Positive displacement machine, compressor, cooling device, and electronic apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12449168-B2
Application number	US-202217954862-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2022
Priority date	Sep 29, 2021
Publication date	Oct 21, 2025
Grant date	Oct 21, 2025

Abstract

A positive displacement machine includes a case including a tubular guide part in which a pressure chamber is provided, a slide member including a shaft extending in a first direction and a piston provided at an end portion of the shaft and disposed in the guide part, a coupling member coupled to the slide member and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first rotating member coupled to one end of the coupling member and configured to rotate around a first rotation axis extending in the second direction, and a rocking absorbing mechanism configured to absorb a rocking motion of the piston around an axis extending in the first direction. The rocking absorbing mechanism is provided between the coupling member and the slide member, between the shaft and the piston, or between the piston and an inner wall of the guide part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A positive displacement machine comprising:
a case including a tubular guide part in which a pressure chamber is provided;
a slide member including a shaft extending in a first direction and a piston provided at an end portion of the shaft and disposed in the guide part, the slide member sliding in the first direction;
a coupling member coupled to the slide member and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;
a first rotating member coupled to one end of the coupling member and configured to rotate around a first rotation axis extending in the second direction; and
a rocking absorbing bearing configured to absorb a rocking motion of the piston around an axis extending in the first direction, wherein
the rocking absorbing bearing is provided at a first position between the coupling member and the slide member in the second direction.

2. The positive displacement machine according to claim 1 , wherein the rocking absorbing bearing is provided between the coupling member and the shaft of the slide member and configured to allow one of the coupling member and the shaft to rock with respect to the other around the axis extending in the first direction.

3. The positive displacement machine according to claim 1 , wherein the rocking absorbing bearing is provided between the shaft and the piston and configured to allow one of the shaft and the piston to rock with respect to the other around the axis extending in the first direction.

4. The positive displacement machine according to claim 2 , wherein the rocking absorbing bearing is configured by one of a sliding bearing and a rolling bearing.

5. The positive displacement machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second rotating member coupled to another end of the coupling member and configured to rotate around a second rotation axis extending in the second direction;
a first shaft member coupled to the first rotating member and configured to rotate around the first rotation axis of the first rotating member; and
a second shaft member coupled to the second rotating member and configured to rotate around the second rotation axis of the second rotating member, wherein
the second rotating member and the second shaft member are disposed on an opposite side of the first rotating member and the first shaft member with respect to the slide member and rotate in an opposite direction of a rotating direction of the first rotating member and the first shaft member.

6. A compressor comprising:
the positive displacement machine according to claim 1 ; and
a motor configured to rotate the first rotating member, wherein
the piston compresses gas flowing into the pressure chamber.

7. A cooling device comprising:
the compressor according to claim 6 configured to compress working fluid in a gas phase;
a condenser configured to condense the working fluid in the gas phase compressed by the compressor into the working fluid in a liquid phase;
an expander configured to decompress the working fluid in the liquid phase condensed by the condenser and change the working fluid in the liquid phase to the working fluid in a mixed phase of the liquid phase and the gas phase; and
an evaporator connected to a cooling target to transfer heat and configured to change the working fluid flowing from the expander to the working fluid in the gas phase with heat transferred from the cooling target and discharge the changed working fluid in the gas phase to the compressor.

8. An electronic apparatus comprising the cooling device according to claim 7 .

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Katsuda Osamu
• Yamakawa Hidemasa
• Nagatani Kaname
• Abe Tomoki

Classifications

• F04B35/01

  the means being mechanical · CPC title

• F25B2500/06

  Damage · CPC title

• F04B39/042

  sealing being provided on the piston · CPC title

• F04B39/041

  sealing for a reciprocating rod (sealing in general F16J) · CPC title

• F04B39/0016

  with valve arranged in the piston · CPC title