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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Joe T Hill, Bristol, VA (US);
Gene M Fields, Bristol, TN (US);
John R Williams, Bristol, TN (US);
Terry L Lyons, Bluff City, TN (US);
Bristol Compressors, Inc., Bristol, VA (US);
Abstract
A scroll compressor having a housing containing an orbiting scroll and a non-orbiting scroll each having a base formed with a free side and a compression side and having an involute extending generally normally from the compression side, each the involute terminating in an axially outer, substantially planar edge and having a radially outer inlet end and a radially inner discharge end, the scrolls being mounted within the housing in mating arrangement about a center axis of the involutes for relative orbital motion for compressing gas between the base and adjacent side portions of the involutes, the orbiting scroll having special bearing structure for eliminating the laterally directed tipping forces which are generally experienced by the orbiting scrolls of conventional scroll compressors, the bearing structure having a bearing hub integral with the discharge end of the involute of the orbiting scroll, the hub having a cylindrical bore oriented substantially normal to the compression side of the orbiting scroll for rotatably receiving an eccentric shaft section of a compressor crankshaft, bearing means formed axially thru the base of the non-orbiting scroll, a crankshaft having an axial section and an eccentric section, the axial section being rotatably mounted in the bearing and the eccentric section being rotatably mounted in the hub, whereby rotation of the crankshaft will move the orbiting scroll thru an orbit relative to the non-orbiting scroll to thereby generate compression pockets between both the base and the involutes.