Title:
HIGH-POWER THERMOACOUSTIC REFRIGERATOR
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO1997005433
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A high-power thermoacoustic refrigerator including a half-wave length resonator, first and second drivers located in housings at first and second ends of said resonator, two pusher cones, a plurality of heat exchangers, a first and second stack, utilizing a compressible gas mixture capable of being tuned to the driver resonance frequency, a half-wave length tube, fluids disposed within said heat exchangers for transferring heat, and voice coils wired 180 degrees out of phase for compressing said compressible fluid into a standing wave oscillating within said resonator.
Inventors:
GARRETT STEVEN LURIE (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US1996/012494
Publication Date:
March 27, 1997
Filing Date:
July 30, 1996
Export Citation:
Assignee:
GARRETT STEVEN LURIE (US)
International Classes:
F25B9/14; (IPC1-7): F25B/
Foreign References:
| US4398398A | 1983-08-16 | |||
| US4722201A | 1988-02-02 | |||
| US5165243A | 1992-11-24 | |||
| US5319938A | 1994-06-14 | |||
| US5339640A | 1994-08-23 |
Other References:
IEEE SPECTRUM, August 1994, PERRY, T. S., "Green Refrigerators", pp. 29-30.
NASA REPORT LS-10114, June 1992, this publication had controlled access, so it is unclear when it became publicly accessible, but was cited by Reinke in his patent application, GARRETT, S.L., "Thermoacoustic Life Sciences Refrigerator".
J. ACOUST. SOC. AM., Vol. 93, No. 4, April 1993, GARRETT, L.S., "Thermoacoustic Life Sciences Refrigerator", p. 2364, 125TH MEETING OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, OTTAWA, ONTARIO (CANADA), May 1992.
NASA REPORT LS-10114, June 1992, this publication had controlled access, so it is unclear when it became publicly accessible, but was cited by Reinke in his patent application, GARRETT, S.L., "Thermoacoustic Life Sciences Refrigerator".
J. ACOUST. SOC. AM., Vol. 93, No. 4, April 1993, GARRETT, L.S., "Thermoacoustic Life Sciences Refrigerator", p. 2364, 125TH MEETING OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, OTTAWA, ONTARIO (CANADA), May 1992.
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