Disclosed are a compressor applied to a refrigerator not having a cycle matching function or a refrigerator not including a controller, and capable of controlling a driving of a linear motor by the compressor itself, and a method for controlling the same. The compressor installed at an apparatus including a refrigeration cycle includes: a piston which reciprocates in a cylinder; a linear motor configured to provide a driving force to move the piston; a sensor configured to sense a motor current of the linear motor; and a compressor controller configured to detect information related to a load of the apparatus, in a separated manner from a controller which controls a body of the apparatus, wherein the compressor controller calculates a phase difference between a stroke of the piston and the sensed motor current, and wherein the compressor controller controls a driving of the linear motor in correspondence to the detected load, such that the calculated phase difference is within a range of a reference phase difference.

The invention relates to an electronic control device (13) for a refrigerant compressor, comprising at least: a drive unit (18); and a compression mechanism (5) which is actively connected to the drive unit (18), with at least one piston (9) which is driven by a crankshaft (6) and moves back and forth between a lower and an upper dead point in a cylinder of a cylinder block (8), in which the electronic control device (13) is designed to detect, control and/or regulate the rotational speed () of the drive unit (18) and to at least approximately detect the piston position, and in which the electronic control device (13) is designed to drive the compression mechanism (5) by means of the drive unit (18) in such a way that at least one drive angle segment () and at least one transit angle segment () is provided for the duration of a regulating time interval (t) comprising more than one crankshaft rotation, for a plurality of crankshaft rotations, preferably for each crankshaft rotation of the regulating time interval (t), and the compression mechanism (5) is subject to a positive operating torque (Bm) during the at least one drive angle segment (), and to a smaller positive operating torque (Bmv) compared to the positive operating torque (Bm) or to no positive operating torque (Bm) during the at least one transit angle segment ().

A portable refrigeration container is usable for cooling a bottle of drinkable fluid. It includes a tubular body, a vortex tube, an electronic programmable controller, a tank of compressed air, a battery, a Peltier device, a heat exchanger, and a removable electrical charging station. Optionally, the portable refrigeration container further includes a compressor, a dynamo, and a bracket for attachment to a bicycle frame. The optional compressor and dynamo that electrically recharges the battery, may share a single shaft that is rotatably connected to turn with a bicycle wheel.

Embodiments of the present invention reduce the amount of energy required to operate air-conditioners and refrigerators by providing a vapor-compression system that harnesses a low- or no-cost source of energy, namely, heat, and uses the harnessed heat to power a new kind of compressor, called a burst compressor and a new kind of pump, called a vapor pump. The heat-driven burst compressor pressurizes the refrigerant, while also providing push and pull vapor refrigerant to the vapor pump. The vapor pump, actuated by the high pressure refrigerant in gaseous form provided by the burst compressor, is configured to pump a combination of gaseous, vaporous and liquid refrigerant out of the receiver tank and inject that low pressure refrigerant mix into the burst compressor, where it is heated to change the state of the refrigerant to a heated, pressurized gas. Then the heated, pressurized gas is released in bursts into the other components of the vapor compression cycle. Thus, embodiments of the present invention use heat to provide cold. Because of this arrangement, vapor-compression systems constructed and arranged to operate according to embodiments of the present invention are able to provide air-conditioning and/or refrigeration much more efficiently and with much less expense than traditional vapor compression systems for air-conditioning and refrigeration.

A linear compressor includes a cylinder that defines a compressor space and that is configured to compress refrigerant in the compressor space, a piston located in the cylinder and configured to perform a reciprocating motion in an axial direction relative to the cylinder, a mover coupled to the piston and configured to transmit a driving force to the piston to cause the piston to perform the reciprocating motion, a stator that defines a cylinder space that receives the cylinder, in which the stator is configured to generate the driving force together with the mover, and a supporting unit that includes an overlap portion that covers at least a portion of the stator, that is coupled to the stator, and that contacts the stator.

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 hermetic compressor includes an electric motor element driving a compression element that includes a crankshaft including a main shaft, an eccentric shaft, and a flange, a cylinder block having a cylinder bore, and a piston configured to reciprocate in the cylinder bore. The crankshaft further includes a communicating oil supply passage provided in the flange, a main shaft oil supply passage, and an eccentric shaft oil supply passage.

A linear compressor according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a shell; a cylinder which is provided inside the shell and forms a compression space of a refrigerant; a frame which is coupled to the outer side of the cylinder; a piston which is provided so as to perform a reciprocating movement in an axial direction inside the cylinder; a motor which supplies power to the piston; and a spring mechanism which is coupled to the piston to allow the piston to perform a resonant movement, wherein the spring mechanism may comprise: a support which is connected to the piston and comprises a spring support unit having one or more insertion holes formed therein; a first coupling protrusion which extends from the rear side of the spring support unit along the edge of the insertion hole; a support cap which is inserted into the insertion hole and comprises a second coupling protrusion protruding from the front side of the spring support unit; a first resonant spring which is inserted into the outer circumferential surface of the second coupling protrusion; and a second resonant spring which is inserted into the outer circumferential surface of the first coupling protrusion.

A transverse flux reciprocating motor and a linear compressor including the same are described. The transverse flux reciprocating motor includes an outer stator including a stator core, a teeth portion extended from the stator core to an inside, and a teeth shoe extended from an inner end of the teeth portion in a circumferential direction; a coil disposed on the teeth portion; an inner stator disposed in the outer stator and configured to reciprocate in an axial direction due to an electromagnetic interaction with the coil; and a magnet disposed on the teeth shoe and facing the inner stator. The stator core includes a plurality of core plates stacked in the axial direction. The magnet includes first and second magnets that are spaced from each other in the axial direction.

A closed compressor is provided with a flexible oil fence, of which a fixed portion as one end is fixed onto an upper surface of a cylinder between a shaft and a cylinder head and a free end as the other end extends toward an upper inner surface of a closed container. According to this configuration, a collision sound can be prevented from being generated even when the oil fence collides with the upper inner surface of the closed container and hot oil can be prevented from flowing along a surface of suction muffler.