Scroll compressor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9765782-B2
Application number	US-201414888057-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2014
Priority date	Apr 30, 2013
Publication date	Sep 19, 2017
Grant date	Sep 19, 2017

Abstract

A scroll compressor of the present invention includes a partition plate 20 , a fixed scroll 30 , an orbiting scroll 40 , a rotation-restraining member 90 , a main bearing 60 , a bearing-side concave portion 102 , a scroll-side concave portion 101 and a columnar member 100 . A lower end of the columnar member 100 is inserted into the bearing-side concave portion 102 , and an upper end of the columnar member is inserted into the scroll-side concave portion 101 . The columnar member 100 slides with at least one of the bearing-side concave portion 102 and the scroll-side concave portion 101 , thereby moving the fixed scroll 30 in an axial direction between the partition plate 20 and the main bearing 60 . A high pressure is applied to a discharge space 30 H, thereby pressing the fixed scroll 30 against the orbiting scroll 40.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A scroll compressor comprising:
a partition plate for partitioning an interior of a hermetic container into a high pressure space and a low pressure space;
a fixed scroll which is adjacent to the partition plate;
an orbiting scroll which is meshed with the fixed scroll and which forms a compression chamber;
an Oldham-ring configured to prevent the orbiting scroll from rotating;
a main bearing for supporting the orbiting scroll, in which
the fixed scroll, the orbiting scroll, the rotation-restraining member, and the main bearing are placed in the low pressure space, and
the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll are placed between the partition plate and the main bearing;

a bearing-side concave portion formed in an upper surface of the main bearing;
a scroll-side concave portion formed in a lower surface of the fixed scroll; and
a columnar member having a lower end inserted into the bearing-side concave portion and an upper end inserted into the scroll-side concave portion, wherein
the columnar member can slide with at least one of the bearing-side concave portion and the scroll-side concave portion, thereby moving the fixed scroll in an axial direction of the fixed scroll between the partition plate and the main bearing.

2. The scroll compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the columnar member is inserted into one of the bearing-side concave portion and the scroll-side concave portion by interference fit or transition fit.

3. The scroll compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the columnar member is inserted into the bearing-side concave portion by interference fit or transition fit.

4. The scroll compressor according to claim 3 , wherein the columnar member is inserted into the scroll-side concave portion by clearance fit, and the scroll-side concave portion is provided with a communication hole which is in communication with a space in the hermetic container.

5. The scroll compressor according to claim 2 , wherein the scroll-side concave portion or the bearing-side concave portion into which the columnar member is inserted by the interference fit or the transition fit is provided with a communication hole which is in communication with a space in the hermetic container.

6. The scroll compressor according claim 1 , wherein a fitting gap between the bearing-side concave portion and the columnar member and a fitting gap between the scroll-side concave portion and the columnar member are different from each other.

7. The scroll compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the columnar member includes a region into which any of the scroll-side concave portion and the bearing-side concave portion are not inserted.

8. The scroll compressor according claim 1 , further comprising at least two more columnar members, wherein the two or more columnar members constrain a positional relation between the main bearing and the fixed scroll.

9. The scroll compressor according to claim 1 , wherein an insertion portion of the columnar member of the bearing-side concave portion is provided with a pin hole, and the pin hole is provided with a retaining pin of the columnar member.

10. The scroll compressor according to claim 1 , wherein a movable region of the fixed scroll in the axial direction of the fixed scroll is restricted by the fixed scroll and the partition plate.

11. The scroll compressor according to claim 1 , further comprising
a ring-shaped first seal member placed on an outer periphery of a discharge space between the partition plate and the fixed scroll, and
a ring-shaped second seal member placed on an outer periphery of the first seal member between the partition plate and the fixed scroll, wherein
a pressure in a medium pressure space formed between the first seal member and the second seal member is set lower than a pressure in the discharge space and higher than a pressure in the low pressure space, and
the first seal member and the second seal member are sandwiched by the partition plate by means of a closing member.

12. The scroll compressor according to claim 11 , wherein a medium pressure port which brings the compression chamber into communication with the medium pressure space is formed in the fixed scroll, and a medium pressure check valve capable of closing the medium pressure port is provided.

13. The scroll compressor according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness between an inner wall and an outer wall of a fixed spiral lap of the fixed scroll and a thickness between an inner wall and an outer wall of an orbiting spiral lap of the orbiting scroll are gradually reduced from spiral-starting ends toward ending-ends of the fixed spiral lap and the orbiting spiral lap.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Imai Yusuke
• Ogata Takeshi
• Yamada Sadayuki
• Shintaku Hidenobu
• Sakuda Atsushi
• Morimoto Takashi

Classifications

• F04C29/128

  of the elastic type, e.g. reed valves · CPC title

• F04C23/008

  Hermetic pumps · CPC title

• F01C17/066

  with an intermediate piece sliding along perpendicular axes, e.g. Oldham coupling · CPC title

• F04C28/26

  using bypass channels · CPC title

• F04C29/0085

  Prime movers · CPC title