摘要 |
An apparatus (20) has a compressor (22), heat rejection heat exchanger (30), heat absorption heat exchanger (60), and expansion-compression device (40; 200). The expansion-compression device couples the heat absorption heat exchanger to the heat rejection heat exchanger and to the compressor. The expansion-compression device comprises first (80A), second (80B), third (80C), and fourth (80D) variable volume chambers and a pivoting member. The pivoting member (98) is mounted for reciprocal rotation in opposite first and second directions about an initial orientation and is coupled to the chambers so that: rotation from the initial orientation in the first direction expands the first and third chambers and compresses the second and fourth chambers; and rotation from the initial orientation in the first direction compresses the first and third chambers and expands the second and fourth chambers. |