DISPOSITIF D'ETANCHEITE POUR TIGE DE PISTON DE MOTEUR STIRLING

摘要

A rod seal device for a Stirling engine includes a piston rod connecting operating piston and a guide piston latter being served as a power take-off device, various seal members disposed between the two pistons and surrounding the outer peripheral portion of the rod. The seal device further includes a plurality of chambers disposed around the outer periphery of the rod between a working chamber of the engine and a working chamber of the power take-off for discharging any gas leaked therefrom or preventing any undesired mixture of the two different working gases.