Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Hitoshi Funami

Masahiko Makino

Minoru Fukumoto

Nobuyuki Nishii

Katsunori Onobayashi

A hermetic compressor comprises a hermetic container, an electric motor installed inside of the hermetic container, a compressing mechanism disposed within the hermetic container and driven by the electric motor, and an oil surface detector disposed to the compressing mechanism for detecting an oil surface of lubricating oil contained inside of the hermetic container. Here, the hermetic compressor is so constructed as to maintain a constant supply of the lubricating oil to the compressing mechanism by way of controlling operation in a manner to keep a surface level of the lubricating oil stable based on a detected result of the oil surface detector.

Hermetic compressor

A motor-driven compressor is driven by a driving device via a single-circuit external wiring system. The motor-driven compressor includes a closed vessel, a compression mechanism accommodated in the closed vessel, and an electric motor accommodated in the closed vessel for driving the compression mechanism. The electric motor includes three-phase stator windings each having two parallel circuits.

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Ikoma, Japan

Hitoshi Funami