Twinbird Corporation, founded in 1951, is a manufacturer of household electric products with headquarters in Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.
In the 1980s it expanded into small electrical appliances and began developing products occasionally in conjunction with other companies.
[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.