provided with at least one of intake ports 11 and 13 and at least one of exhaust ports 10 and 12, intake valves and exhaust valves 14, 15, 16, and 17, and means 18 and 19 to feed fuel and oxygen-containing mediums to the combustion chambers 6 and 7, an electric machine 9 provided to directly or indirectly interact with the pistons 2 and 3 in an electromagnetic way to generate electric energy by the motion of the pistons, and to affect the motion of the pistons using the electric energy, a control device to control the free piston engine 1 and the electric machine 9, and a capacitor electrically connected to the electric machine 9.

JP2003138983	PISTON ASSEMBLY OF FREE PISTON INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE
WO/2005/116447	OPPOSED PISTON OPPOSED CYLINDER FREE PISTON ENGINE

MAX ERLAND
LUNDGREN STAFFAN
SOMHURST JOOP
ANDERS HOEGLUND
WIRMARK GOERAN
GERTMAR LARS
DENBRATT INGEMAR

JP2009116791A

September 24, 2009

May 13, 2009

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VOLVO TECHNOLOGY CORP
FORD GLOBAL TECH INC

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Hidesaku Yamamoto
Takaaki Yasumura
Natsuki Morishita

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