US5481878A
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Pulse tube refrigerator
Assignee: Air Water Inc
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Filing: 1994-05-16
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Granted: 1996-01-09
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Expires: 2014-05-16
Abstract
Abstract A high pressure valve and low pressure valve are positioned at a hot end of the pulse tube and two direction valves are positioned respectively between the high pressure reservoir, the low pressure reservoir and the pulse tube. In the pulse tube refrigerator wherein the cold is produced by time-phase displacement with orifice, an irreversible loss is caused when the gas passes through the orifice. However, the refrigeration in this invention comprising high and low pressure reservoirs, and open and close valves, all the energy can be converted without loss in adiabatic expansion of the gas in the pulse tube, theoretical efficiency is 100%.
Inventors
- 👤 Zhu Shaowei
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 13:02
CPC Classifications
F; F25; F25B; F25B9/00; F25B9/14; F25B9/145; F25B2309/00; F25B2309/14; F25B2309/1418; F25B2309/1421; F25B2309/1424; F25B2309/1425
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
87 words
A pulse tube refrigerator, comprising: a pulse tube; gas smoothers located at hot and cold ends of said pulse tube; a high pressure inlet gas valve; and a low pressure outlet gas valve connected to a sum up tube at the cold end of the pulse tube, wherein a high pressure reservoir and a low pressure reservoir are positioned at the hot end of the pulse tube and two direction valves are positioned respectively between the high pressure reservoir, the low pressure reservoir and the pulse tube.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
87 words
A pulse tube refrigerator, comprising: a pulse tube; gas smoothers located at hot and cold ends of said pulse tube; a high pressure inlet gas valve; and a low pressure outlet gas valve connected to a sum up tube at the cold end of the pulse tube, wherein a high pressure reservoir and a low pressure reservoir are positioned at the hot end of the pulse tube and two direction valves are positioned respectively between the high pressure reservoir, the low pressure reservoir and the pulse tube.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
39 words
The refrigerator according to claim 1, further comprising: a middle pressure reservoir positioned between the high pressure reservoir and low pressure reservoir; and a valve positioned between said middle pressure reservoir and the hot end of the pulse tube.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
79 words
The refrigerator according to claim 2, wherein the high pressure reservoir, the middle pressure reservoir and the low pressure reservoir each respectively comprise three long loops of tubing, the two ends of each loop of tubing being connected to the hot end of the pulse tube, the refrigerator further comprising three pairs of unidirectional valves, each valve positioned at an end of each loop of tubing for controlling the direction of gas flow in each said loop of tubing.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
98 words
A rotary pulse tube refrigerator, comprising: a plurality of pulse tubes installed along the circumference of a pulse tube frame; a rotatable valve core at a cold end of the pulse tubes; a high pressure gas inlet and a low pressure gas outlet on the valve core along the same circumference with the pulse tubes, which connect with the cold end of the pulse tubes, wherein a moving seal is maintained between the end of the pulse tube frame and the valve core, and wherein a gas reservoir is arranged at a hot end of the pulse tubes.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
98 words
A rotary pulse tube refrigerator, comprising: a plurality of pulse tubes installed along the circumference of a pulse tube frame; a rotatable valve core at a cold end of the pulse tubes; a high pressure gas inlet and a low pressure gas outlet on the valve core along the same circumference with the pulse tubes, which connect with the cold end of the pulse tubes, wherein a moving seal is maintained between the end of the pulse tube frame and the valve core, and wherein a gas reservoir is arranged at a hot end of the pulse tubes.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
63 words
The rotary pulse tube refrigerator according to claim 4, wherein the reservoir includes a high pressure reservoir, a low pressure reservoir or high pressure gas multi-rotary type reservoir, a middle pressure gas multi-rotary type reservoir, a low pressure gas multi-rotary type reservoir, wherein all of the reservoirs have an inlet and an outlet which is connectable with the hot end of pulse tube.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
28 words
The rotary pulse tube refrigerator according to claim 4 or 5 wherein the angle between the high pressure gas inlet and the low pressure gas outlet is 180°.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
52 words
The rotary pulse tube refrigerator according to claim 5 wherein the plurality of the pulse tubes is made by thin pulse tubes closely installed to a circular ring shape, wherein the width of the ring is almost equal to the diameter of the larger high pressure gas inlet and low pressure outlet.
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