Reliability Test of the Stirling Cryocooler for cooling infrared detector

적외선 센서 냉각용 스터링 냉동기의 수명/신뢰성 시험

A free piston and free displacer(FPFD) Stirling cryocooler for cooling infrared and cryo-sensors is currently under development at KIMM(Korea Institute of Machinery ＆ Materials). Our coolers are specifically designed to work in the thermal imaging device and to meet requirements such as cooling capacity, COP and high reliability. In this work, Stirling cryocooler is designed, manufactured and fabricated, and performance characteristics are investigated. This cooler delivers approximately 0.5W cooling at 77K for 30W ∼ 40W of input power from AC power supply. And, after the climate performance and reliability for the cryocooler is discussed, operating test without cooling load at the cold end is performed.