Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a screw compressor system having a compressor housing with a pair of screw rotors rotatably supported within a compression chamber. Lubricant is injected into a compression chamber at a first volume ratio and at a second volume ratio greater than the first volume ratio to increase the sealing and lubrication between the screw rotors and rotor bores in the compressor housing as well as to increase heat transfer from a compressed working fluid in the compression chamber.

Abstract: A supercharger includes a rotor housing defining a pair of cylindrical chambers. A driving shaft bearing is to support a driving rotor shaft for rotation in the rotor housing. A driven shaft bearing is to support a driven rotor shaft for rotation in the rotor housing. An oil sump housing is to enclose a timing gear end of the rotor housing. A shaft seal is disposed between the rotor housing and each respective rotor shaft. The oil sump housing, the rotor housing and driving and driven shaft seals define a closed container for oil to lubricate the driving shaft bearing, the driven shaft bearing, a driving timing gear and a driven timing gear. The oil pools in the closed container and a top surface of the oil is spaced below the timing gears when the driving rotor shaft is in a vertical orientation.

Abstract: A water lubrication air compression system disposes an lubricant heat dissipation system at a bearing chamber close to the high pressure end of the compressor for cooling and circulating lubricant due to the rise of temperature during operation of the compressor, hence enhancing the ability and stability of the compressor. On the other hand, a negative pressure system is connected to the air chambers between the oil lubrication and the water lubrication of the compressor in order to provide a negative pressure. If any leak of water vapor at the compressor chamber or oil vapor at the bearing chamber, the negative pressure system is able to produce a negative pressured condition toward the sealing structure so that the oil lubrication can be effectively isolated from the water lubrication and inter-contamination between the lubricant and water can be avoided.

Abstract: The present invention is an engine having a housing, a rotor and a plurality of vanes. The housing has a cavity with an outer wall that has an inlet region, an insulation or hot region, a thermal separator, a chill region, a work region and a return region. The vanes define cavities that rotate between the rotor and the housing. Hot gas enters in the inlet region, which can have a slot. The cavity is full of hot gas in the insulation region. The temperature is reduced in the chill region, which causes the pressure to likewise drop to a relative low pressure. In the work region, the diameter of the outer wall is reduced. The pressure differential between successive cavities causes the rotor to turn in the direction of the decreasing wall length, whereby work can then be extracted from the engine.

Abstract: A unique compressor system may include a compressor having a compressor housing. The compressor housing may include an oil drainage passage formed therein. The passage may be configured to drain oil from bearings and other oil-lubricated components of the compressor. The compressor may be coupled to a gearbox or an oil tank. The gearbox or oil tank may include a passage that is in fluid communication with the oil drainage passage. The gearbox or oil tank passage may be operative to receive the drained oil and to direct the drained oil to an oil tank.

Abstract: A compressor for compressing refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit includes a housing defining a compression chamber. A screw rotor is mounted within the housing and configured to form a pocket of high pressure refrigerant and a pocket of low pressure refrigerant within the compression chamber. The screw rotor has a rotor shaft rotating about an axis. A bearing cavity includes at least one bearing rotatably supporting the rotor shaft. A partition through which the rotor shaft extends separates the bearing cavity from the compression chamber. A contacting seal is sealingly engaged with the rotor shaft and disposed in the bearing cavity proximate the partition. A passage has an opening adjacent the rotor shaft between the contacting seal and the compression chamber and in fluid communication with the pocket of low pressure refrigerant.

Abstract: In order to improve a screw compressor comprising a housing, at least one screw rotor arranged in a compressor housing of the housing, a lubricant sump which is arranged on the high pressure side and in which lubricant collects, and a lubricant supply device which supplies lubricant from the lubricant sump to the at least one screw rotor, in such a manner that the amount of circulating lubricant can be kept as small as possible for adequate lubrication, it is suggested that the lubricant supply device comprise a first lubricant supply system and a second lubricant supply system, that the first lubricant supply system supply lubricant to the at least one screw rotor during operation of the screw compressor and that the second lubricant supply system additionally supply lubricant to the at least one screw rotor and thereby be activatable and deactivatable.

Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a pumping stage, a rotary shaft supported by a lubricated support bearing; a lubricant deflector mounted between the lubricated support bearing and a ring seal which is mounted on the rotary shaft between the lubricant deflector and the pumping stage, a first reservoir containing a first reserve of liquid lubricant and in communication with the lubricated support bearing in a first volume, a lubricant splashing unit mounted on the rotary shaft in the first reservoir and having one end bathed in the first reserve of lubricant. A second reservoir includes a second reserve of liquid lubricant separated from the first reservoir by a separation wall having an aperture through which the first and second reserves of lubricant communicate. A lubricant return channel having one inlet facing the lubricant deflector opens into the second volume of the second reservoir above the second reserve of lubricant.

Abstract: A screw expander system has a condenser positioned for receiving a mixture of oil and operating medium from a screw expander. A pump pressure-feeds the mixture from the condenser to an evaporator where the operating medium is evaporated. An oil separating tank separates the mixture from the evaporator into the gaseous operating medium and the oil, and the operating medium is returned to the screw expander via a throttle mechanism. The oil can thereby be supplied to the screw expander without providing a separate oil pump, as a result of which the screw expander system is compact.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum pump comprising a cup-shaped housing, a rotor eccentrically mounted for rotation in the housing, and a housing cover closing the cup-shaped housing, wherein the rotor has a rotor shaft that passes through the cup-shaped housing and by which the rotor is driven, wherein the rotor shaft is provided with a bore for delivering a lubricant, and a connection nipple is seated in the free end section of the bore.

Abstract: An expander circuit for a thermal expander, having a first pump arranged between a condenser and an evaporator, is proposed, the inlet of the expander being connected to the evaporator and the outlet to the condenser, and a separate lubricating circuit connecting the expander circuit to at least one bearing.

Abstract: A screw fluid machine has a first non-contact seal, a second non-contact seal and a lip seal disposed between a rotor chamber and a bearing for a rotor shaft located on the high pressure side, and in this order from the rotor chamber side. It includes a pressurized communicating channel for introducing high-pressure target gas into a pressurized space formed between the first and second non-contact seals, a pressurized pressure detecting device for detecting the pressure of the pressurized space, and an alarm device for generating an alarm when a value detected by the pressurized pressure detecting device falls out of a predefined range of pressurized pressures. The screw fluid machine is capable of detecting or predicting a condition of the shaft sealing device and accurately and reliably reporting the detected condition to an operator.

Abstract: A supercharger cooling system provides a path for coolant from an air/coolant heat exchanger to a supercharger intercooler and loops around a hot outlet end of a screw type supercharger and back to the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger may be a dedicated air/coolant heat exchanger or be a vehicle radiator. The intercooler is sandwiched between the supercharger and intake manifold and cools the flow of hot compressed air from the supercharger into the intake manifold. The supercharger cooling loop circles the front rotor bearings thereby cooling the bearings and seals, the forward ends of the male and female rotors, and the male and female rotor gears. The cooling loop is preferably located in the outlet end wall between the supercharger rotors and the rotor drive gears to form a barrier to heat. A dedicated pump cycles the coolant flow and restrictions control the flow of coolant to the supercharger.

Abstract: A water-lubrication type screw fluid machine has a first non-contact seal, a second non-contact seal and a lip seal disposed between a rotor chamber and a bearing for a rotor shaft. The bearing is located on the high pressure side and in this order from the rotor chamber side. the bearing includes a low pressure communicating channel for allowing an outflow space formed on the rotor chamber side with respect to the first non-contact seal to communicate with a low pressure channel for the target gas communicating with a low pressure space inside the rotor chamber or the rotor chamber, a pressurized communicating channel for introducing high-pressure target gas into a pressurized space formed between the first and second non-contact seals, and an open communicating channel through which an open space formed between the second non-contact seal and the lip seal opens to the outside of the casing.

Abstract: In a screw compression apparatus in which shaft sealing members (13, 14) isolate a bearing space (7, 8) from a rotor chamber (5) and a lubricating fluid separating collector (3) separates the rotor lubricating fluid from the target gas discharged by the screw compressor (2), rotor lubricating fluid separated by the lubricating fluid separating collector (3) is introduced into the rotor chamber (5) via a rotor lubricating flow channel (25), and a bearing lubricating system (17) supplies a bearing lubricating fluid to the bearing space (7, 8). The bearing lubricating fluid flowing out from the bearing space (7, 8) is cooled and returned to the bearing space (7,8). A part of the target gas may be supplied to the shaft sealing members (13, 14) at a location between carbon rings of the shaft sealing members.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a scroll compressor, with an oil-separating drive shaft, that comprises a housing a fixed scroll which is installed inside the housing, a orbiting scroll which orbits around the fixed scroll, and a drive shaft which drives the orbiting scroll. In the orbiting scroll, a discharge hole is formed. A discharge path is formed along the longitudinal direction of the drive shaft so that discharged coolant from the discharge hole flows therethrough. At least, a part of the discharge path is inclined forward from the rotary axis to the exterior. A lubrication hole is formed in the drive shaft that penetrates from the discharge path to the outer surface of the drive shaft.

Abstract: A vane pump 1 has a pump chamber 2A through an axial direction oil supply hole 11a, a diameter direction oil supply hole 11b, and an axial direction oil supply groove 11c of an oil supply passage 11. A gas passage 13 contains a gas groove 13a whose one end is made to communicate with an outer space, the gas groove 13a being formed on an outer peripheral surface of a shaft part 3B of a rotor 3, and the other end of this gas groove is made to intermittently overlappingly communicate with the axial direction oil supply groove 11c by a rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: A vane pump in which a lubricating oil from an oil supply pipe 12 is supplied to a pump chamber 2A through an axial direction oil supply hole 11a of an oil supply passage 11, a diameter direction oil supply hole 11b, and an axial direction oil supply groove 11c. A gas passage 13 includes a diameter direction gas hole 13a and an axial direction gas groove 13b, and the diameter direction gas hole 13a is made to communicate with the axial direction gas groove 13b when the diameter direction oil supply hole 11b is made to communicate with the axial direction oil supply groove 11c.

Abstract: A screw compressor (10) is provided with shaft seal sections (28, 41) located on opposite sides of a compression chamber (24) of a screw rotor (25), to prevent mixing of oil in bearings (27, 39, 40) into the compression chamber (24) and leakage of process gas from the compression chamber (24). A suction-opening return line (52) interconnects the shaft seal section (41) on the discharge side of the compression chamber (24) and a suction opening (17) of the compressor body (11). A supply-process-gas communicating line (61) interconnects the suction opening (17) of the compressor body (11) and the upper part of the oil supply tank (13), and a shaft seal section (53) divides the inside of the compressor body (11) and an atmospheric environment.

Abstract: In a pump system, a process fluid is directed into inlet chambers of a pump casing at an inlet pressure, and a plurality of rotors disposed inside the pump casing are rotated to pump the process fluid from the inlet chambers to an outlet chamber located between the inlet chambers, wherein the process fluid in the outlet chambers is at an outlet pressure. The process fluid is directed from the outlet chamber to a separator configured to separate particulate matter from the process fluid, and a portion of separated process fluid is directed from the separator to a gear chamber of the pump. Pump bearings are lubricated with the portion of separated process fluid from the gear chamber. Some of the portion of the separated process fluid from the pump bearing is leaked to the inlet chambers via rotor shrouds to reduce accumulation of particulate matter in the inlet chambers.

Abstract: A fluid machine (101) includes a first compressor (107) and a second compressor (108). The first compressor (107) has a first closed casing (111), a first compression mechanism (102a), an expansion mechanism (104), and a shaft (113). A first oil reservoir (112) is formed in the first closed casing (111). The second compressor (108) has a second closed casing (125) and a second compression mechanism (102b). A second oil reservoir (126) is formed at a bottom portion in the second closed casing (125). The first closed casing (111) and the second closed casing (125) are connected to each other by an oil passage (109) so that a lubricating oil can flow between the first oil reservoir (112) and the second oil reservoir (126). An opening (109a) of the oil passage (109) on a side of the first closed casing (111) is located above the expansion mechanism (104) with respect to the vertical direction.

Abstract: An oil supply groove in communication with a pump room is formed above a bearing of a housing, and an open air groove in communication with atmospheric air is formed at a position rotated around the bearing by 90° from the oil supply groove. In a shank of a rotor, a branch passage branching from an oil passage formed in its axial direction to the diametrical direction of the shank and an open air passage formed in the direction perpendicular to the branch passage are formed. The branch passage and the oil supply groove communicate with each other while the open air passage and the open air groove are arranged to also communicate with each other.

Abstract: An anti-self rotation mechanism for preventing self-rotation of the eccentric shaft includes a long orbiting key formed at an end of the eccentric shaft, a ring formed of a long hole through which the orbiting key slides, ring keys that extend toward both outer sides in the direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the hole, and two key grooves formed in the casing, through which the ring keys slide.

Abstract: A power steering oil pump may include a pump housing, a rotor that is equipped with a plurality of vanes and coupled to the pump housing to rotate therein, a cam ring inserted between the rotor and the pump housing to form a pumping space between the cam ring and the rotor, a rotor shaft that passes through the rotor and is fitted therein to transmit rotational force to the rotor, and a bush that has at least a first oil groove on an inner circumference thereof and supports the rotor shaft to a pump cover coupled to the pump housing while covering a portion of the rotor shaft which passes through the rotor, wherein at least a second oil groove is formed on an end portion of the vanes contacting with an inner circumference of the cam ring.

Abstract: An oil-cooled type screw compressor includes shafts mounted on rotors in a casing and extended to two sides of the rotors. Thrust plates rotate with the shafts. The thrust plates are sealed while spacing them from the rotors and define first and second spaces. Thrust bearings are arranged in the first and second spaces. An oil feed passage communicates with the one of the first and second spaces that is located on the side to apply a force against the thrust force to the thrust plates when boosted. An oil discharge passage communicates with the one of the first and second spaces that is located on the side to apply a force against the anti-thrust force to the thrust plates when boosted, to establish the communication between the space inside and an oil discharge target. An oil distribution passage distributes oil between the first space and the second space.

Abstract: A two-stage screw compressor has a low-pressure stage screw compressor and a high-pressure stage screw compressor integrally constructed. Compression space is formed by a male rotor and a female rotor, and operation gas is fed for compression to the compression space. A method of supplying lubrication oil prevents degradation of volumetric efficiency caused by return of lubrication oil, coming from a bearing and a shaft sealing device, to the low-pressure stage screw compressor. As a result, refrigeration capacity is improved and the amount of the lubrication oil is reduced.

Abstract: A screw expander system includes a screw expander provided with an expansion space for expanding an operating medium, an operating medium inlet, an operating medium outlet, oil inlets, and oil outlets, a condenser which condenses a mixture, sent from the screw expander, of oil and the operating medium, a pump which pressure-feeds the mixture sent from the condenser, and an evaporator which evaporates the operating medium contained in the mixture. The screw expander system circulates and supplies the operating medium sent from the evaporator, to the operating medium inlet, and circulates and supplies the oil sent from the evaporator, to the oil inlets. An oil separating tank which separates the mixture into the operating medium and the oil is disposed between the evaporator and the screw expander, and an oil containing section of the oil separating tank and the oil inlets of the screw expander are connected.

Abstract: A screw compressor is disclosed wherein a pair of rotor shafts are disposed horizontally and an oil sump is formed at the bottom of a bearing casing which accommodates bearings for supporting the rotor shafts, a bearing lower portion being soaked into oil present in the oil sump for lubrication. The screw compressor comprises a chamber provided separately from the bearing casing, an oil line for communication between the oil sump in the bearing casing and the chamber and oil level detecting means disposed in the chamber. According to this structure, the oil level in the bearing casing can be checked accurately and there is no fear of oil shortage in the bearings.

Abstract: This refrigerating compressor comprises a sealed chamber delimiting a suction volume and a compression volume arranged respectively either side of a body contained in the chamber, and an oil injection circuit arranged to inject oil into the compression volume. The oil injection circuit comprises a moving blocking piece, operated by a centrifugal force, between a first position enabling oil injection into the compression volume and a second position preventing or limiting oil injection into the compression volume, the blocking piece being arranged to be displaced into its second position when the speed of the compressor exceeds a predetermined value.

Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a quick-rotatable component a bearing for supporting the quick-rotatable component and a lubricant pump for feeding lubricant to the bearing and having a rotor, with the bearing and the lubricant pump forming parts of a closed lubrication circuit having a hollow axle on which the rotor of the lubricant pump is rotatably supported.

Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided which has favorable assembling property, does not require a thrust bearing, has a bearing structure for bearing a compression section at both sides thereof and has a simple structure of a scroll.

Abstract: A scroll compressor is disclosed. A plurality of grooves (85) communicating with each other are formed on a sliding surface of a thrust bearing (53) subjected to the axial force received by a movable scroll (32). The areas surrounded by the plurality of the grooves (85) make up a plurality of insular pressure receiving portions (83) independent of each other. The pressure receiving portions (83) represent at least one half of the area of the sliding surface.

Abstract: A lubricant circulation system (10) includes a lubricant supply cup (1) containing a lubricant (6) and having an oil return hole (13) connected to an oil return pipe (16) of a rotary equipment (5). A pump seat (2) is coupled to the lubricant supply cup (1) and includes a pump chamber (253) and a pump outlet (254) connected to an oil supply pipe (256) of the rotary equipment (5). The lubricant (6) in the lubricant supply cup (1) flows into the pump chamber (253). A pump body (3) is coupled to the pump seat (2) and includes a pressure chamber (34) having a pressure inlet (341) and a pressure outlet (342) with a pressure relief valve (35). By introducing a pressurized fluid (7) from the pressure inlet (341) into the pressure chamber (34), a piston rod (27) in the pump chamber (253) reciprocally moves to allow the lubricant (6) in the pump chamber (253) to be successively supplied to the rotary equipment (5).

Abstract: A helical screw compressor includes two rotors which are mounted in the rotor housing. The helical screw compressor includes sealing arrangements (11, 11?) for sealing the pressure-sided shaft journals of the rotors. Each sealing arrangement includes a plurality of annular seals (11a, 11b) which are arranged in a row adjacent to each other, and an annular-shaped discharge chamber (51) is associated with the system on an intermediate position and is connected, via a discharge channel (53), to the chamber in the rotor housing, wherein pressure which is higher than the atmospheric pressure. Preferably, the discharge channel is connected to the suction chamber (10) of the rotor housing (1), and is impinged upon by precompressed gas from an upstream compressor step.

Abstract: A method for lubricating a screw expander includes condensing a mixture of working fluid and lubricant fed from the screw expander, through a condenser. At least a portion of the mixture of working fluid and lubricant fed from the condenser is pressurized from a first pressure to a second pressure through a pump. The method also includes separating the lubricant from the condensed working fluid of the at least portion of the mixture via a separator and feeding the lubricant to the screw expander; or separating the lubricant from the working fluid of the at least portion of the mixture via an evaporator and feeding the lubricant to the screw expander; or feeding the at least portion of the mixture of condensed working fluid and lubricant to the screw expander; or combinations thereof.

Abstract: Improved water-injected screw compressor element which mainly consists of a housing (2) on the one hand, confining a rotor chamber (5) with an inlet (6) on one far end and an outlet (7) on the other far end and in which two co-operating rotors (3, 4) are provided which are bearing-mounted in the housing (2) with their shaft (16, 20) by means of water-lubricated bearings (17, 18, 21, 22), characterised in that for every rotor are provided two pistons, a first piston (37, 38) and a second piston (17, 21) respectively, which can be each axially shifted in a guide, whereby each of these pistons (17, 21, 37, 38) makes contact with the rotor (3, 4) concerned with one side or is part of it, and makes contact with a pressure chamber (41, 42, 43, 44) with an opposite side, in order to partly or almost entirely compensate for axial force components exerted by the compressed gasses on the rotors.

Abstract: A compressor of this invention includes a flow passage supplying lubricant to an outlet bearing and to an inlet bearing. An orifice is disposed within the flow passages for controlling lubricant flow to the bearing assemblies. A choke orifice is disposed in series with one of the orifices for either the inlet or outlet for controlling lubricant flow relative to the other orifice.

Abstract: The invention provides a twin-shaft, dry-running rotary piston machine (1) comprising two rotary pistons (8) supported in a housing (2) via shafts (4) and roller bearings (6) with rolling elements, said rotary pistons are horizontally arranged and mesh with each other in opposite directions, so as to define a conveying chamber; two oil chambers (10) arranged in said housing (2) at opposite front sides of the conveying chamber in the area of the roller bearings (6) and provided to be at least in part filled with lubricating oil, two splash elements (12), with per oil chamber (10) one splash element (12) being arranged on the shafts (4) in such a manner that every shaft (4) carries a total of only one splash element (12); and at least two connection channels (14) connecting the two oil chambers (10) with each other.

Abstract: An oil-injected compressor, with an oil circuit for lubrication, and an oil separating device which is used to separate the oil from the compressed air. A self-resetting temperature switch, which is used to switch off the compressor unit when the maximum temperature limit of the incoming compressed air is reached, is provided in the region of the inlet of the compressed air, which contains oil, in the oil separating device. At least one non-self-resetting additional temperature switch is provided in the internal area of the oil separating device, which immediately switches off the compressor unit following a fire or an explosion of the compressed air, which contains oil, and which is contained in the oil separating device.

Abstract: A scroll fluid machine comprises a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll and a plurality of self-rotation preventing device for preventing the orbiting scroll from rotating on its own axis. On the rear surface of the orbiting scroll, a reinforcement bearing plate is fixed with a central bolt and an outer circumferential bolt. A follower of the self-rotation preventing device is provided in the reinforcement bearing plate. An oil-supply hole is formed through the reinforcement bearing plate to supply oil to the follower.

Abstract: In a vane pump disposed inside a transmission case of a continuously variable transmission, a pump case (20), a pump drive shaft (8) rotatably supported by a shaft bore (9) of the pump case (20) to rotate a rotor (5), and a drain port (17), one end thereof being opened to a shaft bore (9) of the pump drive shaft (8) and the other end being opened to an outside of the pump case (20) are provided. A leaked oil flown via the drain port (17) from a pump discharge side is discharged to an outside of the pump case (20).

Abstract: In a screw compressor for a refrigerator, suction-side rotor shafts of screw rotors are supported rotatably by angular ball bearings for forward thrust load, an annular gap is formed between the angular ball bearings and a suction-side bearing casing, and outermost end faces of outer rings of the angular ball bearings are pressed through a spring member by means of a presser member fixed to an end face of the suction-side bearing casing, whereby the angular ball bearings are held movably in the thrust direction within the suction-side bearing casing. Discharge-side rotor shafts of the screw rotors are supported rotatably by angular ball bearings for forward thrust load and an angular ball bearing for reverse thrust load which are held at predetermined certain positions within a discharge-side bearing casing. A screw compressor which permits structural simplification, reduction of size, and lightening of a maintenance burden is provided.

Abstract: A rotary fluid machine is provided in which a rotating shaft (113) fixed to a rotor (41) is rotatably supported on a fixed shaft (102) fixed to a casing (11), sliding surfaces of the fixed shaft (102) and the rotating shaft (113) are lubricated by a first pressurized liquid-phase working medium, and sliding surfaces of the rotor (41) and a vane (48) are lubricated by a second pressurized liquid-phase working medium.

Abstract: A water-injected screw-type compressor element including a housing limiting a rotor chamber in which two cooperating rotors are arranged which, by means of axle ends, are beared with both extremities in water-lubricated slide bearings provided in the housing. Bearing bushes are fixedly provided on the axle ends and are directly turnable in a bearing case formed in the housing. The bearing bushes have uninterrupted internal and external surfaces.

Abstract: A second frame is arranged between a first frame and an orbiting scroll, and a central space and an outer peripheral space are sealed off by a seal portion, which is formed between an end surface of a shaft support of the orbiting scroll and the second frame. Also, a balance weight is arranged in a space between an underside of the second frame and the first frame. Thereby, most of an oil having lubricated respective shaft supports flows into the space below the second frame, and the oil accumulated in the space is discharged through an oil scavenge pipe into an oil reservoir in a lower portion of a closed vessel. Also, since the balance weight can be assembled from a side of the orbiting scroll in a state, in which the second frame is removed, it is possible to mount the balance weight close to the orbiting scroll.

Abstract: Disclosed is a gas compressor capable of preventing deformation of a filter used for separating oil contained in a compressed gas. The gas compressor includes a suction port, a suction chamber, a gas compressing portion, a compressed gas releasing portion provided in the gas compressing portion, a discharge chamber, and a discharge port. Provided in the discharge chamber is a filter for separating oil contained in the compressed gas. The filter is configured such that the outer peripheral portion of the filter is expanded peripherally upon its deformation caused when the force (dynamic pressure) of a jet stream formed by the flow of the compressed gas released from the compressed gas releasing portion and the force (static pressure) due to a difference in pressure between front and rear sides of the filter which is generated by the flow path resistance in the filter are applied to the filter whereby the force with which the filter is held in close contact with the filter installation portion is increased.

Abstract: The invention concerns an element of a screw compressor injected with water containing two rotors (2-3) in a rotor chamber (4). The water circuit (11) contains a part (10) in which practically prevails the outlet pressure. On the inlet side, the axle journals (13, 16) are radially supported on hydrodynamic slide bearings (18, 19). In the housing (1) opposite to the crosscut ends of the axle journals (13, 16) are formed chambers (20, 21) which are connected to the above-mentioned part (10) or to the inside of the rotor chamber (4). On the outlet side, the axle journals (14, 17) are radially supported on hydrodynamic slide bearings (25, 26) on the one hand, and they are axially supported on hydrostatic slide bearings (27, 28) on the other hand which are connected to the above-mentioned part (10) of the water circuit (11), or on hydrodynamic slide bearings (37, 38).

Abstract: Disclosed is a gas compressor capable of preventing deformation of a filter used for separating oil contained in a compressed gas. The gas compressor includes a suction port, a suction chamber, a gas compressing portion, a compressed gas releasing portion provided in the gas compressing portion, a discharge chamber, and a discharge port. Provided in the discharge chamber is a filter for separating oil contained in the compressed gas. The filter is configured such that the outer peripheral portion of the filter is expanded peripherally upon its deformation caused when the force (dynamic pressure) of a jet stream formed by the flow of the compressed gas released from the compressed gas releasing portion and the force (static pressure) due to a difference in pressure between front and rear sides of the filter which is generated by the flow path resistance in the filter are applied to the filter whereby the force with which the filter is held in close contact with the filter installation portion is increased.

Abstract: An air compressor assembly of the rotary screw type. The air compressor assembly comprises a housing having an inlet end and a discharge end. An internal working chamber extends within the housing and terminates in a discharge end face at the discharge end of the housing. At least one rotor is mounted for rotation and axial movement within the working chamber. The rotor has a discharge end surface having a step defined thereon. A thrust piston extends from the rotor and is positioned within a thrust piston chamber. A pressure source is associated with the thrust piston chamber and is controllable between a high pressure condition and a reduced pressure condition to control the position of the rotor relative to the discharge end face. A method of mounting a rotor with a desired end clearance is also provided.

Abstract: The invention concerns an element of a screw compressor injected with water containing two rotors (2-3) in a rotor chamber (4). The water circuit (11) contains a part (10) in which practically prevails the outlet pressure. On the inlet side, the axle journals (13, 16) are radially supported on hydrodynamic slide bearings (18, 19). In the housing (1) opposite to the crosscut ends of the axle journals (13, 16) arc formed chambers (20, 21) which are connected to the above-mentioned part (10) or to the inside of the rotor chamber (4). On the outlet side, the axle journals (14, 17) are radially supported on hydrodynamic slide bearings (25, 26) on the one hand, and they are axially supported on hydrostatic slide bearings (27, 28) on the other hand which are connected to the above-mentioned part (10) of the water circuit (11), or on hydrodynamic slide bearings (37, 38).