An air pumping device providing automatic sterilization and pumping of indrawn air for oxygenation or other purpose comprises a shell with an air inlet hole and an air outlet hole, an electromagnetic assembly, a transmission device, an air pumping module, and a sterilizer element. The transmission device includes a swinging element forth for acting forces in two directions alternatively on the air pumping module, to draw in and pump out sterilized air. The air pumping device has two air pumping modules is also disclosed, the two air pumping modules being arranged symmetrically on either side of the swing element, therefore the swing element creates an indrawing of air and an exhausting of air for every swing.

A linear motor compressor including a compressor housing and a cylinder housing having a plurality of opposing compression chambers. A piston freely reciprocates within the cylinder housing using a linear electric motor. A piston position feedback control system provides adaptive current output as a function of position feedback and/or velocity feedback from the piston and/or the electric motor, to directly power and control the electric motor, wherein the piston reciprocates without assistance from a mechanical spring or other equivalent centering force.

A compressor is disclosed. A compressor according to the present discloser includes a piston structure which has a guide member reciprocating inside a cylinder in an axial direction, and a magnet frame which supports a mover moving together with the piston structure, in which the piston structure includes the guide member, a mount member connected to the magnet frame, and an elastic member provided between the guide member and the mount member and capable of elastic deformation.

Provided herein is a mechanical resonant system, comprising a frame; at least one pump disposed on the frame; one or two masses coupled to the frame by a first plurality of resilient members; and at least one voice coil actuator disposed within the frame and coupled to the at least one pump or to the one or two masses; wherein when the system comprises two masses, a second plurality of resilient members couple the masses to each other. Also provided are methods for using these mechanical resonant systems to evacuate a chamber, to compress air, or sense changes in pressure.

A pump system contains a pair of pumps each of which contains a vibration actuator vibrated by electromagnetic drive and can discharge fluid due to drive of the vibration actuator. The pump system has a vibration suppression mode in which the pair of the pumps are driven so that vibration of the vibration actuators of the pair of pumps is cancelled each other and a vibration generation mode in which the pair of the pumps are driven so that the vibration of the vibration actuators of the pair of pumps is superimposed with each other.

Disclosed is a compressor including a vibration attenuating member that fixes a driving assembly to be spaced apart from an inner circumferential face of a shell and reduces vibration or noise generated in the driving assembly.

A compressor is provided. The compressor compressing and discharging a refrigerant sucked into a cylinder comprises the cylinder configured to form a compressed space of the refrigerant and having a cylindrical shape; a piston configured to reciprocate axially in the cylinder and having a cylindrical shape; an intake valve disposed at a front of the piston; a fixing member disposed outside the piston; a rod comprising one end disposed at the intake valve and configured to extend axially; a first elastic member connected to the fixing member and other side of the rod; a second elastic member disposed to be spaced apart from a rear of the first elastic member and connected to the fixing member and the other side of the rod; and a first spacer insert-injected with the first elastic member and the second elastic member.

Provided is a linear compressor. The linear compressor includes a cylinder disposed in a shell to define a compression space for a refrigerant, a piston installed to reciprocate in the cylinder, a motor assembly that allows the piston to move in an axial direction of the cylinder and thereby to compress the refrigerant introduced into the compression space, a nozzle which is provided in the cylinder and through which a portion of the refrigerant introduced into the compression space passes, and a cylinder filter installed in the cylinder and disposed at an inlet-side of the nozzle. At least one or more surfaces of the cylinder filter are oil-repellent coated.

A compressor includes a cylinder comprising a cylinder body which has a cylindrical shape and defining a compression space for refrigerant gas, a piston configured to be reciprocated in an axial direction within the cylinder body and to compress the refrigerant gas in the compression space, and a frame in which the cylinder is received, the frame defining a gas hole, one side of the gas hole communicating with outside so that the refrigerant gas is introduced, the other side of the gas hole extending up to an inner circumferential surface so as to guide the refrigerant gas.

Valves used for reciprocating gas compression and expansion and methods for operating them are provided. In some embodiments, these systems and methods can be used to recover energy in heat pumps, compressed gas systems, and pumped heat energy storage systems. In other embodiments, they may be used for gas compression or both gas compression and expansion.