The invention discloses a
pulse tube refrigerator with an elastic air reservoir. The
pulse tube refrigerator comprises a compressor, a transport tube, a
water cooler, a heat regenerator, a cold end connecting
pipe, a cold end
heat exchanger, a pulse tube, a hot end
heat exchanger, an
inertance tube and an elastic air reservoir. The compressor is sequentially connected with the transport tube, thewater cooler, the heat regenerator, the cold end connecting
pipe, the cold end
heat exchanger, the pulse tube, the hot end heat exchanger, the
inertance tube and the elastic air reservoir. A
pulse tube refrigerator is usually provided with a huge air reservoir to obtain a better performance. The pulse tube refrigerator with the elastic air reservoir can obtain the same
phase modulation effect with just a few percent of a common air reservoir in volume after employing the elastic air reservoir, so that the whole
system becomes compact, and the charging quantity of working medium is reduced, which is particularly important for rare
helium-4 and
helium-3. As for the air reservoir in low temperature, the elastic air reservoir can shorten the
cooling time and accelerate the
cooling speed of a
system.