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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1998
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A compressor for use in a refrigerator, which has a rotary shaft supported by bearings to be lubricated by a liquid refrigerant and is adapted to permit the rotary shaft to continue rotating for a while after a liquid refrigerant pump is stopped at, for example, a power failure, thereby preventing the bearings from being damaged. To that end the compressor has a reservoir liquid tank for storing high pressure liquid refrigerant to be supplied to the bearing and a gas storage tank for storing high pressure gas. There is a valve system connected between the gas storage tank and the reservoir liquid tank which is operable upon a power failure to supply high pressure gas to the liquid storage tank.