ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,873, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Stirling machine and method for manufacturing stirling machine" was invented by Yuta Kurosawa (Saitama, Japan), Haruki Cho (Saitama, Japan), Shun Miyabayashi (Saitama, Japan) and Tsuneo Endo (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Stirling machine including: a heat exchanger; an expansion chamber; and a compression chamber, in which the Stirling machine is configured to perform a Stirling cycle to convert heat into mechanical power, a heater of the heat exchanger includes a first flow channel configured to allow a working fluid to flow therethrough, and a...