A fluid compressor includes a closed container having an inlet, a compression mechanism including a compression chamber in which fluid flowing into the closed container through the inlet is compressed, a discharge port through which the fluid compressed in the compression chamber is allowed to flow, a discharge valve opening and closing the discharge port, and a valve retainer limiting an amount of lift of the discharge valve. The discharge valve includes a curved portion whose shape is defined by one or more curvatures. When the discharge port is closed by the discharge valve, the valve retainer and the discharge valve are spaced apart from each other.

A wellbore tool includes a cooling section positioned within the tool for the purpose of maintaining the temperature sensitive components within their rated operating temperature range. The cooling section includes an evaporator, compressor, condenser, power device, expansion device. The compressor is positioned within the condenser. The components whose temperatures are to be maintained are in thermal contact to the evaporator. The cooling process is based upon the vapor compression cycle.

A method for detecting an improper opening of a multiple suction reciprocating compressor suction valve of a reciprocating compressor includes monitoring, by an electronic processing core, a variable proportional to torque of an electrical engine that cooperates with a piston of the reciprocating compressor, the variable being measured by a sensor. A detection of the improper opening of the suction valve is made by a detection of at least one peak of the variable proportional to torque of the electrical engine during power of the electromagnetic field generator element.

Disclosed herein is a valve assembly for a variable swash plate compressor. Since an opening hole of a suction reed is enlarged toward a suction port of a valve plate and refrigerant is also introduced into a cylinder bore through the opening hole when the suction port is opened, performance of a compressor may be enhanced by an increase in flow rate.

An improved membrane valve and method for manufacturing such membrane valve. The improved membrane valve can be used for transferring fluids or gases in hermetic or semi-hermetic compressors, including a method and system for manufacturing a membrane valve and a membrane valve with applications for use in several motors, particularly in hermetic or semi-hermetic compressors which use, as a refrigeration fluid, an appropriate type of gas thus promoting the refrigeration physical affect. A body and a membrane of the membrane valve are produced from substantially thin metallic plates separately in accordance to an available process and can be subjected to rounding in order to eliminate live corners, and then juxtaposed thus composing the valve, with the above mentioned membrane on one side, fitted to the body which is fixed through a connection process and, on the other side, left free to oscillate.

A linear compressor is provided. The linear compressor may include a suction valve with a plurality of wings. Each of the plurality of wings may include two first edge portions that extend in an outer direction of a fixing portion, and a second edge portion forming an outer circumferential portion of the wing. A distance between a first edge portion of a first wing among the plurality of wings and a second edge portion of a second wing among the plurality of wings gradually increases toward the outer direction of the suction valve.

An air pump is provided. An air pump includes an upper cover, a valve seat, a spacer, an air intake one-way valve and a piston assembly. The upper cover has an air outlet. The valve seat is disposed on a bottom of the upper cover. The spacer is disposed between the valve seat and the upper cover and has an air intake chamber and an air outtake chamber. The air intake chamber has an air intake passage communicated therewith, and the air outtake chamber having an air outtake passage communicated therewith. The spacer has a valve clack, so that air flows in a one-way direction from bottom to top. The air intake one-way valve is disposed and movable in the air intake passage so as to make the air flow in the one-way direction from top to bottom. The piston assembly is disposed under the valve seat.

A swash plate compressor includes a cylinder block accommodating a piston for compressing a refrigerant, a front housing coupled to the cylinder block and having a crank chamber, a rear housing having a suction chamber and a discharge chamber and coupled to the cylinder block, and a suction reed plate inserted between a valve plate and the cylinder block. The swash plate compressor includes: a first orifice hole through which the refrigerant in the crank chamber passes; a second orifice hole communicating between the first orifice hole and the suction chamber; an intermediate flow path configured to connect the first orifice hole and the second orifice hole; and the valve plate inserted into the rear housing and having a suction chamber pressure-maintaining space connected to the suction chamber and configured to maintain a pressure equal to a pressure in the suction chamber.

Compressor head fixing device, a compressor and a refrigeration device. The compressor head fixing device includes a cylinder block and a cylinder head cover, the cylinder head cover being connected to the cylinder block by a fastener, the cylinder block being provided with a compression chamber and an assembly hole configured to fix the fastener; a noise reduction chamber, provided on the cylinder block; and a communication passage, provided in the cylinder block and the cylinder head cover, and being in communication with the assembly hole, the noise reduction chamber and the compression chamber. The compressor head fixing device has a compact structure, a length of the exhaust passage is shortened and the exhaust pressure is reduced.

A compressor valve plate (80) for a reed valve (94) has a mounting surface portion for mounting a base portion (104) of a reed (100). The compressor has a port (90). A seat (150) surrounds the port. A trepan (154) surrounds the seat. A relieved area (180, 182) less deep than the trepan extends proximally (182) of and distally (180) of the trepan. A reciprocating piston compressor comprises a valve assembly having such a compressor valve plate and a reed.