Compressor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2020408302-A1
Application number	US-202016863960-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 30, 2020
Priority date	Jun 26, 2019
Publication date	Dec 31, 2020
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention discloses a compressor configured to compress gas. The compressor includes: a cylinder part; a piston disposed in the cylinder part to form in the cylinder part a compression chamber in which the gas is compressed, the piston being configured to compress the gas in the compression chamber; a first sealing part located adjacent to the compression chamber and attached to an outer circumference of the piston, and formed mainly containing at least one type of component that is selected from a group of polyetheretherketone, polyimide, and polybenzimidazole; and a second sealing part located more separated from the compression chamber than the first sealing part is from the compression chamber and attached to the outer circumference of the piston, the second sealing part having a hardness equal to or smaller than that of the first sealing part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A compressor configured to compress gas, the compressor comprising:
a cylinder part; a piston disposed in the cylinder part to form in the cylinder part a compression chamber in which the gas is compressed, the piston being configured to compress the gas in the compression chamber; a first sealing part attached to an outer circumference of the piston and formed mainly containing at least one type of component that is selected from a group of polyetheretherketone, polyimide, and polybenzimidazole; and a second sealing part located more separated from the compression chamber than the first sealing part is from the compression chamber and attached to the outer circumference of the piston, the second sealing part having a hardness equal to or smaller than that of the first sealing part.

2 . The compressor according to claim 1 , further comprising a third sealing part located on the opposite side of the second sealing part from the first sealing part in an axial direction of the cylinder part and attached to the outer circumference of the piston,
wherein the piston and the cylinder part form a non-compression chamber located on the opposite side of the piston from the compression chamber, and the third sealing part is located closer to the non-compression chamber than the second sealing part is to the non-compression chamber and is formed mainly containing at least one type of component that is selected from a group of polyetheretherketone, polyimide, and polybenzimidazole.

3 . The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the first sealing part includes two ring elements respectively extending circumferentially along the outer circumference of the piston,
fitting openings extending from an outer circumference to an inner circumference of each of the two ring elements are respectively formed in the two ring elements, and the two ring elements are overlapped in the axial direction of the cylinder part and attached to the outer circumference of the piston such that the fitting openings of the two ring elements are not overlapped with each other.

4 . The compressor according to claim 3 , wherein the second sealing part includes: a soft ring element formed mainly containing at least one type of component that is selected from a group of polytetrafluoroethylene and modified polytetrafluoroethylene; and a hard ring element formed mainly containing at least one type of component that is selected from a group of polyetheretherketone, polyimide, and polybenzimidazole, the hard ring element being overlapped with the soft ring element from the opposite side from the compression chamber, and the second sealing part has a hardness equal to or smaller than that of the first sealing part.

5 . The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the piston and the cylinder part form the compression chamber of a first compression chamber and a second compression chamber that is located on the opposite side from the first compression chamber in the axial direction of the cylinder part, and
the first sealing part includes a plurality of the first sealing parts respectively located closer to the first compression chamber and the second compression chamber than the second sealing part is to the first compression chamber and the second compression chamber, the first sealing parts being attached to the outer circumference of the piston.

6 . The compressor according to claim 2 , further comprising a crank mechanism formed to reciprocate the piston in the cylinder part.

7 . The compressor according to claim 6 , comprising a piston rod configured to transmit driving force of the crank mechanism to the piston; a first packing part configured to seal a space between the cylinder part and an outer circumference of the piston rod; and a second packing part located closer to the crank mechanism than the first packing part is to the crank mechanism and configured to seal a space between the cylinder part and the outer circumference of the piston rod,
wherein the first packing part is formed mainly containing at least one type of component that is selected from a group of polyetheretherketone, polyimide, and polybenzimidazole, and the second packing part is softer than the first packing part.

Assignees

• Kobe Steel Ltd

Inventors

• Kanei Naofumi
• Otsuka Tomohiro

Classifications

• F04B53/164

  Stoffing boxes · CPC title

• F16J9/28

  of non-metals · CPC title

• F16J15/002 Primary

  comprising at least two sealings in succession (F16J15/162, F16J15/40 take precedence) · CPC title

• F16J15/56

  Other sealings for reciprocating rods · CPC title

• F04B39/042 Primary

  sealing being provided on the piston · CPC title