The inflating device has a body, a large cylinder, a small cylinder, a handle, a switching mechanism, and a switching device. The large cylinder is mounted moveably in the body and has an upper input gap, an inner bottom base, and a bottom base. The upper input gap is defined between an outer surface of a bottom end of the large cylinder and an inner surface of a first chamber of the body. The bottom base is connected with the large cylinder, is located below the inner bottom base, and has a first annular holding recess and a first O-ring. The small cylinder is mounted moveably in a second chamber of the large cylinder and has a piston base. The handle is mounted on the top end of the small cylinder. The switching mechanism is mounted on the top end of the large cylinder.

A pump includes a fluid outflow mechanism that causes the brake fluid in the discharge chamber to flow out into the suction chamber in accordance with decrease in the volume of the discharge chamber when the feed ring of the valve portion decreases the volume of the discharge chamber in cooperation with the increasing movement of the volume of the first pump chamber in a state where the first pump chamber and the discharge chamber are filled with brake fluid in the suction step.

Compressor for generating compressed air for a commercial vehicle, having a housing with a piston chamber in a crankcase and a dead space which is configured at least in the cylinder head. The compressor has a valve device with a valve element which has an actuating section and a shut-off body for separating the dead space from the piston chamber, wherein the shut-off body can be lifted up from a valve seat in the direction of the piston chamber in order to open the valve device. The valve element is configured in one piece with the actuating section.

The invention relates to a hydraulic device for a rail vehicle including a tank region for a hydraulic fluid, a motor having a pump for pumping the hydraulic fluid, a hydraulic connection panel for providing hydraulic fluid paths and for holding hydraulic components, a control region for controlling the hydraulic components, and a housing. The tank region and the control region are arranged on opposite sides of the hydraulic connection panel. The motor is arranged together with the pump on one side of the hydraulic connection panel.

A compression exchange apparatus that includes a first compression cylinder and a first inlet to allow the compression exchange apparatus to receive compressed natural gas. The compression exchange apparatus also includes a second inlet to allow the compression exchange apparatus to receive air at a first pressure and a first outlet of the compression exchange apparatus for providing decompressed natural gas generated by decompressing the compressed natural gas in the compression exchange apparatus a path to escape the compression exchange apparatus. The compression exchange apparatus can also include a second outlet of the compression exchange apparatus for providing compressed air at a higher second pressure to exit the compression exchange apparatus and a first piston in the first compression cylinder to transfer the energy of the compressed natural gas into compressing the air at the first pressure to generate the compressed air at the higher second pressure. A method that includes the steps of capturing energy contained in a compressed gas via a compression exchange apparatus operating only mechanically and generating compressed air from the energy captured from the compressed gas.

A control unit 6 of a bellows pump device 1 determines whether or not a second bellows 14 (first bellows 13) is in a predetermined expanded state when the first bellows 13 (second bellows 14) contracts to a mid-contraction state, on the basis of respective detection signals of a first detection unit 29 and a second detection unit 31, and when a determination result of the determination is negative, the control unit 6 performs next pressure increase control of controlling a second electropneumatic regulator 52 (first electropneumatic regulator 51) such that an air pressure of a pressurized air to be supplied to a second suction-side air chamber 26B (first suction-side air chamber 26A) of a second driving unit 28 (first driving unit 27) at next expansion of the second bellows 14 (first bellows 13) is increased.