US 7,549,295 B2
Three track valve for cryogenic refrigerator
Jin Lin Gao, Allentown, Pa. (US)
Assigned to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan); and SHI-APD Cryogenics, Inc., Allentown, Pa. (US)
Appl. No. 10/580,924
PCT Filed Feb. 09, 2005, PCT No. PCT/US2005/004748
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date May 30, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2005/078363, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 25, 2005.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/544144, filed on Feb. 11, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2007/0119189 A1, May 31, 2007
Int. Cl. F25B 9/00 (2006.01); F16K 11/074 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 62—6  [137/625.46] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi valve two-stage pulse tube type GM refrigerator having a rotary valve that comprises one track for flow to the regenerator and two tracks for flow to the pulse tubes,
wherein the valve has two high pressure ports to the pulse tubes located on a single track and two low pressure ports from the pulse tubes located on a separate single track.