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Cryogenic refrigerator

US4951471A · kind A · utility

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11Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 29, 1988
Grant dateAug 28, 1990
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Expiry dateSep 29, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF25B9/10
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a cryogenic refrigerator having a precooling refrigerating circuit including a cryostat for cooling and maintaining a cryogenic working apparatus which is operated at a very low temperature level, expander for expanding refrigerant gas, such as helium gas, and a J-T circuit for generating cold by Joule-Thomson expanding refrigerant gas precooled by the precooling refrigerating circuit, the present invention prevents the working vibration of the expander from unduly effecting the cryogenic working apparatus and to maintain the cryogenic working apparatus at a very low temperature level for many hours, even while the precooling refrigerating circuit is stopped, thereby enabling a stabilized operation of the cryogenic working apparatus to be performed.

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