The connection of the engine body and the base was simplified as a spring and a damper to analyze the body vibration of the single piston hydraulic free piston engine. It was demonstrated that the increasing of the connection spring rate can reduce the amplitude of the body vibration. But the reduced vibration amplitude was trivial after the spring rate was increased above 300KN/m. The damp ratio of the connection had little influence on the body vibration. The introduction of a pump chamber into the structure in the compression stroke can shorten the rebounding displacement of the free piston assembly (FPA) while it was settled at the right dead center working in pulse pause modulation (PPM) mode. Furthermore it can keep the FPA have an enough stroke to achieve a predetermined compression ratio and reduce the fluctuation of the pump flow. The compression ratio can be improved through increasing the pressure of the compression accumulator and decreasing the pressure of the high pressure accumulator. Also the compression ratio and the operation frequency of the engine can be improved by shortening the switch time of the control valve and prolonging the open time.

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This work presents a high isolation UWB-MIMO antenna with a bandwidth up to 8.6 GHz based on a Minkowski fractal structure. The proposed antenna is fed by microstrip and comprises two orthogonal monopole antennas, which delivers a decent isolation effect. Moreover, the ground is designed as two separated blocks with an I-shaped branch for improving the isolation degree between the units. The resultant isolation degree of this antenna is greater than 25 dB. Besides, the electromagnetic interference in the partial frequency band (such as Wi-Max band (3.45-4.45 GHz), WLAN band (5.1-5.8 GHz), and X-band (7.25-7.75 GHz)) is further prevented through etching a split-ring resonator (SRR) and C-slot on the unit. The antenna reflection coefficient of the UWB-MIMO antenna at the notch is 3.5 dB, which indicates that the antenna has a conspicuousness anti-interference effect. Through the above judicious design, the proposed UWB-MIMO antenna possesses a relative bandwidth of 113% (up to 8.6 GHz). The envelope correlation coefficient between antenna units is less than 0.005, and the antenna radiation efficiency is up to 80%. The results indicate that the proposed MIMO antenna meets UWB applications.

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