A fluid control device (1) includes a case (21) including a case top plate, a case side plate, and a case bottom plate and having an internal space (59) and a cavity, a pump (11) provided at a position at which the pump (11) divides the internal space (59) into a bottom-plate-side region and a top-plate-side region, the pump (11) being configured to generate a flow of a fluid between the bottom-plate-side region and the top-plate-side region and control the flow direction of the fluid, and a fixing member (31) that fixes the case (21) in place. The case (21) is mounted on the fixing member (31) by using the case top plate or the case bottom plate as a mounting surface (B).

A reciprocating compressor includes a cylinder that defines an inner space, a piston that is located in the inner space of the cylinder and that defines a compression space configured to receive refrigerant, a discharge cover that is coupled to a side of the cylinder and that defines a discharge space configured to receive refrigerant discharged from the compression space, and a valve plate that is located at a side space defined at the side of the cylinder and that partitions the side space into the compression space and the discharge space. The valve plate defines a discharge hole through which the compression space and the discharge space communicate with each other, in which the discharge hole includes an inlet that faces the compression space and an outlet that faces the discharge space. The inlet and the outlet have different shapes.

A compressor (20) comprises: a case (22); and at least one piston (40) mounted for reciprocating movement, each in a respective cylinder (42) of the case. The at least one piston has a peripheral surface (50) and an upper surface (52). At least one discharge valve comprises: a valve element (150) shiftable between a closed condition and an open condition; a valve guide (170); one or more springs (180) held at least partially the valve guide biasing the valve element from the open condition toward the closed condition; and one or more vents (300) in the valve guide providing a flow path from a region above the valve element upward through the valve guide.

Reed valve modules and corresponding reed valve assemblies are disclosed. In one embodiment, the reed valve module includes a body having a single or a plurality of sealing faces, a seat and flow passages from the seat to the sealing face(s). The reed valve module also includes one or a plurality of petals. In some embodiments, the module further includes a petal guard. Novel reed valve assemblies are disclosed incorporating the reed valve modules. One embodiment of the reed valve assembly includes a seat with a plurality of fluid conduits, a retainer plate with a plurality of fluid conduits and a means for receiving recesses between the seat plate and retainer plate. Other devices, systems, and methods related to reed valve modules and valve assemblies are also disclosed.

A fluid machine includes a piston, a valve seat plate, a valve, and a valve retainer that reduces an opening amount of the valve. One end of the valve retainer is fixed with a fastener together with the valve to the valve seat plate. The fastener spans through the one end of the valve retainer and the valve to thereby fasten the one end of the valve retainer and the valve to the valve seat plate. A second end of the valve retainer that is opposite to the one end does not contact the valve seat plate.

A piston pump is described for pumping a fluid. The pump includes at least one cylinder having a piston movable inside the cylinder along the longitudinal axis of the cylinder by a drive, each cylinder having at an end face a mounting flange having at least one cylinder opening, and a chamber having a volume that changes when the associated piston is moved in the cylinder. The piston pump has an inlet port for supplying and an outlet port for draining the fluid. A rotatable valve plate is arranged on the other side of the mounting flange. The mounting flange has at least one passage in the region of the inlet port and the outlet port, respectively, through which the fluid can flow between the inlet port and/or the outlet port and the other side of the mounting flange. The valve plate has fluid-transporting means by which, upon rotation of the valve plate at least one cylinder opening can be connected to a passage of the inlet and/or the outlet port.

A swash plate compressor including a cylinder block accommodating a piston for compressing a refrigerant, a front housing coupled to the front of the cylinder block and having a crank chamber, a rear housing having a suction chamber and a discharge chamber and coupled to the rear of the cylinder block. The swash plate compressor includes a valve assembly with a valve plate inserted into the rear housing, a gasket in the cylinder block, a suction plate between the valve plate and the cylinder block, a variable orifice module having a first orifice hole for refrigerant passing, a second orifice hole communicating with the suction chamber to discharge the refrigerant passing through the first orifice hole to the suction chamber, and an intermediate passage connecting the orifice holes, the first orifice hole having a variable reed, a degree of opening of which is varied depending on the refrigerant pressure.

A valve assembly for an electrical refrigerant compressor of a motor vehicle, comprising: a flexurally elastic valve plate for the pressure-regulated opening and closing of an outlet opening of the refrigerant compressor; and a rigid stop plate for limiting the movement of the valve plate, the stop plate and the valve plate being in the form of a preassembled component.

The present disclosure provides a pump body, a compressor, and a heat exchange apparatus. The pump body includes a cylinder assembly, a piston, a motion transmission structure, and a drive member. The cylinder assembly includes a cylinder. The piston is movably disposed in the cylinder. The drive member is connected to the piston through the motion transmission structure. An outer peripheral wall of the piston has a rail groove connected end to end in a circumferential direction, and the cylinder has a guide structure extending into the rail groove; or an inner surface of the cylinder has a rail groove connected end to end in the circumferential direction, and the piston has a guide structure extending into the rail groove. So that through driving of the piston by the drive member, the piston is capable of rotating relative to the cylinder while reciprocating along a rotating axis of the piston.

The modification of the suction holes of the valve plate would increase the refrigerant flow rate of the compressor. The modified suction holes (11 and 12) are specially designed to have tapering form with the larger diameter at the top and smaller at the bottom (20). The valve plate partition (16) has the same height as the valve plate. These will reduce the friction loss of the refrigerant in the cylinder, which will result in an improvement of the refrigerant flow rate, more suction pressure, and the higher coefficient discharge.