Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Norihide Kobayashi

Toshiyuki Nakamura

Tsutomu Inaba

Masahiko Oide

Masahiro Sugihara

Fumiaki Sano

Hiroshi Ogawa

Tadashi Kimura

Takashi Yamamoto

Minoru Ishii

Katsuyoshi Wada

Yoshinori Shirafuji

Tetsuzo Matsugi

Keiji Sakaino

Eiji Watanabe

Masayuki Kakuda

Kiyoharu Ikeda

Yoshihide Ogawa

Yasuyuki Suzuki

Shuji Motegi

Noboru Masuda

Tsutomi Inaba

The invention concerns a high-reliability scroll compressor with little moment for making a fixed scroll unstable. A scroll compressor comprising in a sealed vessel a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll being combined with the fixed scroll for forming a compression space, and executing orbiting motion with respect to the fixed scroll, a frame for axially supporting the orbiting scroll and radially supporting a drive shaft, and a seal member being disposed in an axial gap between a high and low pressure separator stuck to the frame by any method and the fixed scroll, wherein a base plate outer peripheral surface of the fixed scroll is radially supported by a stationary member coaxial with the base plate outer peripheral surface, and wherein with the stationary member as a guide, the fixed scroll can make axial movement within a range in which it interferes with the orbiting scroll downward in the axial direction and with the high and low pressure separator upward in the axial direction.

Scroll compressor with axial biasing

The invention concerns a high-reliability scroll compressor with little moment for making a fixed scroll unstable. A scroll compressor comprising in a sealed vessel a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll being combined with the fixed scroll for forming a compression space, and executing orbiting motion with respect to the fixed scroll, a frame for axially supporting the orbiting scroll and radially supporting a drive shaft, and a seal member being disposed in an axial gap between a high and low pressure separator stuck to the frame by any method and the fixed scroll. A base plate outer peripheral surface of the fixed scroll is radially supported by a stationary member coaxial with the base plate outer peripheral surface, and with the stationary member as a guide. The fixed scroll can make axial movement within a range in which it interferes with the orbiting scroll downward in the axial direction and with the high and low pressure separator upward in the axial direction.

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 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 scroll type compressor having a main frame, a sub frame and a crankshaft rotatably mounted in the main frame and the sub frame via a main frame bushing and a sub frame bushing, further includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll cooperable with the fixed scroll to compress gas, the orbiting scroll being drivingly mounted on the eccentric shaft portion. A barrel shaped band portion faces the crankshaft and presents a convex surface in at least one of a respective force direction of a compressive load generated in a compression chamber formed between the orbiting scroll and the fixed scroll, and a reactive force direction of a centrifugal load generated by a revolution movement of the orbiting scroll and rotary movements of upper and lower balance weights. The barrel shaped band portion is formed on the sub frame bushing.

Scroll type compressor having a convex surface on the sub frame bushing

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 crankshaft having an eccentric shaft portion formed thereon; an orbiting scroll which is given torque by the crankshaft through the eccentric shaft portion; and bearing means for rotatably supporting the crankshaft; wherein at least one of the eccentric shaft portion and the bearing means is constituted by a rotatably engaged bushing and a curved surface portion.

Scroll type compressor having curved bearing surfaces

Scroll type compressor having curved surface portions between the shaft

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.

Scroll type compressor with frames supporting the crankshaft

A scroll type fluid transferring machine comprises a stationary scroll having a wrap member, a movable scroll having a wrap member combined with the stationary scroll, a driving means for causing the movement of revolution of the movable scroll along a circular orbit so as to make the movable scroll line-contact with the stationary scroll whereby a closed space is produced between the stationary and movable scrolls, and an Oldham ring for maintaining the stationary and movable scrolls at predetermined positions while the movement of rotation of the both scrolls are prevented, wherein the Oldham ring is formed by injection-molding at least one thermoplastic resinous material selected from the group consisting of polyphenylene sulfide, polyetheretherketone, polyetherketone, wholly aromatic polyester, polysulfone, polyarylsulfone, polyethersulfone, polyetherimide, polyoxybenzyliden polyketonsulfide, polythioethersulfone and polyarylate.

Scroll type fluid transferring machine with thermoplastic Oldham ring

A scroll type compressor, wherein the oil feeding passage of the thrust bearing to be interposed between the orbiting scroll member and the bearing support is so constructed as to having its terminal part within a plane of the thrust bearing, and a part of each of the passages is made to open at a position where it is intermittently communicating with the guide grooves of the orbiting scroll member.

Scroll compressor with oil feeding passages in thrust bearing

A scroll-type compressor is disclosed which has a novel thrust bearing for supporting an orbiting scroll. The thrust bearing is annular and is supported by a bearing support frame which has a plurality of oil return holes formed therein. The diameter of the thrust bearing is smaller than the diameter of the orbiting scroll and of an Oldham coupling which guides the orbiting scroll. The thrust bearing has a plurality of oil passageways for lubricating oil formed therein whose inner ends open onto the central hole and whose outer ends communicate with the oil return holes and do not extend to the outer periphery of the bearing. The oil passageways are always covered by the orbiting scroll. In one form of the invention, the oil passageways are in the form of grooves formed in the upper surface of the bearing and through holes which communicate between the outer ends of the grooves and the oil return holes. In another form of the invention, the oil passageways are slits formed through the depth of the bearing. In another form of the invention, the oil passageways are a combination of slits formed through the depth of the bearing, through holes which communicate with the oil return holes, and grooves formed in the upper surface of the bearing which extend between the slits and the through holes.

Scroll-type compressor with oil passageway in thrust bearing

A scroll-type fluid transferring machine has stationary and oscillatable scroll members, each being provided with a base plate and a wrap plate projecting from a surface of the base plate, which are combined in such a manner that a plurality of compression chambers are formed by the surfaces of the base plates and wrap plates and a fluid contained in the chambers is transferred, compressed or expanded by the revolution of the oscillatable scroll member. The scroll-type fluid transferring machine comprises a first fine adjustment element having the same spiral form as the wrap plate of the stationary scroll member; a second fine adjustment element having the same spiral form as the wrap plate of the oscillatable scroll member; a first guide groove having the same spiral form as the first fine adjustment element and being formed in the top end surface of the wrap plate of the stationary scroll member; a second guide groove having the same spiral form as the second fine adjustment element and being formed in the top end surface of the wrap plate of the oscillatable scroll member, wherein the first and second fine adjustment elements are respectively received in the first and second guide grooves so that gaps between the end surface of the wrap plates and the surface of the base plates facing the wrap plates are finely adjusted.

Scroll-type fluid transferring machine with gap adjustment between

A scroll-type fluid transferring machine of an improved construction, in which the bottom surface of the base plate of the orbiting scroll member and the bearing surface of the thrust bearing are well adapted even under a thrusting force during compression of the operating fluid, such scroll-type fluid transferring machine having its feature such that the surface of the thrust bearing to support the base plate of the orbiting scroll member, or the surface of the base plate of the scroll member supported by the thrust bearing is slanted in the radial direction so as to form the surface thereof in a center-concaved shape, wherein the inner peripheral side is concaved with respect to the outer peripheral side at a very small distance in the axial direction, or that an axial projection which is concentric with the thrust bearing and has a narrow width in the radial direction is provided between the opposed surfaces of the thrust bearing and the bearing frame in the vicinity of the center part in the radial direction between the inner peripheral side and the outer peripheral side of the thrust bearing, and further space gaps are provided between the mutually opposed surfaces at the inner peripheral side and the outer peripheral side of the projection.

Scroll-type fluid transferring machine with deformable thrust bearing

A scroll compressor is provided with a main shaft to drive an orbiting scroll whereby fluid in a compression chamber which is formed by combining a stationary scroll with the orbiting scroll is compressed and then is discharged from the scroll compressor. To prevent a refrigerant gas in an eccetric recess formed in the main shaft from mixing with a lubricating oil, a conduit is formed in the main shaft to communicate the eccentric recess with a space between the lower part of the orbiting scroll and the upper part of the main shaft.

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Wakayama, Japan

Norihide Kobayashi