538 results about "Linear compressor" patented technology

An apparatus and method for controlling driving of a linear motor, which is configured to increase efficiency of a linear compressor and stably drive the linear motor when the linear motor is overloaded. The apparatus includes a detector that detects a current applied to a motor, a controller that outputs a control signal based on the detected current and a switch that varies the number of windings of the linear motor coil on the basis of the control signal.

A linear compressor and apparatus to control the linear compressor are provided which allows a frequency of a drive current supplied to a drive motor to synchronize with a resonance frequency varying according to a load fluctuation, in real time, thus obtaining a maximum efficiency of the linear compressor. The linear compressor includes a drive motor, a piston reciprocating by the drive motor and a control unit generating a reference current having a phase difference of 90° with respect to a displacement waveform of the piston and a frequency equal to the displacement waveform of the piston, and controls a drive current supplied to the drive motor to synchronize with a resonance frequency of the piston by synchronizing the drive current with the reference current.

A system for adjusting resonant frequencies in a linear compressor comprising, in the interior of a shell: a linear motor: a cylinder; a piston reciprocating inside the cylinder; and an actuating means operatively coupling the piston to the linear motor, said system comprising: a detecting means to detect a load imposed to the linear motor, in an operational condition of the latter related to the gas pressure in the discharge thereof; and a frequency adjusting means operatively associated with the detecting means and with the resonant assembly, in order to define, as a function of said operational condition, a frequency adjustment, by varying at least one of the values related to the mass of the resonant assembly and to the average stroke of the piston, to a value of the mechanical resonance frequency corresponding to the electrical supply frequency.

A method of protecting a cylinder of a compressor comprising a piston, a linear permanent magnet (PM) having a coil and a magnet, and a sensor-less control of the PM for moving the piston in and out of the cylinder. The method including the steps of receiving a reference position of the piston from a temperature control loop; deriving a compensation voltage and a load spring effect information from a current through the coil; providing a model input voltage to a model of a mechanical structure of the compressor for predicting position of the piston, the model input voltage comprising a first voltage derived from the reference position; a compressor input voltage comprising the first voltage and the compensation voltage; and using a position control loop to recognize when the maximum compression ratio is desired and controlling the piston to achieve maximum compression ratio without causing damage to the discharge valve.

Disclosed herein is a linear compressor. The linear compressor comprises a hermetically sealed container having an inlet port and an outlet port formed at both ends thereof. In the hermetically sealed container is mounted a compression unit to compress and discharge a fluid. The compression unit comprises a linear motor, a cylinder, and a piston disposed in the cylinder such that the piston is linearly reciprocated in the cylinder by means of the linear motor. The linear compressor further comprises a discharging unit assembly disposed in front of the outlet port at the outside of the hermetically sealed container such that a fluid compressed in the cylinder is discharged through the discharging unit assembly, a container-supporting stand to support the hermetically sealed container at the outside of the hermetically sealed container, and shock-absorbing springs disposed between the container-supporting stand and the hermetically sealed container for performing shock-absorbing operations. According to the present invention, the size of the hermetically sealed container is reduced, whereby the linear compressor is miniaturized, and thus the linear compressor is designed without limits.

A two stage compressor or pump with integral electronically controlled multiphase linear motor incorporates a cup shaped moving piston as a stator. The linear motor body has an intake head with valve fitted at the end adjacent to the closed end of the cup shaped piston. A discharge head with a central discharge tube extending into the hollow center of the cup shaped moving piston is fitted to the opposite end of the motor body. As the piston reciprocates it draws the working fluid in through the intake valve, compresses and transfers it through an interstage valve in the closed end of the moving piston into a second variable volume chamber formed by the inside of the cup shaped piston and the discharge tube which acts as a fixed piston, and then further compresses and transfers it out through a valve in the discharge tube. While the design is particularly well suited for use as a compressor in air conditioning and refrigeration systems, it can also be used as a pump.

A linear compressor includes: a cylinder block forming a compressing chamber; a piston reciprocatably provided in the compressing chamber; a reciprocating member connected to the piston to reciprocate with the piston as a single body; a driver driving the reciprocating member to reciprocate; and a resonance spring including a first connecting part formed with a plurality of first connecting holes to permit connection to the cylinder block, and a second connecting part that is provided inside of the first connecting part and formed with a second connecting hole to permit connection to the reciprocating member to reciprocate with the reciprocating member. A plurality of arms spaced apart from one another are disposed between the first connecting part and the second connecting part, each of the arms including a first end connected to the first connecting part to be positioned between the plurality of first connecting holes.

A refrigeration cycle apparatus having a linear compressor is provided with a volume circulation rate instruction unit for obtaining a volume circulation rate Vco of a refrigerant in accordance with refrigerating capacity required of the refrigeration cycle apparatus, on the basis of an ambient temperature of an indoor heat exchanger (evaporator), a target temperature set on the evaporator by the user, and an ambient temperature of an outdoor heat exchanger (condenser). A volume circulation rate detector is provided for detecting a volume circulation rate Vcd of the refrigerant that actually circulates in a refrigerant circulation path of the refrigeration cycle apparatus; and an inverter is provided for generating an AC current for driving the linear compressor. The inverter is controlled so as to decrease a difference between the volume circulation rate Vco and the volume circulation rate Vcd.

A control for a linear compressor energises the linear motor in harmony with the present natural frequency of the compressor. The controller monitors the present operating frequency and compares the frequency with one or more outer limit thresholds. The control may remove power from the linear motor if the running frequency drops below a lower threshold. The control may reduce power to the linear motor if the running frequency rises above an upper threshold. The control uses compressor running frequency to operate the comperssor within safe operating limits.

An apparatus for controlling an operation of a linear compressor includes: a sensorless circuit unit for detecting a current and a voltage applied to a linear compressor and outputting a work operation value corresponding to them; a stroke controller for receiving the work operation value and outputting a switching control signal corresponding to a variation amount of the work operation value; and an electric circuit unit for receiving the switching control signal from the stroke controller and outputting a certain voltage to the linear compressor, accordingly, a TDC of the piston in consideration of an error due to the nonlinear characteristic can be controlled, and thus, an operation efficiency of the linear compressor can be improved.

A driving controlling apparatus for a linear compressor, comprises: a storing unit for storing a reference phase difference to judge an overload state; and a controlling unit for judging an overload state based on a comparison result between the reference phase difference and a phase difference between a current and a stroke, and controlling a voltage or a current applied to a linear motor based on the judgement result.

Apparatus for rapidly unloading air pressure in an intercooler to atmosphere when a compressor pneumatically connected to the intercooler is unloaded. The apparatus includes a governor pneumatically connected to a reservoir, that, in turn, is connected to receive pressurized air from the air compressor. The governor has a pressure sensing device operable to order unloading of the compressor when air pressure level in the reservoir tank reaches a preset level. An electrically operated valve is pneumatically connected to the intercooler and connected electrically to the pressure sensing device of the governor, with the electrically operated valve being effective to exhaust air pressure in the intercooler when the valve receives an unload signal from the pressure sensing device. The compressor is driven, by an electrical motor having one or more speed configurations, with transition occurring between one configuration and another when the compressor is unloaded. The electrically operated valve is effective to unload the intercooler at the time of speed configuration transition to reduce undue motor and electrical contactor heat and thus increase life expectancy of the motor and contactors.

The present invention provides a linear compressor having an elastic body capable of reducing vibration transferred to a shell due to a motion of a moving part. The linear compressor includes a shell defining a hermetic space, a stationary part installed in the shell and having a mass of M_b, a moving part reciprocating linearly inside the stationary part at a frequency of ω to compress a fluid, and having a mass of M_a, a first elastic body having both ends supported on the moving part and the shell respectively, and having an spring constant of k_a, a second elastic body having both ends supported on the shell and the stationary part respectively, and having an spring constant of k_b, and a third elastic body having both ends supported on the stationary part and the moving part respectively, and having an spring constant of k. The frequency ω satisfies ω²>(k_a/M_a). In the above configuration, the spring constant k_c of the third elastic body is always a positive number, so that the third elastic body can be implemented with a mechanical elastic body more easily designed and controlled than a gas elastic body.

The present invention relates to a moving-magnet straight-line compressor. It includes a linear motor component, it mainly has inner and outer magnetic yokes with concentric combined structure, moving-magnet coil, permanent magnet and motor runner bracket, the permanent magnet is positioned on the motor rotor bracket and placed in the magnetic field formed from inner and outer magnetic yokes; a compressor component, it mainly has machine seat, cylinder, exhaust valve and suction valve which are positioned on the machine seat and piston connected with motor runner; and a machine shell which is seal-connected with machine seat. It is characterized by that it also includes a suspension component, it mainly has a spring support frame, flexible springs, inner and outer washers and collision-prevention mechanism, etc.

The invention refers to a linear compressor, comprising: a shell (20); a cylinder (30) affixed to the shell (20) and defining a compression chamber (C); a piston (40) to be displaced in reciprocating movement in the interior of the compression chamber (C) during the operation of the compressor; a linear electric motor (50) mounted to the shell (20); and an actuating means (60) operatively coupling the piston (40) to the linear electric motor (50), in order to make the latter displace the piston (40) in a reciprocating movement in the interior of the compression chamber (C), the actuating means (60) being coupled to the piston (40) by an elastic means (70), so that the actuating means (60) and the piston (40) be displaced in phase opposition during the operation of the compressor.

A linear motor includes a stator including a stator core for forming plural magnetic poles and a magnetic wire mounted on the stator core, and a mover provided at the interior of the stator and including a mover core and a magnet mounted on the outer side of the mover core. The linear motor has the magnet have a reduced mass, thus having a small size, a low overall cost, and a high operating efficiency.

The present invention provides a linear compressor including: a shell (110); a fixed member installed inside the shell (110), and including a cylinder (200) for providing a compression space of refrigerant introduced into the shell (110); a moving member including a piston (300) for compressing the refrigerant sucked into the compression space inside the cylinder (200), and being linearly reciprocated with respect to the fixed member; and a suction muffler (700) positioned on a suction passage of the refrigerant inside the shell (110), a suction volume with a larger sectional area in a central portion than in both ends being defined in the suction muffler (700).

The volume changeable device of a circling vane compressor comprises the compressing section, driving section, round vanes with circling vanes of the compressing section, compressing chamber formed by the ring space and outside of the cylinder interior and the said round vane having a linear slider in straight reciprocating movement along the cylinder's sliding guide face, and a pair of side through channel symmetrically set on both sides of the broken part with whose middle as the center on the sliding contact surface one side of the linear slider. Opposite to the linear slider, inside the said cylinder, a sliding valve is set to move forward, set back, contact or open the broken part driven by the driving part. With circling vanes circling in the cylinder with simple valve operation, it can realize compression model change both in the inside compressing chamber or the outside compressing chamber, and change the volume of the compressor, not only ensuring the using economy of the compressor, but also preventing the abrasion for relevant components and supply waste while turning on or off the compressor.

A free-piston linear compressor (1) controlled to achieve high volumetric efficiency by a controller including an algorithm (116) for ramping up input power until piston-cylinder head collisions are detected using a detection algorithm (117/118) which then decrements power input whereupon input power is again ramped up by algorithm (116). Non-damaging low energy collisions are achieved by the controller including a perturbation algorithm (119) which perturbates the input power ramp with periodic transient pulses of power to ensure piston collisions are provoked during the transient power pulses.

A sensorless method of detecting piston collisions in a reciprocating free piston linear compressor driven by an electronically commutated linear motor having at least one excitation winding is provided. A free piston gas compressor is also provided.

A driving controlling apparatus for a linear compressor, comprises a controlling unit for detecting a TDC by a phase difference inflection point between a stoke and a current with increasing the stroke by controlling the current applied to a linear motor, and for varying the current applied to the linear motor based on the detected TDC.

A linear compressor is provided. The linear compressor includes a piston. The piston includes a piston cylinder having a head plate. The head plate defines a passage that extends through the head plate. A reed valve is mounted to the head plate and positioned over the passage of the head plate. A valve seat is positioned at and extends about the passage of the head plate.

There is provided a linear compressor (100), which has a reduced number of front main springs (820) located at the front among springs continuously transmitting a force so that a piston (300) can move in a resonance condition. The linear compressor (100) comprises: a hermetic container (110) to be filled with a refrigerant; a linear motor including an inner stator; an outer stator, and a permanent magnet; a piston linearly reciprocating by the linear motor; a cylinder (200) for providing a space for compressing the refrigerant upon linear reciprocation of the piston (300); a supporter piston (300) having a connecting portion connected to one end of the piston (300) and contacting with the piston (300), a support portion extended from the connecting portion and an additional mass member (350) fixing portion extended from the connecting portion; a plurality of front main springs (820) mounted at positions symmetrical with respect to the center of the piston (300) and the supporter piston (320), one ends of which being supported by one surface of the supporter piston (320); and one rear main spring (840), one end of which being supported by the other surface of the supporter piston (320).

A linear compressor comprising has a cylinder part including a cylinder bore. A piston disposed in, and is slidable within, the bore. A main spring connects the cylinder part directly or indirectly the piston. A connecting rod connects between the main spring and the piston. A stator has an air gap, and the connecting rod passes through the air gap. At least one armature pole is located along the connecting rod. Other inventions are also set forth.

Disclosed herein is a linear compressor having a stator cover, which is designed in such a fashion that a section of the stator cover not to be fastened with bolts has a curvature smaller than the remaining section thereof to be fastened with the bolt so as to be reduced in size thereof. This enables the stator cover to be spaced apart from the shell by a sufficient distance, thereby achieving a size reduction of the shell and a small-scale linear compressor.

A linear compressor comprises: a fixed member including a cylinder for providing a refrigerant compression space; a movable member, which includes a piston for compressing refrigerant inside the cylinder and a supporter composed of a center portion being aligned with a center of the piston and a support portion extended radially of the piston and which makes a linear reciprocating movement about the fixed member; a plurality of mainsprings supported on the support portion of the supporter, for elastically supporting the piston in an axial direction; and a mass member, which includes a center portion to couple with the center portion of the supporter and a plurality of ends extended from the center portion to maintain an air-gap towards the support portion of the supporter and towards the mainsprings. The linear compressor of the present invention can accommodate a maximum mass member in a defined space of a linearly reciprocating movable member, so material loss is prevented and more installation space can be secured.

A linear motor of the present invention has: a stator having a stationary iron core and a magnet wire; a mover having a moving iron core and a magnet; and a plate-shaped elastic member for supporting the mover in a manner to rock in the rocking directions. This construction eliminates a sliding portion for supporting the mover so that it can reduce the loss, which might otherwise accompany the reciprocation of the mover. Moreover, a linear compressor using this linear motor is high in efficiency and reliability.

Disclosed herein is a linear compressor in which a piston reciprocally moves in a cylinder upon receiving a reciprocating drive force of a linear motor to compress working-fluid, for example, refrigerant, received in the cylinder. The linear compressor comprises a piston adapted to reciprocally move in a cylinder, the piston being internally formed with a suction path, and a suction valve inserted in the suction path of the piston to move relative to the suction path, the suction valve performing opening/closing operations as it moves relative to the piston when the piston reciprocally moves. With this configuration, the suction valve always exhibits an even stroke, achieving an improvement in response and durability and minimizing vibration and noise due to the opening/closing operations thereof.

The invention provides a double-rotor two-stage enthalpy-increase compressor, including: an inhalation pipe, a liquid separator, a housing inhalation pipe, a lower flange, a lower cover plate, a compressor housing, an enthalpy-increase pipe, an enthalpy-increase capillary, a low pressure cylinder, a lower roller, an intermediate plate, a high pressure cylinder, an upper roller, an upper flange, a crankshaft, a motor rotor, a motor stator, an exhaust pipe and a low pressure cylinder. The low pressure cylinder and the lower roller therein are disposed on the lower flange; the lower cover plate is disposed at the bottom of the lower flange; the enthalpy-increase pipe is disposed on the lateral of the lower flange; and a silencer expansion chamber is disposed in the lower flange. The invention also provides an air conditioner and a heat pump water heater.

A linear compressor is provided. The linear compressor includes a pair of planar spring assemblies mounted to an inner back iron assembly at opposite sides of the inner back iron assembly. A magnet is mounted to the inner back iron assembly at an outer surface of the back iron assembly.