Scroll compressor with channels intermittently communicating internal and external compression chambers with back pressure chamber

• US 9,181,945 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2013
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning Incorporated (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Appliances Incorporated (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Miyake, Masashi, Chikano, Masatsugu, Ohtahara, Masaru, Takeda, Hiromu, Matsumura, Shoji
• Primary Examiner(s): Trieu, Theresa
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hu, Xiaoting
• Application Number:
  US13/764,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20130216416A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 Days
• Field of Search: 418/55.2, 418/55.3, 418/55.5, 418/55.1, 418/55.6, 418/57
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/0215 where only one member is moving
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/0253 Details concerning the base
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/0261 Details of the ports, e.g. location, number, geometry
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2/02 of arcuate-engagement type, i.e. with circular translatory movement of co-operating members, each member having the same number of teeth or tooth-equivalents
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 23/008 Hermetic pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/028 Means for improving or restricting lubricant flow

Abstract

The lap shapes of a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll are configured in an asymmetric tooth profile. In the bed plate of an orbiting scroll, a fluid effluence channel communicating with an external line side compression room of an orbiting scroll lap and another fluid effluence channel communicating with an internal line side compression room are formed, and the outlet side opening of each fluid effluence channel opens in the lap tooth bottom of the orbiting scroll, and inlet side openings are formed in a face of the bed plate that is in sliding contact with the bed plate face of the fixed scroll. In the face of the bed plate, a communicating section control groove that lets the inlet side openings of the two fluid effluence channels and the back pressure room intermittently communicate with each other.

Claims

1. A scroll compressor comprising a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll each formed by erecting a spiral lap on a bed plate and meshed with each other to form a suction room and a plurality of compression rooms between the two scrolls, the plurality of compression rooms are compressed by reducing its volume by orbiting the orbiting scroll, and a back pressure room whose internal pressure is higher than the pressure in the suction room is disposed on the rear face of the bed plate of the orbiting scroll, wherein:

the lap shapes of the fixed scroll and the orbiting scroll are configured in an asymmetric tooth profile in which an external line side compression room formed on the external line side of the orbiting scroll lap and an internal line side compression room formed on the internal line side of the same differ in orbiting angle at the time of completion of suction;

a fluid effluence channel for the external line side compression room communicating with the external line side compression room of the orbiting scroll lap and a fluid effluence channel for the internal line side compression room communicating with the internal line side compression room of the orbiting scroll lap are formed on the bed plate of the orbiting scroll;

the outlet side opening of each of the fluid effluence channels is so formed as to open in the lap tooth bottom of the orbiting scroll that constitutes the plurality of compression rooms;

the inlet side opening of each of the fluid effluence channels is so formed as to open in the bed plate face of the orbiting scroll that slides in contact with the bed plate sliding face of the fixed scroll;

in the face of the bed plate of the fixed scroll in contact with the bed plate of the orbiting scroll,

a communicating section control groove that lets the back pressure room and the external line side compression room intermittently communicate with each other by letting the inlet side opening of the fluid effluence channel for the external line side compression room and the back pressure room intermittently communicate with each other along with the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll,

a communicating section control groove that lets the back pressure room and the internal line side compression room intermittently communicate with each other by letting the inlet side opening of the fluid effluence channel for the internal line side compression room and the back pressure room intermittently communicate with each other along with the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll are provided,

the communicating section control groove that lets the back pressure room and the external line side compression room intermittently communicate with each other and the communicating section control groove that lets the back pressure room and the internal line side compression room intermittently communicate with each other are formed of a common single groove, and

the respective inlet side openings of the two fluid effluence channels are separated by a distance that is smaller than a length of a radius of a circumference defined by the bed plate of the orbiting scroll, so that the respective inlet side openings of the two fluid effluence channels are adjacent to one another.

2. The scroll compressor as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the communicating section control groove is so formed that the back pressure room, the external line side compression room, and the internal line side compression room intermittently communicate with each other in an orbiting angle range in which the pressure in each of the compression rooms is in a target pressure state.

3. The scroll compressor as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the communicating section control groove is so formed that the external line side compression room and the internal line side compression room do not communicate with the back pressure room at the same time.

4. The scroll compressor as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

a communicating section in which the external line side compression room or the internal line side compression room and the back pressure room intermittently communicate with each other via the fluid effluence channel is 45°

or more but less than 180°

in orbiting angle.

5. The scroll compressor as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

the communicating section in which the external line side compression room or the internal line side compression room and the back pressure room intermittently communicate with each other via the fluid effluence channel is more than 90°

but less than 180°

in orbiting angle.

6. The scroll compressor as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the pressure in the back pressure room is set to be an intermediate pressure lower than the discharge pressure but higher than the suction pressure.