Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated

Kazuo Ikeda

Shigeru Machida

Hiroaki Hata

Nobuo Abe

Kenji Tojo

Masami Masuda

Masahiro Takebayashi

Yozo Nakamura

Akira Arai

Hiroshi Iwata

Mitsuaki Haneda

Tunehiro Endo

Naoyuki Tanaka

Kazuo Sekigami

Toshio Yamanaka

Motohiro Shiga

Shigeya Kawaminami

Akihiko Ishiyama

Keiji Taguchi

Yukio Serizawa

Yoshihisa Uneyama

Kouichi Ihara

Atushi Shimada

Kooichi Inaba

Shin Ishihara

Hidenari Takada

Kunio Fukami

Tatuya Wakana

Takeoshi Katoh

Yuichi Yamada

Masanori Wakaizumi

Nobutoshi Hoshino

Tatuo Horie

A closed type motor-driven compressor includes a motor accommodated in a closed container and a compression mechanism connected through a crank shaft to the motor. A shielding member having a cylindrical portion substantially concentric with the axis of the compression mechanism is disposed between the motor and the compression mechanism. This shielding member defines a shielding air space between the motor and the compression mechanism for preventing a permeation of a lubricating oil. An inlet of a discharge pipe of the closed type motor-driven compressor is positioned inwardly of this shielding air space.

Closed type motor-driven compressor, a scroll compressor and a scroll

A scroll compressor has an orbiting scroll which operatively meshes with a stationary scroll to define compression chambers therebetween. This orbiting scroll is driven by an electric motor through a crank-shaft, and makes an orbiting movement while being prevented from rotating about its own axis by a rotation preventing member. The crankshaft is journalled by at least two sliding bearings which are arranged respectively on the both sides of the electric motor, and the mast remotely distanced bearing from the orbiting scroll has a self-aligning function which enables it to change its attitude in accordance with any inclination of the crankshaft. Further, a balance and a counter weight are provided on the crankshaft to counterbalance the centrifugal force produced by the orbiting scroll and the inertial force produced by the rotation preventing member.

Scroll compressor with improved bearing

In a dust removing system, the level of influence of dust sticking to an objective lens of an optical head is detected from either an amount of light emitted from the optical head and reflected from an optical head or from an access time. Three stages of levels with regard to the degree of influence of the dust are set in accordance with such detection value, and a different message for the removal of dust is indicated on a display unit in response to the level of the influence. When the influence is low, a dust removing mechanism is automatically rendered operative to remove the dust. At the first level at which the influence of dust is low, the optical disk in the optical disk device is discharged and cleaning of the objective lens is performed, and an indication is provided on the display unit representing that cleaning is proceeding. When the second stage is detected, the optical disk in the optical disk device is discharged, and a message is indicated on the display unit representing that cleaning of the objective lens should be performed using a cleaning disk. When the third stage is detected, a message is indicated on the display unit representing that cleaning of the objective lens should be performed by manual operation.

Dust removing system for optical disk device

A hermetic rotary compressor has a motor unit composed of a stator and a rotor which are arranged in an upper portion of a hermetic housing, an oil-lubricated compressor unit arranged in a lower portion of the hermetic housing, a crank shaft which interconnects said motor unit and said compressor unit, a discharging silencer which is formed by a lower bearing of the compressor unit positioned around the lower end of the crank shaft and a cover of the lower bearing. The hermetic rotary compressor further has a lower balancing weight mounted around a lower shaft end portion of the crank shaft which extends to a position below the discharging silencer and a weight cup surrounding the lower balancing weight. In this hermetic rotary compressor, the lower balancing weight is not disposed within the discharging silencer. Hence, even is the gas-liquid mixture of refrigerant is discharged from the discharging valve into the silencer chamber in the start-up or during liquid-back operation of the compressor, there is no risk that the lower balancing weight undesirably stirs such a fluid.

Hermetic rotary compressor with balancing weights

A motor-driven compressor used as a compressor or high-pressure gas generator for a refrigerating cycle, in which the output torque of the electric motor for driving the compressor is controlled so as to make the output torque agree with the load torque required for performing compression in any revolutional angular position of the driving main shaft to thereby reduce revolutional torsional vibrations caused by disagreement between the load torque and the output torque.

Motor-driven compressor provided with torque control device

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Tochigi, Japan

Kazuo Ikeda