Compressor system, and puncture repair kit using same
AssigneesSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Unik World Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsTsutomu Kono, Yoshihide Kojima, Vincent Chou
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Abstract
The pressure of compressed air supplied to an object to be filled with air is controlled at a specified pressure or less without using a relief valve. Given that a cylinder volume (stroke volume) during a piston moves from the lower dead point to the top dead point is V1, a cylinder volume (compression volume) when the piston reaches the top dead point is V2, the atmospheric pressure is P0, and the specified pressure is PP, the compression volume V2 in the compressor system satisfies the following expression (1). The diameter D of the air intake hole of an air intake valve provided on the piston is 3 to 15 mm. 0.8×{V1×P0/(PP−P0)}=<V2<1.0×{V1×P0/(PP−P0)} (1)
Claims8
A compressor system comprising:
- a motor,
- a piston driven by the motor through a crank mechanism,
- a cylinder having a cylinder main body forming a pump chamber housing the piston reciprocably from a lower dead point to a top dead point and compressing air between the piston and itself,
- a cylinder subpart forming a surge chamber for receiving the compressed air compressed in the pump chamber through an air release valve,
- an air intake valve having an air intake hole penetrating through the piston to take outside air into the pump chamber,
- a valving element formed from a leaf spring closing a pump chamber side of the air intake hole with its elasticity, and
- an air supplying passage for sending and supplying the compressed air from the surge chamber toward outside,
- wherein the diameter D of the air intake hole is 3 to 15 mm,
- wherein a maximum supply pressure PP is specified for the compressed air to be supplied and an atmospheric pressure is specified as P0
- wherein a pressure ratio P is defined as P0/(PP−P0),
- wherein a stroke volume V1 is a cylinder volume between the lower dead point to the top dead point,
- wherein a compression volume V2 is a cylinder volume when the piston is at the top dead point, and
- wherein V2 is in a range defined by the following equation:
- 0.8×{V1×P}≤V2<1.0×{V1×P}
- whereby, without using any relief valve, the compressor system is able to supply the compressed air whose supply pressure is controlled not to increase beyond the specified maximum supply pressure PP.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.