Compressor with welding pin connection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12085319-B2
Application number	US-202318240539-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 31, 2023
Priority date	Mar 1, 2021
Publication date	Sep 10, 2024
Grant date	Sep 10, 2024

Abstract

A compressor includes an actuator, a compression mechanism, a drive shaft, a support, a casing, and a welding pin. The drive shaft transmits a driving force of the actuator to the compression mechanism. The support supports a bearing that rotatably supports the drive shaft. The support has at least one hole formed in an outer surface. The casing has a cylindrical shape and accommodates the drive shaft and the support. The welding pin is press-fitted into the hole of the support and is welded and fixed to the casing. A low rigidity region is provided at at least a part of a periphery of an adjacent portion adjacent to the hole of the support. The low rigidity region has lower rigidity than the adjacent portion. The low rigidity region includes a thin portion having a smaller thickness in a radial direction of the casing than the adjacent portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A compressor comprising:
an actuator;
a compression mechanism;
a drive shaft configured to transmit a driving force of the actuator to the compression mechanism;
a support supporting a bearing configured to rotatably support the drive shaft, the support having at least one hole formed in an outer surface thereof;
a casing having a cylindrical shape and accommodating the drive shaft and the support therein; and
a welding pin being press-fitted into the at least one hole of the support and welded and fixed to the casing,
a low rigidity region being provided at at least a part of a periphery of an adjacent portion adjacent to the at least one hole of the support, the low rigidity region having lower rigidity than the adjacent portion, and
the low rigidity region including a thin portion having a smaller thickness in a radial direction of the casing than the adjacent portion.

2. The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein,
in the low rigidity region, a downgage is formed closer to a center axis of the casing than the outer surface of the support.

3. The compressor according to claim 2 , wherein,
when the at least one hole is viewed from a position just facing the at least one hole, the low rigidity region is provided in a region at 180° or more around a center of the at least one hole.

4. The compressor according to claim 2 , wherein
a ratio of
a minimum distance from the at least one hole to the low rigidity region to
a diameter of the at least one hole is 0.25 or more and 0.85 or less.

5. The compressor according to claim 2 , wherein
the at least one hole includes a plurality of holes that are disposed along an axial direction of the drive shaft, and
the low rigidity region is provided at at least a part of a periphery of a first adjacent portion adjacent to a first hole disposed closest to the bearing in the axial direction of the drive shaft of the plurality of holes, the low rigidity region having lower rigidity than the first adjacent portion.

6. The compressor according to claim 2 , wherein
the compressor is a scroll compressor, and
the support supports the bearing disposed closer to the compression mechanism than the actuator.

7. The compressor according to claim 2 , wherein
the low rigidity region includes
a first portion disposed, so as to interpose the at least one hole, on both sides of the at least one hole in a circumferential direction of the casing, and
a second portion disposed closer to the actuator than the at least one hole in the axial direction of the drive shaft.

8. The compressor according to claim 2 , wherein
the downgage is disposed, so as to interpose the at least one hole, on both sides of the at least one hole in a circumferential direction of the casing,
the welding pin has a first length in a radial direction of the casing, and
in the radial direction of the casing, a region where the downgage exists and a region where the welding pin exists overlap with each other in a range of 10% or more of the first length.

9. The compressor according to claim 2 , wherein
the welding pin has a concave-convex surface having a concave-convex shape on an outer periphery thereof.

10. A refrigeration cycle apparatus comprising:
a refrigerant circuit including the compressor according to claim 2 .

11. The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein,
when the at least one hole is viewed from a position just facing the at least one hole, the low rigidity region is provided in a region at 180° or more around a center of the at least one hole.

12. The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein
a ratio of
a minimum distance from the at least one hole to the low rigidity region to
a diameter of the at least one hole is 0.25 or more and 0.85 or less.

13. The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one hole includes a plurality of holes are disposed along an axial direction of the drive shaft, and
the low rigidity region is provided at at least a part of a periphery of a first adjacent portion adjacent to a first hole disposed closest to the bearing in the axial direction of the drive shaft of the plurality of holes, the low rigidity region having lower rigidity than the first adjacent portion.

14. The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein
the compressor is a scroll compressor, and
the support supports the bearing disposed closer to the compression mechanism than the actuator.

15. The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein
the low rigidity region includes
a first portion disposed, so as to interpose the at least one hole, on both sides of the at least one hole in a circumferential direction of the casing, and
a second portion disposed closer to the actuator than the at least one hole in the axial direction of the drive shaft.

16. The compressor according to claim 1 , wherein
the welding pin has a concave-convex surface having a concave-convex shape on an outer periphery thereof.

17. A refrigeration cycle apparatus comprising:
a refrigerant circuit including the compressor according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Daikin Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Tsuka Yoshitomo
• Nishikawa Sayumi

Classifications

• F04C2250/00

  Geometry · CPC title

• F04C2240/30

  Casings or housings · CPC title

• F04C18/0215

  where only one member is moving · CPC title

• F04C2230/231

  by welding · CPC title

• F04C23/008

  Hermetic pumps · CPC title