Twinbird Corporation

Twinbird Corporation
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 6897
Headquarters	Tsubame, Niigata
Website	www.twinbird.jp

Twinbird Corporation, founded in 1951, is a manufacturer of household electric products with headquarters in Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Shigekatsu Nomizu is the President, employing 284 people as of March 2010.

It was founded as a plating company in 1951. In the 1980s it expanded into small electrical appliances and began developing products occasionally in conjunction with other companies. The free-piston Stirling cooler is one such product that was developed jointly and under license to Global Cooling.^[1] By 2002, Twinbird released the first ever consumer product utilizing the free-piston Stirling cycle process.^[2] Before this, free-piston Stirling machines were only available at extremely high cost generally used for specialized aerospace applications. A branded version of a portable refrigerator using the free-piston Stirling cooler was sold for a time by the Coleman Company.

References

^ Berchowitz, D.M., McEntee, J. and Welty, S. 'Design and Testing of a 40W Free-Piston Stirling Cycle Cooling Unit', 20th IIR/IIF, Sydney, 1999
^ Edwards, J. 'Cooling: Stirling Strikes', Appliance Design, April 2008

External links

Twinbird homepage

[1] Berchowitz, D.M., McEntee, J. and Welty, S. 'Design and Testing of a 40W Free-Piston Stirling Cycle Cooling Unit', 20th IIR/IIF, Sydney, 1999

[2] Edwards, J. 'Cooling: Stirling Strikes', Appliance Design, April 2008

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