Compressor

• US 9,181,947 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2009
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Kang-Wook, Shin, Jin-Ung, Lee, Geun-Hyung, Kang, Seoung-Min
• Primary Examiner(s): Freay, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pekarskaya, Lilya
• Application Number:
  US13/387,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20120128516A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,169 Days
• Field of Search: 417/410.3, 418/83, 418/55.6, 418/248, 418/228, 418/229, 418/230, 418/243
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F01C 21/02 Arrangements of bearings bearing constructions F16C
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/322 with vanes hinged to the outer member and reciprocating with respect to the outer member
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 18/3564 the surfaces of the inner and outer member, forming the working space, being surfaces of revolution
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2230/603 Centering; Aligning
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2240/10 Stators
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2240/30 Casings or housings
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2240/40 Electric motor
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2240/52 for assemblies with supports on both sides
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2240/60 Shafts
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2270/12 Vibration
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 23/008 Hermetic pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 23/02 Pumps characterised by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/0071 Couplings between rotors and input or output shafts acting by interengaging or mating parts, i.e. positive coupling of rotor and shaft
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/0085 Prime movers
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 29/023 Lubricant distribution through a hollow driving shaft F04C29/025 takes precedence

Abstract

A compressor is provided in which a rotary member suspended on a stationary member is rotated to compress a refrigerant. As the rotary member is suspended on a first stationary member and rotatably supported on a second stationary member spaced apart from the first stationary member, components can be easily centered and assembled with structural stability. In addition, oil stored in a hermetic container is supplied to a lubrication passage provided between the rotary member and the stationary member. This reduces friction loss between the components and achieves operational reliability. Moreover, the oil is easily introduced into a vane mounting hole in which a vane is linearly reciprocated. This reduces friction and abrasion of the vane and improves the operational reliability.

Claims

1. A compressor, comprising:

a hermetic container that stores oil;

a stator fixed in the hermetic container;

a first stationary member including a stationary shaft having a top end immovably installed in the hermetic container and being elongated into the hermetic container, and an eccentric portion eccentrically formed on the stationary shaft;

a second stationary member spaced apart from a bottom end of the stationary shaft and immovably installed at a lower portion of the hermetic container;

a rotary member located between the stator and the first stationary member, rotated around the first stationary member by a rotating electromagnetic field from the stator, to compress refrigerant sucked into a compression space defined therein, rotatably supported by the second stationary member to apply a load to the second stationary member, and including upper and lower bearing covers that enclose a portion of the stationary shaft to form upper and lower portions of the compression space, the upper and lower bearing covers rotating around the stationary shaft with the rotary member, wherein a portion of the lower bearing cover is fitted between the stationary shaft and the second stationary member, the lower bearing cover being rotatably supported with respect to the stationary shaft and the second stationary member, and the stationary shaft being immovably fixed with respect to the second stationary member, wherein the rotary member comprises;

a cylinder type rotor rotatably supported on the first and second stationary members to rotate around the stationary shaft by a rotating electro electromagnetic field from the stator;

a roller applied with a rotational force of the cylinder-type rotor, rotated around the eccentric portion with the cylinder-type rotor, to define a compression space between the roller and the cylinder-type rotor;

a vane that transfers the rotational al force from the cylinder-type rotor to the roller and partitions the compression space into a suction pocket, into which the refrigerant is sucked, and a compression pocket, in and from which the refrigerant is compressed and discharged;

a vane mounting hole integrally formed with the roller to protrude from an outer circumferential surface of the roller toward the cylinder-type rotor so as to accommodate the vane and

the upper and lower bearing covers;

a lubrication passage that guides the oil stored in the hermetic container to portions of the rotary member and the first stationary member or the second stationary member, which are brought into bearing-contact, by using a rotation force of the lower bearing cover; and

an oil supply hole that enables a portion of the vane mounting hole to communicate with an inner space of the hermetic container such that the oil in the inner space is supplied to the vane mounting hole.

2. The compressor of claim 1, wherein an open space of the vane mounting hole, which is not closed by one or more of the upper and lower bearing covers, functions as an oil supply hole for the vane mounting hole.

3. The compressor of claim 1, wherein the lower hearing cover comprises a lower shaft portion that encloses the stationary shaft and a lower cover portion, wherein a bottommost end of the lower shaft portion is immersed in the oil stored in the hermetic container, and wherein the lubrication passage comprises a groove formed in an inner circumferential surface of the lower shaft portion, which is brought into hearing-contact with an outer circumferential surface of the stationary shaft.

4. The compressor of claim 3, wherein the lubrication passage comprises a first oil supply passage formed in a lower portion of the stationary shaft in an axial direction, and a second oil supply passage formed in the eccentric portion to communicate with the first oil supply passage and a top surface of the eccentric portion.

5. The compressor of claim 4, further comprising a refrigerant suction passage that penetrates through the stationary shaft and the eccentric portion and connects to a suction pocket of the compression space, wherein the second oil supply passage makes a detour around the refrigerant suction passage and extends to an upper portion of the eccentric portion.

6. The compressor of claim 4, wherein the lubrication passage comprises upper and lower groove portions formed in top and bottom surfaces of the eccentric portion, respectively, and wherein the upper and lower groove portions function as oil storage grooves to lubricate a thrust surface between the rotary member and the eccentric portion.

7. The compressor of claim 4, wherein the lubrication passage further comprises a first oil storage groove provided in contact portions of the eccentric portion and a lower portion of the stationary shaft, and the lower bearing cover to communicate with the first oil supply passage, and a second oil storage groove provided in contact portions of the eccentric portion and an upper portion of the stationary shaft, and the upper bearing cover to communicate with the second oil supply passage.

8. The compressor of claim 7, wherein the upper bearing cover comprises an upper shaft portion that encloses a portion of the top end of the stationary shaft, and wherein the lubrication passage further comprises a groove provided in an inner circumferential surface of the shaft portion of the upper bearing cover to communicate with the second oil storage groove.

9. The compressor of claim 1, further comprising an oil supply member mounted at a lower portion of the rotary member, that pumps the oil to the lubrication passage when the rotary member is rotated.

10. The compressor of claim 9, wherein the lower bearing cover comprises a lower shaft portion that encloses the stationary shaft, and wherein the oil supply member comprises a hollow shaft portion press-fit into the lower shaft portion, and a propeller fixed to an inside of the hollow shaft portion to lift the oil in a spiral form with the rotation of the lower shaft portion.