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| 20090008191 | Piston Apparatus - In order to decrease internal friction of a heat engine that converts a reciprocating motion of a piston into a rotational motion, a piston apparatus ( | 01-08-2009 |
| 20100139263 | PISTON ENGINE - A Stirling engine has a fluid passage that connects a low temperature-side actuating fluid space and a crankcase inner space, and a passage opening/closing valve that is provided in the fluid passage and that opens and closes the fluid passage. The passage opening/closing valve enables communication through the fluid passage upon startup of the Stirling engine, and shuts off communication through the fluid passage when the rotational speed of the crankshaft of the Stirling engine is equal to or greater than a pre-established start-enabling rotational speed. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100146962 | PISTON ENGINE - A Stirling engine is provided with a fluid passage that connects a low temperature-side actuating fluid space and a crankcase inner space, and a passage opening/closing valve that is provided in the fluid passage and that opens and closes the fluid passage. Upon stopping of the Stirling engine, the passage opening/closing valve enables communication through the fluid passage, at a region at which the piston floats in the cylinder. This region is determined based on the pressure of an actuating fluid in the actuating fluid space and the rotational speed of a crankshaft of the Stirling engine. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100199944 | PISTON ENGINE AND STIRLING ENGINE - A piston is coupled to a connecting rod which is rotatably coupled to a crankshaft via an extension rod. With the configuration, reciprocating motion of the piston is transmitted to the crankshaft and converted to rotational motion. At both ends of the extension rod, a piston-side joint mechanism and a crankshaft-side joint mechanism each constructed by a spherical sliding bearing are provided. The piston is coupled to the extension rod via the piston-side joint mechanism, and the extension rod is coupled to the connecting rod via the crankshaft-side joint mechanism. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100257857 | STIRLING ENGINE - A Stirling engine includes a plurality of α-type Stirling cycle mechanisms, each of which includes a first piston and a second piston and pressurizes a crankcase space. The mechanisms are coupled to each other via a common rotary shaft so that each of the mechanisms generates a torque variation waveform in which the number of periods per rotation is two. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100257858 | PISTON ENGINE AND STIRLING ENGINE - A high temperature side cylinder of a Stirling engine is composed of a sleeve and a cylinder block. A high temperature side piston makes a reciprocating motion in the sleeve. The sleeve is connected to a heater that heats a working fluid of the Stirling engine so that heat of the heater is transmitted. A cylinder block is disposed outside of the sleeve. A predetermined interval is formed between the sleeve and the cylinder block, and an air layer is formed in the predetermined interval. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100275594 | EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM - An exhaust heat recovery system includes a plurality of Starling engines. Heaters of the Starling engines are disposed in an exhaust passage that is a heat medium passage. An inside of the exhaust passage is partitioned with a partitioning member into a first exhaust passage and a second exhaust passage. The heater of the Starling engine disposed on an upstream side in a flowing direction of exhaust gas is provided in the first exhaust passage, and the heater of the Starling engine disposed on a downstream side in the flowing direction of the exhaust gas is provided in the second exhaust passage. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110197755 | GAS LUBRICATION STRUCTURE FOR PISTON, AND STIRLING ENGINE - A gas lubrication structure is provided with a high-temperature-side cylinder, an expansion piston lubricated relative to the high-temperature-side cylinder by gas, and a layer provided to the outer peripheral surface of the expansion piston and composed of a material flexible and having a higher linear expansion coefficient than the base material of the expansion piston. The thickness of the layer under normal temperatures is not less than the size of the clearance formed between the layer and the high-temperature-side cylinder. Also, even if the layer is thermally expanded under use conditions, the layer under normal temperatures has a thickness enabling a clearance to be formed between the layer and the high-temperature-side cylinder. | 08-18-2011 |
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| 20100104468 | LOW-CARBON SULFUR-CONTAINING FREE-CUTTING STEEL WITH EXCELLENT CUTTABILITY - A low-carbon sulfur-containing free-cutting steel having excellent cuttability which contains 0.02-0.15 mass % C, NT up to 0.004 mass % Si (excluding 0 mass %), 0.6-3 mass % Mn, 0.02-0.2 mass % P, 0.2-1 mass % S, up to 0.005 mass % Al (excluding 0 mass %), 0.008-0.04 mass % 0, and 0.002-0.03 mass % N and in which the average oxygen concentration in the MnS is 0.4 mass % or higher. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100193090 | STEEL FOR MACHINE AND STRUCTURAL USE HAVING EXCELLENT MACHINABILITY AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a steel for machine and structural use which is capable of maintaining mechanical characteristics such as strength by reducing a S content as well as of exhibiting excellent machinability (particularly tool life) in intermittent cutting (such as hobbing) with the high speed tool, and a method useful for producing the steel for machine and structural use. The steel for machine and structural use according to the invention secures 0.002% or more of solute N in the steel and has a chemical composition which is appropriately adjusted and satisfies a relationship of the following expression (1): (0.1×[Cr]+[Al])/[O]≧150 . . . (1), in which [Cr], [Al], and [0] represent a Cr content (mass %), an Al content (mass %), and an O content (mass %), respectively. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100224287 | HIGH-STRENGTH SPRING STEEL EXCELLENT IN BRITTLE FRACTURE RESISTANCE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A spring steel having a high strength of 1900 MPa or more and superior in the brittle fracture resistance, as well as a method for manufacturing the same, are provided. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110229363 | STEEL FOR MACHINE AND STRUCTURAL USE HAVING EXCELLENT MACHINABILITY - The present invention provides a steel for machine and structural use which sustains mechanical properties such as strength by reducing S content, and exerts excellent machinability (in particular, tool life) in both of intermittent cutting with HSS tools and continuous cutting with carbide tools. The invention relates to a steel for machine and structural use which contains an oxide inclusion containing, wherein a total mass of an average composition of the oxide inclusions is 100%: CaO: 10 to 55 mass %; SiO | 09-22-2011 |
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| 20090013686 | Exhaust heat recovery apparatus - An exhaust heat recovery apparatus includes a reciprocating internal combustion engine in which a piston reciprocates in a cylinder to generate motive power; and a Stirling engine that recovers the thermal energy of the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine and converts the thermal energy into kinetic energy. The Stirling engine is united with the internal combustion engine. A heater that the Stirling engine includes is disposed in an exhaust manifold of the internal combustion engine. With this configuration, it is possible to restrict reduction in the power output from the exhaust heat recovery means. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090094980 | Exhaust Heat Recovery Apparatus - An exhaust heat recovery apparatus includes a Stirling engine and a clutch. The Stirling engine produces motive power by recovering thermal energy from exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine from which exhaust heat is recovered. The motive power produced by the Stirling engine is transmitted to an internal combustion engine transmission through the clutch and an exhaust heat recovery device transmission, and combined with the motive power produced by the internal combustion engine through the internal combustion engine transmission, and is output from an output shaft. If rapid acceleration is required, and the increase in the rotation speed of the Stirling engine therefore lags behind the increase in the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine, the clutch is released. With this configuration, reduction in the power output from the heat engine, from which exhaust heat is recovered, is restricted, and the degradation of the acceleration performance is minimized. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20100043427 | POWER TRANSMISSION MECHANISM AND EXHAUST HEAT RECOVERY APPARATUS - A power transmission mechanism that transfers power from an output shaft disposed in sealed-off space within a power generation unit includes: a drive shaft to which the power from the output shaft is transmitted; a first magnet that is fitted to the drive shaft and that rotates together with the drive shaft; a second magnet that is fitted to a driven shaft, which is arranged concentrically with the drive shaft, that is disposed outside the sealed-off space, and that faces the first magnet; and a partition wall that is interposed between the first magnet and the second magnet, and that separates a drive shaft side space and a driven shaft side space from each other. | 02-25-2010 |
