Scroll compressor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9976556-B2
Application number	US-201314443692-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 3, 2013
Priority date	Nov 30, 2012
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

A scroll compressor includes a sealed container, a compression mechanism portion for a refrigerant, a compliant frame and a guide frame which support an orbiting scroll, an electric motor which drives the orbiting scroll, balance weights, a refrigerant flow path which introduces a refrigerant gas discharged through a discharge port of a fixed scroll to a bottom portion of the sealed container, cup-shaped members provided on both upper and lower surfaces of the rotor of the electric motor and contain the balance weights, a penetrating flow path through which the refrigerant gas containing a refrigerating machine oil flows from a lower side of the rotor of the electric motor through the interiors of the cup-shaped members to an upper side of the rotor, and a discharge cover which is provided at a lower portion of the frame, and which introduces the refrigerant gas to a discharge pipe.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A scroll compressor comprising:
a sealed container;
a compression mechanism portion provided within the sealed container and having a compression chamber in which plate-like scroll teeth of a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll are meshed with each other to compress a refrigerant;
an electric motor provided within the sealed container and configured to rotationally drive the orbiting scroll;
a rotary shaft configured to transfer a drive force of the electric motor to the orbiting scroll;
a frame configured to rotatably support the rotary shaft;
balance weights fixed to an upper surface and a lower surface of a rotor of the electric motor and configured to cancel out unbalance of a force generated in the compression mechanism portion;
a refrigerant flow path configured to introduce a refrigerant gas discharged from a discharge port provided to the fixed scroll of the compression mechanism portion, to a bottom portion of the sealed container;
cup-shaped members respectively provided on the upper surface and the lower surface of the rotor of the electric motor and containing the balance weights;
a penetrating flow path through which the refrigerant gas containing a refrigerating machine oil flows from a lower side of the rotor of the electric motor through interiors of the cup-shaped members to an upper side of the rotor, wherein the penetrating flow path includes a refrigerant passage formed in the rotor that extends from the interior of the cup-shaped member provided on the lower surface to the interior of the cup-shaped member provided on the upper surface; and
a discharge cover provided at a lower portion of the frame, having an opening opposed to an opening of one of the cup-shaped members provided on the upper surface of the rotor of the electric motor, and configured to introduce the refrigerant gas having passed through the penetrating flow path, to a discharge pipe provided to the sealed container.

2. The scroll compressor of claim 1 , wherein the upper surface and the lower surface of the rotor are end surfaces of the rotor, and the cup-shaped members are fixed to both the upper surface and the lower surface and are made of a non-magnetic material.

3. The scroll compressor of claim 1 , wherein the upper surface and the lower surface of the rotor are end surfaces of the rotor, and the cup-shaped members are fixed to both the upper surface and the lower surface and are made of a magnetic material, and a plate, which is made of a non-magnetic material, is located between each cup-shaped member and the rotor.

4. The scroll compressor of claim 2 , wherein the rotor of the electric motor, the balance weights, and the cup-shaped members are fixed by a rivet.

5. The scroll compressor of claim 3 , wherein the rotor of the electric motor, the balance weights, the cup-shaped members, and the plates are fixed by a rivet.

6. The scroll compressor of claim 1 , wherein each of the cup-shaped members has an axial dimension larger than or equal to that of each of the balance weights.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Nagaoka Fumikazu
• Nishiki Teruhiko
• Takahashi Hiroyasu
• Narumi Keisuke

Classifications

• F04C23/008

  Hermetic pumps · CPC title

• F04C18/0215 Primary

  where only one member is moving · CPC title

• F04C29/026

  Lubricant separation · CPC title

• F04C29/028

  Means for improving or restricting lubricant flow · CPC title

• F04C2240/807

  Balance weight, counterweight · CPC title