Valve device of compressor, and sealed compressor including valve device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10094373-B2
Application number	US-201715644376-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 7, 2017
Priority date	Aug 24, 2011
Publication date	Oct 9, 2018
Grant date	Oct 9, 2018

Abstract

A valve device of a compressor of the present invention comprises a plate ( 17 ), a reed ( 21, 75 ), and a stopper ( 31 ), wherein the reed includes: an opening/closing section ( 60, 70 ), a fastened section ( 61, 71 ); and a joining section ( 62, 72 ), the opening/closing section, the fastened section and the joining section being arranged in a direction in which a symmetric axis extends; wherein in a portion of the joining section which is closer to the opening/closing section, a pair of portions ( 102, 112, 82, 86 ) of an outer periphery of each of one or two openings ( 63, 65, 73, 77 ) which are closest to both ends of the joining section are symmetric with respect to the symmetric axis so as to form a substantially-V-shape or substantially-U-shape, in a direction from the opening/closing section toward the fastened section; and in a portion of the joining section which is closer to the fastened section, a pair of portions ( 103, 113, 83, 87 ) of the outer periphery of each of one or two openings which are closest to the both ends of the joining section are symmetric with respect to the symmetric axis so as to form a substantially-V-shape or substantially-U-shape, in a direction from the fastened section toward the opening/closing section.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A valve device of a compressor, comprising:
a plate having a communication hole communicated with a compression chamber within which a piston is reciprocatable;
a plate-shaped reed for opening and closing the communication hole; and
a stopper which is disposed to cover the reed and defines an opening degree of the reed;
wherein the reed includes:
an opening/closing section positioned on an opening of the communication hole;
a fastened section fastened to the plate; and
a joining section for joining the opening/closing section to the fastened section, the joining section having two openings, the opening/closing section, the fastened section and the joining section being arranged in a direction in which a symmetric axis extends;
wherein in a portion of the joining section which is closer to the opening/closing section, a pair of first outer peripheral portions of an outer periphery of each of the two openings which are closest to both ends of the joining section are symmetric with respect to the symmetric axis so as to form a substantially-V-shape or substantially-U-shape, in a direction from the opening/closing section toward the fastened section; and
in a portion of the joining section which is closer to the fastened section, a pair of second outer peripheral portions of the outer periphery of each of the two openings which are closest to the both ends of the joining section are symmetric with respect to the symmetric axis so as to form a substantially-V-shape or substantially-U-shape, in a direction from the fastened section toward the opening/closing section,
wherein a length of each of the two openings in a direction parallel to the symmetric axis is smaller than a length of the opening/closing section in a direction perpendicular to the symmetric axis,
the pair of first outer peripheral portions are symmetric with respect to the symmetric axis so as to form a substantially-V-shape or substantially-U-shape such that a distance between the pair of first outer peripheral portions in the direction perpendicular to the symmetric axis gradually increases, and the pair of second outer peripheral portions are symmetric with respect to the symmetric axis so as to form the substantially-V-shape or substantially-U-shape such that a distance between the pair of second outer peripheral portions in the direction perpendicular to the symmetric axis gradually increases.

2. The valve device of the compressor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the pair of first outer peripheral portions and the pair of second outer peripheral portions are respectively separate end portions of the outer peripheries for each opening of the two openings extending to cross the symmetric axis.

3. The valve device of the compressor according to claim 2 ,
wherein the opening is a wide hole in which the outer periphery of the opening includes the pair of first outer peripheral portions and portions extending toward the pair of first outer peripheral portions such that the portions are symmetric with respect to the symmetric axis so as to form a substantially-V-shape or substantially-U-shape,
the outer periphery of the opening includes the pair of second outer peripheral portions and portions extending toward the pair of second outer peripheral portions such that the portions are symmetric with respect to the symmetric axis so as to form a substantially-V-shape or substantially-U-shape, or
the opening is a wide hole in which the outer periphery of the opening includes the pair of first outer peripheral portions and the pair of second outer peripheral portions.

4. The valve device of the compressor according to claim 2 ,
wherein the opening is a narrow hole in which the outer periphery of the opening includes the pair of first outer peripheral portions and a portion extending in parallel with the pair of first outer peripheral portions, and/or the pair of second outer peripheral portions and a portion extending in parallel with the pair of second outer peripheral portions.

5. The valve device of the compressor according to claim 4 ,
wherein the narrow hole has a shape in which a portion which is closer to the opening/closing section extends to cross the symmetric axis, and
a tongue-shaped section surrounded by the narrow hole is bent toward the plate.

6. The valve device of the compressor according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a plate-shaped spring reed disposed between the reed and the stopper;
wherein one end portion of the spring reed is fastened to the plate, and the other end portion of the spring reed is positioned in a region in which the opening/closing section of the reed is movable, and
the stopper indirectly limits an opening degree of the reed via the spring reed.

7. The valve device of the compressor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plate has a recess, wherein the communication hole is formed through a bottom of the recess;
the plate-shaped reed is provided within the recess,
the reed is manufactured as a single member, and
the reed is retained by the stopper being pushed into the recess of the plate.

8. A sealed compressor comprising:
a compression component including the valve device of the compressor as recited in claim 1 , the piston, and a block provided with the compression chamber;
an electric component for actuating the piston; and
a sealed container accommodating the electric component and the compression component.

Assignees

• Panasonic Corp

Inventors

• Hikichi Takumi
• Haraki Yu

Classifications

• F04B39/1066

  Valve plates · CPC title

• Y10T137/7895

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F04B17/03

  driven by electric motors · CPC title

• F16K15/16

  with tongue-shaped laminae · CPC title

• F04B49/225 Primary

  with throttling valves or valves varying the pump inlet opening or the outlet opening · CPC title