Compressor oil pick-up tube

• US 6,484,846 B1
• Filed: 10/25/2000
• Issued: 11/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Incorporated (AB Electrolux)
• Original Assignee: White Consolidated Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Parker, William A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bucci, David A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCANULTY, TIMOTHY P
• Application Number:
  US09/696,311
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• Field of Search: 184/6.16, 184/6.18, 418/94
• US Class Current: 184/6.16
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 39/0253 using centrifugal force for transporting the oil
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/023 Lubricant distribution through a hollow driving shaft F04C29/025 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/028 Means for improving or restricting lubricant flow

Abstract

A hermetically sealed motor compressor comprising a housing enclosing a motor stator and rotor. A vertically oriented crankshaft is connected at one end to the rotor and has an offset crankshaft journal at its other end. An oil passage is provided in the journal and an oil pick-up tube has a first straight end projecting into an oil sump. The second straight end portion is axially aligned with the rotation axis of the crankshaft. A helically twisted insert is provided in the second straight end portion and the first and second portions are connected by an S-shaped intermediate portion.

Claims

1. A hermetically-sealed motor compressor comprising a housing enclosing a motor stator and rotor, a vertically oriented crankshaft connected at one end to said rotor stator and having an offset crankshaft journal at another end, said crankshaft journal having an oil passage therein, an oil pick-up tube having a first end portion in fluid communication with said oil passage and a second straight end portion projecting through a surface portion of a bodyofoil in an oil sump within said housing and into said body of oil, said first end portion being offset from a vertical rotation axis of said crankshaft, said second straight end portion being aligned with said vertical rotation axis of said crankshaft, said pick-up tube having a midportion connecting said first end portion with said second straight end portion, and means within said second straight end portion to pump oil upwardly to said midportion upon rotation of said crankshaft, whereby centrifugal force forces oil in said midportion upwardly to said portion.

2. A compressor according to claim 1, wherein said means to pump oil upwardly is a helically twisted fin insert.

3. A compressor according to claim 2 wherein said insert is press fitted within said second straight end portion.

4. A compressor according to claim 3 wherein said first end portion is straight and is inserted with a press fit within said oil passage and is provided with a radial flange to limit the amount of tube inserted in said passage and properly locate the second straight end portion relative to said oil sump.

5. A compressor according to claim 4 wherein a refrigerant vent opening is provided in said tube adjacent said flange.

6. A hermetically-sealed compressor comprising a housing defining an oil sump, a body of oil within said sump, an electric motor within said housing having a rotor and a stator, a vertically oriented crankshaft connected at one end to said rotor and having an offset crankshaft journal at another end, a connecting rod receiving said crankshaft journal at one end and being pinned to a compressor piston at another end, said piston being received in a compressor cylinder, said crankshaft journal having an oil passage therein, an oil pick-up tube having a first end portion in fluid communication with said oil passage and a second straight end portion projecting through a surface portion of said body of oil and into said body of oil, said first end portion being offset from a vertical rotation axis of said crankshaft, said second straight end portion being axially aligned with said vertical rotation axis of said crankshaft, said pick-up tube having a midportion connecting said first end portion with said second straight end portion, and means within said second straight end portion to pump oil upwardly to said midportion upon rotation of said crankshaft, whereby centrifugal force forces oil in said midportion upwardly to said oil passage.

7. A compressor according to claim 6 wherein said means to pump oil upwardly is a helically twisted fin insert.

8. A compressor according to claim 7 wherein said insert is press fitted within said second straight end portion.

9. A compressor according to claim 8 wherein said first end portion is straight and is inserted with a press fit within said oil passage and is provided with a radial flange to limit the amount of tube inserted in said passage and properly locate the second straight end portion relative to said oil sump.

10. A compressor according to claim 9 wherein a refrigerant vent opening is provided in said tube adjacent said flange.