Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Eiichi Aikawa

Takayoshi Fujiwara

Yoshinori Sone

Hisanori Honma

Takuya Hirayama

Toshikatsu Iida

Moriaki Shimoda

Kazuichi Nishitsuji

Yukio Haraguchi

Sumio Minagawa

A compressor having a cylinder and a cylindrical rotational body housed within the cylinder. A spiral groove is formed in the outer peripheral surface of the rotational body, and a spiral blade is fitted in the groove so as to be freely retreated in and projected from the groove in the radial direction of the rotational body. The cylinder and the rotational body are rotated relative to each other by a drive mechanism. A fluid to be compressed is introduced into working chambers defined by the blade, the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder and the outer peripheral surface of the rotational body. The fluid is first guided into the first working chamber from a gas suction port, and then into the second and subsequent working chambers successively, whereby the fluid is compressed. An oil supply mechanism supplies pressurized oil to an oil supply hole formed in the rotational body. The oil supply hole communicates with that area of the bottom of the spiral groove, which corresponds to the position where the second and subsequent working chambers begin when the suction stroke of the first working chamber ends. The pressurized oil urges the outer peripheral surface of the blade onto the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder.

Axial flow fluid compressor with oil supply passage through rotor

A compressor has a cylindrical casing unit having at least one open end. A compression element includes a circular cylinder held in the casing unit, a cylindrical rotating body having at least one spiral groove on its outer periphery and eccentrically arranged in the cylinder, and a spiral blade wrapped on the rotating body and fitted in the spiral groove in a manenr to be freely displaceable relative to the spiral groove. The cylinder and rotating body are journaled in a bearing means. A frame includes a cylindrical section intimately inserted into an open end of the casing unit and a disc section blocking the cylindrical section and provided orthogonal to an axis of the cylindrical section, the frame blocking the open end of the casing unit and supporting the bearing means. An electrically operating element has a stator fixed to an inner wall of the casing unit and rotor fixed to an outer periphery of the cylinder with a motor air gap defined relative to the stator, the electrically operating element rotationally driving the compression element to allow a relative rotation to be made between the cylinder and the rotating unit.

Axial flow compressor with insertable bearing mount

A fluid compressor includes a cylinder having first and second discharge ends, in which a rotating rod is rotatably arranged. First and second spiral grooves are formed on the outer circumference of the rod, and first and second spiral blades are fitted into the grooves. The first groove has a first starting end located in the middle portion of the rod, and extends from the starting end toward the first discharge end. The second groove has a second starting end located in the middle portion of the rod, and extends from the second starting end toward the second discharge end. The first and second starting ends are set apart from each other by a certain angle in the circumferential direction of the rod. Operating fluid is introduced into the middle portion in the cylinder, and fed to the first and second discharge ends of the cylinder through operating chambers defined by the first and second blades in the cylinder.

Fluid compressor

A fluid compressor includes a closed case and a cylinder which is arranged in the case and has two opposite ends. A columnar rotating rod is located in the cylinder to be eccentric thereto, and rotatable along with the cylinder. The rod has a spiral groove on the outer circumferential surface thereof, and a spiral blade is fitted in the groove to divide the space between the rod and the cylinder into a plurality of operating chambers. The ends of the cylinder are rotatably supported by first and second bearings. The first bearing is secured to the casing. A drive unit for rotating the cylinder and rod includes a rotor fixed to the cylinder. The rotor has the center of gravity which is apart from the middle of the cylinder in its axial direction toward the first bearing.

An enclosed type compressor comprises a casing, a compressor mechanism including a cylinder and a piston reciprocatable in the cylinder provided in the casing, and an electric motor having an output driving shaft also provided vertically in the casing. A main bearing supporting the output shaft is secured to a frame member made of a steel plate at a plurality of positions on both sides of the output shaft and the cylinder of the compression mechanism is secured to the frame member or to the main bearing at positions between the cylinder side securing position of the main bearing and the output shaft as viewed in a plan view.

Enclosed type compressor

A closed type compressor comprises a case, a frame provided within the case, and a compressor and an electric motor, both of which are attached to the frame. The frame is constituted by an elongated sheet material member and a plurality of embossed portions integrally formed at the positions of the sheet material member capable of being seen by the eye both from above and from below and used to mount thereon the compression means and the motor means, respectively. The sheet material member is comprised of a central portion, leg portions formed by bending end portions of the sheet material member substantially perpendicular thereto, and ends formed by bending tip ends of the leg portions substantially perpendicular thereto so as to face the central portion.

Closed type compressor

An electric compressor including a cylinder having a cylinder chamber and inlet and outlet ports opening into the chamber, a piston capable of reciprocating in the chamber and having a first operative face with a first peripheral edge portion inclined at a given angle, a rotating member capable of rotating in the chamber and having an outer peripheral surface capable of opening and closing the inlet and outlet ports, and a second operative face with a second peripheral edge portion inclined at the given angle and capable of being in sliding contact with the first edge portion, the first and second operative face and the peripheral surface of the chamber defining a compression chamber, pushing device for pushing the piston toward the rotating member, and a motor for rotating the rotating member. The inlet and outlet ports are opened and closed and the piston is reciprocated so that gas is sucked into the compression chamber through the inlet port, compressed, and discharged through the outlet port.

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Yokohama, Japan

Eiichi Aikawa