Helical Working Member, E.g., Scroll Patents (Class 418/55.1)
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Patent number: 12203471Abstract: The present invention discloses a compressor comprising: a fixed scroll including a suction communication passage that is formed so that refrigerant flowing through a suction pipe is guided to a compression chamber. The suction communication passage is formed so that the cross-sectional shape of the suction communication passage includes a step-like portion that is formed by multiple steps.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: SIAM COMPRESSOR INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jetsada Meeruang
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Patent number: 12152590Abstract: The present invention discloses a scroll compressor comprising: a first cover fixed on a fixed scroll; and a second cover fixed on the first cover. The first cover includes a first top plate and a first peripheral wall, which forms a first space inside. The second cover includes a second top plate and a second peripheral wall, which forms a second space inside. The first space connects to a discharge port that penetrates the fixed scroll. Multiple through holes are formed to penetrate the first top plate so that the through holes with different diameters connect the first space and the second space.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: SIAM COMPRESSOR INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Nutthaporn Chalearmwattananon
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Patent number: 12110889Abstract: A casing of a screw compressor has a delivery inner wall face facing delivery end faces of a male rotor and a female rotor. The delivery inner wall face of the casing has a shield area that shields at least a part of a track of an axial fluid communication path, which is a clearance that periodically occurs at the delivery end faces according to variation of intermeshing of the male and female rotors upon rotation thereof and is bounded by trailing flanks of the male and female rotors. The shield area of the casing is provided with a groove group made up of a plurality of grooves having longitudinal directions. The grooves of the groove group are juxtaposed in the circumferential direction of at least one rotor of the male and female rotors and are arranged such that their sides extending in the longitudinal directions are disposed adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kotaro Chiba, Masahiko Takano, Shigeyuki Yorikane, Kenji Morita, Yuta Kajie
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Patent number: 12104593Abstract: A scroll compressor of an electrical refrigerant drive contains a housing having a low-pressure chamber, a high-pressure chamber, compression chambers and a counter-pressure chamber. A stationary scroll has a base plate and a spiral wall, the base plate of the stationary scroll delimits the high-pressure chamber. A movable scroll has a base plate and a spiral wall which engages into the spiral wall of the stationary scroll and forms the compression chambers with the spiral wall. The base plate of the movable scroll delimits the counter-pressure chamber. A first fluidic connection is provided which connects the counter-pressure chamber to the radially innermost compression chamber, and the first fluidic connection is located in a positioning region of the radially innermost compression chamber between 75° to 195° following the merge angle.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, WürzburgInventor: Dennis Ryma
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Patent number: 12104596Abstract: The disclosed invention provides an unmodified scroll compressor with enhanced oil management system that enables the compressor system to compress helium. The compressor system includes a standard scroll compressor, oil separator, and an adsorber. The compressor includes a housing containing an orbiting scroll and a stationary scroll, a motor, and an oil sump in a bottom of the housing. The stationary scroll has one or more injection ports, and the housing contains a single discharge port, a return port, and a single injection port connected to the injection ports of the stationary scroll. The oil separator receives a mixture of helium and oil from the discharge port. The compressor system further includes a line bringing a first fraction of oil from the oil separator to the injection port, one or more lines bringing a second fraction of oil to the return port along with helium. The adsorber retains a third fraction of oil.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO (SHI) CRYOGENICS OF AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Stephen Brown Dunn
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Patent number: 12098642Abstract: A vacuum scroll pump having an inlet portion having a pump inlet, and an exhaust portion having a pump outlet; a frame; a stationary scroll plate fixed to the frame and comprising a stationary plate comprising at least one stationary scroll blade; an orbiting scroll plate comprising an orbiting plate comprising at least one orbiting scroll blade projecting axially from a front side of the orbiting plate toward the stationary plate; a drive mechanism supported by the frame and operatively connected to the orbiting scroll plate so as to cause the orbiting scroll plate to orbit about a longitudinal axis of the vacuum scroll pump and thereby pump a process gas; a double-sided thrust bearing supporting the orbiting scroll plate; and a bellows which isolates the process gas from the drive mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Ronald J. Forni
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Patent number: 12092112Abstract: According to a hermetic electric compressor of the present invention, a discharge port 66a is placed downstream of eddying flow from the joint portion 66b, a bent portion 66c is formed between the joint portion 66b and the discharge port 66a, an imaginary plumb line 66aY of an opening surface formed on the discharge port 66a is oriented to a circumferential direction of a hermetic container 10, and fluid having a small lubrication oil content is taken out from the discharge port 66a utilizing eddying flow of mixture fluid of refrigerant and lubrication oil in a gap space between a compressing mechanism 20 and a motor section 30, thereby reducing a discharge amount from the hermetic container 10.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuji Sasa, Daisuke Ogi, Kazuya Sato, Tsutomu Kon, Takashi Higashida
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Patent number: 12092109Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided that may include first and second variable-capacity units that provide communication between a first intermediate pressure chamber and a low-pressure portion and between a second intermediate pressure chamber and the low-pressure portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2024Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sanghun Seong, Seokhwan Moon, Jinyong Jang, Sooho Jang
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Patent number: 12025126Abstract: A scroll compressor including a fixed scroll including a fixed wrap, an orbiting scroll including an orbiting wrap facing the fixed scroll to form a compression chamber together with the fixed wrap, and a first receiving groove formed on a second surface, opposite to the orbiting wrap, a frame including a second receiving groove formed on a surface facing the second surface of the orbiting scroll and forming a ring-shaped chamber disposed inside the frame and between the second surface and the surface of the frame, a guide ring disposed in the ring-shaped chamber, and a plurality of roller bearings each including an inner ring fixed to the guide ring, wherein some of the roller bearings are disposed in the first receiving groove and others are disposed in the second receiving groove, and the guide ring and the plurality of roller bearings prevent the orbiting scroll from rotating.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sunghea Cho, Dohyun Kim, Jongcheun Seo
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Patent number: 12018684Abstract: A compressor including a casing having a cylindrical shape, and a compression mechanism housed in the casing. The compression mechanism having a housing including a pressing portion pressed against the casing and a weld portion welded to the casing. At least part of the pressing portion and at least part of the weld portion being arranged side by side in a circumferential direction of the casing.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Kenji Nagahara
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Patent number: 12012959Abstract: [Problem] To reduce imbalance among all movable components of a scroll compressor including a drive shaft and components fixed or connected to the drive shaft. In a scroll compressor 10, a shaft balancer 31 integrated with a drive shaft 30 includes a first weight 33 disposed on the opposite side from an eccentric pin 71 with respect to a center line CL0 of the drive shaft 30, and a bushing balancer 721 integrated with an eccentric bush 72 includes a second weight 723 disposed on the radially outer side of the eccentric bush 72 and on the opposite side from a center line CL1 of the eccentric pin 71 with respect to a center line CL2 of the eccentric bush 72. In a view from the axial direction of the drive shaft 30, the second weight 723 is symmetric with respect to a virtual line passing through the center of the drive shaft 30 and the center of the eccentric bush 72, and the first weight 33 is asymmetric with respect to the virtual line.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Atsuo Teshima, Misako Kaburagi, Tetsuya Imai
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Patent number: 11982271Abstract: Scroll compressor, a vehicle air conditioner and a vehicle are disclosed. The scroll compressor includes a first end cover, a casing and a crankshaft. The casing is provided with a supporting portion having a first bearing mounting portion; the first end cover is provided with a second bearing mounting portion; a first end of the crankshaft is arranged in the first bearing mounting portion through a first bearing; a second end of the crankshaft is arranged in the second bearing mounting portion through a second bearing; and the first bearing mounting portion and the second bearing mounting portion cooperate with each other to form an axial limitation on the crankshaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: GREE GREEN REFRIGERATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER CO., LTD. OF ZHUHAIInventors: Yusheng Hu, Huijun Wei, Yun Liu, Xiaoli Kang, Caixia Shan, Shuanglai Liu, Xiaoshan Chen, Xuefeng Li
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Patent number: 11982275Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided, in which a fastening member fixing portion of a valve fastening member fixes the valve fastening member to a non-orbiting scroll, a valve fixing portion of the valve fastening member fixes a bypass valve to the non-orbiting scroll, and the fastening member fixing portion is located axially farther away from a compression chamber than the valve fixing portion is. This may secure a fastening thickness by which the valve fastening member that fixes the bypass valve is fastened to the non-orbiting scroll and reduce a plate thickness at a portion where bypass holes and/or a discharge port are formed, thereby decreasing dead volumes in the bypass holes and/or the discharge port.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Suchul Kim, Sanghyeon Ji
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Patent number: 11971037Abstract: In a compressor compressing a refrigerant including hydrocarbon fluoride prone to disproportionate, provided, on a contact portion of the drive shaft and the bearing portion, is an elastic bearing portion as a heat generation suppression portion suppressing excessive heat generation due to line contact of an end edge portion of the bearing portion with the drive shaft during rotation of the drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Eiji Kumakura, Kazuhiro Furusho
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Patent number: 11952961Abstract: An air conditioning system includes a compressor and a refrigerant line. A power generating unit may be disposed along the refrigerant line to generate power from the heat in the refrigerant line while helping to convert hot compressed refrigerant gas into a hot high-pressure refrigerant liquid. An air conditioning system may also involve using a cooling chamber to use refrigerant to cool a heat exchange medium which is then used in a cooling coil to condition air.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: L. Doug Sheneman
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Patent number: 11953003Abstract: A scroll compressor is provided, the scroll compressor having a block insertion groove recessed by a predetermined depth into a rear surface of a non-orbiting scroll to accommodate a discharge port and a plurality of bypass holes, and a retainer block having a bypass valve that opens and closes the plurality of bypass holes fixedly inserted into the block insertion groove. The bypass valve may be fixed to a first axial side surface of the retainer block facing the block insertion groove. Through this, the bypass valve that suppresses or prevents overcompression of a compression chamber is not fastened to a non-orbiting end plate, which may allow the non-orbiting end plate to be reduced in thickness. This may shorten lengths of the plurality of bypass holes and the discharge port by the reduced thickness of the non-orbiting end plate, thereby decreasing a dead volume in the plurality of bypass holes and the discharge port.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Changeol Jo, Jeonghun Kim, Nara Han, Juhwan Yun
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Patent number: 11927186Abstract: Provided is a scroll compressor. The scroll compressor may be provided with at least one refrigerant accommodating groove recessed to a preset depth in at least one from a side surface of a fixed wrap constituting a compression chamber and a side surface of an orbiting wrap. Thus, a volume of the compression chamber in a discharge area may be increased in correspondence with a volume of the at least one refrigerant accommodating groove, and a space into which liquid refrigerant, etc. may escape may be ensured to resolve excessive compression in the compression chamber. Then, a stress exerted on the fixed wrap is reduced, and a damage to the fixed wrap due to pressure in the compression chamber may be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yoonsung Choi, Sangbaek Park, Cheolhwan Kim
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Patent number: 11905952Abstract: The invention relates to a scroll-type positive displacement machine, in particular a scroll compressor, comprising a highpressure chamber (11), a low-pressure chamber (12), an orbiting displacement spiral (13), a counter spiral (14), and a counterpressure chamber (15) which is located between the low-pressure chamber (12) and the displacement spiral (13), the displacement spiral (13) engaging in the counter spiral (14) in such a way that, during operation, at least a first and a second compression chamber (16a, 16b) for receiving a working medium are temporarily formed, and the displacement spiral (13) having at least one passage opening (17) for fluidic connection to the counter-pressure chamber (15), wherein the passage opening (17) is located in the displacement spiral (13) in such a manner that, during operation, due to the orbiting movement of the displacement spiral (13), at least sections of the passage opening (17) are temporarily arranged in the first compression chamber (16a) and subsequently at leType: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: OET GmbHInventors: Christian Busch, Jochen Bont, Roman Lässer
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Patent number: 11905953Abstract: An air injection enthalpy-increasing scroll compressor is provided. The compressor has a main frame, a movable scroll plate and a stationary scroll plate. The movable scroll plate has a movable plate end plate and a movable scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the movable plate end plate. A back pressure chamber is defined between the movable plate end plate and the main frame. The stationary scroll plate has a fixed scroll end plate and a stationary scroll wrap arranged on a side end face of the fixed scroll end plate. The stationary scroll wrap and the movable scroll wrap are engaged with each other to form crescent-shaped compression cavities. The movable scroll plate and the stationary scroll plate are provided with medium pressure passages that, during the rotation of the movable scroll plate, communicate the compression cavity with the back pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: GUANGDONG MIDEA ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Weiheng Liang, Baiying Huang, Osamu Aiba, Kang Zhang, Honghui Chen
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Patent number: 11898558Abstract: A scroll compressor including: a housing; a motor provided in the housing; a rotary shaft configured to be rotated by the motor; an orbiting scroll configured to orbit in conjunction with the rotary shaft; and a fixed scroll configured to define compression chambers together with the orbiting scroll, in which the housing includes: a center housing penetrated by the rotary shaft; a front housing configured to define a motor accommodation space that accommodates the motor; and a rear housing configured to define a discharge chamber for accommodating a refrigerant discharged from the compression chambers, and an introduction chamber for accommodating a middle-pressure refrigerant introduced from the outside of the housing, in which the fixed scroll has a plurality of injection ports that guides the refrigerant in the introduction chamber to the compression chambers.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Kyung Jae Lee, Jeoong Ki Seo, Jong Hyun Jeon
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Patent number: 11898562Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pumping assembly, a compressor and air conditioning equipment. The pumping assembly includes a first structural body, a rolling bearing assembly, a second structural body, a third structural body and a main shaft passing through the first structural body, the rolling bearing assembly, the second structural body and the third structural body. The pumping assembly includes: a first lubricating oil path passing through a second structural part, the sliding sheet backpressure cavity, a third structural part, a second structural part and a rolling body of the rolling bearing assembly; a second lubricating oil path passing through the sliding sheet backpressure cavity and a first pressure relieving groove of the first structural body; and a third lubricating oil path passing through the sliding sheet backpressure cavity, the first structural part and the rolling body of the rolling bearing assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAIInventors: Yusheng Hu, Huijun Wei, Jia Xu, Liying Deng, Guomang Yang, Shebing Liang, Pengkai Wan
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Patent number: 11892208Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes: a first fluid flowpath including the following elements, in downstream flow sequence: a subcooler having a first side in fluid communication with the first fluid flowpath and a second side configured to be disposed in thermal communication with a source of cooling fluid; a flow control valve; a primary evaporator assembly including at least one primary evaporator configured to be disposed in thermal communication with a primary heat load; and a pressure regulator operable to maintain a refrigerant saturation pressure within the primary evaporator at a predetermined set point.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.Inventor: Eugene Charles Jansen
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Patent number: 11885335Abstract: An oil supply mechanism comprises: an oil pump device connected to a rotating shaft of a rotating machinery; a main oil supply passage formed in the rotating shaft substantially in the axial direction of the rotating shaft; and a bypass oil passage in communication with the main oil supply passage and allowing a part of lubricating oil in the main oil supply passage to flow out via the bypass oil passage. The bypass oil passage extends in a direction substantially transverse to the rotating shaft. The bypass oil passage is configured such that a radial distance from an outlet of the bypass oil passage to the axis of the rotating shaft is greater than the radius of the rotating shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Copeland Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Xiaowei Hu, Lingfeng Ni
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Patent number: 11867182Abstract: A scroll compressor includes: a rotary shaft; a compression mechanism including an orbiting scroll and a non-orbiting scroll, an extension portion of the orbiting scroll engaging with an eccentric structure of the rotary shaft via a bushing and a driving bearing having an axial height L1; and a counterweight located on the bushing, a mass center of the counterweight being located above an axial lower end of the driving bearing and having an axial distance L2 to the axial center of the driving bearing, and the ratio R of the axial distance L2 to the axial height L1 satisfying: 0.1?R?0.4. The scroll compressor can reduce the contact and wear between the bushing and the driving bearing and reduce the requirements for the manufacturing precision and the mounting precision of components such as the counterweight and the bushing, achieving optimized system design.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Copeland Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.Inventors: Xiangmin Jia, Yan Qin, Xu Cheng
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Patent number: 11655818Abstract: A compressor may include a shell, first and second scroll members, a floating seal, a muffler plate, and a wear ring. The shell defines a discharge chamber and a suction chamber. The floating seal may sealingly engage the second scroll member. The muffler plate defines the discharge chamber and the suction chamber. The wear ring may sealingly engage the muffler plate and the floating seal such that the wear ring, the muffler plate, and the floating seal fluidly isolate the discharge chamber from the suction chamber. The muffler plate may include an axially facing surface that contacts the wear ring. The axially facing surface may include an annular recess. The wear ring may at least partially cover the annular recess. The annular recess may provide clearance between the muffler plate and the wear ring to allow the wear ring to deflect relative to the muffler plate during compressor operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James A. Schaefer, Sumit R. Gadre, Yogesh S. Mahure
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Patent number: 11493040Abstract: A damping apparatus for an exhaust valve in a compressor, an exhaust valve assembly having the damping apparatus, and a compressor using the exhaust valve assembly. The damping apparatus comprises a fixed body; the fixed body comprises an exhaust hole comprises an exhaust hole through which a compression cavity and an exhaust cavity are in fluid communication with each other; the exhaust hole comprises an inlet, an outlet, and an intermediate cavity provided between the inlet and the outlet and allowing the inlet and the outlet to be in fluid communication with each other; the intermediate cavity is configured to enable the backflow of the gas from the exhaust cavity to form a vortex in the intermediate cavity. The damping apparatus has advantages of reducing the force and frequency of impacts on an exhaust valve plate, and prolonging the service life of the valve plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongwei Zou, Xuan Liu
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Patent number: 11473577Abstract: A compression chamber includes the compression chamber partitioning member, an intermediate pressure chamber guides an intermediate pressure working fluid before injection to the compression chamber, and the intermediate pressure chamber and the compression chamber face each other with a compression chamber partitioning member interposed between the intermediate pressure chamber and the compression chamber. Further, the intermediate pressure chamber includes an intermediate pressure chamber inlet through which an intermediate pressure working fluid flows, an injection port inlet of an injection port through which the intermediate pressure working fluid is injected into the compression chamber, and a liquid reservoir formed at a position below the intermediate pressure chamber inlet, and the liquid reservoir is formed by the compression chamber partitioning member.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Nakai, Atsushi Sakuda, Takashi Morimoto
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Patent number: 11441565Abstract: A scroll compressor includes a drive motor, a rotary shaft coupled to the drive motor, a main frame disposed below the drive motor, a fixed scroll disposed below the main frame, an orbiting scroll disposed between the main frame and the fixed scroll and eccentrically coupled to the rotary shaft, and an Oldham's ring coupled to the main frame and the orbiting scroll and configured to restrict rotation of the orbiting scroll relative to the fixed scroll. The Oldham's ring includes: a ring body, a first key that receives a first fixing boss of the ring body and that is configured to couple to the main frame, and a second key that receives a second fixing boss of the ring body and that is configured to couple to the orbiting scroll.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sang Baek Park, Jungsun Choi, Cheol Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 11434909Abstract: Provided is a compressor apparatus comprising: a casing defining appearance of the apparatus; and a drive portion coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the casing and configured to rotate a rotatable shaft; a compression portion coupled to the rotatable shaft and configured to compress fluid, wherein the compression portion apparatus is characterized in that the drive portion and the compression portion are fixed to the fastening member which is detachably attached to at least one of the side face of the drive portion or the side face of the compression portion and thus, the combination of the drive portion and the compression portion is coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the casing. Further, provided is a manufacturing method of the compression portion apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kangwook Lee, Jungsun Choi, Cheolhwan Kim
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Patent number: 11434910Abstract: A compressor may include first and second scrolls, a hub plate and a valve member. The first scroll includes an end plate having a primary discharge passage and a secondary discharge passage. The secondary discharge passage is disposed radially outward from the primary discharge passage. The hub plate is mounted to the first scroll and has a hub discharge passage extending therethrough. The hub discharge passage is in fluid communication with the primary discharge passage. The valve member is movable between open and closed positions. The valve member restricts fluid flow through the secondary discharge passage when in the closed position to restrict fluid communication between the secondary discharge passage and the hub discharge passage. The valve member allows fluid flow through from the secondary discharge passage when in the open position to allow fluid communication between the secondary discharge passage and the hub discharge passage.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Roy J. Doepker, Michael M. Perevozchikov
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Patent number: 11365733Abstract: A fixed scroll for a scroll compressor includes a plurality of pillar portions extending axially from a first face of the fixed scroll to an opposing second face thereof. Each of the plurality of the pillar portions is spaced radially outwardly of a spiral structure at least partially defining a compression chamber of the scroll compressor. The fixed scroll further includes an annular array of spaced flow openings into the compression chamber of the scroll compressor with each of the flow openings formed between adjacent ones of the pillar portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Dirk Gutberlet, Kadir Dursun, Michael Friedl
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Patent number: 11353022Abstract: A compressor may include a shell assembly, orbiting and non-orbiting scrolls, a bearing housing, a bushing, a damper, and a fastener. The bearing housing includes a first aperture. The bushing may include an axial end abutting the bearing housing. The bushing may extend through a second aperture of the non-orbiting scroll. The bushing may include a third aperture. The damper may be received in a pocket that may be defined by and disposed radially between an outer diametrical surface of the bushing and an inner diametrical surface of the non-orbiting scroll. The damper may be at least partially disposed within the second aperture and may encircle the second portion of the bushing. The fastener may include a shaft portion and a flange portion. The shaft portion may extend through the third aperture and into the first aperture. The flange portion may contact a first axial end of the damper.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.Inventors: JonYeon Oh, Joseph M. Shepherd, Brian J. Knapke, Srinivasan Ramalingam, Gui Lin, Steven J. Baker, Miles E. Strand
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Patent number: 11339786Abstract: A scroll type positive displacement assembly includes a first scroll and a second scroll, where the second scroll is configured to orbit with respect to a center of the first scroll without rotating with respect to the first scroll. Together, the first scroll and the second scroll define a compression chamber between two seal points where the first scroll and the second scroll contact one another as the second scroll orbits with respect to the first scroll during a compression cycle, and the two seal points come together proximate to a discharge port between the first scroll and the second scroll such that there is at least substantially no dead space between the first scroll and the second scroll at an end of the compression cycle. For example, the two seal points remain in sealing contact during at least one hundred and eighty (180) degrees of the compression cycle.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Inventor: Mark W. Wood
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Patent number: 11306720Abstract: Rotary positive displacement machines with trochoidal geometry that comprise a helical rotor that undergoes planetary motion within a helical stator are described. The rotor can have a hypotrochoidal cross-section, with the corresponding stator cavity profile being the outer envelope of the rotor as it undergoes planetary motion, or the stator cavity can have an epitrochoidal cross-section with the corresponding rotor profile being the inner envelope of the trochoid as it undergoes planetary motion. In some multi-stage embodiments, the rotor-stator geometry remains substantially constant along the axis of the rotary machine. In other multi-stage embodiments, the rotor-stator geometry varies along the axis of the rotary machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Rotoliptic Technologies IncorporatedInventors: Greg John Montie, Bryan Allen Callaway
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Patent number: 11300125Abstract: Embodiments to help detect operation conditions of a compressor of a TRU in real time by a genset are disclosed. The operation conditions of the compressor can be determined by monitoring a parameter pattern of the genset, such as value changes of a horsepower, a torque, an exhaust temperature, fuel consumption and/or a RPM of a prime mover of the genset, or a current drawn from a generator of the genset, over a period of time. In one embodiment, when a scroll compressor is used in the TRU, the scroll compressor may start a periodical load/unload duty cycle when the TRU reaches its setpoint. The periodical load/unload duty cycle of the scroll compressor can be detected based on a corresponding fluctuation pattern in genset parameters. When this periodically fluctuating pattern of ECU parameters and/or current drawn is detected, the prime mover can be switched to a low operation speed.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Thermo King CorporationInventors: Randall Scott Burnham, David Jon Renken, Erich Albert Lucht, Cullen Evan Hall
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Patent number: 11264863Abstract: A rotor (10) of an electric machine has a shaft (11) a laminated core (12) arranged on the shaft (11) and balancing bodies (13) arranged on the shaft (11). The balancing bodies (13) have an aperture (15) situated outside the center of gravity. Each balancing body (13) is mounted by way of the aperture (15) on the shaft (11) of the rotor (10) in a defined angular position. Positioning sleeves (20) are arranged on the shaft (11) to define a distance between bearings (16, 17) of the shaft (11) and the laminated core (12) or the balancing bodies (13) and to provide an anti-rotational safeguard for the balancing bodies (13).Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AGInventor: Peter Wurster
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Patent number: 11225968Abstract: A scroll compressor including a center housing; a front housing fastened to the center housing and forming a suction chamber; a rear housing fastened to the center housing and forming a compression mechanism accommodation space. Fixed scroll is in the compression mechanism accommodation space. An orbiting scroll interposes between the center housing and the fixed scroll forming a compression chamber together with the fixed scroll. Fixed scroll may include a fixed scroll end plate and a fixed scroll side plate protruded from outer circumferential portion of fixed scroll end plate, fastened to the center housing, and forming orbiting space of orbiting scroll. Outer circumferential portion of the center housing may be formed with an inflow hole for communicating with the suction chamber. Distal end surface of the fixed scroll side plate is formed with a suction port for guiding the refrigerant of the inflow hole to the compression chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Kyung Jae Lee, Jeong Ki Seo
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Patent number: 11221009Abstract: A scroll compressor including an orbiting scroll having a small diameter compared to a case in which an oil groove is provided in a ring shape and constantly communicates with an outlet of an oil passage. The scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll configured to orbit in engagement with the fixed scroll. The fixed scroll includes an outlet of an oil passage configured to communicate with an oil tray storing lubricant, the outlet of the oil passage connected to a sliding surface of the orbiting scroll. The orbiting scroll includes a plurality of oil grooves configured not to communicate with each other so as to supply the lubricant to a sliding surface of the fixed scroll, the plurality of oil grooves configured to communicate with the outlet at least once and not to communicate with the outlet at least once while the orbiting scroll rotates once.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Uekawa
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Patent number: 11215181Abstract: A scroll compressor according to the present invention includes a casing, an orbiting member provided within the casing and performing an orbiting motion, a non-orbiting member forming a compression chamber together with the orbiting member, the compression chamber having a suction chamber, an intermediate pressure chamber and a discharge chamber, a communication passage communicating inside and outside of the compression chamber with each other, an opening/closing valve assembly provided outside the non-orbiting member within the casing and opening and closing the communication passage, and a switching valve assembly provided within the casing and operating the opening/closing valve assembly, whereby a facilitated fabrication, improved valve responsiveness and a relaxed restriction for a specification of a valve can be achieved, and also an over-compression can be prevented by an installation of a check valve, and an assembling efficiency can be improved by installing two valve assemblies outside the non-orbType: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Honggyun Jin, Sangwoo Joo
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Patent number: 11201522Abstract: A compressor includes a housing, a stationary block, a drive shaft, a motor mechanism, a stationary scroll, and a movable scroll. The stationary block is fixed to the housing and is arranged between the motor mechanism and the movable scroll. The motor mechanism includes a stator and a rotor. The drive shaft is provided with a balance weight. The balance weight extends in the radial direction of the drive shaft and is arranged between the stationary block and the stator. The stator includes a stator core and a coil end. The balance weight covers a part of the coil end in the radial direction and the axial direction of the drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventors: Yuya Hattori, Takumi Maeda, Takuro Yamashita, Shinji Koike
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Patent number: 11199189Abstract: Provided is a co-rotating scroll compressor comprising a synchronous drive mechanism that can achieve a long life. The compressor comprises a driving side scroll member (90) driven to rotate about a driving side rotation axis CL1, a driven side scroll member (70) driven to rotate about a driven side rotation axis CL2, a hollowed drive shaft (6) that is connected to the driving side scroll member (90), and driven by a motor (5) to rotate, and a driven shaft (20) that is disposed inside the drive shaft (6), and has one end connected to the drive shaft (6) via a first flexible coupling (21) and the other end connected to the driven side scroll member (70) via a second flexible coupling (22).Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takuma Yamashita, Takahide Ito, Keita Kitaguchi, Makoto Takeuchi, Hirohumi Hirata
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Patent number: 11136981Abstract: A scroll compressor may include a rotational shaft, the rotational shaft including a first frame support having an inner circumferential surface, into which a boss of a first scroll is inserted, and an outer circumferential surface that forms an outer surface of the rotational shaft; and at least one guide hole that extends from the inner circumferential surface to the outer circumferential surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sungyong Ahn, Jinho Kim, Junghoon Park, Junchul Oh, Byeongchul Lee, Jaeha Lee, Seheon Choi
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Patent number: 11131306Abstract: The invention relates to a displacement machine according to the spiral principle, in particular a scroll compressor, with a high-pressure zone which comprises a high-pressure chamber, with a low-pressure chamber and with an orbiting displacement spiral, which engages into a counter spiral such that between the displacement spiral and the counter spiral compression chambers are formed, in order to receive a working medium, wherein between the low-pressure chamber and the displacement spiral a counter pressure chamber is formed.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: OET GmbHInventors: Frank Obrist, Christian Schmälzte, Christian Busch
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Patent number: 11111920Abstract: A suction valve assembly for a compressor and a compressor having a suction valve assembly. The suction valve assembly may include a body that connects a compression chamber of the compressor with an accumulator, and a lifting/lowering valve provided in the body. The lifting/lowering valve may be moved upward by a pressure difference between an inner space of the accumulator and an inner space of the compression chamber when operation of the compressor stops and block reverse flow of oil to the accumulator. Accordingly, when operation of the compressor stops, compressed oil may be prevented from reversely flowing to the accumulator.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Donggeun Lee, Kyojin Kim
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Patent number: 11098717Abstract: An eccentric bush assembly structure of a scroll compressor, in which an orbiting scroll is eccentrically coupled to a rotary shaft of a drive motor, including a bush body rotatably coupled to the orbiting scroll while being pinned to the rotary shaft of the drive motor by an eccentric shaft, the bush body having a friction prevention groove formed in a surface facing a tip surface of the rotary shaft so as not to come into frictional contact with the tip surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: In Guk Hwang, Kweon Soo Lim, Soo Cheol Jeong
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Patent number: 11098715Abstract: In an asymmetrical scroll compressor, at least one injection port through which an intermediate-pressure refrigerant is injected into a first compression chamber and a second compression chamber, at least one injection port penetrating an end plate of a fixed scroll at a position where the injection port is open to the first compression chamber or the second compression chamber during a compression stroke after a suction refrigerant is introduced and closed. Further, the amount of a refrigerant injected from an injection port into the first compression chamber is made more than the amount of a refrigerant injected from the injection port into the second compression chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Nakai, Atsushi Sakuda
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Patent number: 11041494Abstract: A pin-ring mechanism that transmits driving force to cause a driving-side scroll member and a driven-side scroll member to perform rotational movement in a same direction at a same angular velocity is provided. A driving-side end plate includes a ring member installation hole into which a ring member is inserted and installed. The ring member installation hole includes a non-wall-side hole part and a wall-side hole part. The non-wall-side hole part is formed from a non-wall-side surface and has a diameter corresponding to an outer diameter of the ring member. The wall-side hole part is formed from a wall-side surface and has a diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the ring member.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Hirata, Takahide Ito
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Patent number: 11015600Abstract: A scroll compressor including an orbiting scroll and a fixed scroll. A compression chamber is formed by combining a fixed-scroll volute of the fixed scroll and an orbiting-scroll volute of the orbiting scroll. Each of sub-discharge ports of the fixed scroll brings any one of a first compression chamber and a second compression chamber of a compression chamber, the first compression chamber being defined by an inward-facing surface of the fixed-scroll volute and an outward-facing surface of the orbiting-scroll volute, the second compression chamber being defined by an outwardfacing surface of the fixed-scroll volute and an inward-facing surface of the orbiting scroll volute, and a discharge side into communication with each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kohei Tatsuwaki, Tomokazu Matsui, Shuhei Koyama, Yuji Takamura
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Patent number: 11008867Abstract: A scroll compressor may include a casing configured to receive a rotation shaft and a driving unit; a compression unit provided with a frame configured to rotatably support the rotation shaft, a first scroll fixed to the casing, and a second scroll configured to be connected to the rotation shaft and engaged with the first scroll. An oldham ring is provided with a plurality of key portions to guide the second scroll to perform an orbiting movement, wherein at least one of the frame, the first scroll, and the second scroll includes a respective key groove formed to receive a respective key portion; and a respective wear-resistant member mounted to cover an inner surface of the respective key groove in contact with the respective key portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kitae Jang, Sanghun Seong, Jinyong Jang, Jongtae Her
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Patent number: 11002278Abstract: A pump mechanism for a horizontal compressor comprises: a partition plate disposed in a housing of the horizontal compressor to separate an oil compartment from a motor compartment provided with a motor; and a pump assembly including a first pump and a second pump located in the oil compartment. The first pump sucks oil from the motor compartment to the oil compartment. The second pump delivers the oil from the oil compartment to a lubrication channel inside a rotary shaft. The partition plate is made from a flat plate, and includes: a plate main body extending in a vertical direction; and a flange portion extending from the peripheral edge of the plate main body in an axial direction and secured to the housing. A horizontal compressor including the pump mechanism is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yonghua Cui, Xiaogeng Su