摘要 |
A power generating assembly structured to have dual functionality by combining an interactive operation of both an engine assembly and a compressor assembly in an at least partially segregated or isolated relation to one another within a common housing. The engine assembly may be connected to anyone of a plurality of different power take-offs in order that the power generated thereby is capable of doing work. Concurrently the compressor assembly is operative to pressurize a fluid flow passing there through and more specifically to increase the pressure of a refrigerant vapor which, after compression is transfer to a condenser or other utilitarian device for operation of a space conditioning or like facility. Interaction between the engine assembly and the compressor assembly is primarily attributable to the workings of a piston assembly comprising at least one but preferably a plurality of free moving pistons, wherein cyclical operation of the piston assembly defines a sequence of alternate compression and expansion phases of both the engine assembly and the compressor assembly.
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