公开(公告)号：EP1624177A1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-08

申请号：EP04729242.0

申请日：2004-04-23

申请人： HONDA MOTOR CO., Ltd.

发明人： MORI, M.; c/o K. K. HONDA GIJUTSUKENKYUSHO

IPC分类号： F02G5/02 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F01K23/10 ,  F02B67/08

CPC分类号： F02B67/00 ,  B60K8/00 ,  F02B73/00 ,  F02G1/043 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F02G5/02 ,  F02G2254/15 ,  Y02E20/363 ,  Y02T10/166

摘要： A power unit for a vehicle, such as an automobile, includes an internal combustion engine 1 as a prime mover for the vehicle, a generator 3, and a Stirling engine 4 for driving the generator 3. The Stirling engine 4 uses the exhaust gas discharged by the internal combustion engine 1 as a high-temperature heat source. Power generated by the generator 3 is supplied to an electric motor 2 for driving auxiliary machines 7, 8 and 9, and to a battery 5 for supplying power to the electric motor 2. The engine speed of the Stirling engine 4 is controlled through the control of the load on the generator 3 by a field regulator 15. An optimum engine speed of the Stirling engine 4 is determined such that the brake horsepower of the Stirling engine 4 increases to a maximum or substantially maximum brake horsepower. The fuel consumption of the internal combustion engine 1 as the prime mover that produces waste heat as a high-temperature heat source for the Stirling engine 4 is reduced, and the auxiliary machines are driven so as to fully exercise their functions even in a state where the brake horsepower of the Stirling engine 4 is low.

摘要翻译： 用于车辆的动力单元，例如汽车，包括作为车辆原动机的内燃机1，发电机3和用于驱动发电机3的斯特林发动机4.斯特林发动机4使用废气排出 由内燃机1作为高温热源。 由发电机3产生的电力被提供给用于驱动辅机7,8和9的电动机2和用于向电动机2供电的电池5.通过控制来控制斯特林发动机4的发动机转速 确定了斯特林发动机4的最佳发动机转速，使得斯特林发动机4的制动马力提高到最大或基本上最大的制动马力。 作为产生作为用于斯特林发动机4的高温热源的余热的原动机的内燃机1的燃料消耗减少，并且辅助机器被驱动以充分发挥其功能，即使在 斯特林发动机4的制动马力较低。

公开(公告)号：EP0156823A4

公开(公告)日：1987-09-02

申请号：EP84903246

申请日：1984-08-17

申请人： MECHANICAL TECH INC

发明人： VITALE NICHOLAS G ,  MANMOHAN DHAR

IPC分类号： F02B71/00 ,  F02B75/04 ,  F02G1/043 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F02G1/00

CPC分类号： F02B71/00 ,  F02B75/04 ,  F02G1/0435 ,  F02G1/06

公开(公告)号：EP0113740B1

公开(公告)日：1987-03-04

申请号：EP83902159.9

申请日：1983-05-20

申请人： MECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED

发明人： WALSH, Michael, M.

IPC分类号： F02G1/06 ,  F02G1/04

CPC分类号： F02G1/0435 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F02G2275/40

摘要： A resonant free-piston Stirling engine having a new and improved start-up and control method and system. A displacer linear electrodynamic machine (21) is provided having an armature (22) secured to and movable with the displacer (12) and having a stator (24) supported by the Stirling engine housing (11) in juxtaposition to the armature (22). The displacer linear electrodynamic machine (21) is a general purpose machine capable of operation either as a linear electric drive motor or as a linear electric generator. A control excitation circuit is provided for electrically exciting the displacer linear electrodynamic machine (21) with electrical excitation signals. The excitation control circuit is designed so that it selectively and controllably causes the displacer electrodynamic machine (21) to function either as a generator load to extract power from the displacer (12) or the control circuit selectively can be operated to cause the displacer electrodynamic machine (21) to operate as an electric drive motor to apply additional input power to the displacer (12) in addition to the thermodynamic power feedback to the displacer (12). The displacer linear electrodynamic machine (21) also is used in the electric drive motor mode as a means for initially starting the resonant free-piston Stirling engine.

公开(公告)号：EP0195391A2

公开(公告)日：1986-09-24

申请号：EP86103510.3

申请日：1983-06-24

申请人： OTTERS, John L.

发明人： OTTERS, John L.

IPC分类号： F02G1/043

CPC分类号： F02G1/06 ,  F02G1/0435 ,  F02G2254/30 ,  F02G2258/10 ,  F02G2270/80

摘要： 57 A thermal engine 1 0 of the type having a displacer body 24 movable between the hot end and the cold end of a chamber 12 for subjecting a fluid within that chamber 12 to a thermodynamic cycle and having a work piston 26 driven by the fluid for deriving a useful work output is improved by provision of a working gas recovery system for controlling leakage of working gas from the displacer chamber 1 2, and a compound work piston arrangement 26,38 for preventing leakage of hydraulic fluid around the work piston 26,38 into the displacer chamber 12.

摘要翻译： 一种具有置换器主体24的热引擎10，该置换器主体24可在腔室12的热端和冷端之间移动，以使该腔室12内的流体受热力学循环，并具有由流体驱动的工作活塞26， 通过设置用于控制来自置换器室12的工作气体泄漏的工作气体回收系统和用于防止工作活塞26,38周围的液压流体泄漏到置换器中的复合工作活塞装置26,38来改进有用的工作输出 室12。

公开(公告)号：EP0078848A4

公开(公告)日：1984-12-11

申请号：EP82902016

申请日：1982-05-14

申请人： MOSCRIP WILLIAM M

发明人： MOSCRIP WILLIAM MATTHEW

IPC分类号： F01B3/04 ,  F02G1/044 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F02G1/04

CPC分类号： F01B3/04 ,  F02G1/044 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F02G2244/12 ,  F02G2244/50

摘要： Mechanical arrangements with primary application to single-acting, multiple-piston, Stirling-cycle machines providing a dramatic reduction in mechanical complexity and production cost. Two specific new machines are disclosed in detail, a single-acting, two-piston "ducted axle" machine (Figure 5) and a quasi double-acting, four-piston "drum cam" machine (Figure 12). A power level control subsystem inherent in the ducted axle machine permits engine output to vary from maximum positive through zero to maximum negative under full load conditions by means of the simple rotation of a single moving part (24, Figures 7 and 8).

公开(公告)号：EP1624177A4

公开(公告)日：2008-10-29

申请号：EP04729242

申请日：2004-04-23

申请人： HONDA MOTOR CO LTD

发明人： MORI M

IPC分类号： F01N5/02 ,  F02G5/02 ,  B60K25/00 ,  F01K23/10 ,  F02B67/00 ,  F02B67/08 ,  F02B73/00 ,  F02G1/043 ,  F02G1/06

CPC分类号： F02B67/00 ,  B60K8/00 ,  F02B73/00 ,  F02G1/043 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F02G5/02 ,  F02G2254/15 ,  Y02E20/363 ,  Y02T10/166

摘要： A power device used in vehicles including automobiles has an internal combustion engine (1) serving as a prime mover for a vehicle and a Stirling engine (4) for driving a power generator (3). A higher temperature heat source for the Stirling engine (4) is the heat of exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine (1), and electric power generated by the power generator (3) is supplied to an electric motor (2) driving auxiliary machines (6-9) and to a battery (5) capable of supplying power to the electric motor (2). The rpm of the Stirling engine (4) is controlled by a field regulator (15) controlling the load on the power generator (3), so that the rpm is set at an optimum value which yields the maximum shaft output or substantially maximum shaft output of the Stirling engine (4). This ensures that even when the fuel consumption of the combustion engine serving as a prime mover discharging waste heat which serves as a higher temperature heat source for the Stirling engine is reduced to reduce the shaft output of the Stirling engine, it is driven to the extent that the auxiliary machines exert sufficient performance.

公开(公告)号：EP1841964A2

公开(公告)日：2007-10-10

申请号：EP06703820.8

申请日：2006-01-27

申请人： Misselhorn, Jürgen K.

发明人： Misselhorn, Jürgen K.

IPC分类号： F02G1/043 ,  F02G1/055 ,  F02G1/06

CPC分类号： F02G1/0435 ,  F02G1/055 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F02G2270/10

摘要： Disclosed is a heat engine comprising an external heat source and at least three heat transfer media which are provided with a trapped working gas and are alternately impinged upon by heating medium and cooling medium. The thermodynamic changes of condition in each heat transfer medium in connection with a working cylinder and ventilation are a) isochoric heat input, b) isothermal expansion, c) isochoric heat dissipation, and d) isothermal compression. Also disclosed is a power plant which features thermal decoupling and in which power is generated by means of any number of the inventive heat engines (A). The heat engines are connected in series while being penetrated by the cooling medium and the heating medium according to the countercurrent principle. The heated cooling medium is utilized as combustion air after being discharged from the last heat engine while the heating medium that is discharged from the heat engine mounted last in the opposite direction can continue to be utilized for heating purposes or for other heat consumers.

公开(公告)号：EP1259724A2

公开(公告)日：2002-11-27

申请号：EP01913257.0

申请日：2001-03-01

申请人： New Power Concepts LLC

发明人： KAMEN, Dean, L. ,  LANGENFELD, Christopher, C. ,  NORRIS, Michael ,  SACHS, Jason, Michael

IPC分类号： F02G3/02 ,  F02G1/04 ,  F02G1/043 ,  F02G1/05 ,  F24D15/04

CPC分类号： F24D15/04 ,  B60K6/00 ,  B60K6/24 ,  B60K6/46 ,  B60K6/485 ,  B60L9/02 ,  B60L11/126 ,  B60L2200/12 ,  B60W2300/36 ,  B60Y2200/12 ,  B60Y2200/126 ,  B62K2202/00 ,  F02B61/02 ,  F02G1/04 ,  F02G1/043 ,  F02G1/0435 ,  F02G1/05 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F02G3/02 ,  F02G5/04 ,  F02G2243/30 ,  F02G2275/30 ,  F02G2280/20 ,  F24H2240/01 ,  F24H2240/04 ,  Y02B30/12 ,  Y02E20/14 ,  Y02T10/166 ,  Y02T10/6217 ,  Y02T10/6226 ,  Y02T10/6295 ,  Y02T10/7077 ,  Y10S903/902 ,  Y10S903/905

摘要： An auxiliary power system (100) for providing electrical power and heat to an indoor area includes an external combustion engine (101), such as a Stirling cycle engine (101), for generating mechanical energy and thermal energy. The external combustion engine burns a fuel with substantially complete combustion such that exhaust emissions from the external combustion engine are below a predetermined exhaust level. A generator (102) is coupled to the external combustion engine (101) and converts the mechanical energy produced by the external combustion engine (101) to electrical power. A first power output is used to provide the electrical power produced by the generator (102). The external combustion engine (101) and generator (102) are disposed within a housing such that the external combustion engine (101), generator (102) and housing combination is a portable size. The thermal energy generated by the external combustion engine (101) may be used to heat the atmosphere surrounding the housing.

公开(公告)号：EP0112911B1

公开(公告)日：1988-08-17

申请号：EP83902483.3

申请日：1983-06-24

申请人： OTTERS, John L.

发明人： OTTERS, John L.

IPC分类号： F02G1/04 ,  F02G1/06

CPC分类号： F02G1/06 ,  F02G1/0435 ,  F02G2254/30 ,  F02G2258/10 ,  F02G2270/80

摘要： An improved thermal engine (Fig. 1) of the type having a displacer body (24) movable between the hot end (16) and the cold end (20) of a chamber for subjecting a fluid with that chamber to a thermodynamic cycle and having a work piston (26) driven by the fluid for deriving a useful work output. The work piston pumps a hydraulic fluid and a hydraulic control valve (64) is connected in line with the hydraulic output conduit such that the flow of hydraulic fluid may be restricted to any desired degree or stopped altogether. The work piston can therefore be controlled by means of a controller device independently from the movement of the displacer such that a variety of engine cycles can be obtained for optimum engine efficiency under varying load conditions. While a Stirling engine cycle is particularly contemplated, other engine cycles may be obtained by controlling the movement of the displacer and work pistons. Also disclosed are a working gas recovery system for controlling leakage of working gas from the displacer chamber, and a compound work piston arrangement for preventing leakage of hydraulicfluid around the work piston into the displacer chamber.

公开(公告)号：EP0078849B1

公开(公告)日：1987-03-25

申请号：EP82902017.1

申请日：1982-05-14

申请人： MOSCRIP, William Matthew

发明人： MOSCRIP, William Matthew

IPC分类号： F02G1/04

CPC分类号： F01B3/04 ,  F02G1/044 ,  F02G1/06 ,  F02G2244/12 ,  F02G2244/50

摘要： A novel construction of the regenerator element (5) of regenerative thermal machines, particularly Stirling-cycle engines. The new regenerator construction (5) makes specific use of the physical anisotropy of certain materials such a pyrolytic graphite to improve regenerator heat transfer and storage performance characteristics.