Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine such as a scroll compressor or a scroll vacuum pump generates compression heat during compressing operation. A scroll body comprises a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll that is revolved with respect to the stationary scroll eccentrically. The stationary scroll has a stationary wrap and the orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap engaged with the stationary wrap to form a compression chamber therebetween. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a cooler is provided to cool high-temperature compressed air discharged from a discharge bore at the center of the stationary scroll.

Abstract: A machine, such as an engine, which includes a cylinder (1), an essentially cylindrical piston (5) set on bearings and equipped with an eccentrically-set shaft (11), an inlet port or valve (8), an outlet port or valve (9), and a lever device (7), which is attached by bearings to a shaft (6) and which is intended to be in essentially tight contact with the piston (5). The cylinder (1) forms an essentially cylindrical chamber for the rotary piston (5) and a partially cylindrical chamber for the lever device (7) that moves backwards and forwards. The piston (5) is equipped, in the interior of the working chamber, with sliding-ring-type bearings (13, 14).

Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine such as a scroll compressor or a scroll vacuum pump generates compression heat during compressing operation. A scroll body comprises a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll that is revolved with respect to the stationary scroll eccentrically. The stationary scroll has a stationary wrap and the orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap engaged with the stationary wrap to form a compression chamber therebetween. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a cooler is provided to cool high-temperature compressed air discharged from a discharge bore at the center of the stationary scroll.

Abstract: A refrigerant cycling device is provided. The refrigerant cycling device comprises a compressor, an intermediate cooling circuit and a three-way valve device. The compressor is connected to a heat exchanger and a depressurizing means, for performing a cooling operation and a heating operation. The compressor further comprises a first and a second rotary compression elements within a sealed container, and a refrigerant that is compressed and discharged by the first rotary compression element is introduced to the second rotary compression element. The intermediate cooling circuit is used for radiating heat of the refrigerant discharged from the first rotary compression element. The three-way valve device for opening a passage of the intermediate cooling circuit during the cooling operation. In this way, the coefficient of production (COP) during the cooling operation can be improved.

Abstract: A two-stage screw compressor has two compressor stages whose rotor housings are arranged with their axes parallel to one another and are enclosed by a common coolant housing at a distance. A coolant inlet and a coolant outlet are located at the common coolant housing, as well as guide walls such that the coolant flowing through the coolant housing flows around and cools the rotor housings of the two compressor stages one after the other in an S-shaped flow path.

Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine such as a scroll compressor or a scroll vacuum pump generates compression heat during compressing operation. A scroll body comprises a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll that is revolved with respect to the stationary scroll eccentrically. The stationary scroll has a stationary wrap and the orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap engaged with the stationary wrap to form a compression chamber therebetween. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a cooler is provided to cool high-temperature compressed air discharged from a discharge bore at the center of the stationary scroll.

Abstract: A machine, such as an engine, which includes a cylinder (1), an essentially cylindrical piston (5) set on bearings and equipped with an eccentrically-set shaft (11), an inlet port or valve (8), an outlet port or valve (9), and a lever device (7), which is attached by bearings to a shaft (6) and which is intended to be in essentially tight contact with the piston (5). The cylinder (1) forms an essentially cylindrical chamber for the rotary piston (5) and a partially cylindrical chamber for the lever device (7) that moves backwards and forwards. The piston (5) is equipped, in the interior of the working chamber, with sliding-ring-type bearings (13, 14).

Abstract: A scroll fluid machine has a fixed scroll in a housing and an orbiting scroll rotatably mounted to a driving shaft. A fixed wrap of the fixed scroll is engaged with an orbiting wrap of the orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll is revolved at a certain eccentricity by the driving shaft, so that a gas sucked through the circumference of the housing is compressed as it moves toward the center, and discharged through the center. A gas-guiding bore is formed near the center of the orbiting scroll, and a heat-releasing rod is inserted in the bore. One end of the heat-releasing rod is projected from the fixed scroll to release heat to atmosphere.

Abstract: A pump for conveying molten masses of polymers and/or elastomers comprising a pump body in which are formed an inlet duct for entry of the material, an outlet duct for discharge of the material and a central body communicating with the inlet and outlet ducts and destined to house at least one gear mounted on a motorized shaft for conveying the material from the inlet duct toward the outlet duct. The pump body consists of two parts that can be assembled together, each part of the pump body comprising at least one through hole communicating with the central chamber, so that said at least one shaft of the gear is rotatably supported directly in the pair of opposite facing holes of the two parts of the pump body.

Abstract: An air supply system for a fuel cell is disclosed, in which a compression chamber (17) of an air supply mechanism (GS) is adapted to supply air to a fuel cell (FC). A liquefaction unit (14) acting as a water supply mechanism (WS) supplies water to the air supply mechanism (GS) to seal and cool the compression chamber (17). The liquefaction chamber (14) separates water from the exhaust gas discharged from the fuel cell (FC) and supplies the water to the air supply mechanism (GS). The air supply mechanism (GS) and the liquefaction unit (14) are integrated with each other.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor includes a fixed scroll member and a movable scroll member to define compression chambers. The movable scroll member orbits relative to the fixed scroll member to compress gas in the compression chambers. The compressed gas is discharged to a discharge port. The compressor also includes a filter chamber and a cooling chamber. The filter chamber communicates with the discharge port for accommodating a first filter to at least partially filter the compressed gas. The cooling chamber is located adjacent to the filter chamber for containing coolant fluid that cools the compressed gas in the filter chamber.

Abstract: An assembly for compressing gas that contains a guided rotor compressor into which gas and lubricant fluid is fed. The compressed mixture of gas and fluid produced in the compressor is first fed to a heat exchanger in which it is cooled; and the cooled and compressed mixture of gas and fluid is then fed to a separator.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a housing, a fixed metal scroll member and a movable metal scroll member. The fixed and the movable scroll members each have a base plate and scroll wall extending therefrom. The fixed scroll member is fixed to the housing. The movable scroll member engages the fixed scroll member to trace an orbital motion when driven by a crank mechanism. The scroll members define compression chambers. Resin tip seals are respectively provided on distal ends of the scroll walls and slidably engage the metallic surfaces of the facing base plates. The tip seals seal the compression chambers. A resin coating layer is formed on a region of at least one of the end surfaces of the base plates that is not contacted by a tip seal.

Abstract: There is provided a rotary compressor capable of preventing deterioration of performance following plug fixing carried out to prevent falling-off of a spring member. The rotary compressor comprises a cylinder constituting a rotary compression element, a roller engaged with an eccentric portion formed in a rotary shaft of an electric element, and eccentrically rotated in the cylinder, a vane abutted on the roller to divide an inside of the cylinder into a low pressure chamber side and a high pressure chamber side, a spring member for always pressing the vane to the roller side, a housing portion of the spring member, formed in the cylinder, and opened to the vane side and a hermetically sealed container side, a plug positioned in the hermetically sealed container side of the spring member, and inserted into the housing portion to fit into a gap, and an O ring attached around the plug to seal a part between the plug and the housing portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-stage vacuum pump which includes: a housing in which a plurality of pumping chambers are formed, the pumping chambers being arranged in series and being in fluid communication with one another, one of the pumping chambers which is at one end of the series acting as an initial stage pumping chamber, another of the pumping chamber which is at the other end of the series acting as a final stage pumping chamber, the housing being provided with an inlet port for sucking a gas from a space to be evacuated into the initial stage pumping chamber, the housing being provided with an outlet port for exhausting the gas from the final stage pumping chamber; a Roots-type pump section occupying each of the pumping chambers; and a device for decreasing a temperature differential between the initial stage pumping chamber and the final stage pumping chamber.

Abstract: In a region where heat deformation of a movable scroll spiral wall and/or a fixed scroll spiral wall for a scroll type compressor is relatively large, a relieving part is formed for relieving the heat deformation of the movable scroll spiral wall and/or the fixed scroll spiral wall in at least a part of at least one of an outer circumferential wall of the movable scroll spiral wall and an inner circumferential wall of the fixed scroll spiral wall, which corresponds to the outer circumferential wall of the movable scroll spiral wall.

Abstract: A horizontal type compressor comprising: a differential pressure plate for dividing an inside of a casing into a high pressure chamber and a lower pressure chamber and thus maintaining an oil level of the high pressure chamber to be higher than that of the lower pressure chamber; and a lubricating unit for supplying oil stored in the high pressure chamber to each sliding part in the compressor and making the oil which finished a lubricating operation return to the high pressure chamber from the lower pressure chamber. The compressor smoothly supplies refrigerant oil and minimizes an amount of the refrigerant oil discharged outside the compressor, thereby prolonging a life of the compressor and increasing a reliability of the compressor. Also, the differential pressure plate and the muffler are integrally formed, thereby reducing a fabricating cost and reducing an assembling process.

Abstract: A gear pump comprises a casing and gear rotors disposed therein. The gear rotors are lodged in bearing sections of plain bearings that are lubricated by the pumping medium. They have at least one cooling duct which is embodied such that cooling varies along the circumference and/or in the longitudinal direction and/or in the radial direction of the plain bearing.

Abstract: A discharge pulsation reducing cooler B is provided to cover the circumferential periphery of a compressor A. The discharge pulsation reducing cooler B has a delivery passage 41 and a jacket 43 covering that, and cooling water is circulated through a passage formed between the delivery passage 41 and the jacket 43. Delivered air flowing through the delivery passage 41 is cooled by the cooling water. In particular, because heat exchange efficiency is promoted by turbulence caused by the pulsation in the delivery passage 41, the delivered air is cooled efficiently. Also, pulsation is reduced in first and second expansion chambers 44, 45 in the delivery passage 41, and pulsation noise in the delivery passage 41 is reduced by the cooling water passage 42 and the jacket 43.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor includes a housing, a movable scroll member, a plurality of compression chambers, a discharge port, a communication passage and a relief valve. The communication passage interconnects each intermediate compression chamber with the discharge port. The communication passage has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion extends from the first intermediate compression chamber and the second portion extends from the second intermediate compression chamber. The first portion and the second portion meet at a meeting point on the way in the communication passage before reaching the discharge port. The relief valve is placed between the meeting point and the discharge port inclusive of the meeting point in the communication passage. The relief valve opens the communication passage when the pressure in the first and the second intermediate pressure chambers is higher than the pressure in the discharge port.

Abstract: A vacuum pump has a housing and a pump mechanism accommodated in the housing. An exhaust-passage forming portion is located outside of the housing. The exhaust-passage forming portion forms an exhaust passage, which exhaust passage guides gas discharged from the pump mechanism toward the outside of the vacuum pump. A thermal conductor is connected to the outer surface of the exhaust-passage forming portion. The thermal conductor is made of a material having a thermal conductance of which is greater than that of the material for the exhaust-passage forming portion.

Abstract: A compressor has a compression unit, a drive motor, a motor housing and an outer cylinder. The compression unit compresses fluid. The drive motor drives the compression unit. The motor housing surrounds the drive motor. The outer cylinder is mounted on an outer circumferential side of the motor housing for defining a cooling jacket between the outer cylinder and the motor housing for cooling the drive motor by a fluid flowing in the cooling jacket. The outer cylinder is indirectly fixed to the motor housing by press-fitting.

Abstract: A system for compressing gas comprised of a liquid lubricated rotary positive displacement compressor system. The system contains a rotary positive displacement compressor, a device for separating a mixture of gas and liquid to produce a separated liquid connected to the compressor, a device for cooling the separated liquid to produce a cooled separated liquid, and a device for feeding the cooled separated liquid into the compressor.

Abstract: A package-type screw compressor includes a low-pressure stage state compressor and a high-pressure stage compressor. Motive power is transmitted from an electric motor to the two compressors via a speed increaser. The discharge gas, compressed and heated to a high temperature by the low-pressure stage compressor, is cooled by an intercooler. The discharge gas, compressed and heated to a high temperature by the high-pressure stage compressor, is cooled by an aftercooler. A casing of the intercooler and that of the aftercooler are formed integrally with a speed increaser casing, reducing the number of component parts. A cooler portion, formed by the intercooler and the aftercooler, is spaced from the speed increaser casing, thereby preventing heat, produced by the compressed air, from being transmitted to the speed increaser casing.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor includes a housing, a fixed scroll member, a movable scroll member, a discharge port, a cooling chamber and a gas cooler. The fixed scroll member is fixed to the housing. The movable scroll member is accommodated in the housing and defining a compression region with the fixed scroll member where gas is compressed by orbiting the movable scroll member relative to the fixed scroll member. The compressed gas is discharged from the compression region through the discharge port. The cooling chamber for cooling the compressed gas is disposed in the vicinity of the compression region in the housing. The gas cooler for passing the gas discharged from the discharge port extends along the cooling chamber.

Abstract: A compressor is composed of a pair of rotors engaging with each other and a driving mechanism having plural gears for driving the pair of rotors. The pair of rotors is disposed in a rotor chamber and the driving mechanism in a gear chamber, both chambers being separated by a separating wall. Fluid such as air is introduced into the rotor chamber from an inlet port and compressed therein, and the compressed air is delivered through an outlet port formed at a position close to the driving mechanism. A cooling water passage is formed at a bottom portion of the gear housing to cool lubricant encapsulated in a gear chamber. Additional cooling water passages may be made to further cool the components of the compressor.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor includes a housing, a movable scroll member, a plurality of compression chambers, a discharge port, a communication passage and a relief valve. The communication passage interconnects each intermediate compression chamber with the discharge port. The communication passage has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion extends from the first intermediate compression chamber and the second portion extends from the second intermediate compression chamber. The first portion and the second portion meet at a meeting point on the way in the communication passage before reaching the discharge port. The relief valve is placed between the meeting point and the discharge port inclusive of the meeting point in the communication passage. The relief valve opens the communication passage when the pressure in the first and the second intermediate pressure chambers is higher than the pressure in the discharge port.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compressor and method for operating a compressor comprising a first stage comprising a first stage bypass cavity and a first stage outlet, an intercooling zone in communication with said first stage outlet, a second stage comprising a second stage inlet and a second stage outlet in communication with said intercooling zone, a gearbox disposed proximate to the first stage outlet and the second stage inlet, wherein both stages communicate with the gearbox through their respective rotor shafts, a valve, wherein the valve provides means for communications between the first stage bypass cavity and the second stage during unloaded conditions, and intercooling means operable for injecting cooling fluid into the intercooling zone.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a housing, a drive shaft, a fixed scroll member, a movable scroll member, a suction port and a discharge port. The drive shaft is rotatably supported by the housing. The fixed scroll member is fixed to the housing. The movable scroll member is accommodated in the housing, and the faces the fixed scroll member. The housing and the fixed scroll member define a cooling region. The fixed scroll member and the movable scroll member define a compression region. The suction port introduces gas into the compressor. The discharge port discharges the gas. Heat resistant means is disposed at least between the cooling region and the compression region. Heat resistance of the heat resistant means adjacent to the outermost compression region is greater than that of the heat resistant means adjacent to the innermost compression region.

Abstract: A machine, such as an engine, which includes a cylinder (1), an essentially cylindrical piston (5) set on bearings and equipped with an eccentrically-set shaft (11), an inlet port or valve (8), an outlet port or valve (9), and a lever device (7), which is attached by bearings to a shaft (6) and which is intended to be in essentially tight contact with the piston (5). The cylinder (1) forms an essentially cylindrical chamber for the rotary piston (5) and a partially cylindrical chamber for the lever device (7) that moves backwards and forwards. The piston (5) is equipped, in the interior of the working chamber, with sliding-ring-type bearings (13, 14).

Abstract: The present invention is for the retention of a heat shield for a scroll compressor. In one embodiment, the heat shield is deformed into a position such that it rests in a groove located in the non-orbiting scroll. In another embodiment the housing end cap deforms the heat shield. The deformed position of the heat shield prevents flexing and vibrating found in heat shields of prior art. In addition the heat shield must have holes in it to allow for the discharge valve to pass through. The present invention is to put slots in the heat shield, thus preventing the need for exact alignment of the heat shield in position.

Abstract: The bearing cooling device causes cooling media to flow into the interior of a journal bearing 8 for supporting a shaft part 7 by lubrication of high viscous fluid and the interior of the shaft part 7 to cool the shaft part 7 and the bearing 8. At this time, cooling medium temperature of the bearing 8 is set to be higher than cooling medium temperature of the shaft part 7. It is constituted so that the cooling medium passes the cooling medium passage and thereafter passes the cooling medium passage internally of the bearing. A heated medium supply device for supplying a heated medium to each cooling medium passage may be provided. The bearing cooling device is used suitably for a gear pump.

Abstract: The present invention is for the retention of a heat shield for a scroll compressor. In one embodiment, the heat shield is deformed into a position such that it rests in a groove located in the non-orbiting scroll. In another embodiment the housing end cap forms the heat shield. The deformed position of the heat shield prevents flexing and vibrating found in heat shields of prior art. In addition the heat shield must have holes in it to allow for the discharge valve to pass through. The present invention is to put slots in the heat shield, thus preventing the need for exact alignment of the heat shield in position.

Abstract: A discharge pulsation reducing cooler B is provided to cover the circumferential periphery of a compressor A. The discharge pulsation reducing cooler B has a delivery passage 41 and a jacket 43 covering that, and cooling water is circulated through a passage formed between the delivery passage 41 and the jacket 43. Delivered air flowing through the delivery passage 41 is cooled by the cooling water. In particular, because heat exchange efficiency is promoted by turbulence caused by the pulsation in the delivery passage 41, the delivered air is cooled efficiently. Also, pulsation is reduced in first and second expansion chambers 44, 45 in the delivery passage 41, and pulsation noise in the delivery passage 41 is reduced by the cooling water passage 42 and the jacket 43.

Abstract: In an oil-free type screw compressor including a low-pressure-stage compressor main body and a high-pressure-stage compressor main body, when the power of an motor is transmitted to an oil pump via a gear to start the pump, the lubrication oil stored in an oil sump formed at the bottom of a gear casing flows through an oil strainer. A part of the oil is introduced to an oil cooler, while the rest is introduced to a junction portion by bypassing the oil cooler. Further, a part of the oil introduced to the oil cooler is directed to the junction portion. After adjusting the temperature of the oil appropriately, it is introduced to a lubrication portion of the compressor, while the oil cooled by the oil cooler using the full capacity thereof is introduced to oil jackets of the compressor main bodies via different passages.

Abstract: In an oil-free type screw compressor including a low-pressure-stage compressor main body and a high-pressure-stage compressor main body, when the power of an motor is transmitted to an oil pump via a gear to start the pump, the lubrication oil stored in an oil sump formed at the bottom of a gear casing flows through an oil strainer. A part of the oil is introduced to an oil cooler, while the rest is introduced to a junction portion by bypassing the oil cooler. Further, a part of the oil introduced to the oil cooler is directed to the junction portion. After adjusting the temperature of the oil appropriately, it is introduced to a lubrication portion of the compressor, while the oil cooled by the oil cooler using the full capacity thereof is introduced to oil jackets of the compressor main bodies via different passages.

Abstract: A screw pump has two parallel shafts mounted in a pump body, each shaft thereon and each rotor has at least one helical vane or thread. When the helical vanes or threads inter mesh causing a fluid to be pumped from an inlet towards an outlet of the pump. The bearings associated with each shaft are being positioned in cavities within the first and second rotors which are sealed at their ends closest to the pump inlet. A thermal shield is provided between the bearing arrangements and the internal cavity surfaces.

Abstract: A scroll-type fluid machine such as a scroll compressor or a scroll vacuum pump generates compression heat during compressing operation. A scroll body comprises a stationary scroll and an orbiting scroll that is revolved with respect to the stationary scroll eccentrically. The stationary scroll has a stationary wrap and the orbiting scroll has an orbiting wrap engaged with the stationary wrap to form a compression chamber therebetween. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a cooler is provided to cool high-temperature compressed air discharged from a discharge bore at the center of the stationary scroll.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, the vacuum pump cooling system includes tubes expanded along their entire length in bores through the vacuum pump body. The tubes can be made of stainless steel, and inserted into a vacuum pump body made of cast iron. This prevents the risk of corrosion of the vacuum pump body by a cooling liquid passing through the tubes to cool the vacuum pump body.

Abstract: To provide a gear pump for carrying high viscous liquid, which keeps a bearing in a free state and enhances reliability relative to a leakage of cooling medium and a leakage of molten resins. The gear pump in which a pair of gear rotors 2 are supported on a body 1 of the gear pump through a bearing 6, a cover for preventing the bearing 6 from being slipped out is secured to the body 1, and a temperature adjusting medium passage 20 is formed in the bearing 6, wherein an inlet pipe 28 and an outlet pipe 29 to the temperature adjusting medium passage 20 are connected to the axial outer end of the bearing 6, an intermediate plate 10 is interposed between the axial outer end of the bearing 6 and the cover 11, the intermediate plate 10 being provided with an insert hole 31 for the inlet pipe 28 and the outlet pipe 29, the cover 11 being provided with a guide portion 32 having the inlet pipe 28 and the outlet pipe 29 loosely fitted therein to guide them to outside.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a housing, a fixed metal scroll member and a movable metal scroll member. The fixed and the movable scroll members each have a base plate and scroll wall extending therefrom. The fixed scroll member is fixed to the housing. The movable scroll member engages the fixed scroll member to trace an orbital motion when driven by a crank mechanism. The scroll members define compression chambers. Resin tip seals are respectively provided on distal ends of the scroll walls and slidably engage the metallic surfaces of the facing base plates. The tip seals seal the compression chambers. A resin coating layer is formed on a region of at least one of the end surfaces of the base plates that is not contacted by a tip seal.

Abstract: A compressor has a compression unit, a drive motor, a motor housing and an outer cylinder. The compression unit compresses fluid. The drive motor drives the compression unit. The motor housing surrounds the drive motor. The outer cylinder is mounted on an outer circumferential side of the motor housing for defining a cooling jacket between the outer cylinder and the motor housing for cooling the drive motor by a refrigerant flowing in the cooling jacket. The outer cylinder is directly or indirectly fixed to the motor housing by fastening a plurality of bolts or by press-fitting.

Abstract: The scroll-type compressor with an integrated motor of the present invention comprises a housing 1, a fixed scroll 21 fixed to the housing 1, a movable scroll 31 installed eccentrically to the fixed scroll 21, and a motor portion 5, and is characterized in that the housing 1 comprises a high pressure chamber 25 to which compressed gases are supplied, a first cooling chamber 26′ installed contiguous to the high pressure chamber 25 and to which cooling fluid is supplied, a second cooling chamber 42 which cools the motor portion 5 and is supplied with the cooling fluid, and a fluid passage 7 that connects the first cooling chamber 26′ and the second cooling chamber 42 and passes the cooling fluid in the direction from the first cooling chamber 26′ to the second cooling chamber 42.

Abstract: A trochoidal design rotary piston engine design has a rotary piston housing with a double curve inner contour and triangular type rotary pistons. Sliding bearings distribute lubricating oil from a pressure cycle into a high pressure circuit and a low pressure bypass circuit branches to the side parts and axial cooling channels of the rotary piston housing to supply the cooling oil.

Abstract: An improved housing for scroll compressor has the end cap housing formed integrally with the fixed scroll member. The end cap housing is preferably welded to a tubular housing enclosing the scroll compressor. Most preferably, the end housing has inner and outer tubular portions and the tubular housing extends upwardly into a channel between the inner and outer tubular portions. A muffler is preferably formed integrally with the end cap and extends to a side of the end cap. The present invention further includes heat transfer fins extend from the end cap. The positioning of the muffler to the side decreases the overall length of the compressor. The use of the fins increases the efficiency of compression as heat is removed from the compression chambers. The use of the unique combined end cap and fixed scroll which is welded to the tubular housing simplifies assembly.

Abstract: A thermal design and method of operation of a rotary internal combustion engine having at least one housing, a rotor rotating within the housing, and a mechanism for combusting mixture of fuel air and steam supplied into the housing to drive the rotor, in which the temperature of the inner walls of the combustion region which are in contact with combusting gases attains 700° C., and in which the temperature of the combusting gases does not exceeds 1800° C. The thermal design includes: lining of the surface of the combustion zone with heat resistive materials such as a refractory metal; the use of material with low heat conductivity such as iron for the construction of the body of the engine in order to minimize heat loses by heat transfer to ambient; and the effective cooling of the body of the engine with boiling heat transfer by water which is circulated in cooling channels passing throughout the engines structure.

Abstract: A compressor is composed of a pair of rotors engaging with each other and a driving mechanism having plural gears for driving the pair of rotors. The pair of rotors is disposed in a rotor chamber and the driving mechanism in a gear chamber, both chambers being separated by a separating wall. Fluid such as air is introduced into the rotor chamber from an inlet port and compressed therein, and the compressed air is delivered through an outlet port formed at a position close to the driving mechanism. A cooling water passage is formed at a bottom portion of the gear housing to cool lubricant encapsulated in a gear chamber. Additional cooling water passages may be made to further cool the components of the compressor.

Abstract: In a trochoidal design rotary piston engine, side disks are intended to be assembled from one cast side section and a cover disk, where the side section and the cover disks are used in a sealing function. The side section includes cast in reinforcing ribs on a side thereof facing away from the engine combustion chamber.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor has a housing, a drive shaft, a fixed scroll member, a movable scroll member, a suction port and a discharge port. The drive shaft is rotatably supported by the housing. The fixed scroll member is fixed to the housing. The movable scroll member is accommodated in the housing, and the faces the fixed scroll member. The housing and the fixed scroll member define a cooling region. The fixed scroll member and the movable scroll member define a compression region. The suction port introduces gas into the compressor. The discharge port discharges the gas. Heat resistant means is disposed at least between the cooling region and the compression region. Heat resistance of the heat resistant means adjacent to the outermost compression region is greater than that of the heat resistant means adjacent to the innermost compression region.

Abstract: An improved heat shield for a scroll compressor is provided with a non-cylindrical end portion caught between the end cap and the non-orbiting scroll. In several embodiments, the portion provides a seal between the discharge chamber and a suction chamber. In one embodiment the portion of the heat shield is serpentine. In another embodiment the portion of the heat shield is generally u-shaped. In further embodiments the portion includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced clips. Several other embodiments are also disclosed.