Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Katsuyoshi Wada

Hiroshi Ogawa

Minoru Ishii

Toshiyuki Nakamura

Takashi Yamamoto

Fumiaki Sano

Norihide Kobayashi

Kiyoharu Ikeda

Masahiko Oide

Tatsuya Sugita

Masaji Hagiwara

A scroll type compressor which includes a compression unit, a crankshaft having an oil passage therein, and an electric motor stator having an oil return hole. An oil pump feeds oil into the oil passage of the crankshaft, and an oil drain tube receives return oil from the compression unit and feeds the oil to the oil return hole of the electric motor stator. The drain oil tube advantageously includes an upper nonflexible drain opening which receives oil from the compression unit. The oil then passes through a nonflexible portion which includes a bend or bent portion, and then to a flexible portion which extends from the elbow into the oil return hole of the electric motor stator.

Scroll type compressor having drain oil tube with flexible and

A reliable scroll-type compressor is provided which, even when the compressor is rotated in the reverse direction by the erroneous connection of the power source terminals for example, is prevented from establishing a vacuum state within the compression chamber and no damages occur in the addendum of the stationary scroll and the orbiting scroll. The compressor includes a gear pump which includes a pump case and a pump port. The arrangement of the present invention is such that the pump case alone rotates by 180 degrees upon the reverse rotation of the motor, so that lubricating oil which is at the bottom of a hermetic vessel can be ensured to be supplied by the gear pump to each sliding portion of the compressor.

Scroll compressor having a gear oil pump accommodating reverse rotation

A reliable scroll-type compressor is provided which, even when the compressor is rotated in the reverse direction by the erroneous connection of the power source terminals for example, it prevented from establishing a vacuum state within the compression chamber and no damages occur in the addendum of the stationary scroll and the orbiting scroll. Since the sliding surface of the slider is arranged to have an angle so that the slider is moved therealong in the direction in which the revolution radius of the orbiting scroll of the compressor is decreased, a clearance is generated between the stationary scroll and the orbiting scroll upon the reverse rotation.

Scroll-type compressor having radial scroll clearance during reverse

Scroll-type compressor having clearances during reverse rotation and

A scroll type compressor which includes a spacer between the fixed scroll base plate and the frame, with the spacer disposed about the orbiting scroll. The spacer is coupled to the fixed scroll and frame, and can be coupled to a center shell of the compressor, for example, by a shrinkage fit. Further, one or more bolts extend from the fixed scroll base plate through the spacer and into the frame. In addition, one or more bolts can be provided which extend from the spacer to the frame to provide for positioning of the spacer with respect to the frame.

Scroll type compressor having a spacer coupling the fixed scroll to the

A reliable scroll-type compressor is provided which, even when the compressor is rotated in the reverse direction by the erroneous connection of the power source terminals for example, is prevented from establishing a vacuum state within the compression chamber and no damages occur in the addendum arranged to have an angle so that the slider is moved therealong in the direction in which the revolution radius of the orbiting scroll of the compressor is decreased, a clearance is generated between the stationary scroll and the orbiting scroll upon the reverse rotation.

Scroll-type compressor having decreased eccentricity upon reverse

A scroll type compressor comprising: a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll which have their base plates provided with wraps thereon, the wraps being combined to form a compression chamber therebetween; a frame for fixedly supporting the fixed scroll, the frame having a bearing at a central portion; a crankshaft supported by the frame bearing to be rotatable, and having an electric motor rotor to give torque to the orbiting scroll; a subframe having a central portion provided with a bearing for supporting a lower end of the crankshaft; the frame having an upper annular surface and an outer peripheral wall portion extending upwardly from the upper annular surface; the orbiting scroll is disposed within the peripheral wall portion; and a plate is disposed above the upper annular surface and below the base plate of the orbiting scroll.

Scroll type compressor having a thrust plate in a frame recess

A scroll type compressor comprising: a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll which have their base plates provided with wraps thereon, the wraps being combined to form a compression chamber therebetween; a frame for fixedly supporting the fixed scroll, the frame having a bearing at a central portion; a crankshaft supported by the frame bearing to be rotatable, and having an electric motor rotor to give torque to the orbiting scroll; a subframe having a central portion provided with a bearing for supporting a lower end of the crankshaft; a center shell having a terminal member and an electric motor stator, having an inner peripheral surface formed with a stepped portion to be engaged with a stepped portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the frame, the center shell having the frame fixed thereto by shrinkage fit at a location above or below the stepped portion of the center shell, and also having the subframe fixed to a lower end thereof; and concentric assemblage jig mounting portions formed in the frame and the subframe, respectively, to be concentric with the bearings.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Katsuyoshi Wada