An improved air compressor includes a cylinder fitted with a piston body, a main frame for mounting a motor, and an air storage container. The cylinder defines at its top wall a plurality of exit holes, which are separated by a plurality of blocking walls and regulated by a resilient sheet having a plurality of branches corresponding to the exit holes. When the compressed air produced in the cylinder pushes the resilient sheet up to open the exit holes, the instantaneous high-pressure air that flows through the exit holes can be restrained by the air blocking walls to prevent the air from interfering with movements of the branches of the resilient sheet, so that the piston body can conduct reciprocating motion more smoothly and thus the performance of the air compressor can be increased.

A drip tight pump includes a top cover with an inlet port and an outlet port, a sealing mat, a value plate with an inlet hole and an outlet hole, a water inlet one-way value, a cup, a cylinder, a swing frame, a steel needle, a steel ball, an eccentric wheel, a bottom cover and a motor who are successively set. The drip tight pump also includes a first leak-proof member and/or a second leak-proof member between the top cover and the sealing mat. The drip tight pump can seal the outlet hole and the inlet port, so that to prevent the drip tight pump from dripping.

A valve structure includes: a valve seat part furnished with a valve hole portion having a valve hole connecting a first gas chamber to a second gas chamber, and a valve-body supporting wall part laterally extending from the valve hole portion; an elastic valve-body member furnished with a first elastic platelike section disposed paralleling the valve hole portion, and a second elastic platelike section extending from the first elastic platelike section, wherein the first elastic platelike section is elastically deformable against the second elastic platelike section under pressure differential between the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber such as to open the valve hole; and an elastic pressing member arranged paralleling the second elastic platelike section such as to elastically deform together with the elastic valve-body member, and being of planar form determined such as to expose the first elastic platelike section.

A reciprocating compressor having: a suction valve; a discharge valve; and a working chamber; wherein the suction valve is configured to provide fluid communication between a suction channel and the working chamber and the discharge valve is configured to provide fluid communication between the working chamber and a discharge channel; wherein the suction valve has at least one non-self-actuated valve and the discharge valve has at least one self-actuated check valve.

A valve for controlling fluid flow, the valve comprising: a first plate comprising a plurality of first holes extending through said first plate; a second plate comprising a plurality of second holes extending through said second plate, the second holes being substantially offset from the first holes of said first plate; wherein said first plate and said second plate are arranged to form a cavity therebetween in fluid communication with the first holes of said first plate and the second holes of said second plate; and a flap disposed and moveable between said first plate and said second plate, said flap having holes substantially offset from the first holes of said first plate and substantially aligned with the second holes of said second plate; wherein said flap is operable to be motivated between said first and second plates in response to a change in direction of differential pressure of the fluid across the valve; wherein said first plate comprises a coating disposed on a surface of the first plate; wherein the first plate comprises a plurality of clearance regions, substantially aligned with the holes of the flap, in which a thickness of the coating is reduced; and wherein each of the clearance regions defines a respective inner region in which a thickness of the coating is generally greater than its defining clearance region.