Abstract: A reciprocating compressor 1A includes a compression part 2 compressing, by a piston 6, gas sucked into a cylinder 4 through a suction valve 36, and discharging the compressed gas through a discharge valve 51, a piston drive part 3 supplying a force to the piston 6 to reciprocate the piston 6 via a piston rod 9 coupled to the piston 6, and a housing 17 accommodating the compression part 2 and forming a vacuum region around the compression part 2.

Abstract: A liquid material supply device includes a supply unit that supplies a liquid material, an opening and closing discharge unit that discharges the liquid material, a discharge flow path that is connected to the supply unit and the opening and closing discharge unit, a pressure adjustment unit that adjusts an internal pressure of the discharge flow path, a pressure feed device that delivers the liquid material to the opening and closing discharge unit through the discharge flow path, and a circulation unit that is provided between the supply unit and the opening and closing discharge unit to allow the liquid material to circulate into the discharge flow path through a circulation flow path which branches from the discharge flow path.

Abstract: The tilting-pad bearing includes: a plurality of tilting pads arranged around a rotary shaft; a housing including a lubricating oil-supplying hole provided at a position facing a gap formed between the tilting pads disposed next to each other; and a pair of side plates disposed so that the tilting pads are interposed therebetween. The tilting pad is provided with an internal flow passageway through which lubricating oil flow. The internal flow passageway includes a first inflow opening, a second inflow opening, and a discharge opening.

Abstract: There is provided a centrifugal compressor apparatus including a centrifugal compressor that centrifugally compresses a gas, an electric motor that rotatably drives the centrifugal compressor, a current detector that detects a drive current I of the electric motor, and an exhaust valve that discharges a compressed gas to a lower pressure section. The centrifugal compressor apparatus (A) detects the drive current I at a sampling cycle ts, (B) updates, as a current threshold, in real time, a value “(moving average)?n×(standard deviation)” for which a plurality of drive currents measured in a sampling period tp serves as a population, where n is a positive number in the range of 3 to 4 and, (C) determines that surging has occurred when the exhaust valve is closed and the drive current I is below the current threshold X, and (D) further opens the exhaust valve to discharge the compressed gas when determining that surging has occurred.

Abstract: A flow volume measurement device for a turbo compressor includes a first pressure guide tube communicating with an intake pipe connected to a second compression stage having a compressor impeller that compresses a gas; and a second pressure guide tube communicating with an intake port of the second compression stage, which has a smaller internal diameter than an internal diameter of the intake pipe, and measures the flow volume of the gas on the basis of a difference in pressure between the first pressure guide tube and the second pressure guide tube.