Rotary two-cylinder compressor with delayed compression phases and oil-guiding bearing grooves

• US 5,006,051 A
• Filed: 12/01/1988
• Issued: 04/09/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hattori, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Vrablik, John J.
• Application Number:
  US07/278,514
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• Field of Search: 418/60, 418/88, 418/94, 418/212
• US Class Current: 418/60
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 23/001 of similar working principle
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/023 Lubricant distribution through a hollow driving shaft F04C29/025 takes precedence

Abstract

A two-cylinder type rotary compressor with a more durable bearing portion and a higher operational efficiency is provided. In addition, the two-cylinder type rotary compressor significantly reduces vibration and noise generated therefrom.

Claims

1. A rotary compressor comprising:

a pair of cylinders, each defining a hollow space therein;

a shaft mounted for rotary movement in the cylinders;

a motor for rotating the shaft;

a piston corresponding to each cylinder, each piston surrounding the shaft for eccentrically rotating with the shaft in one of the spaces and compressing gas in the one space;

blade means for continuous slidable contact with each piston, including an individual planar blade for dividing each space into a suction chamber and a compression chamber;

first and second journal bearings for rotatably supporting the shaft, including an inner bearing surface on each bearing;

oil-guiding groove means for distributing oil from a source thereof over the entire bearing surfaces between the bearing surfaces and the shaft upon rotation of the shaft;

including oil-guiding grooves respectively provided within said first and second bearings, said respective oil-guiding grooves being provided in the regions having constant negative pressure with respect to the outsides of the first and second bearings during operational rotation of said shaft.

2. A rotary compressor comprising:

a pair of cylinders, each defining a hollow space therein;

a shaft mounted for rotary movement in the cylinders;

a motor for rotating the shaft;

a piston corresponding to each cylinder, each piston surrounding the shaft for eccentrically rotating with the shaft in one of the spaces and compressing gas in the one space;

blade means for continuous slidable contact with each piston, including an individual planar blade for dividing each space into a suction chamber and a compression chamber;

first and second journal bearings for rotatably supporting the shaft, including an inner bearing surface on each bearing;

oil-guiding groove means for distributing oil from a source thereof over the entire bearing surfaces between the bearing surfaces and the shaft upon rotation of the shaft, including a first oil-guiding groove in the bearing surface of the first journal bearing, the first groove being provided in an area of angles between 220 and 325 degrees in the direction of rotation from a position of the blade, and a second oil-guiding groove in the bearing surface of the second journal bearing, the second groove being provided in the area of angles between 190 and 310 degrees in the direction of rotation from the position of the blade.

3. The rotary compressor of claim 2, wherein said first journal bearing is disposed on a position near the motor and said second journal bearing is disposed on a position separated from the motor.

4. The rotary compressor of claim 3, wherein said rotating shaft has a hollow portion therein, said hollow portion including means for drawing the lubricating oil and also having two lubricating bores, said oil-guiding grooves each including an inlet, and said lubricating bores supplying some of the drawn lubricating oil to said inlets of the first and second oil-guiding grooves.

5. The rotary compressor of claim 2, wherein said pair of journal bearings each includes an annular step portion, each said annular step portion communicating with the inlet of said first and second oil-guiding grooves.

6. The rotary compressor of claim 2, wherein each said piston has a compression phase being determined such that the starting point of said compression phase of one of said pistons separated from said motor being delayed by an angle θ

from the starting point of compression phase of the other piston disposed near said motor, said angle θ

being defined as π

-α

<

θ

<

π

, where ##EQU4## a;

the axial distance along said rotating shaft between the centers of said two pistons, and

c;

the axial distance along said rotating shaft between the other end of said motor and the center of one of the pistons closest to said motor.

7. The rotary compressor of claim 6 wherein said determination of compression process phases is made in such a manner that said blades are disposed in phased relation, the eccentric direction of said piston near said motor is defined as a reference, and the eccentric direction of said piston separated from said motor is disposed with the phase difference of said angle θ

in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of said rotating shaft.

8. The rotary compressor of claim 6, wherein said determination of compression process phases is made in such a manner that said pistons are disposed having a phase difference of π

, said blade near said motor is defined as a reference, said motor is defined as a reference, and said other blade separated from said motor is disposed having a phase difference of θ

- (π

-α

) with respect to the reference blade, in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of said rotating shaft.

9. A rotary compressor having a rotating shaft driven by an electric motor and two compression mechanisms driven by said rotating shaft in common, each comprising:

a cylinder;

a piston supported and rotated by said rotating shaft eccentrically within said cylinder;

a blade attached to said cylinder so as to always make a slidable contact with the outer circumferential surface of said piston for dividing said cylinder into a suction chamber and a compression chamber;

a gas suction inlet communicating with said suction chamber;

a gas discharge outlet communicating with said compression chamber;

said two compression mechanisms being disposed coaxially so as to cause the phases of said blades to coincide with each other;

a pair of journal bearings for supporting said rotating shaft at portions projecting from both the upper and lower sides of two compression mechanisms;

said two rotary compression mechanisms having the compression phases being determined such that the starting point of compression phase of one of said rotary compression mechanism separated from said motor being delayed by an angle θ

from the starting point of compression phase of the other one of said rotary compression mechanism disposed near said motor, said angle of θ

being defined as π

-α

<

θ

<

π

, where ##EQU5## a;

the axial distance along said rotating shaft between the centers of said two pistons,

c;

the axial distance along said rotating shaft between the other end of said motor and the center of one of the pistons closest to said motor.

10. The rotary compressor of claim 9, wherein said determination of compression phases is made in such a manner that the said blades are disposed in the inphase relation, that the eccentric direction of said piston near said motor is defined as a reference, and that the eccentric direction of said piston separated from said motor is disposed with the phase difference of said angle of θ

in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of said rotating shaft.

11. The rotary compressor of claim 9, wherein said determination of compression process phases is made in such a manner that the said pistons are disposed having a phase difference of π

, that said blade near said motor is defined as a reference, and that said other blade separated from said motor is disposed having a phase difference of θ

- (π

-α

) with respect to the reference blade in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of said rotating shaft.