Scroll fluid machine having separable main body unit and motor unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11441559-B2
Application number	US-201615755827-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 26, 2016
Priority date	Aug 28, 2015
Publication date	Sep 13, 2022
Grant date	Sep 13, 2022

Abstract

A scroll fluid machine includes a main body and a motor unit. The main body unit configured to compress a fluid. The motor unit configured to drive the main body unit. The main body unit and the motor unit are connected via the eccentric portion. The main body casing and the motor cover are fastened with a fastening member. The motor unit includes a main bearing that is fixed to an inside of the motor cover by a flange. The main bearing is configured to support the shaft and is located between the flange and an end bracket on an opposite side of the main body unit with respect to the flange.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A scroll fluid machine, comprising:
a main body unit configured to compress a fluid; and
a motor unit configured to drive the main body unit, wherein
the main body unit includes a fixed scroll, a revolving scroll, a main body casing, and an autorotation preventing mechanism configured to be held by the revolving scroll and the main body casing and prevent autorotation of the revolving scroll,
the motor unit includes a rotor, a stator configured to rotate the rotor, a shaft configured to rotate integrally with the rotor, a motor cover including a morot casing, the motor cover and the motor casing each surround the rotor and the stator, a flange that overlies the rotor at one end of the motor casing with a first surafce of the flange being fixedly attached to the motor casing, and a main bearing configured to rotatably support the shaft being fixedly attached to the flange so that an external surface of the main bearing has an opposed facing relationship to the rotor across a space formed within the flange and the motor casinng, the autorotation preventing mechanism being attached to the flange at a second surface of the flange opposite the first surface that faces away from the motor casing,
the eccentric portion is included at a distal end of the shaft,
the main body until and the motor unit are connected via the eccentric portion,
the main body casing and the flange are fastened with a fastening member, and
positions in an axial direction of the main bearing and at least part of the autorotation preventing mechanism overlap each other when viewed from a radial direction.

2. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1 , wherein the motor cover includes a motor casing and the motor casing and motor cover are positioned on an outer side of the stator in a radial direction of the shaft and the flange is positioned at an end of the motor casing on a main body unit side of the motor casing.

3. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 2 , wherein the main body unit and the motor unit are fastened via the flange.

4. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 2 , wherein an inner side in a radial direction of the flange protrudes to the main body unit side farther than an outer side in the radial direction.

5. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 2 , wherein the flange has a fastening bearing surface fastened to the main body unit with a fastening member, and a position in an axial direction of at least part of the main bearing is closer to a distal end of the eccentric portion than a position in an axial direction of the fastening bearing surface.

6. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1 , wherein a fastening position of the main body unit and the motor unit is on an outer side in a radial direction than an outer peripheral surface of the fixed scroll.

7. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1 , wherein the main body unit includes the autorotation preventing mechanism configured to prevent autorotation of the revolving scroll, a fastening position of the main body unit and the motor unit is at an outer side of the scroll fluid machine in a radial direction farther than the autorotation preventing mechanism.

8. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1 , wherein an opening section is provided on the motor unit side of the main body casing.

9. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 8 , wherein the motor unit includes a balance weight on an outer side in a radial direction of the shaft between the flange and rotor, and a projection area viewed from an axial direction between the eccentric portion and the flange of the motor unit is an area including that of the balance weight.

10. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1 , wherein a balance weight is disposed in a space of the motor cover between the flange and the rotor.

11. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1 , comprising a revolving bearing configured to support the eccentric portion, wherein
the main body unit includes an outer ring of the revolving bearing, and the motor unit includes an inner ring of the revolving bearing.

12. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the main body unit and the motor unit are removably connected via the eccentric portion.

13. The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1 , wherein the fixed scroll and the revolving scroll comprise spiral wrapping sections which are respectively formed on surfaces of panels thereof, the wrapping sections of the fixed scroll and the revolving scroll overlapping each other to constitute a compression chamber.

Assignees

• Hitachi Industry Equipment Systems Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kato Fuminori
• Yamazaki Shumpei
• Kanemoto Yoshiyuki
• Emi Takanori

Classifications

• F04C18/0215 Primary

  where only one member is moving · CPC title

• F04C2240/805

  Fastening means, e.g. bolts · CPC title

• F04C2230/60

  Assembly methods · CPC title

• F04C2/025 Primary

  the moving and the stationary member having co-operating elements in spiral form · CPC title

• F04C2240/30

  Casings or housings · CPC title