CN1874121A - Steam compressor and driving and controlling method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an improved design of linear motor as well as an improved control strategy. The design allows for a shorted stator, where the armature magnets are controlled to reciprocate to a greater maximum displacement than for a equivalent conventional linear motor. The control strategy is such that a minimum of external sensors are required. The linear motor is driven at its resonant frequency ensuring optionally efficient operation. A determination of the maximum current is made based on a relationship with the resonant frequency and the evaporating temperature/pressure of the vapour entering the compressor. The current is then limited to control the maximum displacement to avoid damage.

Description

Pistonless compressor and driving thereof and control method

The application be denomination of invention be " linear electric machine ", application number is 00809278.8, the applying date is the dividing an application of Chinese invention patent application on June 21st, 2000.

Technical field

The present invention relates to comprise the compact linear electric machine of the free-piston compressor that is used for vapor compression system (being also referred to as swing and Linearkompressor), and relate to the caused fault of harmful change of the compression level that prevents that the change owing to ambient temperature or operating condition from causing or the control system of destruction particularly.

Background technology

Drive with electric rotary machine traditionally such as compressors such as freezer compressors.Yet, even in their efficient form, also exist and the related heavy losses of crank system that rotation converted to straight reciprocating motion.Can adopt the rotary compressor that need not crank as an alternative, cause great friction loss to cardiac load but exist height.Do not have these losses with the Linearkompressor of linear electric motor, and can be designed to have fully low bearing load and allow to adopt United States Patent (USP) 5,525, disclosed aerostatics gas bearing in 845.

Linear reciprocating motor has been avoided using the feature with the compressor reducer machine that is driven by electric rotary machine and has been produced the crank mechanism that needs with the high side force of oil lubrication.This motor is described in the U.S. 4,602,174, United States Patent (USP) 4,602, and 174 disclose all linear electric machine designs very efficiently aspect reciprocating mass and electrical efficiency two.This design is used extremely successfully in motor and the oscillator that utilizes Stirling circulation.Yet in the situation of the compressor that designs for domestic refrigerator, US 4,602, and some is too big and than desirable costliness in this market for the design in 174.

The piston of free-piston compressor vibrate with spring as resonator system and except with usually as the collision of the stationary parts of the parts of cylinder head Oscillation Amplitude not being had intrinsic restriction.Piston will occupy a mean place and the amplitude that depends on gas force and input electric power.Therefore for any given input electric power, along with evaporation or freezing pressure reduce, the amplitude of vibration increases up to collision occurring.Therefore must limit power as the function of these pressure.

Hope is operated the free piston refrigerant compressor with maximal efficiency on the natural frequency of mechanical system.This frequency is the spring constant of mechanical system and quality and also by the coefficient of elasticity decision of gas.In the situation of refrigeration, the coefficient of elasticity of gas increases with the increase of evaporation with freezing pressure.Natural frequency also increases as a result.Therefore for optimum operation, the frequency that needs to change the electric power system of Driven Compressor is come the frequency match with the mechanical system that changes with operating condition.

With acting on the voltage on the compression motor winding and the method for mechanical system Frequency Synchronization is well-known.For the permanent magnet motor that is used in the free-piston compressor, the back electromotive force (back-EMF) of inducting in motor windings and being directly proportional with piston speed is as shown in Fig. 8 a.The equivalent electric circuit of this motor shown in Fig. 8 b is for Driven Compressor, with alternation EMF (α γ) synchronous effect alternating voltage (V).US 4,320, and 488 people such as () Okada disclose the method that is used for determining to apply by the zero crossing that detects the motor back-EMF timing of voltage.Control applies the voltage of motor windings so that the electric current of EMF when intersecting with zero level is zero to allow the back-EMF zero cross detection.

Utilized the whole bag of tricks to come the constrained vibration amplitude, wherein comprised secondary gas spring, piston position and detect, calculate that (US 5,496 according to electric current and the piston position that applies voltage, 153) measure environment and evaporating temperature (US 4,179,899, US 4,283,920).Each of these methods needs the expense of additional sensors or has certain performance limitations.

Summary of the invention

Purpose of the present invention is for providing a kind of compact linear electric machine that overcomes above-mentioned shortcoming in a certain way or provide the selection of usefulness at least to the public.

According to a first aspect of the invention, provide a kind of Pistonless compressor, included compressor case, included in the described compressor case: piston; And cylinder, described piston and cylinder are supported in the described compressor case by spring; Described piston is the reciprocating motion compressed vapour in described cylinder, and the vibrational system that the pressure of piston, spring and described steam is formed has the resonance frequency that changes with steam pressure; Can be coupling on the described piston drivingly and have the linear brushless DC motor of at least one winding; The DC power supply; And reversing arrangement, be used for from described at least one winding of described DC power supply electrifying commutation so that provide electric current to be supplied to described at least one winding to come the described piston of reciprocating motion; It is characterized in that, the resonance drive unit, the commutation of described at least one winding of starting is used to measure the transducer of the character of the steam that enters compressor so that drive described piston whereby on the resonance frequency of described vibrational system; Current control device is controlled the maximum current flow that described reversing arrangement is supplied, and described maximum current flow is relevant so that limit the reciprocating amplitude of described piston whereby with the steam character of described resonance frequency and described sensor measurement.

According to a second aspect of the invention, a kind of method that drives and control the amplitude of the piston in the free piston Pistonless compressor is provided, the reciprocating motion in cylinder of wherein said piston, described piston and described cylinder are supported in the compressor case by spring, reach wherein piston, the vibrational system that the pressure of spring and described steam is formed has the resonance frequency that changes with steam pressure, described method is used to have the linear brushless DC motor of at least one winding and comprise the steps: and is commutated described at least one winding with the described piston of reciprocating motion from a DC power supply electronic, this commutation is timed driving described piston on the resonance frequency of described vibrational system, and the parameter value by the electric current supply during will determining to commutate to be restricted to be that the value of function of described resonance frequency limits the magnitude of current in described at least one winding.

" enter the evaporating temperature of the steam of compressor " and be also referred to as " evaporator temperature " in this manual." resonance frequency " is also referred to as " natural frequency " simultaneously.

For the personnel that are familiar with technology related to the present invention, structural many changes and different widely embodiment of the present invention and application are self-explantory, and do not break away from defined invention scope in the claims.Disclosure herein is the exemplary meaning that there is no any qualification with describing purely.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the profile according to Linearkompressor of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the profile of the twin coil linear electric machine of the present invention of isolation;

Fig. 3 is the profile of unicoil linear electric machine;

Fig. 4 is single window prior art linear electric machine and according to the comparison between the short stator linear electric machine of the present invention;

Fig. 5 is the schematic diagram by the magnetic flux of the generation of the coil current in the unicoil linear electric machine of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is the curve of the constant of the machine of preferred embodiment of the present invention to magnet positions;

Fig. 7 has the partly profile of the unicoil linear electric machine of angled magnetic pole strength;

Fig. 8 a illustrates the motor piston displacement and the back-EMF waveform of free-piston compressor motor;

Fig. 8 b illustrates the equivalent electric circuit of this motor;

Fig. 9 illustrates the inverter (inverter) that is used for the single-phase free piston motor of electronic commutation;

Figure 10 illustrates the curve as the maximum motor electric current of the function of frequency and evaporating temperature of motor of the present invention;

Figure 11 is the block diagram of circuit for controlling motor;

Figure 12 is the curve of root mean square (RMS) current of electric to the motor windings down slope time;

Figure 13 is the flow chart of Electric Machine Control timing routine;

The flow chart that Figure 14 determined for the commutating period of using evaporator temperature and stroke time data; And

Figure 15 illustrates motor piston displacement and motor current waveform.

Embodiment

The invention provides the method that has the some improved control linear electric machine of prior art.At first, thus it compare with the conventional linear motor of type described in the US 4602174k and have the size that reduces and reduced cost.This change is that cost remains on low high efficiency to mid power output with the efficient that slightly reduces in the high power output.This be in high power output, work on low work to the mid power output on most of times less than 20% time (this occur in pack into continually with the period of taking out the refrigerator content in or in very hot date) domestic refrigerator in compressor be acceptable compromise proposal.The second, it adopts and allows the optimally control strategy of efficient operation, does not have the demand to external sensor simultaneously, and this has also reduced size and cost.

Though in the following description, the present invention describes garden cylindricality linear electric machine, should understand this method and be equally applicable to general linear electric machine and also be applicable to the platypelloid type linear electric machine particularly, person skilled in the art person need not just can be applied in control strategy as described herein on any type of linear electric machine in special effort.Also should understand the present invention and can be used for any type of compressor.Though it is described free-piston compressor, it can be used for diaphragm-type compressor equally.

Practical embodiments of the present invention shown in Fig. 1 comprises the permanent magnet linear electric machine that is connected on the reciprocal free-piston compressor.Cylinder 9 is by 14 supportings of the cylinder spring in the compressor case 30.Piston 11 adds the supporting base radial support that its spring 13 constitutes by spring base 25 by cylinder barrel.

The reciprocating motion of piston 11 in cylinder 9 passed through suction tube 12, passes through air admission hole 26, reached by the inlet valve port 24 in the air-breathing valve plate 21 in the gas suction compression stroke 28 by air suction silencer 20.Ya Suo gas leaves by vent valve port 23 then, noise reduction in muffler 19, and by blast pipe 18 discharges.

Compressor electric motor comprises one or two partial stator 5,6 and armature 22.Produce the reciprocation of the reciprocating power of piston 11 from permanent magnet 3,4 (being connected on the piston 11) and the magnetic field in the air gap 33 (the inducting) of two annular radial excitations in the armature 22 by stator 6 and coil 1,2 with flange 7.

Twin coil embodiment of the present invention shown in Figure 1 and that isolate in Fig. 2 has the electric current that flows in coil 1, this electric current produces the inboard axial flow along stator 6, by end stator tooth 32 radially outward, cross over air gap 33, enter the magnetic flux of break iron 5 then.Then it radially inwardly cross over air gap 33 flow and turn back to the central tooth 34 of stator 6 before one section short distance of axial flow, 27, the second coils 2 inwardly produce radially by central tooth 34 axis of flow to crossing over one section short distance in air gap 29 and outwards entering magnetic flux in the end tooth 35 by air gap 33.The excitation of supposing magnet 3 has the polarity opposite with another magnet 4, and the magnetic flux of crossing over air gaps 33 from tooth 32 is in the magnet 3,4 of the radially excitation axial force of inducting.Will be understood that to substitute break iron 5 on the opposite side of magnet, to have another group coil equally.

There is no need is that oscillating current in sine-shaped coil 1 and 2 produces vibration force on magnet 3,4, supposes the natural frequency of vibration frequency near this mechanical system, and this power will give magnet and stator relative motion in fact.This natural frequency is to be determined with the quality of stator 6 by the rigidity of spring 13,14 and cylinder 9.Vibration force on the magnet 3,4 produces reaction force on stator component.Thereby must stator 6 be rigidly attached on the cylinder 9 with bonding, hot pressing or anchor clamps etc.Break iron is pressed from both sides or is bonded on the stator seat 17.Stator seat 17 is rigidly attached on the cylinder 9.

In the unicoil embodiment of the present invention shown in Fig. 3, the electric current in the coil 109 produces the inboard axial flow along inside stator 110, by a tooth 111 radially outward, crosses over magnet gap 112, enters the magnetic flux of break iron 115 then.Then radially inwardly flow cross over magnet gap 112 and turn back in the external teeth 116 before, one section short distance of its axial flow.In this motor, whole magnet 122 has identical polarity in it radially encourages.

In preferred embodiment of the present invention, the length of armature (tooth) face only extends to for example 67% (limit of magnet extends to maximum power output there) of the maximum stroke of magnet.As seen, wherein traditional prior art linear electric machine contrasts with the variable constant design of the present invention that equivalent power is exported visibly in Fig. 4, and the both is on maximum stroke.It is far away like that the outer edge 200 that can find out stator tooth does not extend to the outer end of magnet 201.Similarly, the inside edge 203 of another stator tooth does not extend to the inner of magnet 204.With first art designs contrast, the edge of magnet 205 does not align with the edge of stator tooth 206,207 on maximum stroke.

In the present invention less than on 60% the stroke for example, magnet 70 will be in Fig. 5 in the district with the uniform magnetic flux metric density of district " a " to " b " indication, the place that it extends to corresponding to stator tooth 71 roughly.When the stroke increase surpasses 60%, along with the convex edge part (non-homogeneous magnetic density) that magnet enters magnetic field, air gap, " b " district in addition among Fig. 5, and the magnetic density that magnet edge 70 runs into reduces.

In another embodiment shown in Fig. 7, show the stator of the linear electric machine that has angled magnetic pole strength 503.In the central, magnetic pole strength 503 has flat 500, and this causes in the face of having basically magnetic density uniformly in the air gap of this part.The end of magnetic pole strength 503 is angled, the more transition of stepping of marginal portion 502 (non-homogeneous magnetic density) on this gives from central authorities' uniform magnetic flux metric density of 500 to the end of magnetic pole strength 503.Be similar to the embodiment of front, armature magnets 504 can be driven to 500 outsides, uniform magnetic flux metric density district and enter in the marginal portion 502 of non-homogeneous magnetic density.

" constant of the machine " is defined as one ampere of power that is produced (representing with newton) in the motor windings on magnet.Constant of the machine curve shown in Fig. 6 illustrates constant of the machine 300 of the present invention and how to change with magnet positions." constant of the machine " can be defined as the back-EMF (representing) that when magnet moves with 1 meter per second, produces equally with volt.When magnet is in fringing field (among Fig. 5 " b " outside), because the magnetic coupling that reduces, and to compare uniform magnetic flux district (among Fig. 5 from " a " to " b "), the bigger electric current of needs produce given power.This draws " variable " constant of the machine curve 300 that is associated with short stator linear electric machine of the present invention shown in Fig. 6.In this and the traditional prior art linear electric machine intrinsic also form contrast at " constant " constant of the machine curve seen in fig. 6 301.

On low and moderate stroke (corresponding to-3mm stroke) to+3mm with the constant of the machine curve 300 shown in Fig. 6, clearly the present invention has with respect to the higher constant of the machine of equivalent conventional motors 301 (with the less number of turn and bigger core material volume).Higher constant of the machine is corresponding to operation more efficiently (because the loss of low current commutator), and therefore in lower power output, the present invention is more efficient than traditional prior art linear electric machine of equivalence.And it has also reduced the required area of section of magnetic core.

Constant of the machine is low when the fooled electric current increase of high-stroke is the fastest.Compare with traditional prior art linear electric machine of equivalence, multiple current extracts more power from motor in motor and on maximum stroke thereby might import more.It is more efficient that this deisgn approach that has variable constant minimum on maximum stroke makes the motor that is driven by square-wave voltage simultaneously.

Control strategy

Experiment confirm free-piston compressor when driving on the natural frequency of compressor piston one spring system is the most efficient.Yet except outside any metal spring that critically is provided with, also exist intrinsic gas spring, in the situation of freezer compressor, its effective spring constant with evaporator or condenser both one of pressure change change.The electronic commutation permanent magnet motor of having described is to use from the technology that derives such as the experience of disclosed applicant in the permanent magnet motor of electronic commutation US 4857814 and the WO 98/35428 to control, and by reference its content is combined in this.These documents disclose the control of three-phase rotating electric machine, but identical control principle also is applicable to linear electric machine.Suitable linear electric machine need only be a unidirectional device and the suitable inverter bridge circuit that is used for drive motors can have the simple form shown in Fig. 9.

By the back-EMF zero crossing in the monitoring motor winding current, commutation can be defined as following the natural frequency of piston.Owing to have only single winding, must the interrupt flow warp above or below inverter switching device 411 or one of 412 so that can measure back-EMF.The electric current that passes through motor windings according to detected back-EMF control guarantees for the system effectiveness of maximum holding current and back-EMF homophase.

Because frequency is the twice of inverse of the time between the back-EMF zero crossing and the frequency of operation of continuous monitoring motor effectively.In addition according to WO 98/35428, commutation stop the back by unidirectional transmission (free wheeling) thus diode 413 is directly proportional with current of electric with 414 down slope time and also can draws the measured value of current of electric.

The maximum motor electric current that can adopt before piston and the collision of cylinder of compressor head changes with the natural frequency of evaporator temperature and vibrational system.

Figure 10 illustrates maximum and allows that current of electric is to the curve of natural mechanical system frequency with the condenser temperature of different evaporating temperatures.These curves illustrate the correlation of maximum motor electric current on these two variablees.They show that also condenser temperature is directly proportional with the mechanical system frequency, thereby and can reach maximum current control and need not to measure ternary, condenser temperature.

Shown in Figure 11 according to circuit for controlling motor of the present invention.It utilizes the mechanical system frequency observed result relevant with condenser temperature.Act in the input of microcomputer 403 with the back-EMF signal of inducting in circuit 402 sensings and the digitalized motor winding 1 and with it in the present invention, the suitable timing that the latter calculates the commutation of the electric current of motor windings guarantees electric current and back-EMF homophase.These commutation timing signal conversions send the inverter 404 (as shown in Figure 11) of electric current to motor windings 401.Microcomputer 403 is also measured the time between the back-EMF zero crossing and is measured the cycle of EMF waveform whereby.The frequency of natural vibration of mechanical system is the inverse in the cycle of EMF waveform.Therefore microcomputer 403 has the measured value of this frequency on if having time in institute.

Utilize traditional temperature sensor 405 to measure evaporator temperature, and offer microcomputer 403 with its output digitlization and as another input for the defrosting purpose.

Thereby become less than this maximum for the maximum current amplitude of each half period of calculating the pistons swing with microcomputer 403 and with the actual current amplitude limitation according to a kind of method of the maximum displacement of restriction maximum motor electric current of the present invention and piston.W0 98/35428 discloses by utilizing digitlization back-EMF signal in the winding of not energising to measure the current of electric in the permanent magnet motor of electronic commutation is measured in current attenuation in the motor windings to zero shared time method.Current sense or the restricting circuits utilizing this technology to make microcomputer 403 can limit maximum power in the present invention and need not be special-purpose.The root mean square current of electric is to be directly proportional by the current attenuation duration of " free wheel " diode 413 or 414 afterwards with the cut-out of correlated current commutator switch device.Yes is caused by the motor windings as inductor in current attenuation, and the latter is at commutation storage energy and must eliminate it when commutation stops.The current of electric of root mean square shown in Figure 12 is to the curve (it is the simplification of the Fig. 6 among the WO 98/35428) of current attenuation duration.

Another preferred approach is the unrestricted lowest high-current value of time of the restriction current of commutation.Figure 15 is illustrated in the current waveform under this control.This is actually the pulse width modulation (PWM) that each reversal interval has only the current impulse of a modulation.Calculate from die-away time of back-EMF zero crossing reducing phase angle between current of electric and the back-EMF with this method for maximal efficiency.Cutting off on the time in the half period at motor provides the inverter switch of electric current so that can monitor if having time that after the current attenuation cycle zero crossing of back-EMF is so that determine to begin commutation for the next half period.Also with commutating period and to electric machine frequency and the suitable amplitude peak that relatively guarantees to be no more than piston stroke maximum commutating period of evaporator temperature.

Realize the flow chart of the microcomputer control strategy of this method shown in Figure 13 and 14.Referring to Figure 13, when the compressor of switching on when energising (421) for the first time or after the adequate time delay guaranteed that the pressure in the refrigerator system equates, compressor moved on peak frequency.Stroke period of this minimum frequency measured as Run-Stroke (operation stroke) and be Low-Stroke (low stroke) shown in the microcomputer and be this value setting minimum commutating period (428).Measure its stroke period and it is defined as parameters R un-stroke (424) for the first later stroke.Calculate poor (Figure 14,431) between Run-Stroke and the Low-Stroke.This difference is called Period-Index (periodic key).In this subroutine, Period-Index is used as the index point of the different stroke time (frequency) in the Max-Commutation-Time look-up table of (maximum commutating period).This table is called Pulse-Limit-Value (pulse pole limit value) table.There are 7 look-up tables (433 to 439) in this example corresponding to 7 kinds of evaporating temperature scopes (440 to 465).

Circuit for controlling motor is generally comprised within the temperature control loop road of traditional approach, so that the temperature of the refrigeration space of the sealing of maintenance refrigerating system.This control loop is for acting on the value that the power setting on the motor windings requires according to the condition of work of refrigerating system.The value of the power of these requirements is corresponding to the value of commutating period.On the basis of stroke one by one with these Commutation-Time (value commutating period) and Pulse-Limit-Value relatively (440, Figure 14).If the Commutation-Time that requires then is limited in Commutation-Time on the Pulse-Limit-Value greater than Pulse-Limit-value.This value is set the commutation timer (425) of the connection period of control correlated current commutator switch device.As mentioned above, also can utilize current of electric will act on Power Limitation on the motor on lsafety level from similar mode, even but in situation about being controlled commutating period, also wish to measure in the above described manner current of electric and itself and bare maximum in storage are compared (426), will cause microcomputer loader reset (427) if surpass this maximum.

Certainly determine maximum commutating period/or other method of lowest high-current value also be feasible, if for example the function of microcomputer is big fully, the nearest progress in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip technology for example can directly be calculated these values and need not look-up table.

If the DC supply voltage that acts on the inverter electric bridge of Fig. 9 changes significantly, this will cause the change of the current of electric of any given commutating period of allowing.Wish that microprocessor comes its also correspondingly compensation of sensing with maximal accuracy.

Should understand with traditional design and compare, in refrigerator, use the present invention to reduce profile, the dimension and weight of motor.Simultaneously since the quality of moving component less than the quality of the moving component of conventional refrigerator compressor:

Reduced extent of vibration

Reduced noise level

Reduced the working stress on the moving component.

Claims (23)

1, a kind of Pistonless compressor comprises:

Piston (11); Cylinder (9); And spring, described piston is the reciprocating motion compressed vapour in described cylinder, and the vibrational system that piston, spring and steam are formed has the resonance frequency that changes with steam pressure;

Can be coupling on the described piston drivingly and have the linear brushless DC motor of at least one winding;

The DC power supply; And

Reversing arrangement is used for commutating described at least one winding so that provide electric current to be supplied to described at least one winding to come the described piston of reciprocating motion from described DC power supply electrifying, and

The resonance drive unit, the commutation of described at least one winding of starting is characterized in that so that drive described piston whereby on the resonance frequency of described vibrational system

Current control device (403) is controlled the maximum current flow that described reversing arrangement is supplied, and the magnitude of current of described supply is relevant with described resonance frequency so that limit the reciprocating amplitude of described piston whereby.

2, as the desired Pistonless compressor of claim 1, also comprise:

Be used to measure the transducer of the character of the steam that enters compressor, this character is the indication of pressure, and

Wherein the magnitude of current that should determine also with the indicative qualitative correlation of described mensuration.

3, as the desired Pistonless compressor of claim 2, wherein said transducer (405) is measured the transducer of the character of the steam that enters compressor, and this character is the indication of evaporating pressure.

4, as claim 2 or 3 desired Pistonless compressors, wherein said transducer (405) is a temperature sensor.

5, as at the desired Pistonless compressor of preceding arbitrary claim, the described reversing arrangement of wherein said current control device (403) control is supplied the maximal current magnitude or the time of described electric current, thereby controls the maximum of the described electric current of described reversing arrangement supply.

6, as any one desired Pistonless compressor among the claim 1-5, wherein, described resonance drive unit comprises:

Back electromotive force checkout gear (402) is used for the back electromotive force that when the current of commutation does not flow sampling responds at described at least one winding and is used to detect the back electromotive force zero crossing and produces the timing signal of deriving from wherein, and

The resonance reversing arrangement responds described zero crossing timing signal, and the commutation of described at least one winding of starting is so that drive described piston whereby on the resonance frequency of described vibrational system.

7, as desired Pistonless compressor in the claim 6, also comprise:

Current sensing means (402) is used for measuring the electric current that flows at described at least one winding during the commutation,

Wherein when the electric current of described mensuration reached described predetermined current amount, described current control device (403) stopped commutation.

8, as desired Pistonless compressor in the claim 7, wherein said reversing arrangement comprises to be connected the switching device of electric current to described at least one winding (404) to be provided on the described DC power supply and current path is provided be stored in the unidirectional current device of the energy in each winding so that dissipate after having stopped by the electric current supply of switching device, and described current sensing means comprises:

The digital processing unit (403) that comprises the programming of memory and input-output port, first port are connected in the output of described back electromotive force checkout gear (402) and second group of port is connected on the described reversing arrangement providing switch controlling signal to it,

Be stored in the software in the described memory, cause described processor to determine the measurement of current of electric according to the interval between the zero crossing of described back electromotive force, these time interval owing to get on from described at least one winding dissipate duration of the current impulse that is produced described at least one winding that the energy stored causes except described unidirectional current device after the electric current supply.

9, as desired Pistonless compressor in any one in the claim 1 to 8, wherein said current control device also comprises:

Be used to measure the device of described resonance frequency,

Storage comprises the memory of at least one look-up table of maximum current commutation value of each resonance frequency of described vibrational system, and

Be used for selecting described table corresponding to the value of the resonance frequency of described mensuration and be used to provide it to the value choice device of described control device for reversing.

10, as claim 1 or 5 desired Pistonless compressors, wherein said current control device also comprises:

Be used to measure the device of described resonance frequency,

Memory is stored a plurality of look-up tables of the maximum current commutation value of each resonance frequency of being stored in the described memory that comprises described vibrational system, and each look-up table is corresponding to the non-overlapped scope of described character, and

Be used on the basis of the described character of described sensor measurement, selecting the table choice device of a look-up table for use,

Be used for selecting described table corresponding to the value of the resonance frequency of described mensuration and provide it to the value choice device of described control device for reversing.

11, as each desired Pistonless compressor in the claim 1 to 5, wherein said current control device comprises the processor of store instruction, but described instruction when carrying out according to the relation of the mathematical notation of the resonance frequency of described mensuration and the described character randomly measured by described transducer, calculate described predetermined current amount.

12, a kind of method that drives and control the amplitude of the piston (11) in the free piston Pistonless compressor, wherein said piston in cylinder (9) reciprocating motion with compressed vapour, and wherein the vibrational system of piston, spring and described steam has the resonance frequency that changes with steam pressure, and described method use has the linear brushless DC motor of at least one winding and comprises the steps:

With the described piston of reciprocating motion, this commutation is timed to drive described piston on the resonance frequency of described vibrational system, is characterised in that from described at least one winding of DC power supply electronic commutation

Being restricted to by a parameter value of determining the electric current supply during will commutating is that the function of described resonance frequency limits the maximum current flow in described at least one winding.

13, desired method in the claim 12 is characterized in that, also comprises the step of measuring the character enter the steam in the compressor, and this character is the indication of pressure, and the maximum of wherein determining the parameter of electric current supply also is the function of the steam character measured.

14, desired method in the claim 13 is characterized in that the character of being measured is temperature.

15, desired method in any one in the claim 12 to 14, wherein the described step of electronic commutation comprises the following steps:

At described at least one winding of no power on the various intervals and detect the zero crossing of the back electromotive force induct in described at least one winding, the commutation of starting described at least one winding with the zero crossing timing information is with the described piston of driving on the resonance frequency of described vibrational system whereby.

16, desired method in the claim 15, also comprise provide be connected on the described DC power supply with provide electric current to described at least one winding switching device and after having stopped providing electric current, provide current path to dissipate to be stored in the unidirectional current device of the energy in each winding by switching device, according to expression since after described at least one winding has been removed the electric current supply by dissipate interval between the zero crossing of described back electromotive force of duration of the current impulse that produces described at least one winding that the energy stored causes of described unidirectional current device, measure current of electric, and when the electric current of described mensuration reaches the predetermined current amount, stop commutation.

17, claim 13 or 14 desired methods, the step that also comprises the character of measuring the steam that enters compressor reducer, this character is the indication of evaporation of vapours pressure, wherein a maximum current commutation value is selected from one of one group of look-up table of the lowest high-current value of each a plurality of resonance frequency that comprises described vibrational system, and select value corresponding to the resonance frequency of measuring, each look-up table is corresponding to the non-overlapped scope of the character of described mensuration and be to select on the basis of the measured value of described character.

18, the method for claim 17 determines that wherein the described parameter of electric current supply is the amplitude and the described look-up table stores maximal current magnitude of electric current.

19, the method for claim 17, the described parameter of wherein determining the electric current supply are the duration and the maximum commutation of the described look-up table stores duration values of commutation.

20, the method for claim 11, also comprise the character of measuring the steam that enters compressor, and the step of the value of the described parameter that definite electric current is supplied during described resonance frequency and described steam character calculating commutation, the character of described steam is the indication of evaporating pressure.

21, the method for claim 20, the steam character of wherein said measurement is steam temperature.

22,, determine during the commutation that wherein the described parameter of electric current supply is the amplitude of the electric current in described at least one winding as the method for claim 21.

23,, determine during the commutation that wherein the described parameter of electric current supply is the duration of the electric current in described at least one winding as the method for claim 21.

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