Hitachi-johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.

Keiji Sasao

Masaki Koyama

A refrigerant compressor () includes: a sealed vessel (); a compression mechanism () that sucks refrigerant, sucked in the sealed vessel (), for compression; a motor () that drives the compression mechanism (); a suction pipe () for sucking the refrigerant into the sealed vessel () when sucking the refrigerant; a cover () arranged to face an outlet of the suction pipe (), to force the refrigerant sucked through the suction pipe () to collide against the cover for gas-liquid separation, and to allow liquid refrigerant from the separation to drop on a coil () of the motor (); and a suction passage () that introduces gas refrigerant from the gas-liquid separation, for which the refrigerant sucked through the suction pipe is forced to collide against the cover (), to an inlet of the compression chamber provided in the compression mechanism (). Thus, a decrease in density of the refrigerant to be compressed, sucked into the sealed vessel (), can be prevented to prevent a decrease in refrigeration capacity, and the temperature of the motor () can be lowered to improve a motor efficiency.

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Tokyo, Japan

Keiji Sasao