Abstract: The present invention describes a reciprocating compressor, comprising: an assembly block (10); a rotating shaft (20) comprising at least one inner axial channel (21), said inner axial channel (21) connected to at least one inner radial channel (22a, 22b) or to a cam (23); the cam (23) is associated with a connecting rod (24), and the connecting rod (24) is associated with a movable piston (25) within a compression cylinder (26); and an oil pump (C), comprising: an axial flow electric motor comprising a rotor (30), with magnets (31), and a stator (40) with coils (41); wherein the rotor (30) and the stator (40) are fixed to the shaft (20) and to the assembly block (10), respectively, by means of bearings or fixing arrangements.

Abstract: The compressor includes a bearing hub, defining a radial bearing having a first and a second end portion and supporting a crankshaft having an eccentric end portion supporting the larger eye of a connecting rod coupled to the piston, for example, by a smaller eye mounted around a piston pin. The second end portion and, optionally, the first end portion of the bearing hub and the larger and smaller eyes of the connecting rod are internally provided with bushings. End portions of the bearing hub and of the larger and smaller eyes may have their structure resistant to the pressing of a confronting compressor component supported on said end portions, or further present a terminal portion elastically deformable together with a confronting terminal portion of the associated bushing.

Abstract: The compressor comprises: a crankcase (10) carrying a cylinder (20) and a bearing hub (40) having a first and a second end portions (40a, 40b) and defining a radial bearing (41), in which is housed a crankshaft (50); and a connecting rod (60) coupled to a piston (30) housed in the cylinder (20) and having a larger eye (61) mounted in an eccentric end portion (55) of the crankshaft (50). Each of said end portions (40a, 40b) is defined by a bushing extension (45, 46) affixed in the interior of the bearing hub (40) and having an end portion (45a, 46a) projecting outwards from the bearing hub (40), in order to be elastically and radially deformed when pressed by a confronting portion of the crankshaft (50), which presents coaxiality deviation in relation to the axis (X1) of the radial bearing (41).

Abstract: The present device is applied to a linear driving unit which comprises: a linear electric motor (M) formed by a motor housing (C) which is electrically excited and affixed to a fixed structure (1), and by a magnetic armature (A) which is displaced in a reciprocating axial movement; and a helical resonant spring (50) having an end coupled to the fixed structure (1) and an opposite end coupled to the magnetic armature (A). The deformation control device (60) is mounted to contact a surface extension of the resonant spring (50), which is elastically and radially deformed, and to generate friction with said surface extension and/or an elastic deformation in the deformation control device (60), absorbing energy in a value sufficient to at least minimize said radial elastic deformation of the resonant spring (50).

Abstract: The mounting arrangement is applied to a compressor which comprises: a piston having a cylindrical tubular body; and an actuating means connected to the piston to drive the latter in a reciprocating movement. The suction muffler comprises two tubular inserts, longitudinally disposed in the interior of the piston and having spaced apart open adjacent ends, and closed opposite ends respectively affixed to the top wall of the piston and to the actuating means, and defining, in the interior of the piston, a muffling chamber (C) and an annular passage medianly opened to the muffling chamber (C) and communicating an open rear end of the piston with a suction valve provided in a top wall of said piston.

Abstract: The piston (P) comprises a tubular skirt (10), and a head (H) affixed in the interior of the skirt (10), close to an end edge (11) of the latter and carrying a suction valve (20). The head (H) comprises a central hub (30) having an end front face (30a) and incorporating radial wings (31) whose end edges (31a) are affixed to the skirt (10). The central hub (30) defines, with the skirt (10) and the radial wings (31), respective suction axial passages (32). The head (H) further comprises a cover (40) having a contour concentric to the inner contour of the skirt (10) and having a front face (40a) and a rear face (40b) which is affixed to the central hub (30) by the end front face (30a) of the latter, the contour of the cover (40) maintaining, with the inner contour of the skirt (10), a radial gap which defines a suction annular opening (42) to be closed by the suction valve (20).

Abstract: The compressor of the invention comprises: a block with a cylinder; a movable assembly formed by a piston reciprocating in the cylinder and coupled to an actuating means by a rod; and a resonant spring having a first and a second diametrical end portion which are attached to the movable assembly by a first fixation means (MF1) and, to the block, by a second fixation means (MF2) which is adjustably attached to the block and to said second end portion so as to affix the latter to the block in a position defined along the displacement of the resonant spring in three directions orthogonal to one another and defined by the direction of the axis of the resonant spring, by the diametrical direction of the second end portion and by the diametrical direction orthogonal to said two first directions, and also along the angular displacement of said second end portion around said three directions orthogonal to each other.

Abstract: A compressor comprising: a cylinder crankcase (10) defining a compression chamber (13) housing a reciprocating piston (22); an actuating means (40) coupled to the piston (22); and a resonant spring means (50) having a first and a second diametrical end segment (50a, 50b) respectively affixed to the actuating means (40) by a first securing means (MF1) and to the cylinder crankcase (10) by a second securing means (MF2), the latter comprising: a base vise jaw (60, 60?) affixed to the second diametrical end segment (50b); a top vise jaw (70, 70?) mounted between opposite portions of the cylinder crankcase (10) and seated, pressed and locked against the base vise jaw (60, 60?), in a condition in which the axes of the end diametrical segments (50a, 50b) intercept the axis of the compression chamber (13) and in which the piston (22) has a predetermined axial position in the compression chamber (13).

Abstract: The compressor comprises: a crankcase (10) carrying a cylinder (20) and a bearing hub (40) having a first and a second end portions (40a, 40b) and defining a radial bearing (41), in which is housed a crankshaft (50); and a connecting rod (60) coupled to a piston (30) housed in the cylinder (20) and having a larger eye (61) mounted in an eccentric end portion (55) of the crankshaft (50). Each of said end portions (40a, 40b) is defined by a bushing extension (45, 46) affixed in the interior of the bearing hub (40) and having an end portion (45a, 46a) projecting outwards from the bearing hub (40), in order to be elastically and radially deformed when pressed by a confronting portion of the crankshaft (50), which presents coaxiality deviation in relation to the axis (X1) of the radial bearing (41).

Abstract: The compressor comprises: a shell carrying a gas outlet tube and housing a cylinder cap having a gas outlet; and a plastic discharge tube having an inlet end and an outlet end respectively coupled to the gas outlet and to the gas outlet tube, at least one of said inlet and outlet ends being connected to a discharge part, defined at the gas outlet or at the gas outlet tube, by a connecting element having: a fixation portion, affixed inside the discharge part; an engaging portion fitted inside one end of the discharge tube and carrying a superficial indexing means acting against the discharge tube; and gripping means disposed between the indexing means and the fixation portion; and a retaining ring mounted around the discharge tube for compressing the latter, in order to spike, therein, the gripping means.

Abstract: The present device is applied to a linear driving unit which comprises: a linear electric motor (M) formed by a motor housing (C) which is electrically excited and affixed to a fixed structure (1), and by a magnetic armature (A) which is displaced in a reciprocating axial movement; and a helical resonant spring (50) having an end coupled to the fixed structure (1) and an opposite end coupled to the magnetic armature (A). The deformation control device (60) is mounted to contact a surface extension of the resonant spring (50), which is elastically and radially deformed, and to generate friction with said surface extension and/or an elastic deformation in the deformation control device (60), absorbing energy in a value sufficient to at least minimize said radial elastic deformation of the resonant spring (50).

Abstract: The mounting arrangement is applied to a compressor which comprises: a piston having a cylindrical tubular body; and an actuating means connected to the piston to drive the latter in a reciprocating movement. The suction muffler comprises two tubular inserts, longitudinally disposed in the interior of the piston and having spaced apart open adjacent ends, and closed opposite ends respectively affixed to the top wall of the piston and to the actuating means, and defining, in the interior of the piston, a muffling chamber (C) and an annular passage medianly opened to the muffling chamber (C) and communicating an open rear end of the piston with a suction valve provided in a top wall of said piston.

Abstract: The compressor of the invention comprises: a block with a cylinder; a movable assembly formed by a piston reciprocating in the cylinder and coupled to an actuating means by a rod; and a resonant spring having a first and a second diametrical end portion which are attached to the movable assembly by a first fixation means (MF1) and, to the block, by a second fixation means (MF2) which is adjustably attached to the block and to said second end portion so as to affix the latter to the block in a position defined along the displacement of the resonant spring in three directions orthogonal to one another and defined by the direction of the axis of the resonant spring, by the diametrical direction of the second end portion and by the diametrical direction orthogonal to said two first directions, and also along the angular displacement of said second end portion around said three directions orthogonal to each other.

Abstract: A driving rod for the piston of a reciprocating compressor of the type that comprises: a cylinder block defining a compression chamber; a piston reciprocating within the compression chamber; a driving means to apply reciprocating forces to the piston; and a driving rod disposed between the piston and the driving means and comprising a number, greater than 1, of rods disposed side by side along the axis of the driving rod and each presenting a cross-section that is dimensioned and configured to impart to the driving rod, jointly with the other rods, a required axial rigidity and a flexibility, in at least one direction transversal to the axis of the driving rod, sufficient to absorb, at least substantially, the forces exerted on the piston by the driving rod and by the driving means.

Abstract: The present invention provides a piston lubrication system for a reciprocating compressor with a linear motor. The piston lubrication system includes an oil sump defined within a hermetic shell, and a cylinder affixed within the hermetic shell. A radial gap is defined by a piston located within the cylinder. A pump supplies oil from the oil sump to the radial gap via the oil supply duct and oil return duct.

Abstract: A reciprocating compressor with a linear motor having an actuating means operatively coupling a reciprocating piston to the motor; and a resonant spring means mounted under constant compression to the actuating means by the mutual seating of a pair of supporting surface portions, at least one of the latter being operatively associated with one of the spring means and the actuating means, against a respective pair of convex surface portions, each of the latter being operatively associated with the other of said parts, the convex surface portions being symmetrical and opposite in relation to the axis of cylinder, the supporting surface portions and the convex surface portions being mutually seated and operatively associated with the respective parts of the spring means and the actuating means, in order to transmit, by the mutually seated surface portions, the opposite axial forces with such intensity as to minimize the moments on the piston.

Abstract: A linear compressor having a cylinder (2) and a piston (1) that is moved by an electric linear motor (4, 5, 6) is provided with one or more elastic elements (30, 50) made of steel wire having a central volute portion (30a, 50a). A leg (30b, 30c, 50b, 50c) extends from each end of the central volute portion (30a, 50a). In a first embodiment, one of the legs (30b) is fastened internally of the piston (1) and the other leg (30c) to a part of the cylinder (2). In a second embodiment, the central volute portion (50a) is mounted directly to the piston (1) and the two legs (50b, 50c) are fixedly connected to the cylinder (2). When the piston is moved by the action of the electric linear motor, the wire of the central volute portion of the elastic element distorts and stretches in the direction of travel of the piston. It is preferred that several elastic elements be mounted to the piston (1) having like portions of the central volute portion angularly spaced apart.

Abstract: An oil pumping system for a reciprocating hermetic compressor having a shell, which defines in the interior thereof an oil sump; a motor compressor assembly; and an oil pump means. The oil pump means is coupled to the compressor by at least one dampening resilient means. The dampening resilient means is dimension to reduce the amplitude of displacement of the oil pump means to a value that is calculated so that the ratio between the natural frequency of resonance (Wn) of the oil pump means and an operation frequency (W) of the compressor results in a ratio between the displacements of the oil pump means and of the compressor with a value inferior to one.

Abstract: A system for adjusting resonant frequencies in a linear compressor comprising, in the interior of a shell: a linear motor: a cylinder; a piston reciprocating inside the cylinder; and an actuating means operatively coupling the piston to the linear motor, said system comprising: a detecting means to detect a load imposed to the linear motor, in an operational condition of the latter related to the gas pressure in the discharge thereof; and a frequency adjusting means operatively associated with the detecting means and with the resonant assembly, in order to define, as a function of said operational condition, a frequency adjustment, by varying at least one of the values related to the mass of the resonant assembly and to the average stroke of the piston, to a value of the mechanical resonance frequency corresponding to the electrical supply frequency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensor, particularly useable for detecting the position of a compressor actuator (2), the actuator (2) being axially displaceable in a cylinder bore (3), the sensor comprising a probe (4) and a hermetic terminal (7) associable with each other, the probe (4) being positioned inside the cylinder bore (3), the hermetic terminal (7) being connected to a control circuit (8) and, further, to a linear compressor provided with an actuator (2), a cylinder bore (3) and a head (5), the actuator being axially displaceable inside the cylinder bore (3), the linear compressor comprising a position sensor comprising a probe (4) and a hermetic terminal (7) associable with each other, the probe (4) being positioned inside the cylinder bore (3), the hermetic terminal (7) being connected to a control circuit (8).