Abstract: A multi-stage screw compressor includes a plurality of stages of compressor bodies that compress a gas in sequence, and each stage of the plurality of stages of compressor bodies has both male and female rotors that are housed revolvably in a casing in a mutually meshing state. The male and female rotors each include a rotor lobe section having a suction-side end face and a discharge-side end face on one end and the other end thereof in the axial direction and having a twisted lobe extending from the suction-side end face to the discharge-side end face. The male and female rotors in a downstream-stage compressor body as at least one certain stage, excluding an upstream-stage compressor body as the first stage, among the plurality of stages of compressor bodies are each configured such that their lead increases from the suction side in the axial direction of the rotor lobe section toward the discharge side.

Abstract: This screw compressor is provided with a screw rotor, a casing accommodating the screw rotor, and a liquid feed mechanism for feeding a liquid into an operating chamber enclosed by the casing, wherein the pitch of the screw rotor changes in the axial direction from a suction end surface toward a discharge end surface.

Abstract: A screw compressor for compressing a working medium sucked through a suction opening and discharging the compressed working medium through a delivery opening, wherein the screw compressor includes: a male rotor and a female rotor that rotate while meshing with each other; a casing that houses the male rotor and the female rotor and is provided with a bore which forms a working chamber designed, together with the male rotor and the female rotor, to compress the working medium; a drive unit that rotationally drives at least one of the male rotor and the female rotor; a working chamber closing unit that forms a suction port for sucking the working medium into the working chamber and closes the working chamber when the working chamber reaches a specified capacity; and a suction space that connects the suction opening and the suction port to allow communication therebetween, wherein an open space that connects the suction opening and the suction port to allow communication therebetween is provided between a shaft

Abstract: A casing of a screw compressor has a delivery inner wall face facing delivery end faces of a male rotor and a female rotor. The delivery inner wall face of the casing has a shield area that shields at least a part of a track of an axial fluid communication path, which is a clearance that periodically occurs at the delivery end faces according to variation of intermeshing of the male and female rotors upon rotation thereof and is bounded by trailing flanks of the male and female rotors. The shield area of the casing is provided with a groove group made up of a plurality of grooves having longitudinal directions. The grooves of the groove group are juxtaposed in the circumferential direction of at least one rotor of the male and female rotors and are arranged such that their sides extending in the longitudinal directions are disposed adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A delivery port of a rotary-screw compressor includes a first opening having a profile configured to interrupt communication with a second working chamber of a suction process that opens only in the axial direction; a second opening connected to the first opening; and a third opening connected to the first and second openings. The profile of the first opening includes a first profile line that forms one of a pair of lateral edges of a lingulate protrusion; a second profile line that forms another one of the pair of the lateral edges of the protrusion; a third profile line that extends toward the reference point along the root circle of the female rotor; and a second connection line that connects the first and second profile lines. The second opening opens into the first opening at the second connection line. The third opening opens into the first groove.

Abstract: In a screw compressor, a lobe profile of cross-sections perpendicular to the axial direction in a female rotor that rotates about a second rotation center changes in the axial direction. One lobe of the lobe profile of the female rotor includes: a first contour line defining a leading flank on a rotation direction side of the female rotor with a lobe bottom as a boundary point; a second contour line defining a trailing flank on an opposite side of the rotation direction; and a third contour line defining a lobe tip having both endpoints at which the female has the maximum radius.

Abstract: A liquid-cooled rotary compressor includes a compressor main body having a compression chamber formed by a fixed wall and a rotating wall and compressing gas, and a liquid injection path for injecting a coolant into the compression chamber, and adjusts a discharge flow rate by changing a rotational speed of the rotating wall. The compressor includes a liquid amount adjusting unit that adjusts an amount of the coolant supplied from the liquid injection path to the compressor main body according to a change in the rotational speed of the rotating wall, and a compressed gas supply path that supplies compressed gas to a downstream side of the liquid amount adjusting unit in the liquid injection path. The compressed gas is supplied from the compressed gas supply path to the liquid injection path according to the amount of the coolant supplied to the compressor main body.

Abstract: A gas compressor includes a compression mechanism, a separator tank that introduces lubricating oil to be supplied to the compression mechanism and a mixed fluid of a working fluid and the lubricating oil discharged from the compression mechanism and separates the lubricating oil, an oil cooler that cools the lubricating oil from the separator tank, an oil circulation path that supplies the cooled lubricating oil to the compression mechanism, and a motor that drives the compression mechanism and is isolated from the oil circulation path.

Abstract: A carpooling support method, a carpooling support device, and a carpooling support system generate a vehicle allocation plan candidate of a vehicle for a first user (supporter), based on a vehicle allocation request, transmits a support request for the first user to consent to a predetermined support for a second user (support recipient) of the vehicle, to an operation terminal, acquire a support availability data from the operation terminal, where the support availability data indicating whether consent to the predetermined support is possible, and record the vehicle allocation plan candidate and the support availability data in association with each other.

Abstract: A screw compressor includes plural screw rotors, plural suction-side bearings that each rotatably support the suction side of the plural screw rotors and plural discharge-side bearings that each rotatably support the discharge side of the plural screw rotors, and a casing that houses the plural screw rotors, the plural suction-side bearings, and the plural discharge-side bearings. Each screw rotor includes a lobe section with plural lobes and a suction-side shaft section and a discharge-side shaft section each disposed at both ends of the lobe section. The casing has a housing chamber that houses the lobe sections of the plural screw rotors and a lubrication path in which liquid that lubricates the plural suction-side bearings circulates. In the lubrication path, respective passages to lubricate each of the plural suction-side bearings are connected in series and a most downstream part is connected to the housing chamber.

Abstract: A liquid supply type screw compressor that can suppress a rise in temperature of a liquid while reducing work for stirring the liquid is provided. The liquid supply type screw compressor has a male rotor 11A and a female rotor 11B, male-rotor-side working chambers formed at grooves of the male rotor 11A, and female-rotor-side working chambers formed at grooves of the female rotor 11B.

Abstract: A delivery port of a rotary-screw compressor includes: a first opening having a profile configured to interrupt communication with a second working chamber of a suction process that opens only in the axial direction; a second opening connected to the first opening; and a third opening connected to the first opening and the second opening. The profile of the first opening includes: a first profile line that forms one of a pair of lateral edges of a lingulate protrusion configured to close off the second working chamber and extends toward a reference point; a second profile line that forms another one of the pair of the lateral edges of the protrusion; a third profile line that extends toward the reference point along the root circle of the female rotor; and a second connection line that connects the first profile line with the second profile line. The second opening is a first groove that opens into the first opening at the second connection line and extends toward a reference line.

Abstract: This screw compressor is provided with a screw rotor, a casing accommodating the screw rotor, and a liquid feed mechanism for feeding a liquid into an operating chamber enclosed by the casing, wherein the pitch of the screw rotor changes in the axial direction from a suction end surface toward a discharge end surface.

Abstract: A screw compressor includes a screw rotor, a casing, and a delivery side shaft sealing unit. The delivery side shaft sealing unit includes an annular groove, a seal ring, and a shaft sealing fluid supply passage. Pressure of the fluid that is supplied to the one side, in the axial direction, of the seal ring via the shaft sealing fluid supply passage is set higher than pressure that acts on a first side surface, in an axial direction with respect to a first side wall surface of the annular groove, of the seal ring.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid supply mechanism including: a plurality of liquid supply sections each including a plurality of branch paths whose central axes intersect with each other, and a supply path having a side surface to which the plurality of branch paths of the plurality of liquid supply sections are directly connected, respectively, and supplying liquid, which is supplied from an upstream, to the branch paths.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid supply mechanism including: a plurality of liquid supply sections each including a plurality of branch paths whose central axes intersect with each other, and a supply path having a side surface to which the plurality of branch paths of the plurality of liquid supply sections are directly connected, respectively, and supplying liquid, which is supplied from an upstream, to the branch paths.

Abstract: A screw compressor is provided which can reduce the pressure loss in a suction flow passage. A casing 12 of the screw compressor includes a bore 21 that accommodates a lobed portion 13A of a male rotor 11A and a lobed portion 13B of a female rotor 11B therein such that working chambers are formed in lobe grooves of the lobed portions, a suction port 22 located on an outer side in a rotor radial direction, and a suction flow passage 23 that communicates in a rotor axial direction with working chambers that are in a suction stroke. The suction flow passage 23 includes a male rotor side suction flow passage 26A located on an male rotor 11A side and besides on a downstream side with respect to a virtual plane C, and a female rotor side suction flow passage 26B located on an female rotor 11B side and besides on the downstream side with respect to the virtual plane C.

Abstract: A screw compressor includes a screw rotor, a casing, and a fluid supply portion to supply fluid in a membrane form into a compression chamber in the casing. The screw rotor has a male and female rotors. A male bore covering the male rotor and a female bore covering the female rotor are formed on the inner surface of the casing. An intersection line, on a higher pressure side, of the male and female bores is defined as a compression cusp. In a bore development view, a trajectory made by the first intersection of an extension line of a female lobe ridge and a male lobe ridge being moved, along with the rotation of the male and female rotors, is defined as a trajectory line. An opening of the fluid supply section to the compression chamber is positioned between the compression cusp and the trajectory line.

Abstract: A screw compressor includes plural screw rotors, plural suction-side bearings that each rotatably support the suction side of the plural screw rotors and plural discharge-side bearings that each rotatably support the discharge side of the plural screw rotors, and a casing that houses the plural screw rotors, the plural suction-side bearings, and the plural discharge-side bearings. Each screw rotor includes a lobe section with plural lobes and a suction-side shaft section and a discharge-side shaft section each disposed at both ends of the lobe section. The casing has a housing chamber that houses the lobe sections of the plural screw rotors and a lubrication path in which liquid that lubricates the plural suction-side bearings circulates. In the lubrication path, respective passages to lubricate each of the plural suction-side bearings are connected in series and a most downstream part is connected to the housing chamber.

Abstract: Provided is a fluid machine configured such that liquid supplied to a working chamber from the outside of the fluid machine is dispersed extensively in the working chamber. This fluid machine is constituted of a screw rotor and a casing for accommodating the screw rotor and is provided with a liquid supply section for supplying liquid into a working chamber from the outside. The liquid supply section is configured so that liquid is dispersed in the longitudinal direction of the tooth groove of the screw rotor rather than in the width direction thereof.