A multi-stage compressor is disclosed, which comprises: two motion
converters driven by one driving shaft and converting a rotary motion to
a straight-line reciprocating motion; first and second pistons (62)
connected to one of the motion converters in opposite directions and
moving reciprocatively in a straight line; and third and fourth pistons
(72) connected to the other one of the motion converters in opposite
directions, arranged at a predetermined angle with respect to the first
and second pistons (62), and moving reciprocatively in a straight line,
and which is characterized in that at least two of the four pistons
operate for first-stage compression and at least one of the others
operate for second-stage compression.