Abstract: The present invention is provided with: an evaporator (6) in which a compressed refrigerant is vaporized; an expansion valve expanding the refrigerant before the refrigerant flows into the evaporator (6); refrigerant pipes (26, 27) that connect the evaporator (6) and the expansion valve to each other; and a unit case (3) housing the evaporator (6), the expansion valve, and the refrigerant pipes (26, 27), and including an air flow channel (4) for passing air through the evaporator (6). A refrigerant pipe housing chamber (31) is disposed in the unit case (3), and housing the refrigerant pipes (26, 27). The refrigerant pipe housing chamber (31) is partitioned while being isolated from the housing section for the evaporator (6) and the air flow channel (4). The outer circumferential surfaces of the refrigerant pipes (26, 27) are separated from the inner wall surface of the refrigerant pipe housing chamber (31).

Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided with a stationary scroll, an orbiting scroll, and a discharge port (18) through which a fluid that has been compressed by both the scrolls is discharged. An end plate of the orbiting scroll is provided with an end-plate side stepped portion formed in such a way that, along a spiral of a spiral wrap (16B), the height thereof increases toward a central side of the spiral and decreases toward an outer end side thereof. A spiral wrap (15B) of the stationary scroll is provided with a wall-portion side stepped portion formed corresponding to the end-plate side stepped portion in such a way that the height thereof decreases toward the central side of the spiral and increases toward the outer end side thereof.

Abstract: A scroll compressor comprising a fixed scroll (15); an orbiting scroll (16) supported in a manner allowing for orbiting motion; a discharge port through which a fluid compressed by the two scrolls (15, 16) is discharged; an end plate step portion (16E) provided on an end plate of the orbiting scroll (16) formed so that a height of the end plate is higher on a center portion side in the direction of a spiral wrap and lower on an outer end side; and a wrap step portion (15E) provided on a wall portion of the fixed scroll (15) that corresponds to the end plate step portion (16E) so that a height of the wall portion is lower on the center portion side of the spiral and higher on the outer end side; wherein the orbiting scroll (16) is treated for surface hardening and the fixed scroll (15) is not treated for surface hardening.

Abstract: A direct-current commutator motor includes a stator section having a magnet; a rotor section which is rotatably provided in the stator section and has a coil configured to generate a magnetic field by being energized; a commutator which has a plurality of terminal sections provided on an outer circumferential surface at intervals in a circumferential direction and rotates together with the rotor section to energize the coil; a brush which is pressed against and comes into contact with the commutator, is supported by the stator section, and relatively rotates with respect to the commutator; and a pigtail provided in the brush to transmit an electric current supplied from the outside to the brush. The brush is provided with a through-hole extending along a direction in which a rotary shaft of the rotor section extends.

Abstract: One of a pair of a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll is the scroll including a step portion provided only at a predetermined position along a spiral direction on a blade bottom surface of a spiral wrap, and the other one of the scrolls is the scroll including a step portion provided only at a predetermined position along a spiral direction on a blade tip surface of a spiral wrap. A blade bottom surface of an end plate of the fixed scroll is set as a reference surface for setting a chip gap between both the scrolls. When a wrap height of the spiral wrap of the orbiting scroll is represented by (L) (Lo, Li) and a wrap height of the spiral wrap of the fixed scroll is represented by (lo, li), L (Lo, Li)>1 (lo, li) is satisfied.

Abstract: In a scroll fluid machine, a thinned section (26) is provided in correspondence with a position at which the wrap height of a spiral wrap (15B, 16B) changes due to a step part. The thinned section (26) is provided on the front-side surface or the rear-side surface of a tooth tip section of at least one of the spiral wraps (15B, 16B) of at least one of partner scrolls (15, 16) respectively engaging with scrolls (15, 16). The thinned section (26) is provided in the direction in which the wrap thickness decreases so as to extend over at least a reduced-machining-accuracy area (27), which is an area where the machining becomes discontinuous due to at least a change in the wrap height. Thus, a contact failure between the spiral wraps (15B, 16B) is avoided in the area where the machining accuracy relatively decreases as a result of increasing the machining speed, thereby achieving both improved productivity and maintained performance.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a compression unit that compresses a refrigerant, an electric motor that is coupled with the compression unit via a main shaft and a housing that accommodates the compression unit and the electric motor. The electric compressor further includes an end-side bearing holding part that is provided near an axial end of the housing closer to the electric motor and a rolling bearing that has an outer ring press-fitted into the end-side bearing holding part and an inner ring into which an end of the rotating shaft is press-fitted, and that supports the main shaft, in which an opening into which an assembly jig for supporting the rolling bearing when the main shaft is press-fitted into the inner ring can be inserted and removed is provided in an end surface of the housing near the end-side bearing holding part.

Abstract: A motor rotor equipped with a cylindrical rotor core formed by stacking multiple electromagnetic steel plates, end plates and balance weights stacked at both ends of the rotor core, and multiple headed swaging pins penetrating and integrally connecting the rotor core, the end plates, and the balance weights, wherein spacers or washers formed of a harder material than the swaging pins are interposed between the seating surface of the balance weights and the heads of the swaging pins. Thus, resistance of the motor rotor to excessive excitation force can be increased and a decrease in fastening strength can easily be prevented without changing the structure integrally fastened together by the swaging pins.

Abstract: A refrigerant/heat medium heat exchanger that heats a heat medium which circulates in a heater core of an HVAC unit is provided in a discharge pipe of a cooling refrigerant circuit, a heating bypass circuit that extends to a receiver is connected to a downstream side of the refrigerant/heat medium heat exchanger through a switching means, a second circuit having a second decompression means is provided between an outlet of the receiver and a first end of a vehicle exterior heat exchanger, and a third circuit having a solenoid valve is provided between a second end of the vehicle exterior heat exchanger and an intake circuit. In a vehicle air-conditioning system, a heating refrigerant circuit is configured by an electric compressor, a refrigerant/heat medium heat exchanger, a switching means, a heating bypass circuit, a receiver, a second circuit, a vehicle exterior heat exchanger, and a third circuit.

Abstract: The purpose is to provide an inverter-integrated electrically driven compressor by which the danger of contacting an inverter device while power is being applied can be overcome in a reliable manner, without the need to provide any extra components, such as safety devices or the like. In this inverter-integrated electrically driven compressor, the inverter device is arranged housed within an inverter housing part hermetically sealed by a cover, and power and communication lines from an external power supply and a control device are connectable to the inverter device through connectors. The connector on the compressor side is furnished to the cover side, and at least one bolt of a fastening means for fastening the cover to the inverter housing part is furnished at location covered by the connector on the power line side, making access impossible, when the connector on the power line side has been coupled to the connector on the compressor side.

Abstract: A rotor for a motor is provided with: a stacked core made of a plurality of steel plates stacked on top of each other in a direction of an axis of a rotating shaft, has a circular pillar shape centered around the axis, and is provided with a plurality of magnet insertion grooves arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor and penetrating through the circular pillar shape in the direction of the axis; permanent magnets respectively inserted into the magnet insertion grooves; a pair of end plates respectively stacked on opposite ends of the stacked core in the direction of the axis and closing the magnet insertion grooves; and a pressing portion restraining the permanent magnet in the direction of the axis by pressing the permanent magnet in the direction of the axis.

Abstract: Provided is a motor rotor which, without changing an integral fastening structure relying on swage pins, increases resistance to the excessive excitation force of the motor rotor and which can easily prevent decreases in fastening strength; a motor that uses the motor rotor, and an electric compressor are also provided. This motor rotor is provided with a cylindrical rotor core comprising multiple laminated magnetic steel sheets, end plates and balance weights laminated on both ends of the rotor core, and multiple headed swage pins which are inserted from one side and which integrally fasten the rotor core, the end plates and the balance weights. The material of the balance weight arranged to the head of the swage pin is harder than that of the swage pin, and the material of the balance weight arranged to the swage part of the swage pin is softer than that of the swage pin.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an inverter-integrated electric compressor that has improved inverter device assemblability with respect to a housing, allows for improved productivity and reduced manufacturing costs, and allows an inverter device, and thus the electric compressor itself, to be made more compact and lightweight. Provided is an inverter-integrated electric compressor (1), wherein an inverter device (7) is provided with a resin structure (12) formed as a single unit with a housing section for high-voltage system components and a circuit board assembly section, and by assembling a power system circuit board, a control system circuit board (15), a busbar, a plurality of high-voltage system components that make up the inverter device (7), and the like onto the resin structure (12), the inverter device (7) is made into a unit (34) and this unit (34) is assembled onto and integrated with the inverter housing section (8).

Abstract: In an inverter control apparatus, a phase current calculation section calculates each of phase currents flowing into a motor by using measurement results of a current sensor, and a voltage command generation section calculates three-phase voltage commands by using each of the estimated phase currents. A command modulation section compares the phase voltage commands with each other, to specify a full-on phase or a full-off phase on the basis of the comparison result and then to set the voltage command of the specified phase to a full-on voltage or a full-off voltage, and offsets the voltage commands of the other two phases according to the full-on voltage or the full-off voltage to modulate the voltage commands into voltage commands allowing the line voltage between the other two phases to be kept constant.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a compressor scroll that appropriately impinges cavitation bubbles on target regions of a scroll. The method includes the step of water jet peening by jetting cavitation bubbles generated underwater by a water jet at a first side of an end plate (13A) of the scroll (13), with a center (P1, P2, P3) of the cavitation bubbles being offset from a center (O) of the spiral shape of a wall portion (13B) on the end plate (13A) and the step portion (13Aa) and the stepped portion (13Ba) positioned at an outer peripheral portion of the cavitation bubbles (C).

Abstract: This electric horizontal scroll compressor (1) comprises an oil reservoir (13) in which lubricating oil that is separated from refrigerant passing through a compressing mechanism (20) is temporarily stored, and an oil return flow channel (15, 24) by which lubricating oil stored in the oil reservoir (13) is returned further upstream than the compressing mechanism (20). A main bearing (35) is fit into a holding face (14a) of an inner housing (14) by way of a clearance fit, and lubricating oil stored in the oil reservoir (13) is supplied to the region of the fit via the oil return flow channel (15, 24).

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an inverter-integrated electric compressor in which a DC power input system is simplified as a configuration for directly connecting a power source cable connector to a P-N terminal on a substrate, stress caused to the substrate can be reduced even in this case, and damage to the substrate and mounting components can be prevented. In the inverter-integrated electric compressor, a P-N terminal for inputting high-voltage DC power is provided on a main substrate of an inverter device, a power source cable can be connected by inserting a connector into the P-N terminal, the connector being provided to one end the terminal, an electrical component constituting the inverter device is placed on the opposite side of the P-N terminal to sandwich the main substrate therebetween, and the stress caused to the main substrate when the connector is inserted is borne by the electrical component.

Abstract: In a stepped scroll compressor, inclined surfaces (28, 29) of which heights are gradually reduced toward stepped portions are formed in a range W of at least 2? to 3? (here, ? denotes a turning radius of a turning scroll) at (1) any one or both of inner peripheral end portions of high top lands (14H, 15H) of both scrolls and inner peripheral end portions of low bottom lands (14J, 15J) of the opposite scrolls corresponding to the inner peripheral end portions and (2) any one or both of outer peripheral end portions of high bottom lands (14K, 15K) of both the scrolls and outer peripheral end portions of low top lands (14I, 15I) of the opposite scrolls corresponding to the outer peripheral end portions, on the stepped portions (14F, 15F and 14G, 15G) of the top and bottom lands.

Abstract: An electric compressor includes a motor, a scroll compression mechanism, a housing, a circuit unit, a circuit housing housing the circuit unit and integrated with the housing. The electric compressor includes a heat sink provided on a circuit unit side of a partition wall so as to project to be brought into contact with a semiconductor element of a power substrate, facing the partition wall that erects along a vertical direction to separate the inside of the housing from the circuit housing. The heat sink has a lower surface and an upper surface formed into a cylindrical shape so that width of an upper end portion and a lower end portion of the heat sink gradually decreases to reach a tip portion.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an inverter-integrated electric compressor which, even with the connector of a power source-side cable configured to be connected directly to a P-N terminal on a circuit board, reduces the stress on the circuit board by support by a high voltage electric component and can implement this support with high precision.