A reciprocating compressor includes a motor having a motor shaft, four cylinders provided in perpendicular directions relative to an axial direction of the motor shaft, and four pistons Each piston has a piston head part and a rod part formed integrally with the piston head part. Each piston head pa
A reciprocating compressor includes a motor having a motor shaft, four cylinders provided in perpendicular directions relative to an axial direction of the motor shaft, and four pistons Each piston has a piston head part and a rod part formed integrally with the piston head part. Each piston head part is fitted into one of the four cylinders in a reciprocable fashion. Each rod part is rotatably mounted to an eccentric shaft that is fixed to the motor shaft.
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1. A reciprocating compressor comprising: a motor having a motor shaft;a casing accommodating the motor shaft;four cylinders provided in perpendicular directions relative to an axial direction of the motor shaft, the four cylinders being a first cylinder, a second cylinder, a third cylinder and a fo
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A reciprocating compressor comprising: a motor having a motor shaft;a casing accommodating the motor shaft;four cylinders provided in perpendicular directions relative to an axial direction of the motor shaft, the four cylinders being a first cylinder, a second cylinder, a third cylinder and a fourth cylinder; andfour pistons, with each piston having a piston head part fitted into one of the four cylinders in a reciprocal fashion, anda rod part formed integrally with the piston head part, the rod part being rotatably mounted to an eccentric shaft that is fixed to the motor shaft,a plurality of exhaust passages each connected to inside of one of the four cylinders;a plurality of intake passages each connected to inside of one of the four cylinders,two of the exhaust passages respectively connected to the first cylinder and the second cylinder adjacent to each other share a first conduit formed inside the casing parallel to the motor shaft and disposed between the first cylinder and a second cylinder,two of the exhaust passages respectively connected to the third cylinder and the fourth cylinder adjacent to each other share another first conduit formed inside the casing parallel to the motor shaft and disposed between the third cylinder and the fourth cylinder,two of the intake passage respectively connected to the second cylinder and the third cylinder adjacent to each other share a second conduit formed inside the casing parallel to the motor shaft and disposed between the second cylinder and the third cylinder, andtwo of the intake passages respectively connected to the first cylinder and the fourth cylinder adjacent to each other share another second conduit formed inside the casing parallel to the motor shaft and disposed between the first cylinder and the fourth cylinder. 2. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, wherein two of the four cylinders are disposed along a first straight line passing through a center of the motor shaft, andtwo of the four cylinders are disposed along a second straight line which is perpendicular to the first straight line, the second straight line also passing through the center of the motor shaft. 3. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, wherein the piston head parts of the four pistons are arranged to make intake-compression strokes while maintaining a ninety-degree phase difference relative to each other. 4. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, wherein each of the rod parts of the four pistons is rotatably mounted to a single, common eccentric shaft that is fixed to the motor shaft. 5. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, wherein the casing is provided with a plurality of first positioning parts,each of the four cylinders is provided with a second positioning part disposed so as to correspond to one of the first positioning parts, andeach of the four cylinders is positioned by the second positioning part and a corresponding one of the first positioning parts so as to align an axial center of the cylinder and an axial center of the piston head part of the piston. 6. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of adjust members, with each adjust member being provided between neighboring ones of the rod parts of the pistons in an axial direction of the motor shaft, each of which adjust members adjusts a position of a rod part. 7. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, wherein each of the four cylinders includes: a cylindrical main body part provided in an axial direction of the cylinder; anda sheet plane member fixed to an end of the main body part by a bolt, and whereinthe main body part and the plane member have an elastic member provided therebetween. 8. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, wherein each piston head part has a retaining plate fixed to the piston lead part by a bolt with an elastic spacer provided therebetween. 9. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, further comprising: at least one of a shared intake passage uniting the plurality of intake passages, anda shared exhaust passage uniting the plurality of exhaust passages,the at least one of the shared intake passage and the shared exhaust passage overlapping at least one of an axial region and a peripheral region thereof, with the axial region extending in the axial direction of the motor shaft. 10. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 9, wherein the at least one of the shared intake passage and the shared exhaust passage is an annular passage extending around the axial region. 11. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 10, wherein the shared exhaust passage is the at least one of the shared intake passage and the shared exhaust passage, and the shared exhaust passage extends two-dimensionally along a plane perpendicular to the axial direction of the motor shaft. 12. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 10, further comprising: a bearing support member provided on a shaft end portion of the motor shaft, the bearing support member being provided with the at least one of the shared exhaust passage and the shared intake passage. 13. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 9, wherein the first parallel portion extends in the axial direction of the motor shaft. 14. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 13, wherein each parallel portion is formed inside the casing. 15. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 9, wherein the motor includes a main body part,the reciprocating compressor includes both the shared intake passage and the shared exhaust passage, which are arranged to sandwich the four cylinders therebetween in the axial direction of the motor shaft, andone of the shared intake passage and the shared exhaust passage is disposed on a shaft end portion side of the motor shaft, and the other of the shared intake passage and the shared exhaust passage is disposed on a main body part side of the motor shaft. 16. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 9, wherein the second parallel portion extends in the axial direction of the motor shaft. 17. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 9, wherein the casing includes a first member and a second member,each exhaust passage passes through the first member,each intake passage passes through the second member, andthe first member and the second member are separate parts, with the first member having higher thermal conductivity than the second member. 18. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 9, wherein each exhaust passage is provided with an adhesive. 19. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, wherein each of the piston head parts has a seal member attached thereto, andthe piston head parts and the seal members are arranged such that a seal plane along the seal member of each piston is out of square with respect to a reference plane including a center of the motor shaft and a center of the eccentric shaft when each piston is at a bottom dead center position. 20. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 19, wherein the piston head parts and the seal members are further arranged such that a sealing surface of each piston head part is out of square with respect to the reference plane when each piston is at the bottom dead center position, the sealing surfaces serving as the sealing planes of the seal members. 21. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 19, wherein the piston head parts and the seal members are further arranged such that an angle formed between the seal plane of each piston and the reference plane at an opposite side to a travel direction of a center of the eccentric shaft is acute with respect to the reference plane when each piston is at the bottom dead center position. 22. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 20,wherein part of each seal member is sandwiched and fixed between the sealing surface of one of the piston head parts and a retainer plate. 23. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 20, wherein the piston head parts and the seal members are further arranged such that e sealing surface of each piston head part is substantially parallel to a compression chamber of the one of the four cylinders in which each piston head part is fitted when each piston is at a top dead center position. 24. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 19, wherein the piston head parts and the seal members are further arranged such that an absolute value of an angle of slope of each seal plane with respect to a plane perpendicular to the reference plane is smaller during a compression stroke than during an intake stroke. 25. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 19, wherein the piston head parts and the seal members are further arranged such that each seal plane is perpendicular to the reference plane when an angle of rotation of the motor shaft is at around an angle with which a PV value of the seal member is maximized. 26. The reciprocating compressor according to claim 1, further comprising: an exhaust gas passage provided inside of at least one of the casing and the four cylinders;a cooling inlet configured to admit a cooling medium into the exhaust passage; anda cooling vent configured to exhaust the cooling medium from the exhaust gas passage. 27. An oxygen concentrator including the reciprocating compressor according to claim 26, the oxygen concentrator further comprising: an adsorption container configured to admit air compressed by the reciprocating compressor, the adsorption container containing an adsorbent which selectively adsorbs nitrogen;a condensed oxygen gas extraction unit configured to extract condensed oxygen gas from the adsorption container;an oxygen tank configured to store the condensed oxygen gas extracted from the adsorption container by the condensed oxygen gas extraction unit; anda gas exhaust member configured to exhaust a nitrogen containing gas desorbed from the adsorbent by reducing pressure of the adsorption container,the cooling medium being the nitrogen-containing gas exhausted from the adsorption container by the gas exhaust member.
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