Abstract: Method to transport persons overcoming an elevation with slope, and corresponding machine. The machine is a mechanical device equipped with at least three contiguous mobile steps movable individually only in the vertical direction. The method consists in performing a detection of a footstep or the transit of a person on the mobile steps and, as a function of such detection, produce a displacement of the mobile steps individually and only in the vertical direction, controlling such displacement in a manner that at least two of such mobile steps become level in the same horizontal plane in the region of transit of the person as this person advances stepping successively the mobile steps.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermally efficient refrigeration compressor, comprising a housing which surrounds the component parts of the compressor and a heat accumulating material occupying a volume internal (4, 7, 15, 18, 23, 27) or adjacent (9, 11, 30, 32, 37) to the compressor housing. Accordingly, the present invention takes advantage of the thermodynamics existing between the compressor and the refrigeration system, achieving a reduction of the internal temperatures reliably and efficiently and consequently improving the performance of the compressor.

Abstract: The fixation arrangement of the present invention is applied to a compressor of the type which comprises a shell (1) inferiorly defining an oil sump (3) and housing: a crankshaft (4) journalled in a cylinder block (2) and carrying a rotor (6) formed by a stack of annular laminations; and an oil pump (10) comprising a tubular sleeve (20), which is superiorly mounted to the rotor (6) and inferiorly immersed in the oil sump (3), and a pump shaft (30). The fixation arrangement comprises at least one retention element (40) radially and axially locked around the tubular sleeve (20) and having a radially outer locking portion (41), which is seated and radially forced against a respective confronting circumferential extension (6c) defined between two consecutive annular laminations, in order to axially lock the tubular sleeve (20) to the rotor (6).

Abstract: Cooling system for reciprocating compressors comprising an atomizing nozzle (1) that supplies an atomized lubricating fluid inside the compressor cylinder (2), a heat exchanger (6) intended for cooling the lubricating fluid to be atomized at the nozzle (1), a fluid separator (5) for separating a mixture of cooling fluid and lubricating fluid and directing the lubricating fluid back from the system, and a blocking element (7) arranged between the atomizing nozzle (1) and the heat exchanger (6) to prevent the buildup of lubricating fluid in the cylinder. Reciprocating compressor having the cooling system as described.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal isolation, suitable for isolating the gas discharge tube (13) of a refrigerating compressor (1), where the discharge tube (13) is arranged inside an isolating tube (14), forming at least a confined space between said tubes, the novelty basically consisting in that the isolating tube (14) comprises covers (15, 17) spaced apart, the cross section of the isolating tube (14) being formed by joining together the cross sections of the spaced apart covers (15, 17). In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the isolating tube (14) comprises multiple spacers, preferably annular spacers (16), arranged around the gas discharge tube (13 and the isolating tube (14), the isolating tube (14) consisting of a number tube portions (20, 26) joined together along the extension of the gas discharge tube (13). The invention also relates to a process for assembling the thermal isolation in the gas discharge tube.

Abstract: A hermetic compressor with internal thermal insulation, comprising: a compression cylinder having one end closed by a valve plate provided with a discharge orifice and having a front face against which is mounted a cylinder cover internally defining a discharge chamber; and a spacing duct having one inlet end hermetically mounted to the front face of the valve plate and open to the discharge orifice and an outlet end hermetically mounted to the cylinder cover and open to the interior of the discharge chamber, said spacing duct defining a hermetic fluid communication between the interior of the compression cylinder and the discharge chamber maintaining the cylinder cover spaced from the valve plate and defining, with the latter, an annular plenum around said spacing duct.

Abstract: A refrigeration compressor includes an internal cooling system. The compressor includes a compressor shell (1), inside of which are disposed a compression cylinder (2, 3), a piston that performs an alternating movement inside the cylinder, an oil accumulation region (5) in the lower part of the compressor shell, and piston drive means having a rotary shaft (4) oriented substantially vertically, with an upper end mounted to a piston drive cam (7). The compressor has a system for collecting the oil coming from the shaft (4), and expelled by the cam (7), in the upper part of the shell (1). This accumulated oil is drained over the compression cylinder (2, 3), so as to cool it, thus increasing the efficiency of the compressor.

Abstract: Discharge valve arrangement applied in a hermetic compressor used, for example, in household refrigeration systems including a valve plate closing an end of a compression cylinder and provided with suction and discharge orifices contained within the inner contour of the axial projection of the compression cylinder, said suction orifice occupying an annular sector external to the axial projection of a discharge orifice and being closed by a flexible suction vane having a bending median portion. The valve plate is provided with a plurality of discharge orifices distributed in at least one of the regions defined externally and internally to the contour of the flexible suction vane, each discharge orifice provided internally to the contour of the flexible suction vane being axially aligned with a respective through opening provided in said bending median portion.

Abstract: The fixation arrangement of the present invention is applied to a compressor of the type which comprises a shell (1) inferiorly defining an oil sump (3) and housing: a crankshaft (4) journalled in a cylinder block (2) and carrying a rotor (6) formed by a stack of annular laminations; and an oil pump (10) comprising a tubular sleeve (20), which is superiorly mounted to the rotor (6) and inferiorly immersed in the oil sump (3), and a pump shaft (30). The fixation arrangement comprises at least one retention element (40) radially and axially locked around the tubular sleeve (20) and having a radially outer locking portion (41), which is seated and radially forced against a respective confronting circumferential extension (6c) defined between two consecutive annular laminations, in order to axially lock the tubular sleeve (20) to the rotor (6).

Abstract: A hermetic compressor with internal thermal insulation, comprising: a compression cylinder having one end closed by a valve plate provided with a discharge orifice and having a front face against which is mounted a cylinder cover internally defining a discharge chamber; and a spacing duct having one inlet end hermetically mounted to the front face of the valve plate and open to the discharge orifice and an outlet end hermetically mounted to the cylinder cover and open to the interior of the discharge chamber, said spacing duct defining a hermetic fluid communication between the interior of the compression cylinder and the discharge chamber maintaining the cylinder cover spaced from the valve plate and defining, with the latter, an annular plenum around said spacing duct.