Abstract: A gear pump is used in an electrically-operated sealed compressor. The compressor includes a compression mechanism, an electric motor for driving the compression mechanism, and a crankshaft for transmitting the rotational force of the electric motor to the compression mechanism. The gear pump includes a pair of gears being in mesh with each other, one of which is connected to one end of the crankshaft, and a pump casing accommodating only the pair of gears. The pump casing together with the gear pair is disposed on one side of a cover plate, while other elements constituting the gear pump are disposed on the other side of the cover plate. By this construction, the distance between the gear pair and an auxiliary bearing to which the gear pump is secured can be reduced and, hence, an undesirable whirling of one end portion of the crankshaft can also be reduced.

Abstract: A scroll compressor (10) is disclosed which incorporates a magnet (88) in a depression (90) formed in the lower shell (12) by forming a coined surface (82). The depression forms a side wall (92) which confines the magnet therein so that no additional fastening mechanism is required. The magnet is preferably a ring magnet (88) which is centered about the rotational axis of the drive shaft (40) and near the end of the oil pick-up tube (62) so that oil passes close to the magnet (88) as it enters the oil pick-up tube. The magnet separates magnetic debris, such as metal filings, from the oil. In another embodiment, a pair of magnets (112) can be positioned in multiple coined surfaces on the lower shell.

Abstract: An oil groove is formed in the shaft journal facing the upper bearing land of a high side rotary compressor and is located relative to the eccentric such that the groove is not located in a high loading region of the shaft journal.

Abstract: A scroll-type compressor is disclosed which includes both a high pressure lubricant sump and a low pressure lubricant sump. Lubricant from the low pressure lubricant sump is supplied to the various bearing, thrust surfaces and other moving parts to lubricate same and a portion thereof is also supplied to the suction gas entering the compressor to replenish the lubricant in the high pressure sump. An oil separator is disposed in a discharge chamber to separate entrained oil from the compressed gas. A level control assembly is also provided in the discharge chamber and serves to return excessive accumulations of oil from the high pressure sump to the low pressure sump. In one embodiment, the compressor is specifically designed for compression of helium while in a second embodiment, the compressor is adapted for use as an air compressor.

Abstract: The present invention provides a scroll-type compressor that can supply sufficient lubricating oil without the occurrence of seizure of bearing for an orbiting scroll. In this scroll-type compressor, an annular boss 23 extends downward from the orbiting scroll, and an eccentric pin 53 of a rotating shaft 5 fits into the boss 23 via a bearing 73 and an eccentric bush 54. A gap 58 is provided between the eccentric pin 53 and the eccentric bush 54, and an oil supply path 57 is provided between the eccentric bush 54 and the bearing 73. The lubricating oil flows out of an oil supply hole 52 formed in a rotating shaft 5 and the eccentric pin 53, being supplied to the bearing 73, etc. via the oil supply path 57. In order to sufficiently supply the lubricating oil to the oil supply path 57, a portion 54f extending in an arcuate shape from the upper end face of the eccentric bush 54 forms a protrusion extending upward from the other flat portion 54d.

Abstract: An oil groove is provided in a space surrounded with the outer peripheral portion of an end plate of a revolving scroll, a stationary scroll and a frame on the inner surface of the frame, and lubricating oil attached to the inner surface of the frame by splashed with rotation of the balancing weight is reserved in the oil groove and then supplied to a key groove for sliding an Oldham-ring.

Abstract: A hermetic electric scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll which define therebetween a plurality of compression spaces for compressing fluid introduced via a suction port. The orbiting scroll has a base plate and a shaft portion extending from the base plate toward a crankshaft rotatably supported by a support member. A seal member is disposed between the base plate and the support member to define an inner region and an outer region. The shaft portion is exposed to the inner region, while the outer region communicates with the suction port. The shaft portion is formed with an axial hole open to the inner region, while the base plate is formed with a radial hole open to the outer region. Communication is established between the axial and radial holes via a small-diameter hole so that lubricating oil supplied to the inner region is introduced into the outer region via the small-diameter hole for feeding to the compression spaces via the suction port.

Abstract: A scroll type machine particularly suited for use as a refrigeration compressor is disclosed which includes a bearing assembly for non-adjustably rotatably supporting a drive shaft. The bearing assembly is in turn non-adjustably supported on the sidewall of an outer shell. The scroll type machine also includes an oil delivery system for delivering lubricating oil from a lower sump to an upper end of the crankshaft and an oil return hole in a fixed portion of the compressor for returning oil to the sump.

Abstract: An Oldham ring system for a rotary fluid compressor, comprising: a motor shaft; an eccentric shaft; a revolving part with two first gliding elements on its lower side; a stator; an Oldham ring, its upper side being provided with two second gliding elements fitting the two first gliding elements, and its lower side being provided with two third gliding elements for a perpendicular gliding movement; and a frame, on its perimeter being provided with two holders and with two fourth gliding elements in between that glide against said third gliding elements; wherein the characteristic is that the Oldham ring is, on the two opposite sides located next to the holders of the frame, provided with two straight shortcuts to reduce the width of the Oldham ring next to the holders; and wherein the first and second gliding elements as well as the third and fourth gliding elements each are provided with a groove in the gliding direction to provide for a flow path for lubricating oil.

Abstract: In a scroll compressor, a gas purge bore is formed to extend from an oil bore penetrating a drive shaft of the compressor, causing coolant gas to be expelled out with rising of lubricating oil sucked up by an oil pump through the oil bore. This allows the lubricating oil to rise without undergoing resistance of the coolant gas. By positioning the oil bore close to an oil groove formed in an eccentric bearing, the lubricating oil can be surely supplied to the oil groove.

Abstract: In a hermetic type compressor, a sliding part (11) between a main shaft (4) and a lower end plate (8) is large in wear, and it is not allowed to operate stably for a long period. By communicating between the sliding part (11) and an oil feed pump (9) through an oil feed port (12), refrigerating machine oil (2) is supplied by force into the sliding part (11), and hence the lubrication is improved and the reliability is enhanced. In particular, it is preferably applied to the hermetic type compressor using HFC derivative refrigerants.

Abstract: A scroll fluid machine includes stationary scrolls, with embedded wraps which are spiral in form, extending from central parts of scroll bodies toward the outer peripheries thereof, and a revolving scroll, with an embedded spiral wrap, engaging with the spiral wraps. The revolving scroll has a scroll body coupled to a drive shaft coupled to a drive at the central portion thereof. The drive shaft is cooled directly by a cooling structure provided inside it. The scroll body of the revolving scroll has a central part coupled to a drive. Heat generated in a process, in which fluid sucked from the scroll edge is led to the central part while being progressively compressed, can be removed at the central part which is elevated to a highest temperature, thus permitting efficient cooling of bearings and seal members near the revolving scroll central part and the drive shaft.

Abstract: A crankshaft lubrication system is provided for generating increased oil pumping capacity and oil pressure in a sealed compressor for cooling fluids. The lower portion of an integral crankshaft is cut at a slanted angle to increase the inlet area for picking up more oil from a sump or oil reservoir. By varying the angle of cut at the lower portion of an integral crankshaft, one achieves oil pumping rates over a wide range of values while using a standard size crankshaft. This approach not only simplifies the manufacture of lubrication system for sealed compressors, but also lowers the overall production costs of such compressors. While the efficiency of sealed compressors is maintained under the present invention, the noise emissions from such compressors are lowered significantly.

Abstract: A compression chamber of a scroll compression element driven by a crank shaft of an electromotive element and stored in an upper portion of a closed container is formed by engaging spiral wraps formed on the mirror plates of a fixed scroll member and an orbiting scroll member with each other, a bush portion having an engagement hole to be engaged with an upper end portion of the crank shaft is formed in a central axis portion of the under surface of the mirror plate of the orbiting scroll member, a space formed between the engagement hole of the bush portion and the upper end portion of the crank shaft serves as an oil input port, lubricating oil which is stored in an oil reservoir in an inner bottom portion of the closed container and goes up through an oil passage formed within the crank shaft by an oil pump unit is supplied from the oil input port into the compression chamber, oil injection communication passages communicating with the compression chamber from the oil input port are formed in the mirror pl

Abstract: The proposed power unit of the rotary-piston type, for example an internal combustion engine, compressor or pump, has a stator and a rotor designed in such a way as to allow a number of variable-volume working chambers to be created in the stator when the rotor turns. The meshing mechanism between the stator and the rotary piston which rotates on an eccentric section of the shaft is essential for the management of that rotation and is situated outside the rotary piston. For that purpose an aperture is provided in the wall of the stator and is shut off by a rotating disk (or ring) through which a spigot passes and rigidly connects the rotary piston and a pinion. This arrangement creates a power unit with a triangular stator and double-peak rotor. Several sets of balance, lamellate, spring-loaded sealing elements are mounted on the lateral surface of the stator. They are in contact with the side surface of the rotary piston which has a forced cooling system.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprises a toroidal combustion chamber housing within which slides at least one piston. The combustion chamber housing has a circumferential longitudinal slot sealed by a ring seal to which the pistons are rigidly attached. A mechanism is provided for reversibly creating one or more transverse seals within the combustion chamber housing. The space between the transverse seals constitutes one or more combustion chambers. The simplest embodiment of the engine has one combustion chamber and one piston. The combustion chamber is operationally divided by the piston into two regions. The space between the transverse seal and a trailing surface of the piston defines a combustion region. The space between the transverse seal and a leading surface of the piston defines an exhaust region. In each power cycle of the engine, compressed air, fuel and steam are injected into the combustion region and ignited.

Abstract: A compressor having an oil pick-up tube which filters incoming lubricant, and increases the volumetric pumping capacity of the compressor. The oil pick-up tube is attached to the crankshaft of the compressor, and is partially disposed within an oil sump also provided in the compressor. When the motor of the compressor is energized, the crankshaft and the oil pick-up tube rotate, and oil from the oil sump is drawn into the oil pick-up tube. A passageway is provided within the motor shaft to communicate oil from the oil pick-up tube to the compressor mechanism of the compressor for lubrication purposes. A cylindrical screen is also provided within the oil pick-up tube to both filter the incoming oil and provide a surface to which the oil adheres as it migrates upward through the rotating tube and expels the oil radially outward to increase the velocity of the migrating oil. The volumetric pumping capacity of the compressor is thereby increased.

Abstract: A rotary piston pump in which a slide valve has a pivot bearing at each of its ends which supports a sliding block and wherein a theoretical slide valve length in the position in which the axes of symmetry of the shell rotor and slide valve are superimposed, is equal to the sum of the length along the slide valve measured between the pivot bearings plus two times the thickness of a sliding block measured between its pivot bearing and the wall of the shell. The sliding blocks have an outer surface with a curvature between the curvature of the outer surface of the rotor and the maximum curvature of the wall of the shell.

Abstract: There is disclosed a scroll-type machine particularly suited for use as a refrigerant compressor and incorporating a lubrication system for supplying lubricant from a sump to a thrust surface on which the orbiting scroll member is supported. The lubrication system utilizes passages provided in the driving crankshaft and the bearing housing which housing defines the thrust surface.

Abstract: An oil groove is provided in a space surrounded with the outer peripheral portion of an end plate of a revolving scroll, a stationary scroll and a frame on the inner surface of the frame, and lubricating oil attached to the inner surface of the frame by splashed with rotation of the balancing weight is reserved in the oil groove and then supplied to a key groove for sliding an Oldham-ring.

Abstract: Centrifugal oil pump for variable speed hermetic compressors, comprising: a hermetic shell (1), which lodges therewithin, a cylinder block (3), supporting a vertical eccentric shaft (5), whereto is mounted the rotor (8) of an electric motor (6), the eccentric shaft (5) being provided with at least one oil channel (9), having a lower end (9b), opened to a lower end (5b) of the eccentric shaft (5), wherein the eccentric shaft-rotor assembly attaches, at its lower part, an upper extension (12) of a pump rotor (10) and a tubular sleeve (20), attached to an inertial portion of the compressor and surrounding at least the portion of said pump rotor (10) external to the rotor (8), said pump rotor (10) presenting a centrifugation region (15), radially extending beyond the edges of the lower end (5b) of the eccentric shaft (5) and having a lower end nozzle (10b) that is permanently immersed in the oil sump (2), which is internally defined at the bottom of the shell (1) and with at least an upper radial nozzle (11b), co

Abstract: A swash-plate machine includes a hollow-spherical work chamber which is divided by a partition into at least one high-pressure chamber and one low-pressure chamber, into which an operating medium can be carried through a conduit system. The partition extends up to a piston carrier and cooperates with a plate-like sealing strip. A circular piston is adapted to the diameter of the work chamber and communicates with the exterior through a supported drive shaft which effects a tumbling motion of the piston. The piston has at least one radial slit extending from the circumference to approximately the piston carrier. A guide journal which is inserted in the slit cooperates with the partition. End surfaces of the piston are in contact with opposed lateral surfaces that extend at right angles to the axis of rotation of the drive shaft and laterally define the work chamber. The guide journal disposed in the radial slit is guided in a guide groove disposed in the partition.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed rotary compressor includes a generally cylindrical sealed vessel having an oil reservoir defined therein for accommodating a quantity of lubricating oil, a drive unit within the sealed vessel, and a compressor mechanism within the sealed vessel. The compressor mechanism includes a cylinder having a compression compartment defined therein and also having upper and lower openings, an eccentric cam provided on a crankshaft for rotation together therewith, and a ring-shaped piston mounted on the crankshaft while encircling the eccentric cam and capable of undergoing a planetary motion in contact with the eccentric cam during rotation of the eccentric cam. The cylinder has a refrigerant intake port defined therein in communication with the compression compartment.

Abstract: A fluid displacement apparatus includes a housing having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A suction chamber is formed between one end of the displacement mechanism and the housing and communicates with the fluid inlet port. A discharge chamber is formed between other end of the displacement mechanism and the housing and communicates with the fluid outlet port. A first hollow space is created between a peripheral surface of a driving mechanism and the inner block, and communicates with the suction chamber. A second hollow space is created between the inner block and the housing and communicates with the discharge chamber. A pressure differential regulating device is disposed between the first hollow space and the second hollow space. Accordingly, a sealing mechanism of a driving mechanism achieves superior durability while maintaining the lubrication of a bearing under various operating conditions of the apparatus.

Abstract: A rotary compressor is disclosed. The compressor reduces frictional loss in a contact part between the rolling piston and the eccentric sheave and in contact parts between the crankshaft and the main and sub bearings by achieving smooth lubrication to the contact parts. In the compressor, a lubricating groove is formed on the outer surface of the eccentric sheave. A hole communicating with the internal oil conduit of the crankshaft is formed in the lubricating groove and supplies oil from the oil conduit to the outer surface of the sheave. Lubricating grooves are also formed on the inner surfaces of the main and sub bearings so as to facilitate oil supply for the contact parts between the crankshaft and the bearings.

Abstract: A lubricating construction of a scroll compressor includes a seal member provided between an orbiting scroll and a main frame to isolate a back pressure chamber from bearing portions to thereby keep the bearing portions substantially under a discharge pressure, a first oil feed passage extending from a lubricating oil portion under the discharge pressure to a space, disposed adjacent to an end of a crank portion of the crankshaft, through the crankshaft, a second oil feed passage extending from the above space to be opened to sliding portions of end plates of the orbiting and stationary scrolls through the end plate of the orbiting scroll, and communicating with the back pressure chamber, and a third oil feed passage extending from midway the first oil feed passage to be opened to an outer peripheral surface of the crankshaft, and serving to supply a lubricating oil to a main bearing portion by the use of a centrifugal pumping action produced by rotation of the crankshaft.

Abstract: In a compression system which incorporates a rotary helical screw compressor, and for any type of gas or refrigerant, the working liquid oil is atomized through nozzles suspended in, and parallel to, the suction gas flow, or alternatively the nozzles are mounted on the suction piping. In either case, the aim is to create positively a homogeneous mixture of oil droplets to maximize the effectiveness of the working liquid oil in improving the isothermal and volumetric efficiencies. The oil stream to be atomized may first be degassed at compressor discharge pressure by heating within a pressure vessel and recovering the energy added by using the outgoing oil stream to heat the incoming oil stream. The stripped gas is typically returned to the compressor discharge flow.

Abstract: A scroll compressor comprises a generally cylindrical casing and stationary and orbiting scrolls both accommodated in the casing. The stationary and orbiting scrolls engage with each other to define a plurality of compression chambers therebetween. The orbiting scroll is driven by a drive shaft which is in turn supported by a frame having a thrust bearing formed thereon. One of an orbiting end plate of the orbiting scroll and the thrust bearing has an annular groove defined therein in which an annular seal member is received. The orbiting scroll is disposed between the stationary scroll and the frame with an axial gap defined therebetween. First, second, and third back chambers are formed on the opposite side of the compression chambers with respect to the orbiting end plate. The first and second back chambers are partitioned by the annular seal member.

Abstract: A lubricating device for a horizontal type hermetic compressor. The device includes an oil cylinder at the back of a spring-biased vane in a compressing cylinder, and also includes an oil piston and an oil valve in the oil cylinder. The oil piston communicates with the oil valve by the movement of the vane, thus to achieve the lubrication oil supply through the oil cylinder. The oil piston is biased by a compression coil spring positioned under the piston, so that it is easy to fabricate the compressor. Since the length of the oil piston is longer than the distance between the upper dead point of the oil pumping chamber and the vane slot reference hole, introduction of refrigerant into the oil cylinder is reliably prevented. This device uses a conventional horizontal type hermetic compressor with a slight change of its construction and easily precisely controls the flow rate of the lubrication oil to be delivered.

Abstract: An oil supplying apparatus for a horizontal type rotary compressor capable of securing a substantial oil supplying and preventing oil leakage to the outside thereof thereby enhancing higher oil supplying efficiency of the compressor is disclosed.

Abstract: In a scroll type compressor, a simple structure provides oil intake assistance to ensure that lubricating oil in an oil space is induced into a spiral groove in correspondence to the rotation rate of a drive shaft. The drive shaft is provided with an inclined spiral groove which is formed in the external circumferential surface of the drive shaft. The drive shaft slides in contact with a main bearing. A leading end of the spiral groove, in the direction of the rotation of the drive shaft, communicates with the oil space and a trailing end of the spiral groove opens into the lubricating oil reservoir. The lubricating oil is supplied to the area where the drive shaft slides in contact with the main bearing by the spiral groove. Also, upon rotation of the drive shaft, intake of lubricating oil into the spiral groove is assisted when the suction force is reduced due to a high rotation rate.

Abstract: In a sealed electric scroll compressor, lubricating oil is collected in an oil collection pan mounted under a compression mechanism after the compression mechanism is lubricated thereby, the lubricating oil collected in the oil collection pan is discharged from a small hole at the side of the oil collection pan which is located remote from a delivery pipe for delivering a high-pressure refrigerant gas outward from a sealed container of the sealed electric compressor. The high-pressure refrigerant gas flows between the inner wall of the sealed container and a vertical cut part formed on the circumference of a stator of an electric motor.

Abstract: In a high side, vertical, twin cylinder rolling piston hermetic compressor, a portion of the high pressure gas is diverted from the chamber defined by the lower muffler and the pump bearing to the axial bore of the crankshaft. The crankshaft extends into the oil sump such that rotation of the shaft produces a pumping action for pumping oil from the sump to structure requiring lubrication. Additionally, the flow diverted from the chamber to the axial bore produces a jet pump effect which supplements the pumping action produced by the rotating shaft, particularly at low speed.

Abstract: In a compressor, a lubricant groove for a contact area between a self-aligning spherical bearing and a housing therefor opens to a relatively low pressure chamber, but is prevented from opening to a relatively high pressure chamber, the housing has an arrangement for restraining a transmission of deformation and/or heat energy from a welded portion thereon to the contact area, and a main shaft, the housing, a housing lid and a pipe for lubricant circulation are coaxially arranged.

Abstract: In a rotary compressor, a roller (6) fitted around an eccentric portion (51) of a drive shaft (5) is provided in a cylinder chamber- (21) of a cylinder (2) in such a way that the roller (6) is revolvable around the drive shaft (5). A blade (61) provided integrally with and protruding from the roller (6) is swingably supported by a support member (62) rotatably provided in the cylinder (2). An oil groove (64) opened at axial end faces of the roller (6) is formed on the inner peripheral surface of the roller (6) on a counter loaded side and within a range from a position where the blade (61) is protrusively provided, to another position 180 degrees displaced therefrom in the rotating direction of the drive shaft (5), whereby oil can be positively fed from the oil groove (64) to sliding surfaces.

Abstract: A rotary compressor has a cylinder having a cylinder chamber formed therein, a roller fitted around an eccentric portion of a drive shaft and rotatably installed within the cylinder chamber, a blade integrally provided on the roller so as to protrude therefrom and dividing the cylinder chamber into a compression chamber and a suction chamber, and a support body swingably provided in the cylinder and having a receiving groove for receiving a tip portion of the blade in such a manner that the tip portion can move back and forth. On axial faces of the blade and a blade protrusion base portion of the roller, there are formed oil grooves one end of which is opened to an inner peripheral surface of the roller and the other end of which is opened to the tip portion of the blade. In addition, on the rear side of the blade at the receiving groove of the support body, a high pressure chamber closed to the outside of the cylinder is formed.

Abstract: A lobed rotor machine including an annular cylinder chamber having inlet and outlet openings, four working pistons movable in pairs in the cylinder chamber, two piston carriers for supporting respective pairs of the working cylinder and rotatable about a common machine axis and displaceable relative to each other, and guide channels formed inside of each of the two piston carriers and defining supply channels and return channels for communicating cooling medium to the pistons.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor including a drive shaft which is provided with a spiral groove formed in an external circumferential surface of the drive shaft. The spiral groove communicates diagonally between the oil space and the upper portion of the main bearing to ensure sufficient lubrication and sealing in the area where the drive shaft slide in contact with the main bearing. A seal bearing portion is positioned between the oil space and the low pressure space to isolate the oil space from the low pressure orbiting space, achieving an improvement in lubrication. The seal bearing portion is constituted with a seal washer, a seal bearing and a seal member, and, furthermore, with seal reinforcing material, to especially improve the seal between the oil space and the oscillation space.

Abstract: The flow, use, interaction and separation of lubricant and gas flowing through the suction pressure portion of a low-side refrigeration scroll compressor is managed by the use of a drive motor mounting sleeve (46) and a multi-ported frame (40). The mounting sleeve and frame provide for the direction of oil to surfaces within the low side of the compressor shell which require lubrication as well as the conduct of suction gas to the scroll compression mechanism in a manner which cools the compressor drive motor yet which maintains the respective flows of oil and suction gas sufficiently separate to ensure that excessive amounts of oil are not conducted out of the compressor in the gas which is compressed thereby. Lubrication is enhanced by the use of a vent passage (68) which opens into a relatively lower pressure region within the suction pressure portion of the compressor shell.

Abstract: In a horizontal scroll compressor, a compressor structure and an electric motor, both disposed in a hermetic housing, are coupled with each other through a rotating shaft extending substantially horizontally. Lubricating oil accumulated in the bottom of the hermetic housing is supplied to a thrust face of a supporting frame of the compressor structure. To spread enough lubricating oil over the thrust face and prevent seizure and scoring of the thrust face, the lubricating oil is accumulated in a central concave part of the frame, and oil paths are provided to lead the lubricating oil to the upper part of the thrust face of the frame and to discharge excess lubricating oil from the lower part of the thrust face.

Abstract: A scroll type compressor which includes a compression unit, a crankshaft having an oil passage therein, and an electric motor stator having an oil return hole. An oil pump feeds oil into the oil passage of the crankshaft, and an oil drain tube receives return oil from the compression unit and feeds the oil to the oil return hole of the electric motor stator. The drain oil tube advantageously includes an upper nonflexible drain opening which receives oil from the compression unit. The oil then passes through a nonflexible portion which includes a bend or bent portion, and then to a flexible portion which extends from the elbow into the oil return hole of the electric motor stator.

Abstract: A hermetic compressor assembly is disclosed including a motor compressor disposed within a hermetically sealed housing, wherein the housing has an oil sump in the bottom thereof from which oil is drawn to lubricate the compressor mechanism. An electric drive motor includes a vertical rotor having a lower axial end ring with rotor counterweight die cast therein, whereby turbulence and resulting agitation of the oil in the oil sump is prevented during rotation of the rotor. By die casting the counterweight within the end ring additional attachment parts and manufacturing steps are eliminated.

Abstract: In a lubrication system subject to two phase flow, the oil pump is provided with a capacity such that it can always pump sufficient oil plus the refrigerant and/or excess oil. The excess oil and/or outgassed refrigerant is vented to provide the desired lubricant flow.

Abstract: In order to provide a simple structure to achieve sufficient lubrication and sealing in the various areas of a scroll compressor where sliding contact occurs, a spiral groove that communicates between a high-pressure side space and an area at an upper portion of a main bearing is formed on the external circumferential surface of the drive shaft where it comes in contact with and slides against the main bearing. A seal bearing is provided in a drive shaft-receiving block between the high-pressure side space and a low pressure side space to seal off the high-pressure side space from the low pressure side space. An oil supply hole is provided that communicates between the high-pressure side space and an oscillation space which is formed by an oscillating scroll member and an oscillating shaft. With this, a first oil passage that lubricates the main bearing and a second oil passage that lubricates an oscillating shaft-insertion hole are formed.

Abstract: A lubricating device for a horizontal type hermetic compressor. The device includes an oil cylinder at the back of a spring-biased vane in a compressing cylinder, and also includes an oil piston and an oil valve in the oil cylinder. The oil piston communicates with the oil valve by the movement of the vane, thus to achieve the lubrication oil supply through the oil cylinder. The oil piston is biased by a compression coil spring positioned under the piston, so that it is easy to fabricate the compressor. Since the length of the oil piston is longer than the distance between the upper dead point of the oil pumping chamber and the vane slot reference hole, introduction of refrigerant into the oil cylinder is reliably prevented. This device uses a conventional horizontal type hermetic compressor with a slight change of its construction and easily precisely controls the flow rate of the lubrication oil to be delivered.

Abstract: A gear pump rotor assembly is disclosed. In order to prevent that the gear toothing is cooled in an unreliable manner, radial heat flow is reduced in the toothing area of the shaft, preferably by means of an insulation air chamber or other insulated section, with respect to the heat flow in other shaft areas to be cooled.

Abstract: When a rotary shaft of a scroll type compressor rotates and a movable scroll of the compressor makes an orbital movement around the axis of a rotary shaft by way of an eccentric shaft, refrigerant gas is supplied to compression chambers between a fixed scroll and the movable scroll. A first bearing rotatably supports the rotary shaft. A second bearing is provided between the movable scroll and the eccentric shaft to permit relative movement therebetween. A balance weight attached to the movable scroll dynamically balances the movable scroll during its rotation. A crank chamber accommodates the balance weight. A suction port is so provided in the housing as to communicate with the crank chamber, and permits the refrigerant gas to be supplied into the housing. A passage is formed in the balance weight, the eccentric shaft and the rotary shaft to supply the refrigerant gas into a first gap between the first bearing and the rotary shaft and a second gap between the second bearing and the movable scroll.

Abstract: A multi-lobed trochoidal rotor for a trochoidal rotary engine includes main body defining at least two lobes, a trochoidal peripheral surface, side faces forming part of side faces of the rotor and a substantially central bore. Each side face of the body is recessed over each lobe and a plurality of the angularly spaced apertures in each lobe provide communication between the recessed part of each side face. Closure means neatly received in each recessed area complete a respective side face of the rotor. A plurality of passageways extend through the body, outwardly from the bore and include in each lobe at least one supply passageway and at least one return passageway terminating adjacent to an inner face respectively of a first and second closure means. Pressurized oil supplied to the bore is able to flow in each lobe through the at least one supply passageway, the plurality of apertures and the at least one return passageway, to an outlet adjacent the bore.

Abstract: A sealed compressor for use in an air conditioner or a refrigerator. The sealed compressor has an electrically driving portion which includes a rotor having a dust reservoir for collecting and storing dust or the like, which reservoir is formed in the central part of the rotor. Further, the dust reservoir is connected to a through hole, in which lubricating oil flows, of a driving shaft through a horizontal hole. Thus, dust contained in lubricating oil are moved outward by centrifugal force. Further, when dust enter the dust reservoir, such dusts are stored therein. Furthermore, the stored dust cannot get out of the dust reservoir. As the result, dust contained in the lubricating oil can be prevented from getting into the sliding portion. Moreover, the sliding portion can be prevented from being damaged by dust contained in the lubricating oil. Consequently, a sealed compressor with high reliability can be provided.

Abstract: A lubricating device for a horizontal type rotary compressor having an oil pumping chamber formed under the vane in the compression cylinder. The oil pumping chamber is provided in the compression cylinder under the vane and has an oil inlet port and an oil outlet port provided on at least one of its side walls. An oil piston is received in the pumping chamber such that it elastically vertically reciprocates in the pumping chamber in accordance with vertical reciprocation of the vane. The piston is biased upwards at the outside of the pumping chamber by a steel wire spring which is connected at one end thereof to the oil piston and at the other end thereof to one of the compression cylinder, the main bearing and the sub bearing. An oil feed pipe is connected between the oil outlet port of the pumping chamber and an oil conduit of the eccentric rotating shaft. A hydraulic diode, of which the upper diameter is not smaller than the lower diameter, may be axially formed in the oil piston.