Abstract: Some embodiments provided rotor assemblies, comprising: a rotor core barrel comprising a wall extending, and at least two compression bridges each formed in the wall proximate one of the lateral ends and separated by a distance; an array of a plurality of magnets positioned on and spaced along the wall between the compression bridges and about a circumference of the rotor core barrel; and one or more pre-stress wraps wrapped over the plurality of magnets and about the rotor core barrel along at least a portion of a length of the rotor core barrel between the compression bridges, wherein the compression bridges enable radial compression deflection, induced by radial compression of the rotor core barrel by the one or more pre-stress wraps, of the wall of the rotor core barrel at the compression bridges relative to the wall of the rotor core barrel proximate the lateral ends.

Abstract: Some embodiments provided rotor assemblies, comprising: a rotor core barrel comprising a wall extending, and at least two compression bridges each formed in the wall proximate one of the lateral ends and separated by a distance; an array of a plurality of magnets positioned on and spaced along the wall between the compression bridges and about a circumference of the rotor core barrel; and one or more pre-stress wraps wrapped over the plurality of magnets and about the rotor core barrel along at least a portion of a length of the rotor core barrel between the compression bridges, wherein the compression bridges enable radial compression deflection, induced by radial compression of the rotor core barrel by the one or more pre-stress wraps, of the wall of the rotor core barrel at the compression bridges relative to the wall of the rotor core barrel proximate the lateral ends.

Abstract: Improved Stirling cycle machine including at least a pair of eccentric disks fixed to a pair of rotatable shafts in phase with each other and which eccentric disks upon rotation of the shafts (in opposite directions in the preferred embodiment) also rotate (in opposite directions in the preferred embodiment) and impart upward movement to a bellows defining a variable-volume compression or expansion chamber with a reduced tendency to also impart side thrust, rocking motion, or lateral movement to the bellows whereby bellows wear is reduced and the life of the bellows and the Stirling cycle machine is increased.