Scroll compressor reducing over-compression loss

• Main Authors: SATA KENICHI, SOTOJIMA TAKAZOU, MATSUKAWA KAZUHIKO, INADA YUKIHIRO, SHIBAMOTO YOSHITAKA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.01.2016
• Subjects: BLASTING; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; HEATING; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINES DRIVEN BY LIQUIDS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON OR OSCILLATING-PISTON MACHINES OR ENGINES; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENTMACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENTPUMPS; STEAM ENGINES; WEAPONS; WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS MOTORS

A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll. Each of the fixed and orbiting scrolls includes an end plate and a spiral wrap standing on a front surface of the end plate. The scrolls are arranged such that the front surfaces of the end plates face each other and the wraps are engaged with each other. The orbiting scroll eccentrically rotates, without turning on an axis thereof, with respect to the fixed scroll to compress fluid in compression chambers respectively formed inside and outside the wrap of the orbiting scroll. Each wrap is formed in a shape such that at least one of the compression chambers serves as a rate-reduced compression chamber where a volume change rate thereof is reduced in a middle of a compression phase.