Electric compressor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022372980-A1
Application number	US-201917767001-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 11, 2019
Priority date	Oct 11, 2019
Publication date	Nov 24, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

This electric compressor ( 10 ) has: an accommodating case ( 15 ) that accommodates an inverter device ( 19 ) and includes an accommodating section body ( 31 ), a substrate support section ( 32 ) protruding from a bottom surface ( 31 a ) of the accommodating section body ( 31 ), and a cover member ( 34 ) that closes an opening in the accommodating section body ( 31 ); and an antivibration member ( 17 ) that is positioned between one surface ( 51 a ) of a head part ( 51 ) of a bolt ( 16 ) fastened to the substrate support section ( 32 ) and an inner surface ( 34 a ) of the cover member ( 34 ), and that is bonded to the one surface ( 51 a ) of the head part ( 51 ) and the inner surface ( 34 a ) of the cover member ( 34 ).

First claim

1 . An electric compressor comprising:
a housing that accommodates a compressor and an electric motor that drives the compressor; an inverter device including a circuit substrate on which an electronic component is mounted; an accommodation casing including an accommodation portion body provided on a side surface of the housing to accommodate the inverter device, a substrate support portion that protrudes to an inside of the accommodation portion body to support one surface of the circuit substrate, and a cover member fixed to the accommodation portion body to close an opening of the accommodation portion body; a bolt which is fastened to the substrate support portion to restrict a position of the circuit substrate with respect to the substrate support portion, and in which one surface of a head facing an inner surface of the cover member is flat; and a first vibration isolation member that is disposed between the one surface of the head and the inner surface of the cover member and that is bonded to the one surface of the head and to the inner surface of the cover member.

2 . The electric compressor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the head is provided with a screw hole, and a gasket disposed on an outer surface of the cover member, and a screw screwed into the screw hole via the gasket are provided.

3 . The electric compressor according to claim 2 ,
wherein the gasket is made of rubber.

4 . The electric compressor according to claim 2 ,
wherein the gasket has a surging frequency equal to or higher than a frequency of a primary eigenvalue of the cover member.

5 . The electric compressor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the head is provided with a screw hole, and a screw is provided that penetrates through the cover member and through the first vibration isolation member from outside the cover member to be screwed into the screw hole.

6 . An electric compressor comprising:
a housing that accommodates a compressor and an electric motor that drives the compressor; an inverter device including a circuit substrate on which an electronic component is mounted; an accommodation casing including an accommodation portion body provided on a side surface of the housing to accommodate the inverter device, a substrate support portion that protrudes to an inside of the accommodation portion body to support one surface of the circuit substrate, and a cover member fixed to the accommodation portion body to close an opening of the accommodation portion body; a bolt which is fastened to the substrate support portion to restrict a position of the circuit substrate with respect to the substrate support portion, and in which one surface of a head facing an inner surface of the cover member is flat; and a second vibration isolation member that is disposed between the one surface of the head and the inner surface of the cover member and that has a surging frequency equal to or higher than a frequency of a primary eigenvalue of the cover member.

7 . The electric compressor according to claim 6 ,
wherein the head is provided with a screw hole, and a screw is provided that penetrates through the cover member and through the second vibration isolation member from outside the cover member to be screwed into the screw hole.

8 . The electric compressor according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a gasket disposed on an outer surface of the cover member, wherein the screw is screwed into the screw hole via the gasket.

9 . The electric compressor according to claim 8 ,
wherein the gasket is made of rubber.

10 . An electric compressor comprising:
a housing that accommodates a compressor and an electric motor that drives the compressor; an inverter device including a circuit substrate on which an electronic component is mounted; and an accommodation casing including an accommodation portion body provided on a side surface of the housing to accommodate the inverter device, a substrate support portion that protrudes to an inside of the accommodation portion body to support one surface of the circuit substrate, and a cover member fixed to the accommodation portion body to close an opening of the accommodation portion body, wherein the cover member includes a through-hole at a portion facing the substrate support portion, and a grommet having a vibration isolation property that includes a ring-shaped groove accommodating the cover member located around the through-hole and that is mounted in the through-hole, and a screw that penetrates through the grommet from outside the cover member to be screwed to the substrate support portion are provided.

11 . The electric compressor according to claim 10 ,
wherein the grommet is bonded to the other surface of the circuit substrate and to the cover member.

12 . The electric compressor according to claim 10 ,
wherein the grommet has a surging frequency equal to or higher than a frequency of a primary eigenvalue of the cover member.

13 . The electric compressor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the compressor includes a fixed scroll and a movable scroll each having a spiral shape, a plurality of compression chambers that are formed between the fixed scroll and the movable scroll to compress a refrigerant by means of a movement of the movable scroll, and a discharge port that discharges the compressed refrigerant, when an average value of a length S 1 (mm) of an inner curved line of the fixed scroll in a stage where the compressor discharges the refrigerant from the discharge port, the fixed scroll partitioning a compression chamber formed on an innermost side among the plurality of compression chambers, and of a length S 2 (mm) of an outer curved line of the movable scroll that partitions the compression chamber formed on the innermost side is an average value SAY (mm), an eigenvalue E (kHz) of the cover member satisfies the following equation (1):
E≥V/S AV   (1)

here, in the equation (1), V (m/s) is a sound speed of the refrigerant.

14 . An electric compressor comprising:
a housing that accommodates a compressor and an electric motor that drives the compressor; an inverter device including a circuit substrate on which an electronic component is mounted; an accommodation casing including an accommodation portion body provided on a side surface of the housing to accommodate the inverter device, a substrate support portion that protrudes an inside of the accommodation portion body to support one surface of the circuit substrate, and a cover member fixed to the accommodation portion body to close an opening of the accommodation portion body; and a third vibration isolation member that is in contact with an inner surface of the cover member, wherein the compressor includes a fixed scroll and a movable scroll each having a spiral shape, a plurality of compression chambers that are formed between the fixed scroll and the movable scroll to compress a refrigerant by means of a movement of the movable scroll, and a discharge port that discharges the compressed refrigerant, when an average value of a length S 1 (mm) of an inner curved line of the fixed scroll in a stage where the compressor discharges the refrigerant from the discharge port, the fixed scroll partitioning a compression chamber formed on an innermost side among the plurality of compression chambers, and of a length S 2 (mm) of an outer curved line of the movable scroll that partitions the compression chamber formed on the innermost side is an average value SAY (mm), an eigenvalue E (kHz) of the cover member satisfies the following equation (2):
E≥V/S AV   (2)

here, in the equation (2), V (m/s) is a s

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Thermal Systems Ltd

Inventors

• Hagita Takayuki
• Yoshioka Akinori
• Suzuki Manabu
• Saho Hideo

Classifications

• F04B39/0044 Primary

  with vibration damping supports · CPC title

• F04C2240/30

  Casings or housings · CPC title

• F04C2240/40

  Electric motor · CPC title

• F04C2240/805

  Fastening means, e.g. bolts · CPC title

• F04C2270/13

  Noise · CPC title