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| 20080219871 | Scroll Compressor - A scroll compressor is provided which has favorable assembling property, does not require a thrust bearing, has a bearing structure for bearing a compression section at both sides thereof and has a simple structure of a scroll. The scroll compressor includes a compression section | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080267803 | COMPRESSOR AND OIL SUPPLYING STRUCTURE THEREFOR - A compressor and an oil supplying structure therefor are provided. When a compressor is operated at a high speed or low speed, a predetermined amount of oil is supplied to compression pockets formed between a wrap of an orbiting scroll and a wrap of a fixed scroll. Pressure leakage between the wraps may be prevented, thereby enhancing a performance of the compressor. Further, since friction between the orbiting scroll and the fixed scroll may be prevented, abrasion of the components may be minimized. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080298992 | Scroll Expander - A scroll expander that is efficient in a wide range of operating conditions by suppressing leakage loss and decreasing in recovered power using a simple construction includes: an expansion mechanism, including an orbiting scroll and a first fixed scroll, recovers power by expanding a refrigerant; and an auxiliary compression mechanism, including an orbiting scroll and a second fixed scroll, compresses a refrigerant using power recovered by the expansion mechanism. A tip seal is mounted only on a spiral tooth of an orbiting scroll and a fixed scroll of one of the expansion mechanism or the auxiliary compression mechanism. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080304994 | Scroll Fluid Machine - A scroll fluid machine is configured by engaging a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll having spiral bodies formed on base plates. A seal member is provided between a rear surface of the orbiting scroll and a frame member arranged opposite thereto to divide a rear side chamber into an inner space and an outer space. The inner space inside the seal member is subjected to a pressure substantially corresponding to a discharge pressure, and the outer space is subjected to a pressure lower than that of an inner back pressure chamber to press the orbiting scroll against the fixed scroll. The scroll members are formed such that the width of a groove and the thickness of a tooth of the spiral body formed inside the seal member are larger than those of the spiral body formed outside the seal member. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080310983 | Expander - A positive displacement expander includes a volume change mechanism ( | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080310984 | POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT CAPTURE DEVICE - A positive displacement flow separator contains a rotor portion positioned inside a casing portion to act as a least area rotor which captures a volume and moves the volume along the length of the separator. The rotor portion contains a plurality of lobes which interact with grooves in the casing portion, such that the interaction of the lobes and grooves create barriers which capture the volume. The creation of the volume creates a flow barrier between a downstream end of the separator and an upstream end of the separator. The flow separator is coupled to a combustion portion to provide a flow of material to the combustion portion. Each of the rotor and casings portions are created by forming shapes which are equidistant at all points from a base curvature, where the base curvature is a least area rotor. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090004037 | Magnetic Bearing and Coupling Device - A follower shaft is rotatably supported coaxially with a driving shaft. An inner rotary permanent magnet having poles in a radial direction is fixed around an outer circumference of the end of the follower shaft. On the inner circumferential surface of a cylindrical coupling, an outer rotary permanent magnet is fixed such that opposite poles face each other between the inner rotary permanent magnet and the outer rotary permanent magnet. A fixed permanent magnet is fixed such that like poles face each other between the fixed permanent magnet and the inner rotary permanent magnet. Thus, rotation of the driving shaft is transmitted to the follower shaft without contact. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090041602 | Scroll-type refrigerant compressor - A scroll-type refrigerant compressor includes a drive shaft with an off-axis lubrication conduit which is supplied with oil from an oil pan located in the lower part of the compressor by an oil pump that is disposed at a first end of the shaft. The lubrication conduit has lubrication holes at the different shaft guide bearings. The second end of the shaft is equipped with a device that enables the orbital movement of the moving scroll of the compressor. The aforementioned shaft also includes a return conduit which is inclined in relation to the axis of the shaft and which extends over at least part of the length thereof. One of the ends of the return conduit opens at the wall of the shaft in the area located beyond the rotor on the side of the oil pan. In addition, fluid communication is provided between the lubrication conduit and the return conduit. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090068043 | Compressor Having Shell With Alignment Features - A compressor includes a shell formed from a piece of material having first, second, third, and fourth ends. The third and fourth ends extend between the first and second ends and are coupled to one another. The first and second ends form longitudinal ends of the shell. The first end includes an edge having first and second protrusions extending longitudinally outwardly therefrom. The edge includes a stepped region at a location where the third end extends longitudinally beyond a portion of the edge proximate the fourth end. A partition abuts the first and second protrusions, is coupled to the shell at the first end, and includes an opening therethrough. A compression mechanism is supported within the shell and includes a discharge passage in communication with the opening in the partition. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090068044 | Compressor With Retaining Mechanism - A compressor may include a shell and a housing fixed within the shell. A compression mechanism may be supported by the housing and may include an orbiting scroll member and a non-orbiting scroll member that are meshingly engaged to form a series of compression pockets. A retaining assembly may include an axial retention member and a rotational retention member, each of which is engaged with the non-orbiting scroll member to limit axial translation and rotation of the non-orbiting scroll member relative to the housing. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090068045 | Compressor Having A Shutdown Valve - A compressor includes a shell, a compression mechanism supported within a suction pressure region of the shell and including a discharge outlet in communication with the discharge chamber, and a discharge valve assembly. The discharge valve assembly includes a valve member, a valve stop including an opening therethrough, and a communication member defining a fluid passage and extending into the discharge chamber from the valve stop toward the discharge outlet in the discharge chamber to provide fluid communication between the opening in the valve stop and a location downstream of the valve stop. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090068046 | COMPRESSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The compressor includes a first constituent element and a first slider. The first constituent element is capable of being laser welded. The first slider is composed of cast iron capable of being laser welded and having a carbon content of from 2.0 wt % or more to 2.7 wt % or less. This first slider is joined to the first constituent element by laser welding without using a filler. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090087331 | Scroll type fluid machine - This invention provides a scroll type fluid machine which can simultaneously realize the stabilization of the behavior in the rotational direction of an orbiting scroll and the reduction in the manufacturing cost by the ease of holding a grease. In the scroll type fluid machine, three pairs of rotation prevention mechanisms are provided between a casing and an orbiting scroll. The rotation prevention mechanism is constituted of first and second ball coupling mechanisms having a function different from each other. The first ball coupling mechanism supports the thrust load of the orbiting scroll. Meanwhile, the second ball coupling mechanism supports the rotation force of the orbiting scroll. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090123315 | Scroll Compressor - A scroll compressor is provided which has favorable assembling property, does not require a thrust bearing, has a bearing structure for bearing a compression section at both sides thereof and has a simple structure of a scroll. The scroll compressor includes a compression section | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090148326 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - It is an object of the present invention to reduce impulsive sound of an Oldham ring and to prevent a driving noise of a scroll compressor from increasing. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090148327 | Rotary postive displacement combustor engine - The present invention relates to the field of combustion engines and more specifically to a rotary positive displacement combustor engine. The device employs a scroll compressor and a scroll expander with an orbital shaft displaced between the compressor and expander supplying a means and link for compressing fluids within the scroll compressor and disposing the fluid within the scroll expander within which an ignition source is placed at strategic points within a pair of first isolated zones of the orbiting scroll expander generating a highly efficient process for capturing mechanical and thermal energy from combustion. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090169405 | Compressor - There is provided with a compressor comprising: a compressor main body in which fluid inhaled from an inhale port is compressed, and the compressed fluid is exhausted from an exhaust port; and a pressure retaining device where provided on the exhaust port side of the compressor main body, and retaining pressure on the exhaust port side, wherein the pressure retaining device comprises: a valve body communicating with the exhaust port; an urging member normally urging the valve body into a direction to be closed; and a back-pressure means where an intermediate pressure between the inhale port and the exhaust port of the compressor main body is introduced as back pressure which affects the valve body, and wherein the valve body of the pressure retaining device is openable according to difference between pressure at the exhaust port, and the intermediate pressure of the back-pressure means and force by the urging member. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090175749 | Fluid displacement apparatus having pressure sensing device - A fluid displacement apparatus includes a housing for receiving a refrigerant, a driving shaft rotatably received in the housing, a magnetic clutch attached to the driving shaft for rotation transmitting purposes, a fixed scroll disposed in the housing, an orbiting scroll rotatably received and engaged in the housing and interfitting with the fixed scroll for compressing the refrigerant and for generating a pressurized refrigerant, the housing includes a compartment communicating with the inner chamber of the housing with a passage for receiving a pressure sensing device which may sense the pressure of the pressurized refrigerant for detecting whether the refrigerant in the housing is over pressure or not. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090185926 | Scroll Compressor and Baffle for Same - A scroll compressor includes a baffle member in a high pressure region of the housing where compressed fluid is stored. The baffle serves to carry and transfer pressure loads away from the central region to an outer periphery region where such loads can be transferred to the outer housing. Deflection, stress and wear on the scroll compressor bodies may be reduced. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090185927 | Key Coupling and Scroll Compressor Incorporating Same - A scroll compressor includes a movable scroll compressor body and a fixed scroll compressor body that are arranged for relative orbital movement relative to one another to facilitate compression of refrigerant. To guide the orbital movement, a Oldham key coupling is provided that may include four keys spaced in separate quadrants for guiding movement of the scroll compressor body along a linear translational path along a lateral axis. Additionally, running clearances may be unequally and non-symmetrically arranged so as to prevent unwanted rotation of one of the scroll compressor bodies and thereby prevent unwanted edge loading. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090185928 | Scroll Compressor Suction Flow Path & Bearing Arrangement Features - A scroll compressor includes an oil separation region generally formed between the motor housing and upper bearing member. A long labyrinth channel is provided with the suction refrigerant gas flow path being redirected to facilitate coalescing of oil mist droplets out of the gas stream. An integral deflector plate can be provided on the upper bearing member to interrupt flow and facilitate coalescing of oil. Additionally, offset arrangements between motor housing outlet ports and through ports through the bearing member are provided to facilitate redirection of the refrigerant flow that can further achieve oil separation. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090185929 | Mounting Base and Scroll Compressor Incorporating Same - A scroll compressor assembly includes a mounting base with a pair of support ribs formed into the mounting base, for structurally strengthening the support provided by the mounting base. The mounting base may either support the scroll compressor housing as a separate component part or may integrally form part of the scroll compressor housing. The mounting base has at least two tracks for rail mounting of the scroll compressor assembly and typically includes holes for fasteners and/or grommets. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090185930 | Scroll Compressor with Housing Shell Location - A scroll compressor includes a feature for location of a housing shell section off of one of the scroll compressor bodies. According to this aspect, a scroll compressor comprises a housing including a shell section; scroll compressor bodies having respective bases and respective scroll ribs that project from the respective bases and which mutually engage about an axis for compressing fluid; and a drive unit operative to facilitate relative movement between the scroll compressor bodies. The shell section is located axially relative to a remainder of the housing off of one of the scroll compressor bodies. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090185931 | Shaft mounted counterweight, method and scroll compressor incorporating same - A counterweight mounted to a drive shaft in a scroll compressor is provided. The drive shaft has a central annular segment generally concentric about the central axis and an eccentric annular segment offset from the central axis that can be used for driving the movable scroll compressor body. A counterweight engages the eccentric and also engages the annular segment for location and mounting of the counterweight to the shaft. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090191079 | TEMPORARY SELF-LUBRICATING COATING FOR SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A sealed compressor is provided with a spray lubricant that will provide lubricant at various bearing surfaces during initial start-up of the compressor. The lubricant will wear away quickly after initial run-in, but liquid lubricant will be provided by that time. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090191080 | Scroll Compressor - A scroll compressor an orbiting scroll member including a second end plate, a second wrap extending from the second end plate and meshingly engaged with the first wrap to form a suction pocket in fluid communication with a suction pressure region of the compressor, intermediate compression pockets, and a discharge pocket in fluid communication with the discharge passage. An auxiliary passage is in fluid communication with one of the intermediate compression pockets to provide pressurized fluid to the chamber to deflect the first end plate and the first wrap axially toward the orbiting scroll member. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090196781 | MODE CHANGING APPARATUS FOR A SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A mode changing apparatus for a scroll compressor is provided that may include a low-pressure passage that communicates with a suction side formed by an orbiting motion of an orbiting scroll, an intermediate-pressure passage that communicates with an intermediate-pressure side formed by the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll, a block assembly mounted at the fixed scroll and having a connection channel that connects the low-pressure passage and the intermediate-pressure passage, a switching device disposed at the block assembly that opens/closes the connection channel, and a pressure supply device that selectively applies, to the block assembly, a discharge gas pressure discharged from the fixed and orbiting scrolls and a suction gas pressure sucked into the fixed and orbiting scrolls, to thereby operate the switching device. With such a simplified structure, the gas compression capacity of a scroll compressor may be varied, enhancing energy efficiency of a system. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090202376 | Scroll-Type Fluid Machine - A scroll-type fluid machine has a movable scroll ( | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090208356 | Scroll-type refrigeration compressor - Compressor has a fixed scroll and a scroll movable in an orbit relative to the fixed scroll. The fixed and movable scrolls are equipped with a spiral wrap that engage each other and delimit variable-volume compression chambers. The spiral wrap of the movable scroll has a stepped portion extending over at least a portion of its length. At least one of the scrolls defines a passage for communication, during orbital movement of the movable scroll, between two compression chambers, with the ends of the passage terminating respectively on either side of the outer and inner walls of the spiral wrap of the scroll with the passage or inside the outer and inner walls of the spiral wrap of the scroll with the passage. The passage has a check valve for allowing fluid to flow only from the outer wall of the spiral wrap of the scroll with the passage to the inner wall. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090214370 | DAMPING APPARATUS FOR SCROLL COMPRESSORS FOR OXYGEN-GENERATING SYSTEMS - A radially compliant scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll operatively connected to the fixed scroll, a synchronizer and at least one linkage member operatively connected to the orbiting scroll and the synchronizer. The at least one linkage member includes an orbiting crank handle operatively disposed on the linkage member, a crankpin operatively disposed through said synchronizer and extending into the crank handle and a damping member disposed on the crankpin between the synchronizer and the crank handle. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090238703 | Scroll compressor - A scroll compressor includes a fluid guide having a flow path through which a fluid discharged to an inner space of a casing from a compression part flows, for guiding a flowing direction of the fluid to be changed along the flow path. Oil is effectively separated from a refrigerant discharged from the compression part, thereby being prevented from leaking outside the casing. Oil mixed with the refrigerant is moved to a lower space of the casing by the fluid guide thus to cool a lower winding coil. Accordingly, an efficiency of a driving motor is enhanced, and a performance of the scroll compressor is enhanced. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090238704 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - There is disclosed a scroll compressor capable of improving the oil separating device of a refrigerant gas discharged from a scroll compression element to effectively suppress the amount of oil to be discharged through a discharge tube. The scroll compressor has, in a sealed container, a scroll compression element, a motor element which drives the scroll compression element, and a support frame having a bearing portion which keeps a shaft of the motor element, and provided with a communication path. The scroll compressor further includes a shield plate which extends from the support frame to the motor element side to surround the periphery of the bearing portion, and a guide member provided at an outlet of the communication path to guide the discharged gas in the direction of the shield plate. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090246055 | DISCHARGE CHAMBER FOR DUAL DRIVE SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A dual drive compressor is disclosed including a discharge chamber having a wall disposed therein forming a plurality of discharge zones within the discharge chamber to attenuate pulsations caused by a fluid received in the compressor and improve a performance of the compressor. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090246056 | SEALED TYPE SCROLL COMPRESSOR - There is disclosed a sealed type scroll compressor which decreases a sliding loss between a thrust ring and a orbit scroll and improves the efficiency of the sealed type scroll compressor while preventing the leakage of a refrigerant between a fixed scroll and the orbit scroll, and the compressor provides a relation of F | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090246057 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - There is disclosed a scroll compressor having an object of stabilizing the moving of an orbit scroll while suppressing the start load of the scroll compressor. In the scroll compressor, a slide bush having a slide face forming a predetermined angle with respect to the direction of gas load of a gas in a compression chamber is interposed on an eccentric shaft of a shaft for driving the orbit scroll, so that when the load of the gas in the compression chamber is applied, the eccentric amount of the eccentric shaft increases. The scroll compressor includes a spring member interposed between the slide bush and the eccentric shaft and configured to constantly urge the eccentric shaft to decrease the eccentric amount of the eccentric shaft, and this spring member urges the eccentric shaft to press the eccentric shaft onto the slide face of the slide bush. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090280018 | Compressor - A scroll compressor ( | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090280019 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor having an improved compression efficiency by optimizing a step mesh gap in an operating state is provided. The scroll compressor having a step-like shape has a step-mesh-gap set value occurring between step side surfaces of a connecting wall of a fixed scroll and a connecting edge of a revolving scroll and a step-mesh-gap set value occurring between step side surfaces of a connecting wall of the revolving scroll and a connecting edge of the fixed scroll, and a fixed-side set value for when the two move close together due to the revolving scroll tilting by receiving gas pressure during operation is set greater than that for when the two move apart. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090297377 | Compressor having capacity modulation system - A compressor includes a housing, a first scroll member supported within the housing and having a first end plate with a discharge passage, and a second scroll member supported within the housing and having a second end plate with a second spiral wrap extending therefrom and meshingly engaged with the first spiral wrap to form a series of pockets. A first aperture extends through the first end plate and is in communication with a first product of the series of pockets. A modulation assembly axially biases the first scroll member into engagement with the second scroll member when the first aperture is in communication with a suction pressure region of the compressor. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090297378 | Compressor having capacity modulation system - A compressor including a housing defining a suction pressure region and a discharge pressure region includes first and second scroll members forming compression pockets. A first chamber located on the first end plate of the first scroll member includes first and second passages and a first aperture extending therethrough and in communication with the first chamber. The first aperture provides communication between a compression pocket and the first chamber. A piston in the first chamber is axially displaceable to isolate the first passage from communication with the second passage when in first and second positions, prevent communication between the first aperture and the first passage when in the first position, and provide communication between the first aperture and the first passage when in the second position. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090297379 | Compressor Having Output Adjustment Assembly Including Piston Actuation - A compressor may include a housing, first and second scroll members, and a compressor output adjustment assembly. The first scroll member may define a first chamber having first and second passages in communication therewith, a second chamber having third and fourth passages in communication therewith, and first and second apertures. The first and third passages may be in communication with a first pressure source and the second and fourth passages may be selectively in communication with a second pressure source. The compressor output adjustment assembly may include a first piston located in the first chamber and displaceable between first and second positions and a second piston located in the second chamber and displaceable between first and second positions. The first piston may isolate the first aperture from the first passage and the second piston may isolate the second aperture from the third passage when in their respective second positions. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090304538 | MODULAR MULTI-ROTOR COMPRESSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A multi-rotor compressor and method of manufacturing is provided. The compressor includes a housing with a plurality of identical planet rotors. The planet rotors are equally spaced apart at a fixed distance from a centerline. A single sun rotor is provided that is disposed to cooperate with the plurality of identical planet rotors in the compression of gas. The number and radial spacing of the plurality of identical planet rotors about said single sun rotor may be arranged in different configurations to change an output capacity parameter for said compressor. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100003151 | REFRIGERANT SYSTEM WITH MULTI-SPEED SCROLL COMPRESSOR AND ECONOMIZER CIRCUIT - A scroll compressor is provided with a multiple-speed motor. A control selects a speed for operating the motor, along with selecting between several available options for the system capacity adjustment to meet external load demands in a most efficient and reliable manner. The disclosed embodiment includes an economizer circuit, an unloader function, and an optional suction modulation valve. By utilizing each of these features in combination with the multi-speed motor for the compressor, the present invention is better able to tailor provided capacity to desired capacity. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100008807 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR UTILIZING LIQUID OR VAPOR INJECTION - A scroll compressor that utilizes liquid or vapor injection to cool a working fluid being compressed by an orbiting scroll member and a non-orbiting scroll member, and/or to increase the efficiency of the compressor. An injection fitting is secured to, and extends through, the compressor housing and receives liquid or vapor working fluid from a source external to the compressor. The non-orbiting scroll member may be fixedly mounted with respect to the crankcase of the compressor, and internal passages formed within the crankcase and the non-orbiting scroll member, which are substantially isolated from the suction pressure and discharge pressure chambers of the compressor, are used to convey liquid or vapor working fluid from the injection fitting into intermediate pressure working pockets defined between the scroll members. The compressor may include an end cap fitted over an open end of its housing which overlaps an end of the passage provided in the non-orbiting scroll member to provide a robust sealing of the passage. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100014999 | SCROLL-TYPE EXPANSION MACHINE - A scroll-type expansion machine includes an expansion mechanism including an orbiting scroll and a first fixed scroll for expanding a refrigerant and recovering a power, a sub-expansion mechanism including an orbiting scroll and a second fixed scroll for compressing the refrigerant by the power recovered by the expansion mechanism, and a seal ring disposed in at least one of an outer circumference portion of the sub-compression mechanism or an outer circumference portion of the expansion mechanism. An oil flow path is opened in an upper space of a hermetic vessel to make the upper space and a lower space at a compressed pressure of the sub-compression mechanism, and the lower space is provided with an oil pipe for communicating with the main compressor. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100021328 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - In a scroll compressor, a center of a turning scroll body is shifted with respect to a drive central axis so that a distance between a gravity center and the drive central axis in a turning scroll becomes smaller than a predetermined allowable value set based on theoretical displacement and mass of the turning scroll. A moment force about the drive central axis acting on the turning scroll is reduced during revolving, and an alternating force acting on an autorotation preventing pin in the turning scroll is reduced to an allowable level. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100028182 | LINE FED PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS TYPE MOTOR FOR SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH BYPASS PORTS - A scroll compressor is provided with some capacity reduction technique such as a bypass port. The electric motor for driving the scroll compressor is not an induction motor, but rather a line fed permanent magnet synchronous motor is utilized. Such motors have a higher overall efficiency, and thus will be more efficient at reduced capacity operation. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100028183 | VALVE ASSEMBLY FOR SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor has a reed valve mounted on a central discharge port. The reed valve has a valve portion at a first end and a pin holding the reed valve onto a non-orbiting scroll member at a second end. The reed valve extends along a plane which is non-perpendicular to a drive axis of a drive shaft such that the second end, which receives the pin, is further removed from the compression chambers than is the first end of the reed valve, which covers the central discharge port. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100047101 | Scroll compressor with extended profile - A scroll type compressor, according to the invention, comprises first and second scroll members each having an end plate and a scroll wall projecting from the end plate. The scroll members have their scroll walls interleaved with one another to define therebetween a compression chamber and upon relative orbiting movement between the scroll members the compression chamber migrates to compress a compressible medium. The scroll walls are each comprised of a plurality of alternating straight line wall portions and circular arc portions. The straight line wall portions can be modified to house a catalyst or a fluid port. Or the straight line sections may be telescopically extendible in length to thereby adjust the displacement of the compressor. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100061871 | COMPRESSOR SLIDER, SLIDER PREFORM, SCROLL PART, AND COMPRESSOR - A compressor slider has a carbon content of 2.0 wt % to 2.7 wt %, a silicon content of 1.0 wt % to 3.0 wt %, a balance of iron that includes unavoidable impurities, graphite that is smaller than the flake graphite of flake graphite cast iron, and a hardness that is greater than HRB 90 but less than HRB 100 in at least a portion of the slider. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100068086 | SCROLL FLUID MACHINE - Provided is a scroll fluid machine that, by using a crankshaft manufactured by cold forging and a needle bearing, can sufficiently exhibit the performance of a variable circling radius mechanism, can provide a sufficient reliability on a bearing portion of the crankshaft, and can be manufactured inexpensively. For this purpose, in a crankshaft | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100080722 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor including a stationary scroll formed with a scroll wrap, an orbiting scroll formed with a scroll wrap, a rotating shaft for putting the orbiting scroll into an orbiting motion, a rotating bearing for rotatably supporting the rotating shaft on the stationary scroll, an orbiting scroll bearing provided at an eccentric shaft portion of the rotating shaft and operative to orbitably support a central portion of the orbiting scroll. A coupling transmits a torque of a driving shaft to the rotating shaft. The scroll compressor is compact based on the layout of a balancer. The orbiting scroll bearing is disposed at a central portion of the rotating shaft, and the coupling is provided with the balancer. The stationary scroll may be provided with ribs being formed therein with an oil passage for connection between a central oil passage formed in the rotating shaft and the exterior. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100086426 | SLIDING MEMBER AND FLUIDIC MACHINE UTILIZING THE SAME - A sliding member has a porous sintered base and a resin composition. The porous sintered base is constructed of a porous sintered compact. The resin composition is coated onto the surface of the porous sintered base. The resin composition has a maximum resin layer thickness equal to a pore depth plus at least 10 μm or more to the pore depth t2. The pore depth is a maximum depth of the pores exposed on the surface of the porous sintered base before the resin composition is coated onto the surface of the porous sintered base. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100098570 | VARIABLE-SPEED SCROLL-TYPE REFRIGERATION COMPRESSOR - The compressor includes a sealed housing defining a suction volume and a compression volume respectively provided on either side of a body contained in the housing, an oil injection circuit supplied with oil from an oil contained in a casing and adapted for injecting oil into the compression volume, the oil injection circuit comprising an electrovalve including a body attached to the wall of the sealed housing and a core movable under the action of a magnetic fluid between a closing position for injecting oil into the compression volume and an opening position preventing or limiting the injection of oil into the compression volume. The compressor includes a control means for moving the core of the electrovalve between the opening and closing positions based on the compressor speed and/or on the cooling gas discharge temperature. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100111738 | SCROLL MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, COMPRESSION MECHANISM AND SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A method of manufacturing a scroll member for a compression mechanism installed in a scroll compressor includes a casting step and a cutting step. An iron casting is formed in the casting step, which includes a spiraling part. The iron casting obtained in the casting step is cut during the cutting step in order to obtain a final shape of the scroll member. The iron casting may include a fixed part having a central portion with a first axial thickness and an external periphery portion with a second axial thickness larger than the first axial thickness before the cutting step. A dimension of a specified portion of the spiraling part may be larger before the cutting step is performed than after the cutting step is performed, with the specified portion preferably disposed toward an external periphery of the spiraling part. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100111739 | SCROLL MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, COMPRESSION MECHANISM AND SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A method of manufacturing a scroll member includes a casting step and a cutting step. In the casting step an iron casting having a spiraling part is formed. In the cutting step, the iron casting obtained in the casting step is cut to obtain a final shape of the scroll member. Preferably the iron casting obtained in the casting step has a fixing part with the spiraling part extending from one side and a protruding part extending from an opposite side. A specified portion of the spiraling part, a central portion of the fixing part and/or the protruding part has a larger dimension before the cutting step is performed than after the cutting step is performed. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100158730 | COMPRESSOR - A system is provided for maintaining the position of a valve in a compressor. The valve includes a valve body connected to a piston in a cylinder by a shaft. The valve body is positioned in the discharge outlet of the compressor based on the location of the piston in the cylinder. The system maintains the position of the valve body in response to a movement of the piston by permitting fluid to flow from a fluid source through the piston and into a chamber of the cylinder to urge the piston back to its initial position in the cylinder. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100166589 | SCROLL TYPE FLUID MACHINE - The invention reduces a centrifugal force of a orbiting scroll which acts on an auxiliary crank mechanism. A crank pin which is eccentric from a main shaft portion is formed in a drive shaft, and a main balance weight is provided in a base end side of the crank pin. The main shaft portion of the drive shaft is rotatably supported by using a main bearing, and the crank pin is attached to a orbiting bearing which is provided in a back face side of a orbiting scroll. Further, an internal gap of the main bearing is set to a value which is larger than a value obtained by subtracting the double value of an eccentric amount difference between an eccentric amount of an auxiliary crank shaft and an eccentric amount of the drive shaft from an internal gap of the orbiting bearing. Accordingly, the internal gap of the main bearing does not come to 0 even if a compressor comes to a steady state. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100183465 | Scroll Compressor - The invention provides a scroll compressor in which a movable scroll is supported from a back face with a plurality of thrust plates without being inclined. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100183466 | DISPLACEMENT MACHINE ACCORDING TO THE SPIRAL PRINCIPLE - A displacement machine of spiral-type construction for a compressible medium includes a displacement body having a carrier disc and helical blades extending out from both sides of the carrier disc. The carrier disc has a hub which is supported by a hub bearing on an eccentric disc which is part of a driven drive shaft. The drive shaft is supported inside a housing by a first bearing and a second bearing. These bearings are arranged in receptacles which fully project into the feed chambers of the housing so that the bearings are positioned in close proximity to the eccentric disc. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100196183 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH MATERIALS TO ALLOW RUN-IN - A scroll compressor comprises a non-orbiting scroll member having a base and a generally spiral wrap extending from its base, and an orbiting scroll member having a base and a generally spiral wrap extending from its base. The wraps of the non-orbiting and orbiting scroll members interfit to define compression chambers. A drive shaft causes the orbiting scroll member to orbit relative to the non-orbiting scroll member. At least one of the non-orbiting and orbiting scroll operate to move in an axial direction toward the other of the non-orbiting and orbiting scroll members. The scroll compressor supplies a bias force to bias the at least one scroll member toward the other. A first of the non-orbiting and orbiting scroll members have at least a portion of its surface formed of a material that is harder than the material that it will contact on a second of the non-orbiting and orbiting scroll members, such that upon start-up there will be run-in and removal of the material. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100215533 | SCROLL TYPE COMPRESSOR - A scroll type compressor including a fixed scroll having a suction opening, a movable scroll, a hermetically sealed container having an upper cap in which the fixed scroll and the movable scroll are mounted, and a suction pipe that penetrates through the upper cap and is engagedly fitted through an O ring in the suction opening of the fixed scroll at a lower portion thereof. The upper cap is provided with a pipe stand formed of iron at a suction-pipe penetrating portion thereof, and the suction pipe comprises an iron lower suction member that is engagedly fitted in the suction opening of the fixed scroll and an O-ring groove in which the O ring is fitted, and a copper upper suction member that is joined to the lower suction member by brazing and engagedly fitted in the pipe stand, the upper suction member and the pipe stand being joined to each other by brazing. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100215534 | SCROLL TYPE COMPRESSOR - A scroll type compressor including a fixed scroll, a movable scroll engaged with the fixed scroll and a hermetically sealed container, one of the fixed scroll and the movable scroll including an intercommunication path having a lower hole opened to the outside of the one scroll and an insertion hole formed by subjecting the lower hole to reaming processing from the one end to a position of a predetermined depth of the lower hole, a pin member that is slightly smaller in diameter than the intercommunication path and movably inserted in the intercommunication path, and a screw member that is provided at one end of the intercommunication path to close the one end of the intercommunication path so as to press the pin member against the end of the back side of the intercommunication path. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100215535 | SCROLL TYPE COMPRESSOR - A scroll type compressor including a fixed scroll, a movable scroll engaged with the fixed scroll, and a hermetically sealed container in which the fixed scroll and the movable scroll are mounted. The fixed scroll or the movable scroll has an intercommunication path for lubricating oil that is opened to the outside of the one scroll at one end thereof, extends radially inside the scroll and has a high-pressure opening intercommunicating with a high-pressure portion of the container and a low-pressure opening intercommunicating with a low-pressure portion in the scroll, a pin member disposed in the intercommunication path so as to be movable radially in the scroll, a screw member closing one end of the intercommunication path, and a stopper provided at a predetermined position in the intercommunication path to regulate radial movement of the pin member. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100221133 | SCREW COMPRESSOR - A compression mechanism is provided with a first relief port opening only to a first compression chamber, a second relief port opening only to a second compression chamber, and a third relief port which can open to both of the first compression chamber and the second compression chamber. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100221134 | SCROLL FLUID MACHINE - In a scroll air compressor as a scroll fluid machine capable of being downsized with an increased cooling effect, cooling air entering through a fixed inlet of a fixed cooling passage provided at the rear of a fixed scroll, and an orbiting inlet of an orbiting cooling passage provided at the rear of an orbiting scroll, is allowed to flow out of an fixed outlet and an orbiting outlet, respectively. Thereafter, the cooling air is guided to an outer periphery of the other end of the casing through a side duct and a guide duct, and then sucked into an inner peripheral side of a centrifugal fan to be discharged outwardly from an exhaust port provided in a fan cover. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100226807 | SCROLL-TYPE FLUID MACHINE - Provided is scroll-type fluid machine that facilitates the formation of a back-pressure chamber so as to increase the design freedom in the space on the back side of the revolving scroll member, where it is difficult to ensure sufficient space, by decreasing, as much as possible, the installation space of the sealing member partitioning the back-pressure chamber. In the scroll-type fluid machine, a back-pressure chamber to which high-pressure gas is introduced is partitioned between the revolving scroll member and a fixed support member, a sealing member is constructed of an annular U sealing member, the annular U sealing member is oriented in a direction orthogonal to the back side of the revolving scroll member, and one side contacts a side surface (sealed surface) of a fixed support member. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100233001 | Compressor Having Bearing Assembly - A compressor may include a shell, a compression mechanism, a drive shaft, and first and second bearing housing assemblies. The compression mechanism may be supported within the shell and the drive shaft may have a first end drivingly engaged with the compression mechanism. The second bearing housing assembly may be located within and fixed to the shell. The second bearing housing may include a radially extending base portion defining an aperture rotatably supporting a second end of the drive shaft therein. The second bearing housing may additionally include a wall portion extending axially from the base portion and having a first region coupled to the shell at a first location, a second region coupled to the shell at a second location and a third region extending from the first region to the second region. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100239447 | Shaft Bearings, Compressor with Same, and Methods - A bearing material composition that lines a support includes a combination of a thermoplastic conforming material and abrasive particles which provide a combined effect for remedying the effects due to edge loading that may be caused by misalignment between the bearing and a shaft to which a portion is rotatably mounted. The conforming material may be PTFE such that it does not have a memory and is subject to cold flow and creep. As a result, misalignment problems and edge loading are remedied by the combination of abrasive removal of metal material from the drive shaft at the location of edge loading and creep of the conforming material at the location of edge loading which may provide an overall greater bearing interface surface. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100254842 | Contoured Check Valve Disc and Scroll Compressor Incorporating Same - A check valve is provided which may be integrated into a scroll compressor that prevents static cohesion sticking forces between a valve disc member and a retainer member of the check valve housing. Such static cohesion sticking forces may be particularly generated due to oil mist generation in such scroll compressors which create a thin lubricant film between the valve disc and the stop plate of the check valve housing, creating suction type static cohesion when dislodgment of the valve disc away from the stop plate is attempted. A relief region is created between the retainer and the valve disc creating a minimal contact surface area that greatly reduces and/or eliminates such static cohesion sticking forces. For example, the valve disc may be dished to have a concave surface that faces the retainer element provided by the stop plate. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100284844 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COMPRESSOR SLIDER, AND COMPRESSOR - A method for manufacturing a compressor slider includes a slider preform manufacturing step, a resin coating step, and a machining step. In the slider preform manufacturing step, an iron slider preform in which at least one property selected from the tensile strength and the tensile modulus of elasticity is greater than that of flake graphite cast iron is manufactured using a prescribed mold. In the resin coating step, the slider preform is not machined, but the resin coating layer is formed on all or a part of the slider preform. In the machining step, only the resin coating layer is machined, and a completed slider is obtained. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100303661 | SCROLL-TYPE COMPRESSOR - A scroll-type compressor whose capacity can be easily changed and with which an inconvenience can be prevented is provided. A scroll-type compressor includes a fixed scroll having a first spiral-shaped wall member provided upright on a side surface of a first end plate, and an orbiting scroll having a second spiral-shaped wall member provided upright on a side surface of the second end plate, the orbiting scroll being supported so as to be capable of orbital revolution movement while being prevented from self rotation by meshing the wall members with each other. Wall-member stepped portions having a small height at the center and a large height at the outer side in a direction along the spiral are formed on the upper edges of the first and second wall members. End-plate height-difference portions having a large height at the center and a small height at the outer side in the direction along the spiral are formed on the side surfaces of the first and second end plates, at positions facing the wall-member stepped portions. One of the first and second wall members has a cutout portion formed at the outer end in the direction along the spiral and has a smaller spiral-end angle than the other of the first and second wall members. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110008197 | INVERTER TYPE SCROLL COMPRESSOR - The present invention relates to an inverter type scroll compressor and comprises a housing, a fixed scroll which is set up inside the housing, an orbiting scroll which orbits around the fixed scroll, a driving unit which turns the orbiting scroll, an intake port and a discharge port which are in the housing, and an inverter which faces the front surface of the fixed scroll. An intake hole penetrating to the compression chamber and a discharge hole are respectively formed in the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll. Accordingly, the present invention is configured so that the coolant is discharged through the discharge hole after the coolant passes through the inverter and the fixed scroll and then flows into the compression chamber. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110020161 | Displacement Type Compressor Having a Self-Start Synchronous Motor and Start Load Reducing Means - In order to make a displacement type compressor be able to reliably start without increasing an outside diameter dimension of the compressor while using a self-start synchronous motor having high energy efficiency, the displacement type compressor according to the invention includes the self-start synchronous motor which starts as an induction-motor and performs synchronous operation by performing synchronization pull-in almost at a synchronous rotational frequency, a compression part having a compression chamber which compresses a working fluid, and a hermetic container which houses the self-start synchronous motor and the compression part. The displacement type compressor is provided with a start load reducing means which reduces a load of the compression part at startup and is placed at the compression part in the hermetic container. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110027114 | SCROLL FLUID MACHINE - A scroll fluid machine that suppresses fluctuations in a port aperture area during each revolution of an orbiting scroll. Suction ports for sucking in a working fluid are disposed on a second base plate to have openings in a vicinity of a winding start end portion of a second spiral tooth, and near an inward facing surface of the second spiral tooth at a position separated by an involute angle approximately 90° from the winding start end portion of the second spiral tooth. Discharge ports for discharging the working fluid are disposed on a first base plate to have openings in a vicinity of a winding start end portion of a first spiral tooth, and near an inward facing surface of the first spiral tooth at a position separated by an involute angle approximately 90° from the winding start end portion of the first spiral tooth. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110027115 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided with a buffer portion ( | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110033326 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH RADIALLY CONFIGURED MOTOR WINDING - A scroll compressor is more economically constructed and operated. The scroll compressor includes an orbiting scroll member, a non-orbiting scroll member, and a single phase electric motor, the single phase electric motor further includes a rotor, a stator having a plurality of slots, the stator being mounted concentrically with the rotor, an aluminum start winding that is wound within a portion of the slots distal from the rotor, a copper main winding that is wound with a portion of the slots between the aluminum start winding and the rotor, and a drive shaft coupled to the rotor, the drive shaft being configured to couple to the orbiting scroll member of a scroll compressor to cause the orbiting scroll member to orbit the non-orbiting scroll member. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110033327 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - The present invention relates to a scroll compressor, including: a hermetic container, refrigerant flowing in and out of which; a driving unit installed in the hermetic container to rotate a rotation axis; an orbiting scroll fixed to the rotation axis and rotated with the rotation axis; and a fixed scroll fixed to the hermetic container, engaged with the orbiting scroll to define a compression chamber, and compressing refrigerant by an interaction with the orbiting scroll, a discharge direction of a discharge space-side discharge hole heading from the compression chamber to the discharge space not corresponding to a discharge direction of a compression chamber-side discharge hole. The scroll compressor reduces pulsation noise of refrigerant to improve noise performance. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110033328 | COMPRESSOR HAVING CAPACITY MODULATION SYSTEM - A compressor includes first and second scroll members, a structure supporting the second scroll member, and a first piston. The first scroll member includes a first end plate and a first spiral wrap. The second scroll member includes a second end plate and a second spiral wrap engaged with the first spiral wrap to form compression pockets. The second end plate includes a first aperture in communication with a first compression pocket. The structure includes a first recess and first and second passages. The first piston is axially displaceable between first and second positions within the first recess. The first piston isolates the first passage from communication with the second passage when in the first and second positions, prevents communication between the first aperture and the first passage when in the first position, and provides communication between the first aperture and the first passage when in the second position. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110033329 | SCROLL TYPE FLUID MACHINE - A scroll type fluid machine having a rotation-preventing member extending between at least one of a fixed scroll and a housing which form a non-orbiting part and a movable scroll and preventing rotation of the movable scroll, and also having a mechanism for making the rotation-preventing member movable, the mechanism being provided to the rotation-preventing member for permitting a movement of the rotation-preventing member itself which movement is required for the rotation-preventing member to permit an orbital movement of the movable scroll. The scroll type fluid machine, with the rotation-preventing mechanism for the movable scroll, can be easily assembled into a target assembly condition, and can be formed to be small-sized and light-weighted. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110052437 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - There is disclosed a scroll compressor which can lower the noise level of a harsh frequency without taking a lot of troubles. In a sealed container, a scroll compression element and an electromotive element are provided. The scroll compression element is constituted of a fixed scroll including a vertically provided spiral lap, and a swingable scroll including a vertically provided spiral lap and swiveled by a rotary shaft of the electromotive element with respect to the fixed scroll. A refrigerant compressed by gradually reducing, from the outside to the inside, a plurality of compression spaces formed by engaging both the laps with each other is discharged to a discharge pressure space in the sealed container. The scroll compressor further includes through holes formed in the fixed scroll to connect the compression spaces to the discharge pressure space, and normally closed relief valves provided in the fixed scroll on the side of the discharge pressure space to open and close the through holes, and the depth dimension of each of the through holes is set to a value corresponding to the wavelength of a noise peak frequency. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110058973 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor includes a compression mechanism, an electric motor, a compressor housing, a conductive member, a terminal base, an insulating member, a connection terminal, a wire assembly, a terminal housing, first and second holes formed through the terminal housing and first and second seal members. The conductive member extends from the inside to the outside of the compressor housing and connected electrically to the connection terminal at a terminal connection. The wire assembly has a core wire connecting electrically between the connecting terminal and the electric motor, and an insulator covering the core wire. The terminal housing disposed in the compressor housing covers the terminal connection. The wire assembly has an insulating tube covering the insulator, wherein both ends of the insulating tube are opened for communicating with the inside and the outside of the terminal housing through a clearance formed between the insulating tube and the insulator. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110091341 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING CLEARANCES IN SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided having appropriate clearance for movement of the orbiting scroll member. Clearance is provided without requiring contact between the crankcase, which supports the orbiting scroll, and the non-orbiting scroll member. Clearance is established during the assembly process using installation tooling that establishes locations of components using a reference point. Clearance is also established using spacers. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110129377 | Scroll Compressor and Method for Manufacturing the Same - The present invention discloses a scroll compressor and a method for manufacturing the same. The scroll compressor comprises a housing assembly, a motor assembly, a major shaft supporting base, a rotating shaft, and a compressing assembly; the housing assembly comprises a bottom case and a top cover; the motor assembly comprises a fixed unit and a rotating unit; the compressing assembly comprises a fixed compressing member and a rotating compressing member; the method for manufacturing the scroll compressor comprises the steps of: mounting the fixed unit in the bottom case; combining the rotating unit with the rotating shaft; fitting the rotating unit on the center of the fixed unit; disposing the major shaft supporting base on the rotating shaft; disposing the rotating compressing member and the fixed compressing member in the bottom case; and combining the top cover with an upper opening of the bottom case and then finishing the manufacture of the scroll compressor. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110129378 | HORIZONTAL SCROLL COMPRESSOR - The inside of a sealed container ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110150688 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH DISCHARGE VALVE - A scroll compressor is provided and may include an orbiting scroll member having an orbiting end plate and an orbiting spiral wrap extending from the orbiting end plate. The scroll compressor may also include a non-orbiting scroll member having a non-orbiting end plate and a non-orbiting spiral wrap extending from the non-orbiting end plate and intermeshed with the orbiting spiral wrap. The scroll compressor may further include a drive member for causing the orbiting scroll member to orbit relative to the non-orbiting scroll member and a discharge slot formed by one of the orbiting scroll member and the non-orbiting scroll member. A discharge valve may be rotatable with the drive member and may operate between a closed state preventing fluid communication between the pockets and the discharge slot and an open state permitting fluid communication between the pockets and the discharge slot. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110150689 | OUTER ROTOR OF A PROGRESSING CAVITY PUMP HAVING AN INNER AND AN OUTER ROTOR - An outer rotor of a progressive cavity pump comprising at least one inner helical rotor with Z external thread starts and at least one adapted outer rotor with a helical cavity with Z+1 internal thread starts, characterized in that at least an outer rotor ( | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110158838 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor includes a casing, a compressor mechanism, a housing, a partition member and a flow mechanism. The compressor mechanism is accommodated in the casing. The compressor mechanism includes a fixed scroll and a movable scroll arranged to form a compression chamber. The housing is disposed on a back side of the movable scroll to form a back pressure space between the housing and the movable scroll. The partition member is disposed in an interior of the casing to form an auxiliary space communicating with the back pressure space. The a flow mechanism is arranged to enable a fluid to flow between the back pressure space and the auxiliary space, and the compression chamber in a process of compression. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158839 | Scroll Fluid Machine - There is provided a scroll fluid machine in which sealability is improved by uniforming a deformed shape of a fastened face of a spindle frame with respect to a fixed scroll, and compression performance is improved. The machine is characterized by comprising a scroll unit disposed in a container, a spindle frame that is interfitted in the container, fastened to the fixed scroll by fastening means at an outer circumferential portion, and houses the movable scroll in a space created between the spindle frame and the fixed scroll, a refrigerant path that is formed in the outer circumferential portion to penetrate the fixed scroll and the spindle frame in an axial direction to open in a rear face of the spindle frame, and guides a high-pressure refrigerant compressed and discharged by the scroll unit to the rear face side of the spindle frame, and a countersunk section that is formed in an opening rim of the refrigerant path of the spindle frame. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110194963 | Water Injected Scroll Air Compressor - A high reliability water injected scroll air compressor is provided. In the scroll air compressor provided with: an orbiting scroll; a fixed scroll corresponding the orbiting scroll; a motor that generates driving force for making the orbiting scroll orbit the fixed scroll; a compressing path from a suction port to a discharge port; and a portion for injecting water into the compressing path, the operation is controlled by switching operation in which water is injected into the compressing path and operation in which no water is injected. Corrosion, the failure of activation and a touch to the wrap respectively worried when water is injected into an air end are avoided by switching the operation with water injection and the operation without water injection as described above so as to prevent water from remaining in the air end. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110194964 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH IMPROVED BACK PRESSURE CONTROL FUNCTION - A scroll compressor that includes: a housing, a drive unit configured to generate a rotating force; and a scroll compression unit having a fixed scroll having a spiral scroll wrap for compressing a suctioned fluid and fixed irrespective of a rotation of a drive shaft of the drive unit and a swivel scroll swiveled according to rotation of the drive shaft and having a spiral scroll wrap, comprises: a main frame disposed within the housing to support a rear surface of the swivel scroll and having a back pressure chamber in an interior thereof; a thrust plate disposed between the swivel scroll and the main frame; and a sealing member inserted between the swivel scroll and the main frame. The sealing member includes a first sealing member inserted between the swivel scroll and the thrust plate, and a second sealing member inserted between the thrust plate and the main frame. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110194965 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - The present invention provides a scroll compressor in which the reliabilities of the eccentric ball bearing and the main ball bearing are enhanced by controlling an amount of oil supplied from the high pressure region to the back pressure chamber and an amount of oil from the high pressure region to the eccentric ball bearing and the main ball bearing. The scroll compressor includes a back pressure chamber oil-supply path | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110200475 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - An object is to provide a scroll compressor capable of preventing degradation in performance and the occurrence of abnormal noise due to a torsional moment applied to an orbiting scroll, by utilizing the structural advantages of so-called stepped scroll compressors. In a so-called stepped scroll compressor ( | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110217198 | Shaft Mounted Counterweight, Method and Scroll Compressor Incorporating Same - A counterweight mounted to a drive shaft in a scroll compressor is provided. The drive shaft has a central annular segment generally concentric about the central axis and an eccentric annular segment offset from the central axis that can be used for driving the movable scroll compressor body. A counterweight engages the eccentric and also engages the annular segment for location and mounting of the counterweight to the shaft. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110236241 | Hybrid Pump for Delivering a Liquid Pump Medium - The invention relates to a hybrid pump for delivering a liquid pump medium, comprising a rotor consisting of substantially non-elastic plastic, which is situated in the pump chamber and can rotate about a rotor axis. Said rotor has a base plate associated with the lower lateral surface of the pump chamber and several rotor parts that are spaced substantially at a uniform distance around the periphery, extend towards the opposite lateral surface of the pump chamber and are permanently connected to the base plate. A preferably curved rotor blade is pivotally hinged on the outer end of each rotor part, forming pump chambers of the rotor between neighboring rotor parts and rotor blades, said chambers being open towards the upper lateral surface of the pump chamber and the bases of said chambers being formed by the base plate of the rotor. The pump is characterized in that the bases of the pump chambers follow a concave arc, rising from the outer edge of the base plate inward towards the rotor axis. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236242 | COMPRESSOR HAVING A SHUTDOWN VALVE - A scroll compressor includes a discharge valve assembly having a valve member, a valve stop supported within the compressor shell and including an aperture therethrough and a communication member. The communication member defines a fluid passage extending into the discharge chamber from the valve stop toward the first discharge outlet in the discharge chamber and provides fluid communication between the aperture in the valve stop and a location downstream of the valve stop. A first side of the valve member abuts the valve stop when in an open position and the valve stop provides communication between the first side of the valve member and the communication member via the aperture. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110243775 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided. A value obtained by multiplying a wrap height (H) by a driving speed (V) may be controlled to be within a range of approximately 500˜1000 mmHz at a low speed driving (less than approximately 35 Hz). The wrap height of the scroll compressor, and the driving speed may be set to be optimum, thereby preventing the scroll compressor from being operated at a speed excessively lower or higher than a predetermined driving speed. This may allow the scroll compressor to be operated at an optimum low speed corresponding to the wrap height, and thus, the compressor and a refrigerating cycle apparatus having the same may have enhanced performances. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243776 | COMPRESSOR INCLUDING ANTI-ROTATION WASHER AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY - A compressor may include a shell, a housing fixed within the shell, first and second scroll members disposed within the shell, a sleeve guide, a fastener, and a washer. The first scroll member may have a first spiral wrap extending from a first end plate and a radially outward extending scroll flange defining an opening. The second scroll member may have a second spiral wrap intermeshed with the first spiral wrap. The sleeve guide may be disposed within the opening in the scroll flange and may define an axial bore. The fastener may be disposed within the axial bore and engaged with the housing. The washer may be located between a head of the fastener and the scroll flange. A first portion of the washer may extend radially outward from the fastener head and may define a rotational stop inhibiting washer rotation through engagement with a rotationally fixed structure. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110250085 | COMPRESSOR HAVING OUTPUT ADJUSTMENT ASSEMBLY - A compressor includes a housing, a first scroll member, a second scroll member and a valve assembly. The first scroll member is positioned within the housing and includes a first end plate portion and a second end plate portion coupled to the first end plate portion and having a first spiral wrap extending therefrom. The first end plate portion and the second end plate portion define a discharge passage. The second scroll member is positioned within the housing and includes a second spiral wrap meshingly engaged with the first spiral wrap. The valve assembly is supported by at least one of the first end plate portion and the second end plate portion at a location radially outward from the discharge passage. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110256008 | SCREW COMPRESSOR HAVING LUBRICATING OIL SYSTEM - Providing a screw compressor | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110256009 | COMPRESSOR HAVING CAPACITY MODULATION SYSTEM - A compressor includes a housing, a first scroll member, a second scroll member and a modulation assembly. The first scroll member includes a first end plate having a discharge passage, a first spiral wrap, and a first aperture extending through the first end plate. The second scroll member includes a second end plate having a second spiral wrap extending therefrom and meshingly engaged with the first spiral wrap to form a series of pockets. The first aperture is in communication with a first of the pockets. The modulation assembly is in communication with the first aperture and is operable in a full capacity mode where the first aperture is isolated from a suction pressure region providing full capacity operation and in a reduced capacity mode where the first aperture is in communication with the suction pressure region providing approximately zero capacity operation. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110256010 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor that suffers no decrease in compression performance due to leakage resulting from a twisting assembly error is provided. This scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll, each including a spiral wrap protruding from an end plate and having the same tooth thickness (Tr) and the same base-circle radius (b) defining an involute surface. The fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll are offset from each other by an orbiting radius (ρ) and mesh such that the respective wraps face each other with a phase shift of 180°. The orbiting scroll revolves/orbits along a circular orbit with the orbiting radius (ρ) to compress a gas while a rotation-preventing mechanism prevents rotation of the orbiting scroll. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110268597 | COMPRESSOR HAVING CAPACITY MODULATION ASSEMBLY - A compressor includes a shell assembly, first and second scroll members and a capacity modulation assembly. The first and second scroll members form a series of pockets. A first modulation port defined in the first scroll member is in communication with a first pocket. The capacity modulation assembly is in communication with the first modulation port and is operable in full, partial and first and second pulse width modulation (PWM) capacity modes. The full capacity mode includes the first modulation port isolated from a suction pressure region of the compressor, the partial capacity mode includes the first modulation port in communication with the suction pressure region, the first PWM capacity mode includes a capacity between full and partial capacity via PWM between the full and partial capacity modes and the second PWM capacity mode includes a capacity between full and zero capacity by providing PWM of the capacity modulation assembly. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110274574 | Water Injected Scroll Air Compressor - As pressure in a water tank rapidly rises when water inside a compressor is evaporated by the high temperature of compressed air and this situation makes the operation unstable, an object of the present subject matter is to address this problem. A water injected scroll air compressor is provided with: an air end of the scroll air compressor; a driving unit that generates driving force for the air end; a compressing path from a suction port to a discharge port; a portion to inject water into the compressing path; a discharge piping of air discharged from the air end; a tank provided on a path of the discharge piping for storing water separated from the compressed air; and a cooler that is provided on the path of the discharge piping between the tank and the air end and cools the compressed air discharged from the air end. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110274575 | COMPRESSOR, IN PARTICULAR A RADIAL PISTON COMPRESSOR FOR CARBON DIOXIDE AS A REFRIGERANT - A compressor, in particular a radial piston compressor, further in particular a compressor for CO | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110280758 | SCROLL TYPE COMPRESSOR - Provided is a scroll type compressor which reduces variations in the pressing load of a rotating scroll on a fixed scroll, reduces the impact at the start of the compressor and suppresses noises, and can provide excellent durability. A peripheral elastic body | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110300011 | SCROLL TYPE COMPRESSOR - A scroll type compressor has a rotary shaft, a fixed scroll member, a movable scroll member and a rib. The fixed scroll member has a fixed end plate and a fixed scroll wall. The fixed end plate has first and second sides. The fixed scroll wall is formed on the first side. The movable scroll member has a movable end plate and a movable scroll wall. The movable scroll wall is formed on the movable end plate. The movable scroll member is adapted to make an orbital motion in accordance with the rotation of the rotary shaft whereby a compression chamber to decrease the volume of the compression chamber with the orbital motion of the movable scroll member is formed between the fixed scroll member and the movable scroll member. The rib is provided on the second side so as to extend behind the inner end of the fixed scroll wall. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110300012 | SCROLL EXPANSION MACHINE - The rotating shaft is connected to the generator; the high-pressure steam s is introduced to the expansion chamber b through the guide passage; when the energy of the high-pressure steam s during expansion process revolves the revolving scroll, the generator regenerates electric power. The connecting housing is provided with the inlet opening and the outlet opening; the ventilation blades are fitted to the rotating shaft. When the ventilation blades rotate, the outside air is introduced (inside of the housing) from and through the inlet opening; the air passes by the air opening and the backside of the revolving scroll, and is discharged through the outlet opening. Thus, by the approach that the air passage is formed inside of the connecting housing and the scroll housing, the high-pressure steam s is prevented from being directed toward the backside of the revolving scroll. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110311384 | TEMPORARY SELF-LUBRICATING COATING FOR SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A sealed compressor is provided with a spray lubricant that will provide lubricant at various bearing surfaces during initial start-up of the compressor. The lubricant will wear away quickly after initial run-in, but liquid lubricant will be provided by that time. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110318211 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - In a scroll compressor, a pass hole is formed at a position overlapping with a discharge sector of a discharge hole, where a sector for passing a refrigerant through the pass hole is overlapped with a sector for discharging the refrigerant through a discharge hole. This may prevent over-compression of a refrigerant when the scroll compressor is driven at a low speed. This may enhance efficiency of the scroll compressor in a low speed driving mode and under a low load condition. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120009076 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided. The scroll compressor may include a valve and a valve spring accommodated in a housing as one module, and the housing may be directly coupled to a fixed scroll. This may simplify assembly processes of the scroll compressor. Further, a sealing recess that communicates with a middle pressure chamber may be formed at the housing, thereby forming a damping space between a high pressure space and a low pressure space. This may prevent lowering of performance of the scroll compressor due to leakage of refrigerant inside the high pressure space to the low pressure space in a normal driving mode. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120045356 | ROTOR FOR A SCREW COMPRESSOR - Rotor for a screw compressor includes a rotor body ( | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120087818 | Scroll Fluid Machine - Disclosed is a scroll fluid machine configured from inexpensive materials and provided with a rotation prevention mechanism with excellent durability. In the scroll fluid machine, a fixed scroll, the spiral body of which has been vertically disposed on one end surface of an endplate, and a movable scroll, the spiral body of which has been vertically disposed on one end surface of the endplate, are arranged eccentrically to and out of phase with each other such that the spiral bodies engage with each other and the movable scroll turns relative to the fixed scroll. The scroll fluid machine is characterized by being provided with a rotation prevention mechanism comprising a movable-side pin that protrudes from the other surface of the endplate of the movable scroll, a fixed-side pin that protrudes from the housing side towards the other surface of the endplate of the movable scroll, and a rotation prevention member held from both sides by the movable-side pin and the fixed-side pin. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120100025 | MULTI-STAGE SCROLL MACHINE - A machine having two volute casings describing an orbital relative movement, one of the volute casings being fitted with at least one scroll and the other volute casing being equipped with at least two scrolls, the various scrolls delimiting a first series of variable-volume chambers belonging to a first compression or expansion stage, and a second series of variable-volume chambers belonging to a second compression or expansion stage, each stage having a high-pressure fluid passage and low-pressure fluid passage. A portion of the low-pressure fluid passage of the second stage is designed to open into one of the chambers of the second stage and is further away from the zone of convergence of the scrolls delimiting the variable-volume chambers of the second stage than a portion of the high-pressure fluid passage of the first stage that is designed to open into one of the chambers of the first stage. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120100026 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor comprises two scrolls ( | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120134862 | SCROLL PUMP - The present invention relates to a scroll pump ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120134863 | SCROLL PUMP - The present application relates to a scroll pump ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120148433 | FLOATING APPARATUS FOR SCROLL COMPRESSORS - An improved floating apparatus for scroll compressors is disclosed, which is a multi-function device integrating a temperature protection mechanism, a pressure protection mechanism and a backflow-proof mechanism and therefore substantially is a floating seal member with overheating protection, high pressure protection and backflow-proof capabilities. In detail, the present disclosure provides a floating apparatus for scroll compressors that not only can be manufactured easily, but also capable of distributing the acting force resulting from the gliding block for providing better sealing effect while preventing the scroll compressors from being damaged by high temperature and high pressure. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120164014 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor includes a pressing mechanism and a back-flow prevention mechanism. The pressing mechanism includes a back-pressure chamber facing a back surface of a movable-scroll end plate, and a back-pressure supply path arranged to allow the back-pressure chamber to communicate with a compression chamber which is in a state right before the compression chamber communicates with an outlet port or a state in which the compression chamber communicates with the outlet port. The back-flow prevention mechanism allows refrigerant of the back-pressure supply path to flow from the compression chamber to the back-pressure chamber, and prevents fluid of the back-pressure supply path from returning from the back-pressure chamber to the compression chamber. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120177521 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A back pressure chamber ( | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120201707 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH THREE DISCHARGE VALVES, AND DISCHARGE PRESSURE TAP TO BACK PRESSURE CHAMBER - A scroll compressor has a housing enclosing a compressor pump unit which includes an orbiting scroll member and a non-orbiting scroll member. Each of the orbiting and non-orbiting scroll members include a base and a generally spiral wrap extending from the base. The wraps interfit to define compression chambers, with a central-most discharge pressure chamber, and circumferentially spaced intermediate pressure chambers being defined. The base of the non-orbiting scroll includes ports associated with the intermediate pressure chambers. At least one port is associated with the discharge pressure chamber. Valves are associated with each of the ports. A discharge plenum is defined downstream of the ports and valves within the housing. A back pressure chamber is defined behind the base of one of the orbiting and non-orbiting scroll members, and taps a refrigerant from the discharge pressure chamber. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120230853 | Scroll Compressor - In a scroll compressor, it is hard to zone a high pressure chamber and a back pressure chamber which are formed in a back face of an orbiting scroll by a sealing means, increase a feeding amount to the high pressure chamber and the back pressure chamber at a low speed and adjust it at a high speed. A sealing means sealing a high pressure chamber in a center portion of a back face of an orbiting scroll and a back pressure chamber formed by an outer peripheral portion is provided, and a spiral shaped throttle passage is provided between a boss portion in the back face of the orbiting scroll and an outer peripheral surface of an orbiting bearing, thereby constructing an oil feeding route for feeding a lubricating oil to the back pressure chamber from the high pressure chamber. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120237381 | SCROLL-TYPE COMPRESSOR FOR VEHICLE - A scroll-type compressor for a vehicle, comprising a housing, a fixed scroll and a movable scroll provided in the housing, and a drive mechanism that is provided in the housing and that drives the movable scroll in a manner that disables rotating and enables orbit, by rotation of a drive shaft supported at a front end and a rear end by a front bearing device and a rear bearing device, is provided. The housing includes a first housing, a second housing and a third housing. The compressor includes a vibration isolator that is provided between the movable scroll and the first housing, wherein the vibration isolator is made of a vibration absorbing material and is capable of absorbing vibrations generated at the movable scroll to thereby prevent transfer of the vibrations from the movable scroll to the mounting member via the first housing. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120244026 | COUNTERWEIGHT INCORPORATED INTO SLIDER BLOCK FOR SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A slider block has an inner bore which receives an eccentric pin, and a generally flat drive surface over a limited circumferential extent to be engaged by a flat drive surface on an eccentric pin. A counterweight is positioned on an outer periphery of the slider block. The counterweight has a center line defining a first plane. A second plane is defined parallel to the first plane, with the second plane including a point on the flat drive surface of the slider block, with the flat drive surface of the slider block including a third plane, and a non-zero angle defined between the second and third planes. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120251369 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR AND METHOD FOR MACHINING DISCHARGE PORT OF THE SAME - A scroll compressor in which a paired fixed scroll and rotating scroll each having a spiral wrap provided upright on an end plate are engaged to form a compression chamber and in which a discharge port that discharges fluid compressed in the compression chamber is provided at the central portion of the fixed scroll, wherein the discharge port has a deformed elongated hole shape having circular holes at both ends, and the circular holes at both ends are connected by two surfaces the width between which is smaller than the hole diameters of the circular holes. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120258002 | ELECTRIC MACHINE - A three-phase, high voltage motor for use in a scroll compressor includes a stator core having an annular rim and a plurality of teeth extending radially inward from the rim. Aluminum windings are wrapped around teeth of the plurality of teeth of the stator core. The windings are spaced 120 electrical degrees from each other. The motor further includes a rotor body that is rotatably mounted inside the stator core and includes an external surface facing the stator core. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120275946 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided that may include a fixed scroll having a fixed wrap, an orbiting scroll engaged with the fixed wrap to define a compression chamber, a rotation shaft having a shaft portion eccentrically located with respect to the orbiting scroll, a pin portion located at an end of the shaft portion and having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the shaft portion, and a bearing located at an end of the pin portion, and a drive that drives the rotation shaft. The pin portion may be inserted through one of the fixed scroll or the orbiting scroll, and the orbiting scroll may be rotatably coupled to the bearing. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120288392 | COMPOSITE METAL-POLYMER BUSHING AND CRANKSHAFT ASSEMBLY - An assembly includes a composite metal-polymer bushing having an outer metal layer with an inner surface, metal particles sintered to the inner surface, a polymer material between the metal particles, a finished interior surface collectively defined by the polymer material and exposed portions of the metal particles, a plurality of interstices formed between the metal particles and the polymer material, and a plurality of ridges defined by the polymer material that protrude above the metal particles. The ridges occupy at least about 8% of the area of a cylindrical reference surface nominally coinciding with the finished interior surface. The assembly also includes a crankshaft having a journal at least partially received within the bushing and supported by the finished interior surface. The journal is polished to a surface finish of about 0.1 microns or less to reduce a wear rate of the bushing. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120288393 | SCROLL TYPE FLUID MACHINE - To realize an increase in lifespan and a reduction in cost in an interlocking mechanism that causes a driving scroll and a driven scroll to rotate synchronously, a through hole is drilled into a peripheral edge portion of a driving scroll side end plate, and a pin member is fixed to the through hole. A base is provided on a driven scroll side spiral projection that faces the through hole. A columnar recessed portion is carved into an opposing surface of the base, and an aluminum rotary body is loosely fitted into the recessed portion. An eccentric hole is drilled into the rotary body, and the pin member is loosely fitted into the eccentric hole. The interlocking mechanism is disposed in an odd number at equal intervals on an outer edge portion of the scroll end plate such that loads exerted on the rotary body act in an identical plane. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120288394 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor includes fixed and movable scrolls, each scroll having a spiral lap placed on one surface of a plate. The lap of the fixed scroll and the lap of the movable scroll are interlocked to form a compression chamber between the laps of the scrolls which are adjacent to each other. At least one of the laps has a spiral shape in which a base radius of an involute decreases as a winding angle increases in a region extending from a winding start part to a winding middle part, and the base radius of the involute in a region extending from the winding middle part to a winding end part is larger than the smallest value of the base radius of the involute in the region extending from the winding start part to the winding middle part. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120294748 | Sealed Scroll Compressor for Helium - A sealed scroll compressor for helium having a stationary scroll, an orbiting scroll, and an oil-injection mechanism. The oil-injection mechanism has an oil-injection pipe arranged to pass through a sealed container and connected to an oil-injection port, and the opening of the oil-injection port is arranged at a bottom surface of a groove between ridges formed with the scroll wrap of the stationary scroll in such a manner that a first range of the orbital angle of the orbiting scroll is approximately identical to a second range of the orbital angle of the orbiting scroll, where the oil-injection port is connected to the outer compression chamber while the orbital angle of the orbiting scroll is in the first range, and is connected to the inner compression chamber while the orbital angle of the orbiting scroll is in the second range. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120308421 | Compressor Having Wire Retainer - A compressor comprising a shell, a compression mechanism disposed within the shell, a drive shaft for operating the compression mechanism, and a motor for driving the drive shaft. A terminal is secured to the shell for delivering electric current to at least one of the compression mechanism and the motor. A terminal block is engaged with the terminal, and a wire carries the electric current from the terminal and the terminal block. A wire retainer located relative to the compression mechanism supports the wire in a predetermined orientation within the shell. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120321497 | POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT EXPANDER AND REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS INCLUDING POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT EXPANDER - Disclosed is a positive displacement expander equipped with an expansion mechanism in which power is generated using fluid energy produced while a high-pressure fluid, supplied to a plurality of expansion chambers partitioned by an orbiting scroll or a rolling piston, is being expanded and decompressed. The expander includes a communicating pipe that allows each of the expansion chambers to communicate with an expander discharge side and an opening and closing device disposed on the communicating pipe. When supply of the high-pressure fluid is stopped, the opening and closing device is opened by the time when high and low pressures between each of the expansion chambers and the expander discharge side are equalized, thus stopping the orbiting scroll or the rolling piston at a predetermined position so that an expander obtains sufficient driving force when resuming. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130011288 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor ( | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130022486 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided, in which at least one bypass hole that bypass a portion of a refrigerant before the refrigerant is discharged through a discharge hole is formed at a position where a bypass section that bypasses the refrigerant through the at least one bypass hole overlaps a discharge section that discharges the refrigerant through the discharge hole. The at least one bypass hole is formed at a position where a wrap volume ratio (Vs/Vd), which is a ratio of a suction volume (Vs) with respect to a discharge volume (Vd) in a compression chamber, is within the range of about 1.8˜2.2. With this configuration, over-compression of refrigerant may be prevented in a low speed driving mode, and efficiency of the compressor may be enhanced in the low speed driving mode and under a low load condition. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130052068 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor including a casing, a scroll compression mechanism that compresses refrigerant, a driving motor that has a driving shaft, an insulator and a stator, and is connected to the scroll compression mechanism through the driving shaft to drive the scroll compression mechanism, a main frame that supports the scroll compression mechanism in the casing, a bearing plate that has a boss portion in which the driving shaft is inserted, and supports the driving shaft of the driving motor in the casing, and a cover that covers the surrounding of the driving shaft between the driving motor and the bearing plate and is formed of an insulating material and provided to the insulator of the driving motor. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130058821 | Scroll-Type Fluid Machine - A scroll-type fluid machine ( | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130071276 | VALVE ARRANGEMENT FOR A SCROLL REFRIGERATION COMPRESSOR - A valve arrangement including a valve plate with at least one delivery port intended to allow fluid flow from a delivery line made in of a volute of the compressor, and a valve seat made on a first face of the valve plate, a delivery valve moveable between an obturation position and a release position, retaining means arranged for limiting the movement range of the delivery valve. The arrangement further includes at least one bypass valve positioned adjacent to the second face of the valve plate, the bypass valve being moveable between an obturation position of a bypass channel made in the plate of said volute, and a release position in of said bypass channel, and retaining means positioned on the second face of the valve plate and arranged in order to limit the movement range of the bypass valve towards its release position. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130089448 | SCROLL REFRIGERATION COMPRESSOR - A compressor including: a stationary volute and a moving volute each including a plate provided with a scroll, said scrolls defining variable-volume compression chambers; a delivery line provided in the plate of the stationary volute; a delivery port arranged such as to establish a communication between the delivery line and a delivery chamber; and a non-return device including (i) a valve seat surrounding the delivery port and (ii) a delivery valve which can move between delivery port opening and closing positions. The compressor includes: at least one bypass passage having a first end opening into the delivery line at a point between the central compression chamber and the valve seat and a second end opening into an intermediate compression chamber or into a low-pressure portion of the compressor, and at least one bypass valve which can move between bypass passage closing and opening positions. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130108496 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130115122 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR - A rotary compressor having an improved supporting structure and a smaller size thereof, reducing the vibration and noise and providing various fields of application other than an air conditioner, the rotary compressor provided with a compression part and a driving part and including a first case forming an external appearance of the rotary compressor, a second case provided inside the first case and provided with the compression part and the driving part at an inner side thereof, and a supporting member configured to support the second case and provided at an inner side of the first case. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130121864 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided. The scroll compressor may include a back pressure chamber formed between a wrap portion and a base portion of an orbiting scroll. A center of the back pressure chamber may be eccentric from a geometric center of the orbiting scroll along a line where a gas repulsive force is applied. Such a configuration may reduce/eliminate unstable behavior of the orbiting scroll, and frictional loss or abrasion between the orbiting scroll and various peripheral components may be reduced. This may enhance reliability and performance of the scroll compressor. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130121865 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided. The scroll compressor may include a communication hole formed in a fixed scroll for communicating a discharge space and a thrust bearing surface with each other. This may reduce frictional loss between the fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll. Further, if a high vacuum state is about to occur during operation of the compressor, refrigerant in the discharge space may be introduced into the compression chambers through the communication hole. This may prevent the occurrence of a high vacuum state to thereby prevent damage to the compressor. Additionally, when the compressor is stopped, a pressure equilibrium operation may be performed through the communication hole. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130129549 | COMPRESSOR - According to a compressor of the present invention, the compressor further comprises an oil separating mechanism | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130129550 | Scroll-Type Fluid Machine - A scroll-type fluid machine in which: a fixed scroll and a moveable scroll are disposed in a housing; a fluid pocket, the volume of which varies, is formed between the fixed scroll and the moveable scroll; and a thrust plate for receiving the reaction force in the axial direction of pressure applied within the fluid pocket is disposed between the bottom plate of the moveable scroll and the housing. The scroll-type fluid machine is characterized in that at least the surface of the thrust plate facing the bottom plate of the moveable scroll is subjected to tin plating. As a consequence, it is possible to efficiently produce, at a low cost, a thrust bearing which is disposed between the bottom plate of the moveable scroll and the housing, exerts excellent seizure resistance, and has a high PV limit level and a low friction coefficient. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130136642 | SCROLL REFRIGERATION COMPRESSOR - The scroll refrigeration compressor according to the invention includes a sealed enclosure at least partially defining a discharge chamber designed to be connected to a discharge line, and a discharge valve attached on the sealed enclosure and fluidly connected to the discharge chamber. The discharge valve includes a valve body, a valve seat, and a discharge check valve movable between a covering position and a released position. The discharge valve includes deflection means positioned in the valve body and arranged to orient the flow of refrigerant coming from the discharge line at least partially toward the periphery of the discharge check valve. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130149178 | VANE COMPRESSOR - A vane compressor including plural vanes that perform a compression operation such that the normal to a circular arc formed by each vane tip portion and the normal to the inner peripheral surface of a cylinder are constantly approximately coincident with each other. Each of the plural vanes is held constantly in the normal direction of the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder or is held constantly along a direction having a fixed inclination with respect to the normal direction of the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder so that the compression operation is performed in the state the normal to the circular arc formed by the tip portion of each of the plural vanes and the normal to the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder are constantly approximately coincident with each other. The plural vanes are rotatably and movably supported with respect to a rotor portion. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130156623 | VARIABLE-SPEED SCROLL REFRIGERATION COMPRESSOR - The compressor includes a sealed enclosure containing a compression stage, an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, an oil pump rotationally coupled to the rotor, including an oil inlet port connected to an oil sump, and control means arranged to command the operation of the motor in a start-up mode in which the rotor is rotated at a first speed of rotation included in a first speed range, and a normal operating mode in which the rotor is rotated at a second speed of rotation included in a second speed range higher than the first speed range. The compressor includes an oil injection device having an oil injection duct connected to a first oil outlet port of the oil pump and arranged to supply the compression stage with oil. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130177465 | COMPRESSOR WITH COMPLIANT THRUST BEARING - A bearing housing may include a body portion, a hub, and a thrust bearing. The body portion may include a radially inwardly facing first annular surface. A structure may extend radially outward from the body portion. The hub may extend axially from the body portion and may include a radially inwardly facing second annular surface adapted to rotatably support a shaft. The thrust bearing may extend axially from the body portion and may include an outer surface, a thrust surface, an inner surface, and an undercut feature formed in one of the inner and outer surfaces. The undercut feature may define a cantilevered portion of the thrust bearing. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130189143 | DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE REGULATING VALVE AND MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR HAVING DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE REGULATING VALVE - A differential pressure regulating valve is disposed in a fluid passage. The differential pressure regulating valve includes a valve chamber, a valve hole, a valve body, a support member and an urging member. The valve chamber is formed in the fluid passage and having a cylindrical shape. The valve hole is formed in the fluid passage as an opening which communicates with the valve chamber. The valve body is disposed in the valve chamber and adapted to open and close the valve hole. The support member is fixedly mounted to the valve chamber and extending across flowing direction of the fluid in the valve chamber. The support member has a communication passage for fluid communication between a first valve chamber and a second valve chamber. The urging member is disposed between the support member and the valve body for urging the valve body toward the valve hole. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130189144 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor includes a high-pressure space capable of communicating with a discharge port and a back pressure space capable of communicating with an intermediate port. A fluid passage includes a seal ring that closes the fluid passage when the pressure of the back pressure space is lower than that of the high-pressure space, and opens the fluid passage when the pressure of the back pressure space is higher than that of the high-pressure space. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130195707 | Refrigerant Compressor - The invention provides a refrigerant compressor that is capable of preventing seizure or galling at the bearing slide section and has high anti-wear properties. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130209303 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor includes a pressing mechanism, a pushback mechanism and an adjustment mechanism. The pressing mechanism applies a pressing force toward a fixed scroll to the back side of an end plate portion of an orbiting scroll. The pushback mechanism applies a pushback force separating the orbiting scroll from a fixed scroll to the front of the orbiting scroll. The adjusting mechanism has a low-pressure portion filled with a fluid of a lower pressure than the discharge pressure of the compression mechanism, and a communicating groove formed in a sliding surface of an outer peripheral portion of the fixed scroll so as to communicate with the low-pressure portion in a first rotational angle range in order to reduce an upsetting moment of the orbiting scroll, and to be blocked from the low-pressure portion in a second rotational angle range other than the first rotational angle range. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130216415 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH SHAFT INSERTING PORTION AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A scroll compressor is provided having a rotational shaft insertion hole and a fabrication method thereof. The scroll compressor may include a casing; a fixed scroll fixed to the casing; a circulating scroll that forms a compression chamber while performing a circulating movement with respect to the fixed scroll; a rotational shaft having a shaft portion inserted into the fixed scroll, an eccentric portion that penetrates the fixed scroll to be combined with the circulating scroll, and a neck portion having a diameter less than that of the eccentric portion; a fixed bush interposed between the fixed scroll and the shaft portion; and a drive configured to drive the rotational shaft. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130216416 | Scroll Compressor - The lap shapes of a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll are configured in an asymmetric tooth profile. In the bed plate of an orbiting scroll, a fluid effluence channel communicating with an external line side compression room of an orbiting scroll lap and another fluid effluence channel communicating with an internal line side compression room are formed, and the outlet side opening of each fluid effluence channel opens in the lap tooth bottom of the orbiting scroll, and inlet side openings are formed in a face of the bed plate that is in sliding contact with the bed plate face of the fixed scroll. In the face of the bed plate, a communicating section control groove that lets the inlet side openings of the two fluid effluence channels and the back pressure room intermittently communicate with each other. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130224054 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided. The scroll compressor may include a discharge cover that separates a suction space and a discharge space of an airtight container. The discharge cover may be inserted into a fixed scroll so as to be fixedly coupled thereto, thereby reducing an amount of components, such as a gasket and fastening bolts required to fix the discharge cover, and an assembly time to assemble components, reducing production overall costs. Also, as fastening bolts are not used, a width corresponding to a space for bolts may be reduced in the fixed scroll, whereby a phenomenon in which the fixed scroll is heated by a discharge refrigerant within the discharge space may be reduced, thereby reducing suction loss of the refrigerant sucked into the compression chamber and improving compressor efficiency. Also, a size of the fixed scroll may be reduced, thereby reducing a weight of the fixed scroll, and a weight of the overall compressor. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130224055 | VACUUM PUMP - The invention relates to a vacuum pump, in particular a screw pump, having preferably two displacement body shafts ( | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130243635 | SCROLL-TYPE FLUID MACHINE - Provided is a scroll-type fluid machine which can reduce deformation of a rotary scroll caused when fixing a bearing into a boss part. A scroll compressor, in which a sealed chamber confining a fluid is formed by a fixed scroll and the rotary scroll meshed together, each of the scrolls having a spiral wall erected on one side face of an end plate, includes: a metallic boss part ( | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130251573 | Press-Fit Bearing Housing With Large Gas Passages - A scroll compressor that includes a housing and scroll compressor bodies disposed in the housing. A motor is disposed within the housing and operably connected to a drive shaft for driving one of the scroll compressor bodies. The drive shaft is rotationally supported at one end by a crankcase which includes a bearing housing and a bearing. The crankcase includes a plurality of openings or gas passages passing through the crankcase, as well as a plurality of generally cylindrical sections positioned respectively between adjacent openings. The cylindrical sections define contact regions which can engage an inner periphery of the housing when the crankcase is mounted therein. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130259725 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR - A rotary compressor includes an oiling mechanism that contains a vertical fitting hole formed on a countershaft portion in the lower part of the rotating shaft, and an oil pipe having an inlet port at the lower end and an opening at the upper end. The upper part of the oil pipe is press-fitted into the vertical fitting hole. The oiling mechanism further contains a pump vane having a vane portion and a base portion. The vane portion is twisting processed and inserted into the vertical oil hole to provide a space. The base portion is fixed into the lower part of the oil pipe that has an inner diameter smaller than the width thereof. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259726 | MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR - A motor-driven compressor includes a back pressure region that pushes a movable scroll against a fixed scroll. The back pressure region is located at a side of the movable scroll located proximate to an opposing member. A defining portion, which is arranged on a movable end face, contact an opposing end face to define the back pressure region and a suction pressure region. The opposing member includes a communicating portion. An orbiting motion of the movable scroll moves the defining portion. This intermittently communicates the communicating portion with the back pressure region and the suction pressure region. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259727 | SCROLL TYPE COMPRESSOR - A scroll type compressor includes a housing, fixed and orbiting scroll members, a rotary shaft, a drive bushing, a plain bearing, a boss, a drive mechanism accommodation space and a compression chamber. The rotary shaft includes an eccentric pin on which the drive bushing is rotatably fitted. The boss is formed in the orbiting scroll member. The drive bushing is slidably inserted in the boss. In the drive mechanism accommodation space formed by the housing, the eccentric pin, the drive bushing and the bearing are disposed and upstream and downstream spaces are defined by the bearing. The compression chamber is formed by the fixed and the orbiting scroll members. A clearance is formed facing the sliding surface of the bearing. A communication passage is formed in the orbiting scroll member for communication between the compression chamber and the upstream space or the clearance and is opened toward the bearing. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130272910 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - The compressor according to the compressor includes a sealed enclosure containing a compression stage, an electric motor having a stator provided with a first and second end windings, an intermediate casing surrounding the stator so as to define an annular outer volume with the sealed enclosure, connecting means arranged to fluidly connect the compression stage and a distal chamber defined by the intermediate casing and the electric motor and comprising the second end winding, and a refrigerant suction inlet emerging in the annular outer volume. The connecting means include at least one refrigerant circulation duct situated outside the intermediate casing, and at least one distal window formed on the intermediate casing and emerging on the one hand in the at least one refrigerant circulation duct and on the other hand in the distal chamber near the second end winding of the stator. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130280115 | Scroll Type Compressor - A scroll-type compressor, while adopting an Oldham mechanism as a rotation prevention mechanism, lubricates an Oldham ring by retaining a medium mixed with oil on a back surface of an orbiting scroll and maintains a compression mechanism in a compact shape. The Oldham ring is provided between the orbiting scroll and a block which supports a drive shaft. An annular thrust race which receives a load in the axial direction from the orbiting scroll is sandwiched between a fixed scroll and the block. An end surface of the circumference of the orbiting scroll is brought into contact with the race, and the race is brought into contact with an end surface of the block to an area outside a pair of key groove portions formed on the block in the radial direction. A retention space, defined by the orbiting scroll, the race, and the block, retains the medium. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130287617 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCROLL ALIGNMENT - A compressor may include a shell, a bearing housing supported within the shell, an orbiting scroll, a non-orbiting scroll meshingly engaged with the orbiting scroll, fasteners and a drive shaft. The bearing housing may include a central body defining a bore and arms extending radially outward from a central body and defining circumferentially extending grooves. The circumferentially extending grooves may include inner side walls, outer side walls and base regions extending regionally between the inner and outer side walls and defining fastener receiving apertures. The orbiting scroll may be supported on the bearing housing and a non-orbiting scroll may be meshingly engaged with the orbiting scroll and may include flanges defining flange apertures. The fasteners may extend through the flange apertures and the fasteners receiving apertures and secure the non-orbiting scroll to the bearing housing. The drive shaft may extend through the bore and be engaged with the orbiting scroll. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130302197 | SCROLL REFRIGERATION COMPRESSOR - The scroll refrigeration compressor includes a sealed casing, stationary and moving volutes including spiral wraps engaged in one another and defining the variable-volume compression chambers, a delivery chamber defined by the plate of the stationary volute and the sealed casing, a heat shield disposed in the delivery chamber and dividing the delivery chamber into a first volume defined by the plate of the stationary volute and the heat shield and a second volume defined by the heat shield and the sealed casing, and at least one flow passage arranged to communicate the first and second volumes. The compressor further includes at least one bypass passage arranged to communicate the first volume with an intermediate compression chamber, and at least one bypass valve disposed in the first volume and movable between closing and opening positions for closing and opening the corresponding bypass passage. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130302198 | SCROLL REFRIGERATION COMPRESSOR - The scroll refrigeration compressor includes a stationary volute and a moving volute provided with spiral wraps defining variable-volume compression chambers, a separating member sealably mounted on a plate of the stationary volute so as to allow a relative movement between the separating member and the stationary volute, a delivery chamber at least partially defined by the separating member and the sealed casing. The compressor further includes a bypass passage arranged to communicate the delivery chamber with an intermediate compression chamber, and a anti-return device comprising a closing member movable between closing and opening positions for closing and opening the bypass passage, and an enclosure, positioned between the separating member and the plate of the stationary volute, including a first portion sealably mounted in a housing defined by the separating member and oriented substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the compressor. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130309116 | DOUBLE ROTATION TYPE SCROLL EXPANDER AND POWER GENERATION APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A double rotation type scroll expander that expands steam includes a first drive scroll, a second drive scroll, a driven scroll, a rotation mechanism that supports the driven scroll rotatably, and a revolving mechanism that couples the driven scroll to the first drive scroll and the second drive scroll to be capable of revolving relative thereto. The revolving mechanism includes: a plurality of metal revolving pins provided respectively between a first drive end plate of the first drive scroll and a first driven arm of the rotation mechanism and between a second drive end plate of the second drive scroll and a second driven arm of the rotation mechanism; and a plurality of metal revolving discs provided in relation to the respective revolving pins and disposed such that respectively corresponding revolving pins are coupled thereto eccentrically. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130309117 | COMPRESSOR HAVING A LOWER FRAME AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A compressor having a lower frame and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The compressor may include a cylindrical shell, a rotational shaft rotatably mounted in the cylindrical shell, a rotor and a stator that rotates the rotational shaft, a compression device driven by the rotational shaft, a lower bearing configured to rotatably support one side of the rotational shaft, a lower frame configured to support the lower bearing, the lower frame being configured to be press-fitted into a lower end portion of the cylindrical shell, and a base configured to seal the lower end portion of the cylindrical shell. The lower frame may include a main body configured to be press-fitted onto an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical shell and a flange that extends from the main body, the flange being configured to limit a press-fit depth by contacting the lower end portion of the cylindrical shell. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130315767 | SCROLL EXPANDER - Provided is a double rotation type scroll expander, aiming at protecting a bearing that supports drive shaft a drive shaft and the like from the heat of a working medium when a working medium introduction hole is provided in the drive shaft. The working medium introduction hole is drilled into the drive shaft such that the high-temperature, high-pressure working medium is supplied to expansion chambers through the working medium introduction hole. An adiabatic sleeve that forms a part of the working medium introduction hole is attached to the drive shaft in an internal region of roller bearings that support the drive shaft and a driven scroll body rotatably. Heat transfer from the working medium to the roller bearings is suppressed by the adiabatic sleeve, whereby the roller bearings are prevented from deteriorating. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130315768 | SCROLL REFRIGERATION COMPRESSOR - The scroll compressor includes stationary and moving volutes each including a scroll plate provided with a spiral wrap, the spiral wraps defining the variable-volume compression chambers, a delivery conduit including a first end emerging in a central compression chamber and a second end designed to be communicated with a delivery chamber, a delivery valve movable between closing and opening positions for closing and opening at least one delivery opening arranged to communicate the delivery conduit and the delivery chamber, at least one bypass valve associated with a bypass passage arranged to communicate the delivery chamber with an intermediate compression chamber. The compressor includes a retaining plate mounted on the scroll plate of the stationary scroll and on which first and second retaining elements are formed, the latter being arranged to limit respectively the amplitude of movement of the delivery valve and of each bypass valve toward the opening position thereof. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130343941 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor includes an oil recollecting pump for recollecting oil discharged from a shell, thus to effectively recollect oil discharged out of the compressor. A differential pressure hole is formed at a position where it communicates with compression chambers after a suction completion timing such that oil stored in an inner space of the shell can be supplied into the compression chambers using pressure difference between the high-pressure inner space of the shell and the low-pressure compression chambers, resulting in allowing oil to be smoothly supplied to a compression unit even during low-speed driving of the compressor and preventing beforehand an occurrence of a suction loss due to oil. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140017106 | COMPRESSOR INCLUDING SUCTION BAFFLE - A compressor includes a shell, a bearing housing, a compression mechanism and a suction baffle. The shell defines a suction pressure region and a suction gas inlet. The bearing housing is fixed relative to the shell within the suction pressure region. The compression mechanism is located within the shell, supported on the bearing housing and in communication with the suction pressure region. The suction baffle is located within the suction pressure region and includes a main body located radially between the bearing housing and the suction gas inlet, a first tab extending from a first lateral end of the main body, and a second tab extending from the first lateral end of the main body and spaced axially from the first tab to define a first recess between the first and second tabs. The bearing housing defines a first leg extending within the recess. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140017107 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor which is capable of preventing thermal damage to an O-ring and has a filter arrangement structure with favorable installation work efficiency is provided. The compressor is configured such that an intake pipe ( | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140017108 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor ( | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140037485 | REFRIGERANT SCROLL COMPRESSOR FOR MOTOR VEHICLE AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS - A refrigerant scroll compressor for a motor vehicle air conditioning system having a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll engaging with the fixed scroll, wherein the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll cooperate to compress a refrigerant gas. An intermediate pressure chamber is disposed adjacent the orbiting scroll, an oil return duct provides fluid communication between the intermediate pressure chamber and a high pressure area of the refrigerant scroll compressor, and at least one intermediate pressure duct is formed in one of the orbiting scroll and fixed scroll and is in fluid communication with the intermediate pressure chamber. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140037486 | COMPRESSOR HAVING CAPACITY MODULATION OR FLUID INJECTION SYSTEMS - A compressor may include a fluid-injection source, a shell, and first and second scroll members. The shell may define a suction pressure region. The first scroll member may include a first end plate and a first scroll wrap extending therefrom. The second scroll member may include a second end plate and a second scroll wrap extending therefrom. The first and second scroll wraps may cooperate to define a plurality of fluid pockets. The second end plate may include a first passage and a second passage. The second end plate may also include a first port and a second port extending through the second end plate and communicating with at least one of the fluid pockets. The first passage may be in communication with the suction pressure region. The second passage may be in communication with the fluid-injection source. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140044581 | ROTARY COMPRESSOR AND ROTATION MECHANISM - A rotary compressor, comprising: a housing ( | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140072466 | COMPRESSOR HAVING CAPACITY MODULATION ASSEMBLY - A compressor may include a shell, first and second scrolls, a seal assembly, a modulation control chamber, and a modulation control valve. The first scroll may include a first end plate having a biasing passage extending therethrough. The seal assembly may isolate a discharge pressure region from a suction pressure region. The seal assembly and the first scroll may define an axial biasing chamber therebetween that communicates with the axial biasing chamber and a first pocket between the first and second scrolls. The modulation control chamber may be fluidly coupled with the biasing chamber by a first passage. The modulation control valve may be fluidly coupled with the modulation control chamber by a second passage and movable between a first position allowing communication between the second passage and the suction pressure region and a second position restricting communication between the second passage and the suction pressure region. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140086775 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH BEARING - A scroll compressor having a bearing is provided. The scroll compressor includes: a casing; a main frame fixed to the casing and having a shaft insertion hole formed therein; a fixed scroll fixed to the casing and disposed above the main frame; an orbiting scroll forming a compression chamber together with the fixed scroll and having a boss portion formed on a lower surface thereof; a rotational shaft having an end portion insertedly fixed in the boss portion in a state in which the rotational shaft is insertedly positioned in the shaft insertion hole; and a lubricating layer made of a PEEK material and formed in the shaft insertion hole or the boss portion, wherein the lubricating layer is formed by applying a liquid material to the shaft insertion hole or the boss portion. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140086776 | SURFACE TREATING AGENT FOR WEAR-RESISTANCE SURFACE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND COMPRESSOR USING THE SAME - The present disclosure relates to a wear-resistant surface treating agent, a manufacturing method thereof, and a compressor using the same. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the surface treating agent includes an organic solvent, nanodiamond powder and carbon nanotube powder dispersed in the organic solvent, and a PTFE solution mixed with the organic solvent, wherein the organic solvent is an amide-based organic solvent. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140134030 | COMPRESSOR VALVE SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLY - A compressor may include first and second scroll members having first and second scroll wraps, respectively. The scroll members define a suction inlet, a discharge outlet, and fluid pockets moving therebetween. The second scroll member may include a port, and a passage. The port may be in fluid communication with at least one of the pockets. The passage may extend through a portion of the second end plate and may be in fluid communication with the port. A valve assembly may be disposed in the passage and may include a valve member displaceable between open and closed positions. A recompression volume may be disposed between the valve member and the at least one of the pockets. The recompression volume may be less than or equal to approximately one percent of a volume of one of the pockets at a suction seal-off position. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140134031 | COMPRESSOR - A compressor may include first and second scrolls, a hub plate and a valve. The first scroll may include an end plate defining first and second sides, a primary discharge passage extending therethrough, and a secondary discharge passage extending therethrough and located radially outward from the primary discharge passage. The hub plate may be mounted to the first scroll and may include first and second opposite sides and a hub discharge passage in fluid communication with the primary discharge passage. The first side of the hub plate may face the second side of the end plate and may include a valve guide extending axially toward the end plate adjacent the hub discharge passage. The valve member may be secured on the valve guide for axial movement between open and closed positions to respectively allow and restrict fluid communication between the secondary discharge passage and the hub discharge passage. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140140876 | COMPRESSOR WITH SERVICE VALVE ASSEMBLY - A scroll machine according to the present disclosure can include a shell, a first scroll member, a second scroll member and a valve assembly. The valve assembly can permit intermediate pressure in the shell to flow to an area of suction pressure in the shell. The valve assembly can include a first valve manifold that selectively couples to the shell. A second valve manifold can slidably and non-threadably locate against the first valve manifold. A retainer can couple to the first valve manifold to capture the second valve manifold against the first valve manifold. A valve can selectively connect an intermediate flow exiting the shell through the first and second valve manifolds to a suction flow entering the shell. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140147324 | Scroll Compressor with Unloader Assembly - A compressor may include a shell, orbiting and non-orbiting scrolls, an unloader bushing assembly and a drive shaft. The unloader bushing assembly may include a drive bushing and a spring. The drive bushing includes an outer surface engaged with the orbiting scroll and may define an opening extending from a first bushing end to a second bushing end. The spring may include a body disposed within the opening of the drive bushing and may include first and second spring ends with at least a portion of the first spring end extending laterally from the body and overlapping the first bushing end. At least a portion of the second spring end may extend laterally from a body and overlap the second bushing end to secure the spring within the drive bushing. The drive shaft may include a crank pin disposed within the opening of the drive bushing and engaging the spring. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140147325 | Water Injected Scroll Air Compressor - A high reliability water injected scroll air compressor is provided with an orbiting scroll, a fixed scroll corresponding to the orbiting scroll, a motor that generates driving force for making the orbiting scroll orbit the fixed scroll, a compressing path from a suction port to a discharge port, and a portion for injecting water into the compressing path. The operation is controlled by a switching operation in which water is injected into the compressing path and then no water is injected. Corrosion, failure of activation, and concerns about wrap contact when water is injected into an air end are avoided by switching the operation with water injection and the operation without water injection so as to prevent water from remaining in the air end. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140154122 | Scroll Fluid Machine - A scroll fluid machine having: a compressor body including a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll opposed to the fixed scroll, the orbiting scroll orbiting; a drive shaft connected to the orbiting scroll; a cooling fan provided on another side of the drive shaft opposite to the orbiting scroll, the cooling fan generating a cooling wind; and a cooling wind passage surrounded by walls in all directions, the cooling wind passage sending the cooling wind of the cooling fan to the compressor body, when the cooling wind passage being disposed left and the drive shaft being disposed right when seen from a direction in which the drive shaft extends, a size of the cooling wind passage in the left and right directions being smaller in upstream than downstream of the cooling wind passage. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140154123 | Scroll Pump - The present invention relates to a scroll pump with two scrolls that are co-operable for pumping fluid from an inlet to an outlet on relative orbiting motion of the scrolls. Each scroll comprises a scroll base from which a scroll wall extends generally axially towards the base of the opposing scroll. A gas conduit having an inlet at a first location of the pumping channel and an outlet at a second location of the pumping channel allows over-compression at the first location of the pumping channel to be exhausted to the second location of the pumping channel. A one-way valve located in the gas conduit allows the passage of gas through the conduit from the conduit inlet to the conduit outlet when a predetermined pressure differential between the first and second locations of the pumping channel is generated during roughing when the scroll inlet is at or close to atmosphere. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140219849 | BRANCH COMMUNICATION VALVE FOR A TWIN SCROLL TURBOCHARGER - Methods and systems are provided for a branch communication valve in a twin turbocharger system. A branch communication valve may be positioned adjacent to a dividing wall separating a first scroll and a second scroll of the twin turbocharger. In an open position, the branch communication valve increases fluid communication between the first scroll and the second scroll and in a closed position, the branch communication valve decreases fluid communication between the first scroll and the second scroll. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140255231 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor comprises a housing, a cylindrical rotating shaft, a fixed scroll, a movable scroll, and a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism includes an eccentric pin, and a balancer-integrated bush. The eccentric pin extends in parallel with the rotating shaft from the end part of the rotating shaft. The balancer-integrated bush is disposed between the eccentric pin and the movable scroll, includes an eccentric hole into which the eccentric pin is inserted, and configured to rotate around the eccentric pin, and further includes a balancer in an integrated manner, and is configured to rotatably move relative to the rotating shaft. An elastic member is disposed between the balancer-integrated bush and at least one of the rotating shaft and the eccentric pin, and the elastic member regulates the relatively movable range of the rotating shaft and the balancer-integrated bush. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140271302 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH A BYPASS - An upper back pressure type scroll compressor having a bypass is provided. The scroll compressor may include a casing, a discharge cover, a main frame, a first scroll supported by the main frame, and a second scroll that forms a suction chamber, an intermediate pressure chamber, and a discharge chamber together with the first scroll. The second scroll may include a bypass hole that communicates with the intermediate pressure chamber. The scroll compressor may also include a back pressure chamber assembly coupled to an upper portion of the second scroll by a fastening device and a bypass valve to open and close the bypass hole. The back pressure chamber assembly may include a discharge path by which the discharge chamber and the discharge space may communicate with each other and a bypass valve to open and close the bypass hole. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140271303 | VANE-TYPE COMPRESSOR - A vane-type compressor includes a rotor shaft that includes rotating shaft portions and a rotor portion, which are integrated with one another. A lower end of the rotating shaft is disposed in an oil reservoir. The vane-type compressor also includes vane aligners disposed at both end portions of vanes, and recess portions, which are respectively formed in a frame and a cylinder head so as to be concentric with an inner circumferential surface of a cylinder. Outer circumferential surfaces of the vane aligners are slidably supported by the recess portions. In the rotor shaft, oil supply channels, which allow communication between the oil reservoir and the recess portions of the frame and the cylinder head, and an oil pump, which supplies refrigerating machine oil in the oil reservoir to the oil supply channels, are provided. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140286807 | VANE COMPRESSOR - A vane compressor includes a cylinder, a rotor portion, vanes, and a first discharge port allowing a refrigerant in a compression chamber to be discharged therethrough. The vanes are disposed inside the rotor portion and held rotatably about the center of a cylinder inner circumferential surface, partition a space between the cylinder inner circumferential surface and the rotor portion, and form the compression chamber. A second discharge port is disposed at a location having a phase angle smaller than that at the first discharge port, being open to the cylinder inner circumferential surface, and communicating with the compression chamber. The second discharge port includes an opening portion to the compression chamber, the opening portion having a width in the circumferential direction, the width being equal to or smaller than the width of the tip of each of the vanes. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140294641 | Scroll Fluid Machine - In a scroll air compressor as a scroll fluid machine capable of being downsized with an increased cooling effect, cooling air entering through a fixed inlet of a fixed cooling passage provided at the rear of a fixed scroll, and an orbiting inlet of an orbiting cooling passage provided at the rear of an orbiting scroll, is allowed to flow out of an fixed outlet and an orbiting outlet, respectively. Thereafter, the cooling air is guided to an outer periphery of the other end of the casing through a side duct and a guide duct, and then sucked into an inner peripheral side of a centrifugal fan to be discharged outwardly from an exhaust port provided in a fan cover. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140294642 | VANE COMPRESSOR - A gap between a vane tip and a cylinder inner circumferential surface is denoted by δ. If rv is set as in an Expression (1), a first vane rotates with the vane tip thereof being out of contact with the cylinder inner circumferential surface. In the vane compressor, wear at the tip of a vane is suppressed, loss due to sliding on bearings is reduced by supporting a rotating shaft portion with a small diameter, and accuracy in an outside diameter and center of rotation of a rotor portion is increased. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140301879 | Angular Synchronization of Stationary and Orbiting Plate Scroll Blades in a Scroll Pump Using a Metallic Bellows - Parts of a pump head of a scroll pump facilitate an assembly process in which the stationary and orbiting scroll blades of the pump are angularly aligned or synchronized with one another. A metallic bellows of the pump head provides a primary means of synchronizing the stationary and orbiting scroll blades. The assembly process may be carried out using a fixture configured to be mountable to an assemblage including the bellows and the orbiting plate scroll. The fixture has a reference feature, and the orbiting plate scroll or the frame has another reference feature that can be aligned with the reference feature of the fixture, in the circumferential direction of the bellows, during the course of the assembly process. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140301880 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - [Problem] To exchange the roller bearing that has been used in a scroll compressor mounted in an automobile with a m slide bearing. To provide a slide bearing having a performance that is at least equivalent to that of a roller bearing. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140348679 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A compressor may include non-orbiting scroll, an orbiting scroll, and a bearing housing. The non-orbiting scroll may include a recess. The orbiting scroll may be intermeshed with the non-orbiting scroll to from a plurality of compression pockets therebetween. The orbiting scroll may include first and second apertures. The first aperture may communicate with one of the compression pockets. The second aperture may communicate with the recess. The bearing housing may support the orbiting scroll and cooperate with the orbiting scroll to define a chamber therebetween. The chamber may communicate with the first and second apertures. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140363325 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided which is configured such that an arcuate section may be formed from a suction end of a wrap to a first point to increase a suction volume, and a logarithmic spiral section in which a wrap thickness increases may be formed from a second point to a discharge end of the wrap. This may increase a volume ratio of the compressor so as to increase a capacity of the compressor and prevent damage to the wrap due to a high compression ratio operation, thereby enhancing reliability of the compressor. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20150030487 | COMPRESSOR - A compressor includes a casing, a motor fixed to the casing, a vertically extending drive shaft coupled to the motor, and a compression mechanism driven by the drive shaft to compress a fluid. A shaft-inside oil supply path is provided in the drive shaft. Oil at a bottom of the casing is supplied through the shaft-inside oil supply path to a sliding portion of the drive shaft above the motor. The compressor includes a shaft-inside oil discharge path provided in the drive shaft, and an oil discharge coupled to a lower end of the drive shaft. The shaft-inside oil discharge path extends from an upper portion to a lower portion of the motor. The oil discharge pump discharges the oil that has been supplied to the sliding portion of the drive shaft to the bottom of the casing through the shaft-inside oil discharge path. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150078945 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor ( | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150086404 | HORIZONTAL TYPE SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A horizontal type scroll compressor includes a motor housing with a driving motor therein, a main scroll coupled to one side of the motor housing and having a fixed wrap for forming compression chambers, an orbiting scroll having an orbiting wrap and coupled to a crankshaft inserted through the main scroll, the orbiting scroll forming a first compression chamber and a second compression chamber on an outer surface and an inner surface of the orbiting wrap while performing an orbiting motion, and a front housing hermetically coupled to the main scroll. With the configuration, the number of components and assembly parts may be reduced, resulting in reduction of fabricating costs. Also, an inclination of the orbiting scroll can be prevented as the crankshaft is inserted through the fixed wrap and the orbiting wrap. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150098852 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - Provided are a scroll compressor and an air conditioner including the same. The scroll compressor includes a motor, a driving shaft, a main frame, a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll, a suction, a first inflow part disposed on one side of the fixed scroll to inject the refrigerant into the compression chamber, and a second inflow part disposed on the other side of the fixed scroll to inject a refrigerant, which has a pressure different from that of the refrigerant introduced into the first inflow part, into the compression chamber. The first inflow part is disposed at a position at which a first extension line (l1) connecting a central portion of the fixed scroll to a central portion of the suction part rotates by a first preset angle in a direction opposite to the rotation direction of the compression chamber. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150125330 | COMPRESSOR - A check valve includes a valve seat portion and a reed valve element and is received in a receiving hole of an intermediate pressure refrigerant supply passage that is placed adjacent to a flow inlet of an injection port, through which a refrigerant of an intermediate pressure is injected into a compression chamber. A center of the flow inlet of the injection port is offset from a central axis of a valve seat passage formed in the valve seat portion. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150316057 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided that may include a casing including a rotational shaft, a cover fixed inside of the casing to partition the inside of the casing into a suction space and a discharge space, a first scroll revolved by rotation of the rotational shaft, a second scroll disposed on or at one side of the first scroll to define a compression chamber together with the first scroll, the second scroll including a discharge, through which a refrigerant pressed in the compression chamber may be discharged, a switching device movably disposed on or at one side of the discharge to selectively open and close the discharge, a back pressure portion including a moving guide that accommodates at least a portion of the switching device, and a top surface that covers one side of the switching device; and an adhesion preventer that reduces a contact area between the switching device and at least a portion of the back pressure portion. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150316060 | COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided that may include a first scroll, a second scroll that defines a plurality of compression chambers together with the first scroll, the second scroll having at least one hole that communicates with at least one of the plurality of compression chambers, a valve coupled to the second scroll to open and close the at least one hole, and a coupling member to couple the valve to the second scroll. A coupling groove, to which the coupling member may be coupled and having a screw thread or unevenness on an inner circumferential surface thereof, may be defined in the second scroll. The coupling member may include a rivet, and may be engaged with the screw thread or unevenness formed on the inner circumferential surface of the coupling groove when the coupling member having passed through the valve is coupled to the coupling groove. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150330390 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor includes a casing, an electric motor housed in the casing, a drive shaft driven by the electric motor, a compression mechanism, a housing and an oil transfer mechanism. The compression mechanism has movable and fixed scrolls. The movable scroll has an engaging portion engaging one end of the drive shaft. The housing includes a bearing supporting the drive shaft and a receiving portion receiving the engaging portion. The oil transfer mechanism transfers oil in an oil reservoir of the casing. The drive shaft is provided. with an oil supply passage supplying the oil transferred by the oil transfer mechanism to a sliding portion of the engaging portion. The housing is provided with a recess provided on a bottom of the receiving portion and an oil supply channel delivering the oil in the recess to a. sliding portion of the compression mechanism. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150337837 | SCROLL MEMBER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME, COMPRESSION MECHANISM AND SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll member for a compression mechanism installed in a scroll compressor is manufactured by a method including a casting step and a cutting step. An iron casting is formed in the casting step, which includes a spiraling part. The iron casting obtained in the casting step is cut during the cutting step in order to obtain a final shape of the scroll member. The iron casting may include a fixed part having a central portion with a first axial thickness and an external periphery portion with a second axial thickness larger than the first axial thickness before the cutting step. A dimension of a specified portion of the spiraling part may be larger before the cutting step is performed than after the cutting step is performed, with the specified portion preferably disposed toward an external periphery of the spiraling part. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150337841 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR WITH A SHUNT PULSATION TRAP - A shunt pulsation trap for a scroll compressor reduces gas pulsations, NVH and improves off-design efficiency. Generally, a scroll compressor with the shunt pulsation trap has a pair of orbiting and stationary scrolls for forming a compression chamber that moves gas pockets from a suction port to a discharge port with internal compression. The shunt pulsation trap is configured to trap and attenuate gas pulsations before the discharge port and comprises a pulsation trap chamber adjacent to the compression chamber, therein housed various gas pulsation dampening means or gas pulsation containment means, at least one trap inlet port branching off from the compression chamber into the pulsation trap chamber and a trap outlet port communicating with the compressor discharge chamber after the discharge port. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150354558 | VOLUTE PUMP - The present invention relates to a volute pump and particularly provides a volute pump for delivering a liquid containing fibrous substances and solid substances, while preventing these substances from obstructing the pump. The volute pump includes a pump casing ( | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150354571 | COMPRESSOR AND BEARING ASSEMBLY - A compressor is provided and may include a shell, a hub, an insert, and at least one collar. The hub may be disposed within the shell and define an axis of rotation. The hub may include an axially extending aperture. The insert may be disposed within the aperture. The at least one collar may be disposed about the hub. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150369246 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided that may include a casing including a rotational shaft, a cover fixed inside of the casing to partition the inside of the casing into a suction space and a discharge space, a first scroll that is revolved by rotational of the rotational shaft, a second scroll disposed on or at a side of the first scroll to define a plurality of compression chambers together with the first scroll, the second scroll having an intermediate pressure discharge hole that communicates with a compression chamber having an intermediate pressure of the plurality of compression chambers, a back pressure plate coupled to the second scroll, the back pressure plate having an intermediate pressure suction hole that communicates with the intermediate pressure discharge hole, and a floating plate movably disposed on or at a side of the back pressure plate to define the back pressure chamber together with the back pressure plate. The discharge space may have a volume greater by a set ratio or more than a volume of the back pressure chamber. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160001791 | AIR COMPRESSION DEVICE - The present application discloses an air compression device, including a housing in which an air compressor is stored, the air compressor being configured to generate compressed air; and a filter through which air passes, the air being sucked into the housing. The filter may include a plate member having a first main plate portion provided with air holes through which the air passes. A surface of the first main plate portion is oriented in a first direction, the air holes extending through the plate member in a second direction intersecting with the first direction so as to change a flow direction of the air. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160003246 | AIR COMPRESSION DEVICE - An air compression device is provided with a rotary compressor, a discharge flow channel connected to a discharge portion of the compressor, a release flow channel disposed to be connectable to the discharge flow channel, and an operation control unit configured to perform a release operation of releasing a part or all of compressed air remaining in the discharge flow channel through the release flow channel when the operation control unit controls to stop the compressor. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160017886 | SNAP-IN TEMPERATURE SENSOR FOR SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A temperature sensor on an outer surface of an upper shell at a location is associated with a discharge chamber. The temperature sensor includes electronics molded into an overmolded plastic and includes a spring member. The spring member snaps into a sensor housing connected to the outer surface. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160040667 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - According to a scroll compressor associated with the present disclosure, the entire cross-sectional area of bypass holes formed at a compression chamber with a larger volume reduction gradient between the both compression chambers may be formed to be larger than that of bypass holes at the other compression chamber to prevent over-compression at the compression chamber with a larger volume reduction gradient, thereby enhancing the entire efficiency of the compressor. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160040671 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is disclosed which prevents leakage of refrigerant from a compression chamber and abrasion of bearings between a rotating shaft and an orbiting scroll by reducing the tilting angle of the orbiting scroll, because the allowable bearing angle is equal to or larger than the tilting angle, where the allowable bearing angle θ refers to the maximum angle at which the orbiting scroll is tilted with respect to the rotating shaft, and the tilting angle β refers to the angle at which the orbiting scroll is tilted with respect to the plate. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160047378 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided that may include a first scroll provided with a discharge port, a second scroll engaged with the first scroll to form a first compression chamber and a second compression chamber, and a rotational shaft provided with an eccentric portion eccentrically coupled to the first scroll or the second scroll The eccentric portion may overlap the first and second compression chambers in a radial direction. The discharge port may be provided with at least one discharge inlet and a discharge outlet The at least one discharge inlet may include a plurality of discharge inlets, which have different areas from each other, whereby a refrigerant of each compression chamber may be smoothly discharged, thereby preventing an over-compression loss due to a delay of discharge. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160047381 | COMPRESSOR - A compressor includes a compression mechanism and a drive shaft having an oil supply hole opened through an outer peripheral surface of the drive shaft to supply oil to a bearing surface of the drive shaft. An oil discharge passage communicating with the oil supply hole is formed by a flat surface or a recessed surface at a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the drive shaft. A trailing edge of the oil discharge passage is displaced behind a trailing edge of the oil supply hole with respect to a rotation direction of the drive shaft. A leading edge of the oil discharge passage is displaced behind a leading edge of the oil supply hole with respect to the rotation direction of the drive shaft. The oil discharge passage has a width that is no larger than a diameter of the oil supply hole. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160053760 | HOUSING FOR A FAN OF A SCROLL COMPRESSOR - Housing for channelling the airflow of a radial fan of an air-cooled scroll compressor, whereby this housing is formed by a volute with an outlet and an outlet bend-connecting thereto with an included angle, whereby the included angle is an acute angle that extends from one side of the median plane defined by the axis of the inlet and the centre of the output of the outlet bend to the other side of the median plane located on the side of the end point of the transverse wall and up to a distance from this median plane. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160069348 | Scroll Compressor With Unloader Assembly - A compressor may include a shell, orbiting and non-orbiting scrolls, an unloader bushing assembly and a drive shaft. The unloader bushing assembly may include a drive bushing and a spring. The drive bushing includes an outer surface engaged with the orbiting scroll and may define an opening extending from a first bushing end to a second bushing end. The spring may include a body disposed within the opening of the drive bushing and may include first and second spring ends with at least a portion of the first spring end extending laterally from the body and overlapping the first bushing end. At least a portion of the second spring end may extend laterally from a body and overlap the second bushing end to secure the spring within the drive bushing. The drive shaft may include a crank pin disposed within the opening of the drive bushing and engaging the spring. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160115955 | COMPRESSOR SHELL ASSEMBLY - A compressor may include a compression mechanism and a shell assembly. The shell assembly may include a body and first and second end caps cooperating to contain the compression mechanism within the body. The body may include first and second open ends and inner and outer surfaces extending between the first and second ends. The outer surface may include first and second threaded portions disposed near the first and second ends, respectively. The first end cap may include a side wall having a third threaded portion engaging said first threaded portion of said body. The second end cap may include a side wall having a fourth threaded portion engaging the second threaded portion of the body. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160123147 | SCROLL EXPANDER - A scroll expander includes a driving scroll body having a first axis line a driven scroll body having a second axis line shifted with respect to the first axis line, a bearing plate including two plates coupled to the driven scroll body and having the second axis line a cylindrical driving pin attached to the driving scroll body, and a cylindrical guide ring attached to the bearing plate and having an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the driving pin. The driving pin includes an outer circumferential surface in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the guide ring. A hard film including diamond-like carbon is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the driving pin. The inner circumferential surface of the guide ring includes a polymer resin material with self-lubricity. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160123325 | Compressor And Method Of Autonomously Inspecting Oil - Systems and techniques are disclosed to sense a temperature and a flow rate of oil in a compressor. A compressor includes: a casing; a frame on the casing; a fixed scroll on the frame; an orbiting scroll supported by the frame and defining a compression chamber while engaging the fixed scroll; and a crank shaft. The crank shaft transfers, to the orbiting scroll, a rotational force of a motor. The casing includes: a main housing including a refrigerant discharge passage and an oil passing passage; and a sub-housing including a refrigerant discharge port and an oil channel, which includes an oil reservoir, that each face the main housing. A sensor module attached to a sensor receptor in the sub-housing includes: a sensor housing covering the sensor receptor; and an oil sensor and a temperature sensor located on the sensor housing that each protrude towards the oil reservoir. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160131134 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor to compress fluid in a compression chamber formed by combining a scroll wrap of a fixed scroll and a scroll wrap of an orbiting scroll, the scroll wrap of the fixed scroll and the scroll wrap of the orbiting scroll each having a scroll inner end part having a bulb shape defined by an outer surface involute curve, an inner surface involute curve, and a plurality of arcs connecting an end of the outer surface involute curve and an end of the inner surface involute curve, at least one of the scroll inner end parts being formed in an n-tier stair-like shape in which n≧3) number of bulb shapes are stacked on top of one another in an upright direction of the scroll wrap, the scroll compressor being configured to satisfy φos(0)>φos(1)>φos(2)> . . . >φos(n−1) where involute roll angles of the outer surface involute curve in tiers of the stair-like shape of the scroll inner end part are φos(0), φos(1), φos(2), . . . , φos(n−1), respectively, from a wrap tip side to a wrap root side. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160146206 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided that may include a casing including a rotational shaft, a first scroll rotated by rotation of the rotational shaft, the first scroll including a first head plate and a first wrap that extends from the first head plate in a first direction, and a second scroll that defines a plurality of compression chambers together with the first scroll, the second scroll including a second head plate and a second wrap that extends from the second head plate in a second direction. Each of the first and second wraps spirally may extend from an outer end toward an inner start end, and the first wrap may have a thickness greater than a thickness of the second wrap. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160146208 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR - A scroll compressor is provided, in which a balancing space may be formed on a sub frame to accommodate at least one balance weight, and an oil discharge hole may be formed on a main frame, thereby suppressing, all from being introduced into or remaining in the balancing space to minimize agitation loss due to oil agitation in the balancing space, and forming a thrust surface of the main frame adjacent to an axial center of the drive shaft to suppress axial leakage at a central portion of the orbiting scroll, reducing a size of the main frame to reduce a total weight of the compressor, facilitating a centering operation of the sub frame, and suppressing an outer diameter of the sub frame from being increased, thereby accomplishing miniaturization of the scroll compressor. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160160860 | Capacity Modulated Scroll Compressor - A system includes a compressor. The compressor includes an orbiting scroll member having a first end plate and a first spiral wrap. A non-orbiting scroll member has a second end plate and a second spiral wrap, and the second spiral wrap forms a meshing engagement with the first spiral wrap to create a plurality of compression chambers between a suction port and a discharge port of the orbiting scroll member and the non-orbiting scroll member. A first port is in communication with a first of the plurality of compression chambers and selectively injects an injection fluid into the first of the plurality of compression chambers to increase a compressor capacity and selectively leaks a first compressed fluid from the first of the plurality of compression chambers to reduce the compressor capacity. A second port in communication with a second of the plurality of compression chambers and selectively leaking a second compressed fluid from the second of the plurality of compression chambers to reduce a compressor capacity. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160169228 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160177953 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160186754 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR AND AIR CONDITIONER HAVING THE SAME - A scroll compressor includes a casing, a drive motor, an orbiting scroll, a fixed scroll engaged with the orbiting scroll, a back pressure chamber proximate to the orbiting scroll, an inlet pipe for supplying refrigerant to a compression chamber formed by the orbiting scroll and the fixed scroll, and a discharge pipe for discharging the refrigerant discharged from the compression chamber. The scroll compressor includes an oil feed passage configured to connect the back pressure chamber and an oil storage tank provided in the casing so that oil of the oil storage tank is supplied to the back pressure chamber; and a flow control valve disposed in the oil feed passage and configured to control an amount of oil to be supplied to the back pressure chamber via the oil feed passage according to a suction pressure, a discharge pressure, and a rotational velocity. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160201669 | SCROLL COMPRESSOR AND AIR CONDITIONER INCLUDING A SCROLL COMPRESSOR | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160201673 | DISCHARGE VALVE AND COMPRESSOR COMPRISING SAME | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160377081 | COMPRESSOR - Disclosed herein is an a compressor including a main body, a fixed scroll fixed on the inside of the main body, an orbiting scroll arranged to orbit relative to the fixed scroll, a compressing chamber formed by the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll, an oil supply hole arranged to supply oil to a contact portion formed by the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll, and an oil groove formed on an inner side of the contact portion to be closed to an outer side of the contact portion. The oil groove is extended into the form of an arc by being rotated by about 270 degrees or more along the circumference of the fixed scroll to cover the compressing chamber from the outside of the compressing chamber to supply oil all across the area of the contact portion easier which leads to more reliable operation of the compressor. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20220136502 | Compressor Having Damped Scroll - A compressor may include a shell assembly, orbiting and non-orbiting scrolls, a bearing housing, a bushing, a damper, and a fastener. The bearing housing includes a first aperture. The bushing may include an axial end abutting the bearing housing. The bushing may extend through a second aperture of the non-orbiting scroll. The bushing may include a third aperture. The damper may be received in a pocket that may be defined by and disposed radially between an outer diametrical surface of the bushing and an inner diametrical surface of the non-orbiting scroll. The damper may be at least partially disposed within the second aperture and may encircle the second portion of the bushing. The fastener may include a shaft portion and a flange portion. The shaft portion may extend through the third aperture and into the first aperture. The flange portion may contact a first axial end of the damper. | 05-05-2022 |
