With Non-working Fluid Passage In Drive Shaft Patents (Class 418/94)
  • Patent number: 7473081
    Abstract: In a hermetically sealed compressor 100 including a rotary compressing element (4) having at least one cylinder (43A, 43B), and a roller (45) provided to the cylinder so as to be freely eccentrically rotatable, an electrically-driven element (2) for driving the roller (45) and a hermetically sealed container in which the rotary compressing element and the electrically-driven element are accommodated, oil (8) being stocked in the hermetically sealed container (1), the oil (8) in the hermetically sealed container (1) is injected into the compression chamber (43) when refrigerant is sucked into the compression chamber (43) of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Ogasawara, Takahiro Nishikawa, Yoshihisa Kogure, Masayuki Hara
  • Patent number: 7473083
    Abstract: A scroll compressor including an oil separator is provided. The oil separator may be provided with a rotor or a shaft of a driving motor of the compressor so that refrigerant gas and oil discharged from a compression chamber may be separated by a centrifugal force. The oil separator may include a plurality of oil separation holes formed in an eccentric mass and a rotor. Rotation of the shaft/rotor and subsequent rotation of the eccentric mass generates a centrifugal force, causing separation of oil from refrigerant gas contained in the oil separation holes. Accordingly, oil is maintained in the casing, and is prevented from being discharged out of the compressor, thus preventing abrasion due to oil deficiency and a degradation in reliability of the compressor. Furthermore, oil is prevented from being discharged to a refrigerating system externally coupled to the compressor, thereby enhancing performance of the refrigerating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hae-Jin Oh, Cheol-Hwan Kim, Hong-Gyun Jin, Chan-Hwa Jeong
  • Patent number: 7458790
    Abstract: A vacuum pump includes a housing assembly having an oil-reservoir chamber in which a lubricating oil is stored; a pair of screw rotors disposed in the housing assembly and engaged with each other; a pair of rotary shafts connected to the rotors, respectively; a plurality of bearings supporting each of the rotary shafts and having an opening; an oil-feed pump for feeding the lubricating oil from the oil-reservoir chamber to the bearing; an oil-circulation passage provided for circulating the lubricating oil from the oil-feed pump to the oil-reservoir chamber through the bearing; a cover provided at the opening of the bearing to close the opening of the bearing with a clearance remained, the cover permitting the lubricating oil to enter the bearing through the clearance; and an oil-escape passage provided adjacent to the bearing for returning to the oil-reservoir chamber the lubricating oil not entering the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Ryosuke Koshizaka, Yuya Izawa, Masahiro Inagaki, Kentaro Ishihara
  • Patent number: 7442018
    Abstract: A compressor comprises, in a container body, an electric element, and a compressive element driven by the electric element. An oil storage is provided in the bottom, and an oil pump is provided to suck up oil from the oil storage. The oil pump includes a cylinder fixed to a lower support frame, a rotator axially installed on the lower end of a driveshaft and operative to rotate within an inner space of the cylinder, and a suction pipe having an upper end connected to a communication notch formed in the cylinder and a lower end inserted and arranged in the oil storage. In this compressor, the upper end of the suction pipe is protruded into the communication notch of the cylinder to configure an oil residue pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Kiyokawa, Kenji Aida, Kazuyoshi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7438541
    Abstract: A hermetic rotary compressor operates two cylinders simultaneously in the regular operation; however it halts operating one of the cylinders when it selects an operation with a half capacity. A vane room of the halted cylinder is air-tightly sealed with respect to lubricant atmosphere in a hermetic case. An oil-supplying groove is provided to a vane groove of the halted cylinder, and lubricant is supplied to the oil-supplying groove in order to lubricate the vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Aya, Toshiharu Yasu, Hiroshi Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 7390180
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor uses an oil pump that includes a trochoid gear. Therefore, regardless of the rotation speed of a driving motor of the compressor, a sufficient amount of oil can always be pumped. The oil pump unit may include a plurality of suction holes with openings at different heights. If the refrigerant and oil separate, at least one of the openings will admit oil into the oil pump unit, to ensure lubricating oil is supplied to the moving parts of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong-Soo Lee, Chul-Su Jung, Jeong-Hwan Suh, Seung-Yup Kim
  • Patent number: 7384250
    Abstract: An oil discharge preventing apparatus of a scroll compressor comprises: a balance weight coupled to a rotor of a driving motor so as to offset an unbalance generated when an orbiting scroll performs an orbiting motion by receiving a rotation force of the driving motor; and a lower fixed oil guide fixedly coupled between the balance weight and the rotor, for preventing oil from being spread in a casing and guiding the oil downwardly to a bottom of the casing, whereby an oil leakage to the outside of the casing can be minimized, the number of construction components can be reduced, and assembling processes can be simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Dong-Koo Shin, Cheol-Hwan Kim, Yang-Hee Cho
  • Patent number: 7351045
    Abstract: A compressor comprises an oil storage provided in the bottom of a container body. An oil cup is fixed in communication with the oil storage. An oil pump is attached to the lower end of a shaft and inserted into the oil cup. A rotation inhibitor is provided including a plurality of plates each having one end fixed to the inner wall of the oil cup and the other end disposed almost vertically toward the central axis of the oil cup. The plate has an upper end located in the vicinity of the upper edge of the oil cup, a lower end located in the vicinity of the bottom of the oil cup, and side ends located in the vicinity of the outer wall of the oil pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Sugimoto, Yasunori Kiyokawa, Yoshiaki Koike, Kenji Aida
  • Patent number: 7331774
    Abstract: There is provided, at a low cost, a small-size and lightweight scroll compressor capable of preventing a decrease in compression efficiency by utilizing a medium pressure between a suction pressure and a discharge pressure as a back pressure. An independent minute gap in the axial direction is provided between a main frame 3 and a thrust ring 8. This minute gap is used as a second back pressure chamber C2, and the medium pressure between the suction pressure and the discharge pressure is introduced into the second back pressure chamber C2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu General Limited
    Inventors: Kenshi Ueda, Naoya Morozumi
  • Patent number: 7322809
    Abstract: In a rotary compressor to perform oil supplying to bearings through a main oil-supply passage formed in a drive shaft by making use of pressure differential between high-level pressure and low-level pressure in the casing, sealing portions having air-tight structures are formed at both sides in the axis direction of each of the sliding faces constituted between the drive shaft and the bearings, putting bearing-portion oil-supply passages between the sealing portions, to improve the reliability of the bearings by preventing high-pressure gas flowing into a portion between the drive shaft and the bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitaura, Hiroyuki Yamaji, Masanori Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 7300266
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an orbiting vane compressor incorporating an orbiting vane with oil supply function that is capable of performing more smooth orbiting movement. The orbiting vane has a compression unit comprising an orbiting vane having a boss formed in the center thereof such that the upper end of a crankshaft having an oil supplying channel formed therethrough is fixedly fitted in the boss, the orbiting vane being disposed between an annular space defined between the inner wall of a cylinder and an inner ring, and an Oldham's ring disposed at the lower surface of the orbiting vane for preventing rotation of the orbiting vane. An oil supplying hole is formed on a vane plate of the orbiting vane outside the boss for allowing oil to be supplied to the upper surface of the vane plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seon-woong Hwang, Dong-won Yoo
  • Patent number: 7234924
    Abstract: A rotary combustion engine with one or more working units, which include a peripheral housing, a front housing plate, a rear housing plate on the output side, an eccentric shaft, and a piston, where the eccentric shaft includes an eccentric, and front and rear sealing parts. Lubricating oil is conveyed by an oil pump from an oil tank through the eccentric shaft to first and second main bearings, and to an eccentric bearing, from which a bevel on the front sealing part conveys it to a piston space, from which it is conveyed by way of a bevel on the piston and a rear bevel back to the oil tank to close the oil circuit. The bevels direct the oil circulation from the front of the working unit to the rear, reduce splash losses, and increase the cooling action on the internal surfaces of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Wankel Super Tec GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Baier, Manfred Mäthner, Dankwart Eiermann, Rudolf Klotz, Michael Schirmer
  • Patent number: 7223082
    Abstract: A so-called internal intermediate pressure multistage compression type rotary compressor makes it possible to prevent the pressure inside a roller from inconveniently increasing and also to permit smooth and reliable supply of oil into a cylinder of a second rotary compressing element by a relatively simple construction. A lubrication groove for providing communication between an oil bore and a low-pressure chamber in the cylinder is formed in a surface of an intermediate partitioner that is adjacent to the cylinder of the second rotary compressing element. Furthermore, a through bore for providing communication between a hermetically sealed vessel and the inside of the roller is formed in the intermediate partitioner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Sato, Kenzo Matsumoto, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Akifumi Tomiuka, Hiromasa Aoki, Midori Futakawame
  • Patent number: 7217110
    Abstract: A rotary compressor for compressing a working fluid includes a housing having an oil sump. A stationary shaft extends into the housing and includes a longitudinal passage. The longitudinal passage has an oil inlet in fluid communication with the oil sump. A working fluid inlet receives the working fluid. A motor has a stator and a rotor. The rotor is rotatably mounted on the shaft within the housing and includes an internal compression chamber in fluid communication with the longitudinal passage. A roller is rotatably mounted on the shaft and eccentrically disposed within the compression chamber. The roller is coupled to the rotor such that rotation of the rotor rotates the roller and thereby compresses the working fluid within the compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventor: Nelik I. Dreiman
  • Patent number: 7214044
    Abstract: A compressor for suppressing leakage of lubricating oil has a casing, a motor and a scroll mechanism coupled to the motor by a drive shaft. The drive shaft is rotatably supported by a bearing. The lubricating oil is supplied between the drive shaft and the bearing. An oil collecting portion is formed at an end portion in the axis direction of a bearing portion. The bearing portion is constituted of an outer peripheral surface of the drive shaft and an inner peripheral surface of the bearing. The oil collecting portion includes an oil groove formed in the periphery direction of the drive shaft. An oil passage is formed to conduct the lubricating oil into the oil collecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Uekawa, Toshiyuki Toyama
  • Patent number: 7204680
    Abstract: An oil supply device of a scroll compressor includes a pumping unit mounted at a lower side of a rotating shaft and pumping oil stored at a lower portion of a casing according to rotation of the rotating shaft; an oil supply passage formed in a longitudinal direction of the rotating shaft and supplying oil pumped by the pumping unit to each friction portion; an oil channel formed at an upper surface of the main frame and connecting an oil groove formed at the upper surface of the main frame and a pocket formed at the center of the main frame; and an oil guide recess formed to connect the oil groove and the key hole formed at the main frame and guiding oil introduced into the oil groove to the key hole. By supplying oil to the key hole, abrasion between an oldhamring key and the key hold is prevented and noise is reduced, enhancing reliability of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Ki-Won Park
  • Patent number: 7186100
    Abstract: A variable capacity rotary compressor allowing oil to be smoothly supplied to compressing elements, regardless of a rotating direction of a rotating shaft. The variable capacity rotary compressor includes a rotating shaft which is rotated in a forward direction or a reverse direction to vary a compression capacity of the compressor. A shaft bearing supports the rotating shaft. An oil guide groove is spirally formed on at least one of the shaft bearing and the rotating shaft to supply oil. An oil storing chamber is defined at an upper portion of the shaft bearing to communicate with the oil guide groove, and stores a predetermined amount of oil therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hea Cho, Chun Mo Sung
  • Patent number: 7179069
    Abstract: A rotary machine is powered by a drive shaft having a bore extending through it. A single piece lubricant flinger is disposed within the bore to form a lubricant pump. The lubricant flinger includes an upper plate located within the bore and a washer located adjacent the opening of the bore. The washer is connected to the upper plate by a connection section and the washer defines an aperture which allows fluid to flow into the bore of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Copeland Corporation
    Inventor: Walter Grassbaugh
  • Patent number: 7134853
    Abstract: A flow rate controlling member, provided with a spiral passageway formed on its outer periphery, is inserted into a high pressure fluid introducing passageway formed in an end plate of a movable scroll for the introducing of fluid from a fluid feeding path into a thrust bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamaji, Takashi Uekawa, Kazuhiro Furusho
  • Patent number: 7094043
    Abstract: A compressor having a housing and mutually engaged stationary and orbiting scrolls. A crankcase is disposed between a motor and the orbiting scroll. A shaft is operably connected with the orbiting scroll and extends through the crankcase and the motor. The end of the shaft extending from the motor is rotatably supported by a bearing mounted in a bearing support. A counterweight is rotationally coupled with the shaft proximate the bearing support. An oil sump is disposed within the housing and an oil shield is fixed to the bearing support. The oil shield has a cylindrical portion with an open end which encircles the counterweight and may include a plurality of flexible members having inwardly bent portions which engage a groove on the bearing support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventor: Robin G Skinner
  • Patent number: 7044717
    Abstract: A hermetic compressor which uses carbon dioxide as the working fluid. The compressor includes a motor and a compression mechanism operatively coupled by a drive shaft supported by a bearing. The drive shaft includes a radially extending bore in fluid communication with an oil supply passageway in the drive shaft and the outer periphery of the drive shaft. An oil accumulating cavity is located beneath the radially extending bore in which oil is stored during compressor shutdown to provide oil to bearing surfaces upon compressor startup. An oil return system includes a chamber located at one end of the drive shaft and an oil return passageway extending from the chamber to an annulus formed between the bearing and the drive shaft. The oil in the annulus lubricates the bearing and drive shaft interface. A discharge tube is provided having means for aspirating oil from an oil containing sump when the oil in the oil sump reaches a particular level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventors: Nelik I. Dreiman, Rick L. Bunch
  • Patent number: 7044723
    Abstract: A scroll compressor supplies an optimum quantity of lubricating oil to a refrigerant compressing section and restrains a decrease in compression efficiency caused by gas leakage. An oil supply passage (35) whose discharge port is open to a joint surface of a main frame (3) and a fixed scroll (4) is provided, and a throttle pin (353) is inserted in the oil supply passage (35) with a predetermined clearance to regulate the inflow quantity of lubricating oil (0). Also, a groove-shaped connecting portion is formed in the joint surface on the main frame side to connect the discharge port to a compression chamber (43).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu General Limited
    Inventors: Naoya Morozumi, Masaki Fujino, Junya Tanaka, Takayoshi Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 7021912
    Abstract: A second frame is arranged between a first frame and an orbiting scroll, and a central space and an outer peripheral space are sealed off by a seal portion, which is formed between an end surface of a shaft support of the orbiting scroll and the second frame. Also, a balance weight is arranged in a space between an underside of the second frame and the first frame. Thereby, most of an oil having lubricated respective shaft supports flows into the space below the second frame, and the oil accumulated in the space is discharged through an oil scavenge pipe into an oil reservoir in a lower portion of a closed vessel. Also, since the balance weight can be assembled from a side of the orbiting scroll in a state, in which the second frame is removed, it is possible to mount the balance weight close to the orbiting scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsuchiya, Takao Mizuno, Mutsunori Matsunaga, Masaru Ohtahara, Syunsuke Yasunori, Isao Hayase, Isamu Tsubono, Kazuyuki Fujimura
  • Patent number: 7018184
    Abstract: A compressor assembly having a housing with a first inlet. A compressor mechanism within the housing has a second inlet leading to a working space wherein gas is compressed. A baffle surface is extends from proximate the first inlet to proximate the second inlet and is impactable by gas entering the housing through the first inlet. The baffle surface directs gas in a flow path from the first inlet toward the second inlet and defines a baffle opening positioned between the first and second inlets. The length of the baffle opening extends substantially transverse to the flow path and is substantially greater than its width. The baffle opening diverts a portion of the gas directed along the flow path through the opening and intercepts fluid, such as lubricating oil, collected on the baffle surface whereby the fluid is separable by passage through the opening from gas entering the second inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventors: Robin G. Skinner, Richard C. Haney
  • Patent number: 7018185
    Abstract: Lubricating liquid fed from a reservoir to a compression mechanism is collected by a circumferential wall that surrounds the drive shaft of the compression mechanism and rotates synchronously with it immediately after liquid is discharged into the space inside the housing with or without compressed fluid. Liquid is then urged outward under centrifugal force from an outlet formed at a preset axial location of the circumferential wall. Exiting liquid is received by a fixed liquid return cover that surrounds the circumferential wall near its outlet and led back to the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Makino, Minoru Kajitani, Nobuaki Ogawa, Yoshifumi Abe, Yukihiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 7008200
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a gerotor apparatus includes an outer gerotor having an outer gerotor chamber, an inner gerotor, at least a portion of which is disposed within the outer gerotor chamber, and a synchronizing apparatus operable to control the rotation of the inner gerotor relative to the outer gerotor. The inner gerotor includes one or more entrance passages operable to communicate a lubricant into the outer gerotor chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignees: The Texas A&M University System, StarRotor Corporation
    Inventors: Mark T. Holtzapple, George A. Rabroker, Thomas J. Beck, Mark Ehsani, Matthew M. Whiteacre, Michael Kyle Ross, Gary P. Noyes
  • Patent number: 6960070
    Abstract: In order to improve a compressor for refrigerant, comprising an outer housing, a scroll compressor arranged in the outer housing and having a first compressor member arranged stationarily in the outer housing and a second compressor member which is movable relative to the first compressor member, the compressor members each having a base and first and second scroll ribs, respectively, which rise above the respective base and engage in one another such that the second compressor member is movable relative to the first compressor member on an orbital path about a central axis for the purpose of compressing the refrigerant, a drive unit for the second compressor member having an eccentric drive, a drive shaft, a drive motor arranged in a motor housing and having drawn-in refrigerant flowing around it as well as a bearing unit for the drive shaft which comprises a first bearing member connected to the outer housing, in such a manner that the refrigerant drawn in by the scroll compressor is free from lubricating o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Friedrich Kammhoff, Gernot Balz, Christian Scharer
  • Patent number: 6953330
    Abstract: A scroll vacuum pump has an orbiting scroll and fixed scrolls. The orbiting scroll is rotatably mounted to an eccentric portion of a driving shaft and revolved by the driving shaft, so that a gas is sucked into a compression chamber between the orbiting scroll and fixed scrolls through a sucking bore. External air is introduced through a ventilating hole axially formed in the driving shaft and into the compression chamber via a check valve that opens by centrifugal force when the driving shaft rotates, thereby cooling the eccentric portion and bearings to increase durability thereof. When the driving shaft stops, the check valve closes, so that a toxic gas in the compression chamber is not leaked to the outside to prevent environment pollution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Anest Iwata Corporation
    Inventor: Ryusuke Muto
  • Patent number: 6896496
    Abstract: A scroll compressor having crankcase with an integral shroud. The shroud includes an aperture and defines a partial enclosure. A counterweight mounted on the shaft of the compressor is disposed within the partial enclosure defined by the shroud. The aperture is positioned above the shaft and the shroud shields an oil sump within the compressor housing from the fanning action of the counterweight. A scroll compressor having a baffle extending from an inlet to the compressor housing to an inlet of the working space of the compressor is also provided. The baffle is secured to the crankcase of the compressor and may include an opening that functions as an oil stripper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventors: David K. Haller, Robin G. Skinner, Richard C. Haney
  • Patent number: 6896493
    Abstract: Disclosed is a scroll compressor enabling a significant height reduction to use a space of a system efficiently when the scroll compressor is applied to such systems as a refrigerator, an air conditioner, and the like. A compressor housing forms an exterior, a crankcase is fixed inside the compressor housing, a boss is formed at a central portion thereof to protrude downward, and a bearing hole is formed in a center thereof. A stator having a hollow shape is fixed to a lower side of the crankcase, and a rotor is provided to maintain a clearance between an outer circumferential surface of the stator and an inner circumferential surface thereof. A crankshaft is provided to pass through the bearing hole and is fixed to the rotor to revolve together with the rotor, wherein an eccentric pin is formed on an upper side thereof. A orbiting scroll is connected to the eccentric pin, and a fixed scroll fixed to an upper side of the crankcase to form a compression chamber together with the orbiting scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young Il Chang, Yang Hee Cho, Myung Kyun Kim, Yoo Chol Ji
  • Patent number: 6896498
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a protection device that has a valve movable between a position blocking flow from the back pressure chamber into the suction chamber, and a position allowing such flow. The valve is movable dependent on an oil temperature. Under adverse conditions, the oil will reach higher temperatures and the valve will open allowing flow of refrigerant from the back pressure chamber into the suction chamber. This refrigerant will likely be at an elevated temperature, and will assist the heated oil in moving a motor protection switch associated with the motor to shut down the motor. Moreover, by relieving the back pressure chamber, the two scroll members are allowed to move out of contact with each other, thereby reducing potential damage due to the adverse conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Scroll Technologies
    Inventor: Tapesh P. Patel
  • Patent number: 6893235
    Abstract: A lubrication path to press-contact surfaces of a fixed and orbiting scrolls serves also as a high-level pressure introduction passageway when a difference between a high-level pressure and a low-level pressure is great. On the other hand, when the high-level pressure introduction passageway is blocked off in a state in which the high-low pressure difference is small, refrigerating machine oil is supplied to the press-contact surfaces through a low-level pressure space within the casing, for controlling the pressing force of the orbiting scroll against the fixed scroll, and the construction for preventing a decrease in efficiency is simplified, thereby not only reducing the cost but also preventing the occurrence of a maloperation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Furusho, Katsumi Kato, Hiroyuki Yamaji
  • Patent number: 6887050
    Abstract: A scroll compressor having fixed and orbiting scrolls. The scrolls are disposed within a housing which defines a plenum having an oil sump. A shaft is coupled at one end to the orbiting scroll and is also coupled to a motor located in the housing. A bearing support is secured within the housing and has a central boss with a bearing mounted therein. The bearing supports the shaft opposite the orbiting scroll. The bearing support includes an outer ring and a plurality of support arms extending from the outer ring to the boss. The lowermost portion of the outer ring freely extends for an arc of approximately 120 degrees between adjacent support arms. The lowermost portion of the outer ring is disposed within the oil sump and includes a recessed portion defining a passage between the outer ring and housing for communicating lubricating oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Tecumseh Products Company
    Inventor: David K. Haller
  • Patent number: 6872062
    Abstract: To provide a scroll compressor that has a lower sliding friction loss and high compression efficiency, taking the diameter of a main shaft (61) as Dm and the diameter of a crank shaft (62) as Dc, the crank shaft (62) formed at one end of the main shaft (61) is arranged so that the eccentricity e thereof with respect to the main shaft (61) has a relation of e>(Dm?Dc)/2. Further, to support a main bearing (31) of a main frame (3) by the main shaft (61) serving as a sliding bearing and to support a crank bearing (421) of an orbiting scroll (42) by the crank shaft (62) serving as a sliding bearing, a joint shaft (65) for connecting the main shaft (61) and the crank shaft (62) to each other is formed so as to have a shape that falls within the main shaft diameter and within the crank shaft diameter when viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Fujitsu General Limited
    Inventor: Naoya Morozumi
  • Patent number: 6863511
    Abstract: A vacuum pump has two shafts (3, 4) and two rotors (1, 2) which co-operate with each other and which are fixed to the shafts. The rotors are cantilevered on the shafts. The rotors are fixed to the shafts in a manner which is devoid of backlash, even during temperature changes. In order to achieve this, the shafts (3, 4) are made of a material having a modulus of elasticity which is as high as possible, e.g., steel. The rotors (1, 2) are made of a material having a density which is as low as possible, e.g., aluminum or a titanium alloy. Structures (8; 11, 12, 13; 14, 15; 25, 27; 38, 41; 43, 44, 45; etc.) are provided to ensure that the rotors (1, 2) are fixed to the shafts (3, 4) in a manner which is devoid of backlash at all operating temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Leybold Vakuum GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Kriehn, Lothar Brenner, Manfred Behling, Thomas Dreifert, Klaus Rofall, Heinrich Englander, Michael Froitzheim
  • Patent number: 6848891
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved refrigerant compressor comprising an overall casing, an electric motor with a stator and a rotor which is mounted on a drive shaft, and a screw compressor. A compressor screw of the screw compressor is mounted on the drive shaft, which is rotatably mounted in the casing by a first radial bearing between the rotor and the compressor screw and a second radial bearing disposed on a side of the compressor screw lying opposite the first radial bearing. The drive shaft is mounted in the casing by a third radial bearing disposed on a side of the rotor lying opposite the first radial bearing. A portion of the drive shaft which extends between the first radial bearing and one of the second and third radial bearings being adapted to compensate for alignment errors between the three radial bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Dieterich
  • Publication number: 20040265160
    Abstract: A screw-type vacuum pump (1) includes a pump housing (2, 6) with rotors (3, 4). A liquid cooling system cools the rotors and a drive motor (9). In order to improve the cooling of said pump, an external air-flow impelled cooling system is also provided for the pump housing (2, 6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Manfred Behling, Hartmut Kriehn, Klaus Rofall, Ralf Steffens
  • Publication number: 20040247474
    Abstract: In a rotary compressor to perform oil supplying to bearings (32,34,45) through a main oil-supply passage (51) formed in a drive shaft (17) by making use of pressure differential between high-level pressure and low-level pressure in the casing (10), sealing portions (65) having air-tight structure is formed at the both sides in the axis direction of each of sliding faces constituted between the drive shaft (17) and the bearings (32,34,45), putting bearing-portion oil-supply passages (59,60,61) between the sealing portion (65), to improve the reliability of the bearings (32,34,45) by preventing high-pressure gas flowing into a portion between the drive shaft (17) and the bearings (32,34,45).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitaura, Hiroyuki Yamaji, Masanori Yanagisawa
  • Publication number: 20040208767
    Abstract: An improvement of a ring for a scroll compressor by forming a gap at an angle on the top of the ring where is less subject to pressure, and an askew tangent plane descending outwardly from the bottom of the gap to allow the lubricant passing through the gap and flowing along the askew plane into the spacing between the ring and the circulating scroll to maintain consistent lubrication among the ring, the eccentric rod and the circulating scroll when the ring floats up to the top to hold against the body of the circulating scroll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2003
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: RECHI PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lung-Tsai Chang, Guang-Der Tarng
  • Patent number: 6796779
    Abstract: An improvement of a ring for a scroll compressor by forming a gap at an angle on the top of the ring where is less subject to pressure, and an askew tangent plane descending outwardly from the bottom of the gap to allow the lubricant passing through the gap and flowing along the askew plane into the spacing between the ring and the circulating scroll to maintain consistent lubrication among the ring, the eccentric rod and the circulating scroll when the ring floats up to the top to hold against the body of the circulating scroll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Rechi Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lung-Tsai Chang, Guang-Der Tarng
  • Patent number: 6758660
    Abstract: A screw vacuum pump (1) has shafts (7, 8) and rotors (3, 4) secured to the shafts. Each rotor has a central hollow chamber (31) which receives the shaft or contains in built-in components rotating along with the rotor to define a relatively thin annular slot segment (32) for cross-flow circulation of coolant. The annular slot segment is disposed between the built-in components and an inner wall of the rotor's hollow chamber and between a suction side and a delivery side of the rotor. Separate feed and discharge lines (41, 55, 63, 77, 78, 81, 89, 99, 101, 103) circulate the coolant through the annular slot segment in such a way that the coolant remains cavitation-free and bubble-free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Leybold Vakuum GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Kriehn, Lothar Brenner
  • Patent number: 6672852
    Abstract: A lubricant filling device for a scroll compressor has provided a lubricant suction on the circulating scroll connecting through the side of the sleeve to the scroll space; a negative pressure suction being formed due to changed volume in the scroll chamber once the circulating scroll and the fixed scroll chamber are operating, so to directly suck the lubricant seeping through where between the eccentric rod and the sleeve to lubricate the circulating scroll and the fixed scroll chamber in time for improving the lubrication results for the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Rechi Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lung-Tsai Chang, Guang-Der Tarng, Chung-Pen Chiu
  • Patent number: 6672101
    Abstract: An oil storage area (45a) is defined on the bottom of a motor chamber (45) of a scroll compressor (1). An oil transfer route (4a) is defined in the portion of a center housing (4) that corresponds to the storage area (45a). Lubricating oil L is separated from the discharged, compressed refrigerant by an oil separator (80) and the lubricating oil L is supplied to the backside of a movable scroll (20) due to a pressure differential within the compress (1). After lubricating a bearing (10), the lubricating oil L is temporarily stored in the storage area (45a) and then is transferred due to a pressure differential to the suction-side of a compression mechanism (21) via the oil transfer route (4a). The lubricating oil L is then transferred to the oil separator (80) together with the compressed refrigerant that is discharged from a compression chamber (32) of the compression mechanism (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Gennami, Kazuhiro Kuroki, Ken Suitou, Naohiro Nakajima, Shinji Tsubai, Kazuya Kimura
  • Patent number: 6666661
    Abstract: In order to improve a refrigerant compressor comprising an overall casing, an electric motor disposed in the overall casing with a stator and a rotor which is mounted on a drive shaft, and also a screw compressor disposed in the overall casing, one compressor screw of which is mounted on the drive shaft, which is rotatably mounted in the overall casing by a first radial bearing between the rotor and the compressor screw and a second radial bearing disposed on a side of the compressor screw lying opposite the first radial bearing, in such a way that the risk of the stator being touched by the rotor no longer occurs, it is proposed that the drive shaft is mounted in the overall casing by a third radial bearing which is disposed on a side of the rotor lying opposite the first radial bearing, and that a drive portion of the drive shaft which extends between the first radial bearing and the third radial bearing is formed in such a way as to compensate for alignment errors between the three radial bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Bitzer Kuehlmaschinenbau GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Dieterich
  • Patent number: 6607372
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to remove foreign matter such as worn powder in a refrigerating cycle and enhance the reliability in a refrigerating cycle using, in particular, HFC refrigerant. In the invention, accordingly, a coil shaped connection piping is provided in at least front portion or rear portion of a throttling unit, a fine pipe is connected to a lower portion of the connection piping, and a collector for collecting foreign matter in the refrigerating cycle is coupled to this fine pipe. Foreign matter in the refrigerant is separated from the refrigerant by centrifugal force, and is collected in the collector. Moreover, the foreign matter collecting effect is enhanced by disposing a magnetic piece in the collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirotsugu Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20030152474
    Abstract: A pump (1) for conveying molten masses of polymers and/or elastomers comprising a pump body in which are formed an inlet duct (7) for entry of the material, an outlet duct (8) for discharge of the material and a central body (11) communicating with the inlet and outlet ducts (7, 8) and destined to house at least one gear (15, 16) mounted on a motorised shaft (18) for conveying the material from the inlet duct (7) toward the outlet duct (8). The pump body consists of two parts (2, 2′) that can be assembled together, each part of the pump body comprising at least one through hole (14) communicating with the central chamber (11), so that said at least one shaft (18) of the gear (15, 16) is rotatably supported directly in the pair of opposite facing holes (14) of the two parts (2, 2′) of the pump body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Macchi Luigi
  • Patent number: 6579081
    Abstract: The proposed positive-displacement sphere-shaped rotor machine is intended for use as an engine, a pump or a compressor and comprises a casing consisting of two parts 1 and 2, in the spherical cavity of the casing three rotors 4, 5 and 6 being disposed, the central disk rotor 4 being connected from each side by means of a diametrical hinge with sector rotors 5 and 6. The rotors 4, 5 and 6 define four chambers 9, 10, 11 and 12. The chamber-forming radial surfaces of the rotors 4, 5 and 6 have a radius form. Inlet-outlet ducts 15, 16, 17 and 18 are disposed in the zone of overlapping by the sector rotors at the moment of changeover of the cycles in the chambers, the ducts having a nozzle portion and a tangential tilt. The diametrical hinge has two secured semi-axles 21 and 22, whose journals enter into spherical meniscus 25; the second diametrical hinge 5 has a non-split cylindrical axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Finpar Holding S.A.
    Inventor: Mikhail Ivanovich Kuznetsov
  • Patent number: 6575720
    Abstract: The bearing cooling device causes cooling media to flow into the interior of a journal bearing 8 for supporting a shaft part 7 by lubrication of high viscous fluid and the interior of the shaft part 7 to cool the shaft part 7 and the bearing 8. At this time, cooling medium temperature of the bearing 8 is set to be higher than cooling medium temperature of the shaft part 7. It is constituted so that the cooling medium passes the cooling medium passage and thereafter passes the cooling medium passage internally of the bearing. A heated medium supply device for supplying a heated medium to each cooling medium passage may be provided. The bearing cooling device is used suitably for a gear pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Shigehiro Kasai, Katsunori Takahashi, Nobuki Nagami, Kazuo Iritani
  • Patent number: 6544020
    Abstract: A cooled screw vacuum pump has a housing (4) two rotating systems (5, 6) consisting each of a screw rotor (5) and a shaft (6), a floating device supporting the rotors having, on each shaft, two mutually spaced bearings (7, 8) and an empty space (31) arranged in each rotor (5) open on the bearing side, wherein is respectively located an element cooling the rotor internally. In order to improve cooling it is suggested that the bearing (7) of the support located on the rotor side, is placed outside the rotor (5) empty space (31), such that in said empty space (31) there is more room available for obtaining efficient cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Leybold Vakuum GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Bahnen, Thomas Dreifert
  • Patent number: 6499971
    Abstract: A compressor system includes a housing with a low pressure first chamber and a high pressure second chamber. A motor in the first chamber has a shaft that passes into the second chamber. A compressor in the housing is operably connected to the motor by the shaft. The second chamber contains an oil sump storing lubricating oil for the compressor. A fluid path through the compressor system includes a first orifice in the housing communicating a suction tube with the first chamber, a first fluid passage communicating the first chamber with the compressor suction port, a second fluid passage communicating the compressor discharge port with the second chamber, and a second orifice in the housing communicating the second chamber with a discharge tube. By the action of the compressor, the fluid in the first chamber is maintained at compressor suction pressure and the fluid in the second chamber is maintained at compressor discharge pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Bristol Compressors, Inc.
    Inventors: John Kenneth Narney, II, David Turner Monk, Thomas Evans Goodnight