A control substrate includes: a reverse connection protection circuit; a first substrate wiring connected with a source terminal of a MOSFET of the reverse connection protection circuit; a second substrate wiring connected with a GND terminal; a bypass circuit, allowing, in a case where an output voltage of a vehicle-mounted battery is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, a current to flow from the first substrate wiring to the second substrate wiring; and a clamp circuit, connected with a positive electrode terminal and a GND terminal on an upstream side with respect to the MOSFET and clamps a positive voltage to a second predetermined value. The first predetermined value is a value smaller than a withstand voltage between a gate and a source of the MOSFET.

Systems and methods are used to control operation of a rotary compressor of a refrigeration system to improve efficiency by varying the volume ratio and the speed of the compressor in response to current operating and load conditions. The volume of the axial and/or radial discharge ports of the compressor can be varied to provide a volume ratio corresponding to operating conditions. In addition, permanent magnet motors and/or control of rotor tip speed can be employed for further efficiency gains.

An inverter is disposed at a position on the upstream side relative to a compression mechanism along the flow of a refrigerant and the position cooled by the refrigerant. A motor is disposed at a position heated by the refrigerant compressed by the compression mechanism. A control device changes an upper limit value of a driving current supplied to the motor on the basis of at least one of first information relating to the temperature of the motor or second information relating to the temperature of the inverter.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gas compressor that can achieve reduced fluctuation of discharge pressure during compressor body number control, and a method for controlling the gas compressor. This gas compressor includes a plurality of compressor units each having a compressor body, a motor for driving the compressor body, and an inverter for controlling a rotational speed of the motor, and a control device for controlling each of the inverters, in which discharge pipes of the compressor bodies are merged with one main discharge pipe and discharge pressure of the main discharge pipe is controlled through control of pressure of the respective discharge pipes by controlling, by means of the respective inverters, driving frequencies of the compressor bodies. The control device determines whether recovery through an increase in the driving frequency of the motor of each of the compressor bodies is possible, on the basis of the pressure value and a temporal changing amount of the discharge pressure of the main discharge pipe when the driving frequency of the motor of the compressor body is being increased but has not reached an upper limit frequency, and controls an increase of the number of the compressor bodies to be operated.

A technique is provided that can further reduce power at the time of unload operation control in a gas compressor that generates a compressed gas at a set pressure by constant-speed control. The gas compressor includes a compressor main unit, a drive source, an intake throttle valve, a gas release valve, rotation speed converting means, a pressure detecting device that detects a discharge pressure, and a controller that, the relationship between an upper-limit pressure H and a lower-limit pressure L being H>L, carries out opening the intake throttle valve and closing the gas release valve and operating the drive source at a full-load rotation speed until the discharge pressure reaches the upper-limit pressure H. The controller carries out at least one of closing the intake throttle valve and opening the gas release valve to reduce the discharge pressure to within a predetermined range when the discharge pressure reaches the upper-limit pressure H. The controller carries out switching to load operation when the discharge pressure drops to the lower-limit pressure L. In the gas compressor, the controller outputs a command of a lower rotation speed than the full-load rotation speed to the rotation speed converting means when the discharge pressure rises and reaches the upper-limit pressure H. The controller outputs a command of the full-load rotation speed to the rotation speed converting means when the discharge pressure drops and reaches the lower-limit pressure L.

A package type compressor includes a housing, a compressor, a motor, an inverter, and a cooling fan. The housing has an air inlet. The compressor is disposed inside the housing where it compresses the air. The compressor is disposed in a compressor body inside the housing. The motor is disposed above the compressor inside the housing, and drives the compressor. The inverter is disposed in the region of the air inlet of the housing, and controls a rotation speed of the motor. The cooling fan is disposed inside of the compressor body. The cooling fan generates a flow path of cooling air within the package type compressor. The inverter is disposed in such a way that as the flow path of cooling air enters the air inlet of the housing, the flow path of cooling air passes directly over the inverter thereby cooling the inverter.

To reduce the possibility that temperature of refrigerant discharged from a compressor of a refrigeration apparatus becomes excessively high by controlling torque of a motor built into the compressor, the compressor includes the motor having rotation thereof controlled by inverter control. An inverter controller controls torque of the motor using inverter control when operation frequency of the compressor is at least one value within a range of from 10 Hz to 40 Hz. When at least the operation frequency is within the range of from 10 Hz to 40 Hz, torque of the motor is controlled, and under a predetermined condition in which temperature of refrigerant discharged from the compressor easily becomes excessively high, a device controller controls devices provided in a refrigerant circuit such that refrigerant sucked into the compressor is placed in a wet vapor state.

A motor operated compressor includes a compression module configured to compress a compression target fluid by an orbiting motion of a scroll; an inverter module configured to control driving of the compression module; a main housing formed to surround a mechanical component provided in the compression module and having an intake port for intaking the compression target fluid; an inverter cover forming a boundary between the compression module and the inverter module and disposed to be exposed to the compression target fluid flowing into the compression module through the intake port; and a plurality of guide protrusions protruding from the inverter cover toward an internal space of the main housing to guide the compression target fluid flowing in through the intake port along a surface of the inverter cover, and formed along a direction from the intake port toward an opposite side of the intake port.

An electric compressor is provided, comprising a motor part comprising a stator and a rotor, an inverter electrically coupled to the motor part, a compression part coupled to the motor part, and an electrically conductive part configured to electrically connect the motor part and the inverter. The electrically conductive part comprises a support member forming a body, a terminal member, and an elastic member provided between the support member and the terminal member facing the inverter. The inverter is configured to apply a control signal to the motor part, and the compression part may be configured to rotate along a rotation of the motor part to compress refrigerant. The terminal member is inserted through and coupled to the support member and is electrically coupled to the inverter. The elastic member is compressed or stretched by vibration generated in the motor part to store a restoring force.

It is an object to provide a vehicular electric compressor, by which a load exerted on a compressor body such as, for example, an inverter cover can be reduced and damage given to the compressor body can be reduced. A vehicular electric compressor (1) includes a compressor body (2) that compresses fluid sucked from outside and then discharges the fluid, using electric power as power, a protective component (4) attached on the compressor body (2), and an external attachment leg (3) attached to the compressor body (2) through the protective component (4), wherein the protective component (4) is lower in strength than the external attachment leg (3).