An oil flooded screw compressor includes a housing with an inlet and an outlet, and a rotor supported within the housing by a bearing. The rotor is rotatable to compress air from the inlet to the outlet when the compressor is in an operating state, and the rotor is rotatable without compressing air when the compressor is in an idle state. The compressor also includes a pump configured to supply oil to the bearing only when the compressor is in the idle state.

A compressor system includes an inlet for receiving a fluid stream, a compressor in communication with the inlet, a separator in communication with the compressor, and a vent. The compressor system also includes a flow diversion control device in communication with the inlet, the compressor, the separator, and the vent, where the flow diversion control device has a first port in fluid communication with the separator, a second port in fluid communication with the inlet, a third port communicatively coupled with the inlet, a fourth port in fluid communication with the vent, and a mechanical valve having a first orientation configured to connect the first port to the second port and the third port to the fourth port for unloading the compressor system, and a second orientation configured to connect the first port to the third port and the second port to the fourth port for loading the compressor system.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a flow control valve, an oil pump assembly having the flow control valve, and a scroll compressor. The flow control valve includes: a valve body having an inlet configured for a fluid to flow into the valve body and an outlet configured for the fluid to flow out of the valve body; a passage provided between the inlet and the outlet and extending in a predetermined direction, an area of a cross section of the passage perpendicular to the predetermined direction being negatively correlated with a distance from the cross section to the inlet; a valve element slidably provided in the passage, a flow area between the valve element and an inner wall of the passage is negatively correlated with the distance from the valve element to the inlet; and an elastic member provided in the valve body to apply an elastic force on the valve element so as to move the valve element in a direction toward the inlet. Thereby, for example, lubrication of the scroll compressor is improved.

A compressor includes a casing configured to accommodate refrigerant and oil, a discharger disposed at a side of the casing and configured to discharge the refrigerant, a driver including a stator and a rotor, a rotation shaft that is coupled to the rotor and that extends in a direction away from the discharger, a compressing assembly that is coupled to the rotation shaft, that is configured to be lubricated with the oil, and that is configured to compress the refrigerant and discharge the compressed refrigerant in the direction away from the discharger, a muffler coupled to the compressing assembly and configured to guide the refrigerant to the discharger, and a bypassing portion disposed outside the casing and configured to transfer the refrigerant or the oil from the muffler to the discharger.

Disclosed is a compressor including a compressing assembly having a decompressing structure to control an amount of oil. The decompressing structure is oriented in parallel with a length direction of the rotation shaft or in a direction toward a discharger from which the refrigerant is discharged.

A compressor includes a casing that stores a lubrication oil in a bottom portion, a compression mechanism disposed in the casing, an electric motor disposed above the compression mechanism, a discharge pipe opening in a space in the casing on an upper side of the motor, and an oil drainage mechanism that guides a lubrication oil adhering to an inner wall of the casing to the discharge pipe using a swirling flow generated by rotation of the motor. The oil drainage mechanism includes an oil drain pipe having one end opening in the inner wall of the casing and another end connected to the discharge pipe, and a flow-rate regulating valve disposed at the oil drain pipe. The flow-rate regulating valve has a changeable opening degree. The opening degree of the flow-rate regulating valve is configured to be regulated in accordance with a rotational speed of the motor.

An oiling device includes a passage system that circulates and feeds oil to an oiling object. A control unit includes a storage unit that has stored therein a first abnormality pressure set value that differs according to oiling temperature; the first abnormality pressure set value is set to a lower pressure as the oiling temperature is higher. The control unit executes an abnormal stop of the oiling object when an oiling pressure detected by an oiling pressure detecting unit is equal to or lower than the first abnormality pressure set value corresponding to an oiling temperature detected by an oiling temperature detecting unit.

A liquid-injected compressor or vacuum pump device with a liquid-injected compressor or vacuum pump element (2), which includes a liquid return system (7), a motor (4) to drive the compressor or vacuum pumping element (2), a gearbox (3) provided between the motor (4) and the liquid-injected compressor or vacuum pump element (2), and a liquid separator vessel (5) in fluid connection with an outlet (6) of the compressor or vacuum pump element (2). The liquid return system (7) includes a main body (8) with a chamber in which a first compressed gas flow (11) from the liquid separator vessel (5) and a second fluid flow (15) from the gearbox (3) are mixed together to form a third fluid flow (20). The third fluid flow (20) leaves the chamber via an outlet (16) and is directed into the liquid-injected compressor or vacuum pump element (2) via the injection point (17).

The liquid level of a liquid supply type compressor including a gas-liquid separator is dynamically monitored. A liquid supply type gas compressor includes a compressor body of a liquid supply type; a gas-liquid separator that separates a liquid from a compressed gas, which is discharged, to store the liquid; a liquid piping system that supplies the liquid stored to the compressor body; an internal pipe that extends in an internal space of the gas-liquid separator, and includes at least two hole portions, of which disposition positions are different from each other in a height direction, on an internal space side to communicate with the liquid piping system; and a detector that detects a pressure or a temperature of a fluid flowing through the liquid piping system. At least one of a determination as to whether or not the pressure or the temperature detected by the detector is more than a first set value set in advance and a determination as to whether or not the pressure or the temperature detected by the detector is less than a second set value which is set in advance to be less than the first set value is performed to determine which one of the gas and the liquid is the fluid flowing through the liquid piping system.

An automatic oil level retention system for a compressor and a method for controlling a same, including: a normal oil return mode and an auxiliary oil return mode. When a lubricating oil liquid level monitored by a liquid level detection unit in real time is above a required liquid level height, the system initiates only the normal oil return mode; and when the lubricating oil liquid level monitored by the liquid level detection unit in real time is below the required liquid level height, the system initiates the auxiliary oil return mode, and the auxiliary oil return mode is closed and the normal oil return mode is initiated after the lubricating oil liquid level monitored in real time is lifted above the required liquid level height.