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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2014
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoyuki Kado, Tokyo, JP;
Ryusuke Oshiro, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention is directed to reducing pressure-reduction time while preventing foaming in an oil-separation device during capacity control of a compressor, and to avoid startup congestion. This oil-supply-type compressor includes a main body, an oil-separation device, and an air-discharge passage for discharging compressed air during capacity control of the compressor. The air-discharge passage includes passages having large and small flow volumes, and when compressed air is discharged from the passage to the atmosphere during capacity control, the pressure in the oil-separation device is discharged using the large-flow-volume passage, until the pressure reaches or falls below a restarting-possible pressure, which is the pressure at which startup congestion does not occur when the compressor main body is restarted. When the pressure in the oil separation device reaches a prescribed pressure, which is less than or equal to the restarting-possible pressure and higher than a foaming pressure, the pressure is discharged using the small-flow-volume passage.