EP1740831B1 - Linearkompressor - Google Patents

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EP1740831B1
EP1740831B1 EP05729530A EP05729530A EP1740831B1 EP 1740831 B1 EP1740831 B1 EP 1740831B1 EP 05729530 A EP05729530 A EP 05729530A EP 05729530 A EP05729530 A EP 05729530A EP 1740831 B1 EP1740831 B1 EP 1740831B1
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Edoardo Mario Biscaldi
Andrea Contarini
Samuele Da Ros
Michele Libralato
Giovanni Strappazzon
Nicola Trivillin
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B35/00—Piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by the driving means to their working members, or by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors, not otherwise provided for
    • F04B35/04—Piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by the driving means to their working members, or by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors, not otherwise provided for the means being electric
    • F04B35/045—Piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by the driving means to their working members, or by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors, not otherwise provided for the means being electric using solenoids
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B39/00—Component parts, details, or accessories, of pumps or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B25/00 - F04B37/00
    • F04B39/0005—Component parts, details, or accessories, of pumps or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B25/00 - F04B37/00 adaptations of pistons
    • F04B39/0016—Component parts, details, or accessories, of pumps or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids, not otherwise provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B25/00 - F04B37/00 adaptations of pistons with valve arranged in the piston

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  • the present invention refers to a linear compressor, in particular intended for use in household-type or industrial-type refrigeration equipment.
  • linear compressors generally present some problems in connection with the ability to actually obtain such favourable characteristics thereof, and these problems may make these compressors rather complex to design and construct.
  • linear compressors do not have any mechanically, i.e. positively determined top and bottom dead centres, so that the need arises here for a special system to be provided to control the position of the piston inside the cylinder, in view of preventing the same pistons from detrimentally knocking against the cylinder head.
  • Such control shall operate to a great accuracy extent in order to ensure that the top dead centre of the piston is situated at an extremely reduced distance from the cylinder head, generally in the order of 0.1 mm, so as to minimize the so-called clearance volume. Any greater distance, even by just a few tenths of a millimetre, would bering about a drastic drop in performance characteristics, so that the need arises here for quite expensive and sophisticated control provisions of an electronic type to be implemented to this purpose.
  • linear compressors require that a return force proportionate to the displacement of the moving element be available in view of ensuring a correct displacement stroke of the piston, and the simplest method available to ensure this force lies in providing a mechanical spring duly connected to both the stationary base of the compressor and the moving element, such that the thereby obtained mechanical system is capable of working in the way of a forced resonant harmonic oscillator at line frequency; however, linear compressors equipped with a system of this kind generally experience a drastic deterioration in the overall performance characteristics thereof when departing from the resonance condition.
  • the value of the refrigeration capacity i.e. cooling effect that can be obtained with linear compressors of the currently known kind cannot be varied to a significant extent, i.e. by a factor of approx. 2, without this implying a considerable performance loss; such variation in the refrigeration capacity may for instance be required in view of particular application-related needs, or even in view of saving energy by adapting the power output of the compressor to the actual refrigeration capacity needed by the refrigerator in a given period of operation thereof.
  • FR 1069802 discloses a piston pump wherein the piston and its shaft work in absence of mechanical friction, due to the fact that there is no contact between the piston and the cylinder, wherein the piston is centred and guided by springs.
  • US 6,015,270 discloses a two stage compressor or pump with integral electronically controlled multiphase linear motor incorporating a cup shaped moving piston as a stator.
  • the linear motor body has an intake head with valve fitted at the end adjacent to the closed end of the cup shaped piston.
  • a discharge head with a central discharge tube extending into the hollow center of the cup shaped moving piston is fitted to the opposite end of the motor body.
  • the design is particularly suited for use as a compressor in air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
  • a major purpose of the present invention within the above-indicated object thereof is to provide a linear compressor in which the possibility is given to obtain wide variations in the refrigeration power output thereof, without these variations determining a deterioration in the overall performance characteristics of the same compressor.
  • Another major purpose of the present invention is to provide a linear compressor in which the positioning of the top dead centre of the piston relative to the cylinder head may allow for greater tolerances, without this impairing the general performance characteristics of the compressor, thereby allowing the systems used to control the position of the piston to be simplified and, hence, made far less expensive.
  • a further major purpose of the present invention is to ensure the possibility for the refrigeration power output of the compressor to be modulated by varying the stroke of the piston, or the oscillation amplitude thereof relative to the midpoint, and the clearance or dead volume, while maintaining energy efficiency values unvaried at a high level.
  • Another major purpose yet of the present invention is to provide a linear compressor that is significantly simplified in its construction, while at the same time ensuring an unvaried, or possibly even improved, efficiency, along with an improved flexibility in operation as compared to prior-art linear compressors.
  • a last, although not less important purpose of the present invention is to provide a linear compressor which is low and competitive in costs and capable of being manufactured with the use of readily available machinery and techniques.
  • the linear compressor as generally indicated at 1, comprises a stator body 2 that is substantially constituted by an outer yoke 3, around which there is wound a coil (not shown), and an inner yoke 4 facing the outer yoke 3 and spaced from the latter so as to define an air gap 5.
  • the linear compressor further comprises a moving element 6 comprising a base plate 7, from which a pair of arms (not shown) extend in a manner known as such in the art, these arms being provided each with a magnet and being accommodated inside the air gap 5.
  • the linear compressor also comprises a shaft 8, to the end portion of which there is firmly joined a piston 9, wherein the base plate 7 is firmly joined to a pan 10, which is in turn connected to a resonance spring 11.
  • the shaft 8 is accommodated slidably within a cylindrical guide body 12 that terminates with a flange 13, which is advantageously obtained integrally with said guide body 12, and against there abuts the liner 14 of a cylinder 15, inside which there is arranged slidably said piston 9.
  • the flange 13 is provided with at least a suction port 16, controlled by suction valve means 17 such as a reed valve, in communication with the suction conduit comprising a conduit 18 connected to a reservoir 19 in which there is collected the gas being taken in, which then flows into the conduit 18 to eventually undergo compression.
  • the suction conduit is fitted between the flange 13 and the stator body 2, so that the inflow of the gas in the cylinder 15 takes place from the side at which the wall temperature is at its lowest. This contributes to reducing the extent to which the gas is heated up during the suction phase, thereby boosting compressor efficiency.
  • the cylinder 15 is closed by a head 20; the stroke of the piston 9 inside the cylinder 15 is therefore limited, on a side, by the flange 13 and, on the opposite side, by the head 20.
  • the latter is provided with at least an exhaust or delivery port 25 provided with exhaust or delivery valve means 30, e.g. a reed valve, for controlling said delivery port 25.
  • the piston 9 defines a first chamber 21, or a low-pressure chamber as this shall be better explained further on, and a second chamber 22, or a high-pressure chamber as this shall again be better explained further on, in which both of these chambers are variable-volume ones depending on the position of the piston 9 in the cylinder 15; the two chambers 21 and 22 are set in communication with each other via at least a through-aperture 23 provided in the piston 9 and controlled by communication valve means 24, such as a reed valve.
  • the piston 9 is capable to alternately compress the gas in either direction inside the cylinder 15, thereby generating two compression stages, in which the exhaust or delivery phase in the first low-pressure chamber 21 occurs at the same time as the suction phase in the second high-pressure chamber 22, through the communication aperture 23 and the communication valve means 24 provided in the piston 9.
  • the compression cycle is split into two stages in phase opposition with respect to each other with a phase shift of 180°.
  • the gas existing in the second high-pressure chamber 22 is first compressed from the pressure P 1 up to the point at which the exhaust or delivery pressure P 3 is reached (curve A-E), whose value is such as to cause the exhaust or delivery valve means 30 to open and, hence, the exhaust, i.e. delivery of the gas through the delivery port 25 in the head 20 (delivery phase, line E-F).
  • the piston 9 is in a position corresponding to its top dead centre X 2 , at a minimum distance from the head 20 where the delivery port 25 is situated.
  • the linear compressor according to the present invention performs a cycle corresponding to two compression stages in phase opposition with respect to each other, as indicated in Figure 3 by the area comprised between the points A, B, C, D as far as the low-pressure stage taking place in the first chamber 21 is concerned, and the area comprised between the points A, E, F, D as far as the high-pressure stage taking place in the second chamber 22 is concerned.
  • FIGs 1 and 4 there is furthermore illustrated a lubrication and cooling system that may advantageously be used in a linear compressor according to the present invention: with the help of the pump 31, the lubricant is collected into the reservoir 32 and caused to flow through a first channel 33 and one or more first ports 34 provided circumferentially in the cylindrical guide body 12 so as to lubricate the shaft 8. From here, the lubricant then flows, through a second channel 35, a second port 36 provided in the flange 13, and a third channel 37 in the liner 14 of the cylinder 15, into a hollow space, i.e. jacket 38 provided in the liner 14 to cool down the wall of the cylinder 15, in view of keeping it at a lower temperature to the purpose of both favouring the thermal efficiency and boosting the overall energy efficiency of the compressor.
  • a hollow space i.e. jacket 38 provided in the liner 14 to cool down the wall of the cylinder 15, in view of keeping it at a lower temperature to the purpose of both favouring the thermal efficiency and boosting the overall energy efficiency
  • the linear compressor according to the present invention is actually capable of reaching all of the afore indicated aims and advantages: in fact, with the linear compressor according to the present invention the possibility is given for high refrigeration outputs to be obtained even in the presence of limits of oscillation of the piston 9 - corresponding to the top and bottom dead centres - that may be situated at a considerable distance from the respective cylinder head portions, i.e. the head 20 and the flange 13. No need therefore exists for minimum clearances, in the order of magnitude of 0.1 mm, to be in any case ensured, as this is on the contrary required in prior-art single-stage compressors, thereby allowing for the use of less sophisticated and accurate and, therefore, less expensive systems for controlling the position of the piston 9.
  • the compression phase into two stages enables far higher volumetric efficiencies to be obtained as compared to single-stage compressors for a same amount of clearance volume.
  • the refrigeration capacity output of the compressor can be modulated up to a factor of 2 by either varying the displacement stroke of the piston 9 relative to the midpoint between the top dead centre and the bottom dead centre or varying the clearance volume, while maintaining energy efficiency at an unaltered high level and excluding any appreciable deterioration in the overall performance of the compressor.
  • a further advantage of the linear compressor according to the present invention derives from the fact that it is embodied in such manner as to ensure a maximum extent of simplicity in its construction and, at the same time, high performance capabilities without any need for any component part of the compressor, such as the piston, the cylinder head or the valves, to be duplicated.

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  1. Linearkompressor, enthaltend einen Kolben (9), der gleitfähig in einem Zylinder (15) angeordnet ist, wobei der Kolben (9) in dem Zylinder (15) eine erste Niederdruckkammer (21) und eine zweite Hochdruckkammer (22) begrenzt und der Kolben (9) weiterhin mit Verbindungseinrichtungen (23) zwischen der ersten und der zweiten Kammer (21, 22) ausgestattet ist, die von einer Ventileinrichtung (24) gesteuert werden, um so eine Verbindung zwischen den Kammern einzurichten, wobei die Verbindungseinrichtungen wenigstens eine Verbindungsöffnung (23) enthalten, die in dem Kolben (9) vorgesehen ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die erste und die zweite Kammer (21, 22) denselben Durchmesser haben und der Kolben (9) ein Teil eines sich bewegenden Elementes (6) ist, das eine Grundplatte (7) enthält, von der sich eine Welle (8) erstreckt, die den Kolben (9) an einem Endabschnitt desselben trägt, wobei der Kolben (9) ein Fluid in jeder Richtung innerhalb des Zylinders (15) komprimiert, wodurch zwei Kompressionsstufen erzeugt werden, bei denen die Ausstoß- oder Ausgabephase in der ersten Niederdruckkammer (21) gleichzeitig mit der Ansaugphase in der zweiten Hochdruckkammer (22) infolge der Verbindungsöffnung (23) und der Verbindungsventileinrichtung (24) auftritt.
  2. Linearkompressor nach Anspruch 1, bei dem die erste und die zweite Kammer (21, 22) ein Volumen haben, das in Abhängigkeit der Stellung des Kolbens (9) im Zylinder (15) veränderbar ist.
  3. Linearkompressor nach Anspruch 1, bei dem die Welle (8) gleitfähig in einem Führungskörper (12) aufgenommen ist, der in einem Flansch (13) endet, der mit wenigstens einem Ansauganschluss (16) versehen ist, der von einer Ansaugventileinrichtung (17) gesteuert wird.
  4. Linearkompressor nach Anspruch 3, bei dem der Flansch (13) integraler Bestandteil des Führungskörpers (12) ist.
  5. Linearkompressor nach Anspruch 1 und 3, bei dem der Verschiebungshub des Kolbens (9), der sich von dem Flansch (13) wegbewegt, in der ersten Niederdruckkammer (21) die Ausdehnungsphase (AB) und die Ansaugphase (BC), wie sie von der Ansaugventileinrichtung (17) gesteuert werden, und in der zweiten Hochdruckkammer (22) die Kompressionsphase (AE) und die Ausstoßphase (EF) erzeugt, wie sie von der Ausstoßventileinrichtung (30) gesteuert werden, wobei die Verbindungsöffnung (23) durch die Verbindungsventileinrichtung (24) während der Ansaugphase in der ersten Niederdruckkammer (21) und der Kompressionsphase in der zweiten Hochdruckkammer (22) geschlossen ist.
  6. Linearkompressor nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche oder Kombinationen derselben, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass er weiterhin ein Schmier- und Kühlsystem enthält, umfassend einen ersten Kanal (33), der eine Verbindung zwischen einem Vorratsbehälter (32) und einem oder mehreren ersten Anschlüssen (34) herstellt, die in Umfangsrichtung in dem zylindrischen Führungskörper (12) angeordnet sind, und eine Umwälzpumpe (31), die dazu eingerichtet ist, ein Schmiermittel zwischen die Welle (8) und den Führungskörper (12) von einem Vorratsbehälter (32) durch den ersten Kanal (33) und die ersten Anschlüsse (34) zuzuführen.
  7. Linearkompressor nach Anspruch 6, bei dem das Schmiermittel weiterhin von dem Führungskörper (12) durch einen zweiten Kanal (35), einen zweiten Anschluss (36), der in dem Flansch (13) vorgesehen ist, und einen dritten Kanal, der in dem Zylinder (15) vorgesehen ist, in einen Hohlraum oder eine Umhüllung (38) fließt, die in einer Wand des Zylinders (15) ausgebildet ist.
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