Twinbird Corporation

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.

Twinbird Corporation
TypePublic KK
TYO: 6897
HeadquartersTsubame, Niigata

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
  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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