Tokico, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Katsushi Hidano

Susumu Sakamoto

Yoshio Kobayashi

Kiminori Iwano

Yuji Komai

Junichi Nagasawa

Toshitsugu Suzuki

Kazutaka Suefuji

Koji Fukui

Kazunari Komatsu

Susumu Sugiura

Yasuhiko Sekino

A scroll fluid machine is capable of readily providing a back-pressure chamber having an increased pressure-receiving area and yet capable of being reduced in size. A fixed scroll member is secured to a casing. An orbiting scroll member is provided at a position facing the fixed scroll member. A holder is provided at the back of the orbiting scroll member, and a coupling member is provided to face the orbiting scroll member across the holder. The coupling member couples together the orbiting scroll member and a driving shaft and performs an orbiting motion together with the orbiting scroll member. A back-pressure plate is provided at the back of the orbiting scroll member, and a back-pressure chamber is formed between the back-pressure plate and the holder.

Scroll fluid machine including back-pressure chamber with increased pressure receiving area

A scroll fluid machine having a lubrication pump provided between sliding contact surfaces of an orbiting scroll member and a thrust bearing in a casing. The pump has an orbiting member accommodating recess provided in the sliding contact surface of the thrust bearing. An orbiting member projects from the sliding contact surface of the orbiting scroll member into the recess. A slide plate defines a suction chamber and a discharge chamber in the recess. As the orbiting scroll member orbits, the orbiting member orbits in the recess, causing a lubricant contained in the casing to be sucked from a suction passage and delivered to the inside of a boss portion accommodating an orbiting bearing.

Scroll fluid machine

A scroll fluid machine includes a fixed scroll member having an end plate which is formed such that a central portion of the end plate which corresponds approximately to 1.5 to 2 turns of a wrap portion from its spiral starting end (innermost end) is a thick-walled portion having a relatively large plate thickness, and an outer peripheral portion of the end plate which lies radially outside the thick-walled portion is a thin-walled portion. The thickness of the thick-walled portion is set to be about 1.4 to 1.6 times the thickness of the thin-walled portion. By reducing thermal resistance at the thick-walled portion of the end plate, heat from compression chambers are conducted to radiating fins, thereby suppressing the transfer of the heat to the thin-walled portion.

Scroll fluid machine having end plate with greater center thickness

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Katsushi Hidano