Mechatronic drivers in the cold end of a heat pump
US10670306B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 18, 2016 |
| Grant date | Jun 2, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 11, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF25B30/02
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Some heat pumps have displacers mechatronically-controlled via springs and coils acting upon a ferromagnetic plate. In some prior art heat pumps, the components are housed in hot parts of the heat pump and in others, the components are housed in a cold part of the heat pump, but the components are offset from a central axis of the heat pump. A heat pump with the mechatronic driver components collinear with a central axis of the heat pump has the components in a cold part of the heat pump.
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