Compressor having back pressure vane controlled for improving oil distribution

• US 7,488,165 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2007
• Issued: 02/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suda, Akihiro, Nishikawa, Takahiro, Hara, Masayuki, Ogasawara, Hirotsugu
• Primary Examiner(s): Trieu; Theresa
• Application Number:
  US11/808,842
• Publication Number:
  US 20080031764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 608 Days
• Field of Search: 418/63, 418/88, 418/57, 418/216, 418/219, 418230-232, 417/366
• US Class Current: 418/232
• CPC Class Codes: F01C 21/0863 the fluid being the working fluid
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/3568 with axially movable vanes
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 23/008 Hermetic pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/025 using a lubricant pump

Abstract

Previous compressors have employed compressors to compress and circulate refrigerant through a circuit, and have been unable to combine the differing advantages of rotary compressors, scroll compressors and screw compressors. The present invention combines these advantages, as well as inhibiting refrigerant leakage and improving overall performance, by particularly fixing the position of the compression member of the compression element relative to the driving element. The driving element is stored in a sealed container of the compressor. The compression element includes a cylinder having suction and discharge ports and a compression member which compresses a fluid (refrigerant) sucked from the suction port to discharge the fluid via the discharge port; and a vane partitioning the compression space in the cylinder into a low pressure chamber and a high pressure chamber.

Claims

1. A compressor comprising a driving element stored in a sealed container, and a compression element driven by a rotary shaft of the driving element, the compression element comprising:

a cylinder in which a compression space is constituted;

a suction port and a discharge port which communicate with the compression space in the cylinder;

a compression member whose one surface crossing an axial direction of the rotary shaft is inclined continuously between a top dead center and a bottom dead center and which is retractably disposed in the cylinder and which compresses a fluid sucked from the suction port to discharge the fluid from the discharge port; and

a vane which is disposed between the suction port and the discharge port to abut on one surface of the compression member and which partitions the compression space in the cylinder into a low pressure chamber and a high pressure chamber,

wherein one surface of the compression member is disposed on a side opposite to the driving element,

wherein the compression element is disposed above the driving element,

an oil pump for supplying oil to the compression element from an oil reservoir in a bottom part of the sealed container,

wherein the fluid is discharged from the discharge port into the sealed container, and

a back pressure of the vane is set to a value which is higher than that of a pressure of the fluid sucked into the suction port and which is lower than that of a pressure in the sealed container.