Compressor and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11542939-B2
Application number	US-202017091556-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 6, 2020
Priority date	Nov 8, 2019
Publication date	Jan 3, 2023
Grant date	Jan 3, 2023

Abstract

A compressor and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The compressor includes a piston having a cylindrical shape and having formed therein a suction space, in which refrigerant gas is sucked, and a cylinder having, as a space formed therein, formed therein a compression space, in which refrigerant gas is compressed, by reciprocation of the piston in an axial direction. A gas inflow passage having one side communicating with a gas pocket outside the cylinder and the other side communicating with a space formed in the cylinder is formed in the cylinder, and the piston includes a plurality of fine irregularities formed in an outer circumferential surface of a guide facing the cylinder and provided at a position corresponding to the gas inflow passage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A compressor comprising:
a piston that defines a suction space configured to suction a refrigerant gas; and
a cylinder that receives the piston and defines a compression space that is configured to compress, based on reciprocation of the piston in an axial direction, the refrigerant gas therein,
wherein the cylinder defines a gas inflow passage that fluidly communicates with a gas pocket at a side of the gas inflow passage outside the cylinder and that fluidly communicates with a cylinder space defined in the cylinder at an opposite side of the gas inflow passage,
wherein the piston comprises a guide having an outer circumferential surface configured to face the cylinder and a plurality of irregularities that are (i) defined at the outer circumferential surface of the guide and (ii) disposed to correspond to the gas inflow passage of the cylinder, and
wherein the plurality of irregularities have at least two rows and at least two columns to define a matrix arrangement of the plurality of irregularities.

2. The compressor of claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of irregularities has a plurality of second irregularities that are disposed in the axial direction, wherein each of the plurality of second irregularities is recessed at the outer circumferential surface of the guide and extends in a circumferential direction of the guide to have a circular band shape.

3. The compressor of claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of irregularities includes:
a plurality of second irregularities that are disposed in the axial direction, wherein each of the plurality of second irregularities is recessed at the outer circumferential surface of the guide and extends in a circumferential direction of the guide to have a circular band shape, and
a plurality of third irregularities that are recessed at inner surfaces of the plurality of second irregularities and that are spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the plurality of second irregularities.

4. The compressor of claim 1 ,
wherein the piston is configured to move to perform a compression cycle and a suction cycle,
wherein the piston comprises a head that is disposed at a front end of the piston and that defines a suction port for fluidly communicating with the suction space and the compression space, wherein the guide of the piston has a cylindrical shape,
and
wherein the plurality of irregularities are defined at (i) a first outer region of the piston that is adjacent to the head and (ii) a second outer region of the piston that corresponds to a region adjacent to an end of the cylinder based on the piston being in the compression cycle.

5. The compressor of claim 1 , wherein the gas inflow passage of the cylinder comprises:
a gas inlet that is recessed at an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder and that extends in an radial direction,
a nozzle that fluidly communicates with the gas inlet and an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder, and
a gas receiving groove that is recessed at the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder that includes an outlet of the nozzle.

6. The compressor of claim 1 ,
wherein the piston is configured to move to perform a compression cycle and a suction cycle,
wherein the plurality of irregularities are disposed in at least one row in the axial direction, and
wherein, based on reciprocation of the piston, at least one of the plurality of irregularities overlaps the gas inflow passage of the cylinder in a radial direction.

7. The compressor of claim 1 ,
wherein the gas inflow passage comprises:
a nozzle that fluidly communicates with an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder and an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder, and
a gas receiving groove that is recessed at the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder that includes an outlet of the nozzle, and

wherein the plurality of irregularities are disposed at a position that corresponds to a center of the gas receiving groove.

8. The compressor of claim 7 ,
wherein the plurality of irregularities comprise first irregularities disposed at a first position that corresponds to the gas receiving groove based on the compression cycle, second irregularities disposed at a second position that corresponds to the gas receiving groove based on the suction cycle, and third irregularities disposed in an axial direction between the first irregularities and the second irregularities.

9. The compressor of claim 7 ,
wherein the gas inflow passage comprises a front gas inflow passage and a rear inflow passage that are spaced apart from each other in the axial direction, and
wherein the plurality of irregularities comprise (i) front irregularities that correspond to the front gas inflow passage and (ii) rear irregularities that correspond to the rear inflow passage.

10. The compressor of claim 7 ,
wherein a gas inflow passage includes a plurality of gas inflow passages that are disposed in a circumferential direction of the cylinder, and
wherein the plurality of irregularities are disposed at a position that corresponds to the plurality of gas inflow passages.

11. The compressor of claim 10 ,
wherein the gas receiving groove extends circumferentially along the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder at an angle of 180 degrees or less with respect to a central axis of the cylinder.

12. The compressor of claim 11 , wherein the gas receiving groove includes a concave curved shape with a radius of curvature less than a radius of curvature of the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder.

13. The compressor of claim 10 , wherein the gas receiving groove extends 360 degrees in the circumferential direction of the cylinder.

14. The compressor of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of first irregularities have a diameter of 10 micrometers to 1 millimeter.

15. The compressor of claim 14 , wherein a distance between adjacent first irregularities is equal to or greater than the diameter.

16. The compressor of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of second irregularities have a width of 100 micrometers to 3 millimeters and a depth of 1 micrometer to 15 micrometers.

17. The compressor of claim 16 , wherein a distance between adjacent second irregularities is 1 millimeter or more.

18. A compressor comprising:
a piston that defines a suction space configured to suction a refrigerant gas, the piston being configured to move to perform a compression cycle and a suction cycle; and
a cylinder that receives the piston and defines a compression space that is configured to compress, based on reciprocation of the piston in an axial direction, the refrigerant gas therein,
wherein the cylinder defines a gas inflow passage that fluidly communicates with a gas pocket at a side of the gas inflow passage outside the cylinder and that fluidly communicates with a cylinder space defined in the cylinder at an opposite side of the gas inflow passage,
wherein the piston comprises a guide having an outer circumferential surface configured to face the cylinder and a plurality of irregularities that are (i) defined at the outer circumferential surface of the guide and (ii) disposed to correspond to the gas inflow passage of the cylinder,
wherein the plurality of irregularities are disposed in a row in the axial direction, and
wherein, based on reciprocation of the piston, at least one of the plurality of irregularities overlaps the gas inflow passage of the cylinder in a radial direction.

19. A compressor comprising:
a piston that defines a suction spac

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Donghan

Classifications

• F04B53/16

  Casings; Cylinders; Cylinder liners or heads; Fluid connections · CPC title

• F04B39/0215

  characterised by the use of a special lubricant · CPC title

• F04B53/14 Primary

  Pistons, piston-rods or piston-rod connections · CPC title

• F04B39/0005 Primary

  adaptations of pistons · CPC title

• F05B2210/14

  Refrigerants with particular properties, e.g. HFC-134a · CPC title