Piston limiting structure, compressor, and heat exchange apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11976643-B2
Application number	US-201917279550-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 20, 2019
Priority date	Dec 18, 2018
Publication date	May 7, 2024
Grant date	May 7, 2024

Abstract

A piston limiting structure, including: a cylinder, a piston, and a flange provided with a limiting piece, the cylinder has a piston hole perpendicular to an axial direction of the cylinder and penetrating through the cylinder, and a projection of the piston hole in a penetrating direction is circular. The piston is disposed in the piston hole in a form-fit manner and is slid in the piston hole in a reciprocating manner. A side wall of the piston is provided with a thrust groove, a bottom surface of the thrust groove forms a thrust surface on the side wall of the piston, and the thrust groove does not penetrate through two ends of the side wall of the piston along an axial length of the piston. The limiting piece abuts against the thrust surface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A piston limiting structure, comprising:
a cylinder, having a piston hole perpendicular to an axial direction of the cylinder and penetrating through the cylinder, wherein a projection of the piston hole in a penetrating direction is circular;
a piston, disposed in the piston hole in a form-fit manner and slid in the piston hole in a reciprocating manner, wherein a side wall of the piston is provided with a thrust groove, a bottom surface of the thrust groove forms a thrust surface on the side wall of the piston, and the thrust groove does not penetrate through two ends of the side wall of the piston along an axial length of the piston; and
a flange, provided with a limiting piece, wherein the limiting piece abuts against the thrust surface to limit the piston to be rotated around an axis of the piston itself.

2. The piston limiting structure according to claim 1 , wherein, the thrust surface is perpendicular to the axial direction of the cylinder.

3. The piston limiting structure according to claim 2 , wherein, the flange comprises a lug boss, an end face of the cylinder is provided with an assembling hole penetrating to the piston hole, the lug boss and the assembling hole are insertion-connected in the form-fit manner, so that the end face of the cylinder abuts against an end face of the flange, and the cylinder is rotation-connected with the flange, the limiting piece is disposed on the lug boss, an end face at one side of the limiting piece abuts against the thrust surface to limit the piston to be rotated around the axis of the piston itself.

4. The piston limiting structure according to claim 3 , wherein, while the lug boss is cooperated with the assembling hole, it is satisfied:
h 2 ≥h 3
wherein, the h 2 is a distance from a piston hole endpoint along the axial direction of the cylinder to a bottom face of the cylinder and the h 3 is a height of the lug boss along the axial direction of the cylinder.

5. The piston limiting structure according to claim 4 , wherein,
while the end face at one side of the limiting piece abuts against the thrust surface, it is satisfied:
h 1 +h 2 ≥h 5

wherein, the h 1 is a groove depth of the thrust groove, the h 2 is the distance from the piston hole endpoint along the axial direction of the cylinder to the bottom face of the cylinder, and the h 5 is a height from the end face at one side of the limiting piece to an end face at one side, adjacent to the limiting piece, of the flange, and a difference between a value of h 5 and h 1 +h 2 is 0-0.05 mm.

6. The piston limiting structure according to claim 4 , wherein,
while the end face at one side of the limiting piece abuts against the thrust surface, it is satisfied:
h 1 +h 2 ≥h 5

wherein, the h 1 is a groove depth of the thrust groove, the h 2 is the distance from the piston hole endpoint along the axial direction of the cylinder to the bottom face of the cylinder, and the h 5 is a height from the end face at one side of the limiting piece to an end face at one side, adjacent to the limiting piece, of the flange, and a difference between a value of h 5 and h 1 +h 2 is 0-0.05 mm.

7. The piston limiting structure according to claim 2 , wherein, the flange is provided with a sink groove, the end face of the cylinder is provided with a short shaft protruded outwardly, the short shaft is insertion-connected with the sink groove in the form-fit manner, so that the end face of the cylinder abuts against the end face of the flange, and the cylinder is rotation-connected with the flange, an end face of the short shaft is provided with an assembling hole penetrating to the piston hole, the limiting piece is disposed in the assembling hole, an end face at one side of the limiting piece abuts against the thrust surface to limit the piston to be rotated around the axis of the piston itself.

8. The piston limiting structure according to claim 7 , wherein,
while the end face at one side of the limiting piece abuts against the thrust surface, it is satisfied:
h 1 +h 2 ≥h 5

wherein, the h 1 is a groove depth of the thrust groove, the h 2 is a distance from a piston hole endpoint along the axial direction of the cylinder to a bottom face of the cylinder, and the h 5 is a height from the end face at one side of the limiting piece to an end face at one side, adjacent to the limiting piece, of the flange, and a difference between a value of h 5 and h 1 +h 2 is 0-0.05 mm.

9. The piston limiting structure according to claim 1 , wherein,
the thrust groove is disposed in a position of ½ of the axial direction of the piston.

10. The piston limiting structure according to claim 9 , wherein, while the piston is reciprocated to be slid in the piston hole, it is satisfied:
L 1 −L 2 ≥S
wherein, the L 1 is a length of the thrust groove along an axial direction of the piston, the L 2 is a length of the limiting piece along the axial direction of the piston, and the S is a stroke of the piston slid in the cylinder.

11. The piston limiting structure according to claim 1 , wherein,
the limiting piece comprises a circular ring structure.

12. The piston limiting structure according to claim 11 , wherein,
the limiting piece is integrally formed with the flange.

13. The piston limiting structure according to claim 12 , wherein,
a diameter of the limiting piece is less than a diameter of the assembling hole, so that an avoidance space is formed on the flange.

14. The piston limiting structure according to claim 11 , wherein,
the limiting piece comprises a limiting ring, an end face at one end of the limiting ring abuts against the flange, and an end face at the other end abuts against the thrust surface.

15. The piston limiting structure according to claim 14 , wherein, a diameter of the limiting ring is equal to a diameter of an assembling hole, a part of an outer side wall of the limiting ring circumferentially abuts against a side wall of the assembling hole of the cylinder, so that the limiting ring is limited to be radially moved.

16. The piston limiting structure according to claim 15 , wherein,
the limiting ring is made of a wear-resistant material.

17. The piston limiting structure according to claim 1 , wherein,
the flange comprises at least one of an upper flange and a lower flange.

18. A compressor, comprising:
a rotation shaft;
an upper flange of the flange;
an lower flange of the flange;
a cylinder sleeve, disposed between the upper flange and the lower flange; and
the piston limiting structure according to claim 1 , the cylinder is disposed in the cylinder sleeve, the rotation shaft successively passes through the upper flange, the cylinder sleeve, and the lower flange, the cylinder is driven to be rotated by the rotation shaft.

19. A heat exchange apparatus, comprising the piston limiting structure according to claim 1 .

20. The heat exchange apparatus according to claim 19 , wherein the heat exchange apparatus is an air conditioner.

Assignees

• Gree Electric Appliances Inc Zhuhai

Inventors

• Xu Jia
• Hu Yusheng
• Wei Huijun
• Yang Sen
• Du Zhongcheng
• Li Zhi
• Ren Liping
• Liang Shebing
• Zhang Rongting
• Shi Zhengliang
• Ding Ning
• Liu Yibo
• Guo Shuang
• Liao Liping

Classifications

• F04B29/00 Primary

  Other pumps with movable, e.g. rotatable cylinders · CPC title

• F04C18/344 Primary

  with vanes reciprocating with respect to the inner member · CPC title

• F04C29/00

  Component parts, details or accessories of pumps or pumping installations, not provided for in groups F04C18/00 - F04C28/00 · CPC title

• F04C2240/30

  Casings or housings · CPC title

• F04C2240/20

  Rotors · CPC title