Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Kabushiki Kaisha

Yasuhiro Oki

Shigeru Hisanaga

Shigeki Iwanami

Mitsuo Inagaki

Mikio Matsuda

Yasushi Watanabe

Tetsuya Yamaguchi

Shinya Yamamoto

Tetsuhiko Fukanuma

Hiroshi Ogawa

Kazuhide Uchida

Masao Iguchi

Tetsuo Yoshida

Tadashi Hotta

Izuru Shimizu

Yuichi Tsumagari

Yoichiro Kawamoto

Yuuji Yamamoto

Hiroyasu Kato

Yoshitaka Akiyama

Yuu Sugimoto

Shinsuke Aso

Toyohiro Kanou

A compressor includes a compression mechanism, an electric motor unit, a drive shaft and a housing. A portion of the drive shaft, which is located on one side in an axial direction, is rotatably supported by a main bearing, which is formed integrally in one-piece with or is fixed to a main bearing member of the compression mechanism. Another portion of the drive shaft, which is located on another side in the axial direction, is rotatably supported by a sub-bearing, which is formed integrally in one-piece with or is fixed to an inside of a body portion of a sub-bearing member. The sub-bearing member is formed separately from the housing and is fixed to a bottom surface of a bottom portion of the housing.

Compressor and method for manufacturing compressor

A compressor comprises an oil separator for separating oil from a refrigerant compressed by a compression mechanism unit, and a high-pressure oil storage chamber for storing the oil separated by the oil separator. At least a portion of the oil separator is provided outside a housing. The high-pressure oil storage chamber has an outer wall that is thicker than the outer wall of the housing accommodating the compression mechanism unit, and an end wall of the housing is formed by this thicker outer wall.

Compressor with oil separation and storage

In a compressor connected to a discharge pipe for transferring discharged refrigerant to outside, an oil separator has a near column shaped separation chamber which is formed in a housing and whose one end is opened to a surface of the housing, and a separator pipe having a large diameter portion and a small diameter portion both of which are inserted into the separation chamber. The large diameter portion is press fitted to an inner wall of the separation chamber in a vicinity of the opening end thereof so as to form cylindrical space between the small diameter portion and the inner wall of the separation chamber. Further, the discharged pipe is fluid-tightly connected and directly fixed to the housing at the opening end of the separation chamber.

Compressor with oil separator

A scroll type compressor includes a stationary scroll element, a movable scroll element orbiting about a given axis and cooperating with the stationary scroll element for compressing a fluid in a compression chamber defined between the two scroll elements, and a rotation preventing unit for preventing rotation of the movable scroll element about its own axis. The rotation preventing unit has at least a plurality of pairs of scroll side pins mounted on the movable scroll element and housing side pins mounted on a housing of the compressor. When the compression chamber has a reduced volume of 10 through 22% of an initial volume thereof immediately after completion of sucking of the fluid, at least two of the plurality of scroll side pins are arranged to be symmetrical with one another with respect to a line L.sub.2 which passes through a rotating center O.sub.R of the movable scroll element and is perpendicular to a different line L.sub.1 which passes through the rotating center O.sub.R of the movable scroll element and an orbiting center O.sub.S of the movable scroll element. The two scroll side pins are also arranged on a leading side to the cooperating housing side pins, respectively, in a direction corresponding to a direction of rotation of the movable scroll element about the rotating center O.sub.R.

Scroll type compressor with improved rotation preventing means

A scroll type compressor having a housing unit in which a movable scroll element and a stationary scroll element are received in such a relationship that the movable scroll element orbits about the center of the stationary scroll element. The scroll type compressor further having a mechanical reinforced rotation preventing unit for preventing rotation of the movable scroll element about its own axis, and the rotation preventing unit having first stationary pin fixed to an inner end face of the housing unit and second movable pin fixed to an end face of a base plate of the movable scroll element, and a ring engaged with the first and second rings. A thickness T1 between the outer circumference of the first pin and the inner edge of the inner end face of the housing unit is set to be equal to or larger than 2.4 mm. A thickness T2 between the outer circumference of the second pin and the outer circumference of the base plate of the movable scroll element is set to be equal to or larger than 2.7 mm. A radial wall thickness T3 of the ring between the outer and inner cylindrical surfaces thereof is set to be equal to or larger than 1.7 mm.

Scroll type compressor with a reinforced rotation preventing means

A scroll type compressor comprises a housing and a fixed scroll. A movable scroll is incorporated therebetween, eccentrically engaging with the fixed scroll, and has a rotating center and a revolving center. Pin members are arranged on the end plate of the movable scroll and on the housing. At least one of the pin members of the movable scroll is positioned on a first line and disposed downstream of the corresponding pin member of the housing in the rotating direction, when the volume ratio of a compression chamber is from 10 to 22 percent of the volume of the compression chamber at the time of the conclusion of the suction of medium. The first line passes through the rotating center and is perpendicular to a second line, which passes through the rotating and revolving centers. The compressor also has annular ring members, which contact at least a pair of the pin members of the movable scroll and the housing, to prevent the movable scroll from rotating.

Scroll type compressor having anti-rotation pin members

A scroll type compressor includes a front housing, a fixed scroll, a movable scroll and a rear housing, and its lateral cross section has a substantially oval shape. The spiral element of the movable scroll is located in the space defined by the front housing and the fixed scroll in such a way as to engage with the spiral element of the fixed scroll. The space defined by the fixed scroll and the rear housing serves as a discharge chamber where compressed refrigerant gas is discharged. Since this compressor has the same compression displacement as that of a compressor having a circular cross section, this compressor can be placed in narrow space whose width is less than the width of the circular compressor, without any reduction in the cooling performance.

Scroll type compressor with elliptical spiral element

A self-rotation blocking mechanism in a scroll compressor having a movable scroll member and fixed scroll member fixed to a casing. The mechanism is constructed of circumferentially spaced opposing pairs of pins 9 and 10, which are connected to an end plate 12 of the movable scroll member 2 and a faced end wall of the casing 4, respectively, and which are in a side-by-side contacting relationship. The circumferential arrangement of the pins is such that, at every angular position of the movable scroll member, there exists at least one pair of the pins which generates a force in a direction opposite to a self-rotating torque applied to the movable scroll member caused by the compression reaction force. A locally concentrated arrangement of the pairs of the pins for generating such a force can be employed at the angular position which produces a larger value of self-rotating torque. Furthermore, the diameters of the pins are such that one half of the sum of the diameters is equal to or smaller than the radius of the orbital movement of the movable scroll member.

Scroll compressor

In a scroll compressor, the moving scroll member is engaged with the stationary scroll member while centrally offset from each other so that they define an actuation chamber between them. When driven by the crank of the compressor shaft and blocked against rotation by the rotation restricting plate, the moving scroll member revolves to compress the fluid in the actuation chamber, and because of the relationship between the compression reaction force and the driving force, a moment is produced to incline the moving scroll member, so that the moving scroll member rises at a portion of the thrust bearing plate, the contact pressure between the scroll members is increased, and a larger driving force is required. Accordingly, the attraction force of the magnet and magnetic body is utilized to press the moving scroll member against the thrust bearing plate. This force can be generated due to the attracting force or repulsing force between magnets, or by the force of a spring. Therefore, according to the present invention, the tooth width of both scroll members can be made larger.

Scroll compressor having a magnet pressing the moving scroll member

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Yasuhiro Oki