Oil suction device for hermetically sealed compressor

• US 6,182,794 B1
• Filed: 10/24/1997
• Issued: 02/06/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Ho Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): KIM, CHONG HWA
• Application Number:
  US08/957,594
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• Field of Search: 184/6.16, 184/6.18, 418/94, 921/53
• US Class Current: 184/6.18
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/0253 using centrifugal force for transporting the oil
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/025 using a lubricant pump

Abstract

An oil suction propeller structure for a hermetically sealed compressor includes a rotor, a crank shaft pressure-inserted in the rotor, an oil guide piece pressure-inserted in a lower portion of the crank shaft, a lower wing fixedly inserted in the oil guide piece and soaked in an oil, an upper wing having a width thereof wider than that of the lower wing, and an intermediate portion extending from the lower wing and gradually broadening in width toward the upper wing. The oil suction propeller structure improves oil supply capacity, and minimizes a whirling sound and a dropping noise which may occur during the rotation of the oil guide piece and the oil suction propeller thereof, for thereby enhancing reliability of the hermetically sealed compressor.

Claims

1. An oil suction device in a hermetically sealed compressor, said compressor comprising:

a rotor;

a crank shaft pressure-inserted in the rotor;

an oil guide piece formed in a three tiered conical shape and adapted to be pressure-inserted in a lower portion of the crank shaft;

an oil suction propeller fixedly inserted in the oil guide piece, the oil suction propeller being formed in a three tiered conical shape containing a lower portion, an upper portion and an intermediate portion extending between the lower and upper portions;

wherein the suction propeller is inserted in the crank shaft of the hermetically sealed compressor the lower portion soaked in oil in said compressor,

the upper portion having a width wider than that of the lower wing; and

the intermediate portion gradually broadening in width toward the upper portion, the upper portion and lower portion being twisted relative to the intermediate portion.

2. The compressor of claim 1, wherein the oil guide piece structurally matches the given structural shape of the oil suction propeller.

3. The compressor of claim 1, wherein a width of an upper portion of the oil guide piece and a width of a lower portion thereof are in a ratio of 13.8 to 10 relative to one another.