Scroll gas compressor having asymmetric bypass holes

• US 6,273,691 B1
• Filed: 07/17/1997
• Issued: 08/14/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Morimoto, Takashi, Yamada, Sadayuki, Yamamoto, Shuichi, Kohayakawa, Taisei, Hase, Shozo, Sawai, Kiyoshi, Ashitani, Hiromasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Vrablik, John J.
• Application Number:
  US08/895,998
• Time in Patent Office: 1,489 Days
• Field of Search: 418/15, 418/55.1, 418/55.4, 418/55.2
• US Class Current: 418/15
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/0215 where only one member is moving
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 28/16 using lift valves
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 28/26 using bypass channels

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to improve the efficiency of a scroll gas compressor by operating a bypass at a proper compression ratio. To achieve the object, the present invention is constituted so that at least one pair of bypass holes whose one ends are opened in a compression chamber currently performing compression nearby a discharge vent and whose other ends communicate with a discharge chamber are asymmetrically arranged on a panel board. This structure makes it possible to improve the efficiency of the compressor by operating the bypass at an optimum compression ratio even if a difference is observed between pressure rises of a pair of symmetric compressed spaces under the compression process.

Claims

1. A scroll gas compressor comprising:

a spiral fixed scroll wrap on one side of a panel board serving as a part of a fixed scroll is engaged with a revolving scroll wrap on a wrap support disk serving as a part of a revolving scroll and having a shape similar to said fixed scroll forming a pair of spiral symmetric compression spaces between the two scrolls;

a discharge port communicating with a discharge chamber for the central portion of said fixed scroll wrap;

a suction chamber for the outside of said fixed scroll wrap;

a scroll compression mechanism comprising a plurality of divided compression chambers in which each compression space is continuously movable toward a discharge side from a suction side and its volume varies to compress a fluid when said revolving scroll revolves around said fixed scroll through a rotation preventive member;

said fixed scroll and said revolving scroll comprise materials having different thermal expansion coefficients; and

said panel board including two pairs of bypass holes, each hole having an end opening into a compression chamber for performing compression near an outlet of said discharge port, and each hole having a second end communicating with said discharge chamber, wherein each of the two pairs of bypass holes includes first and second holes that are asymmetrically arranged with respect to the center of said panel board, and both of the first and second holes of each of the two pairs of bypass holes are closable substantially simultaneously by said revolving scroll wrap.

2. A scroll gas compressor comprising:

a spiral fixed scroll wrap on one side of a panel board comprising a fixed scroll, said fixed scroll wrap being engaged with a revolving scroll wrap on a wrap support disk comprising a revolving scroll and having a shape similar to said fixed scroll forming a pair of spiral symmetric compression spaces between the two scrolls;

said fixed scroll and said revolving scroll comprise materials having different thermal expansion coefficients;

a discharge port communicating with a discharge chamber at a central portion of said fixed scroll warp;

a suction chamber outside of said fixed scroll wrap;

a scroll compression mechanism comprising a plurality of divided compression chambers in which each compression space is continuously movable toward a discharge side from a suction side and whose volume varies to compress a fluid when said revolving scroll revolves around said fixed scroll through a rotation preventive member,

a spiral sealing member contacting a spiral recessed groove on the entire length of the front end of said spiral revolving scroll, and

at least two pairs of bypass holes, each hole having an end opening into a compression chamber for performing compression near an outlet of said discharge port and each hole having a second end communicating with said discharge chamber,

wherein each of the two pairs of bypass holes includes first and second holes that are asymmetrically arranged with respect to the center of said panel board and both of the first and second holes of each of the two pairs of bypass holes are closable substantially simultaneously by said revolving scroll wrap.

3. The scroll gas compressor according to claim 2, wherein said bypass holes are arranged with shapes and dimensions by which either of the walls forming a sealing member or the sealing member and the spiral groove can fully close said bypass holes.