IP Library Granted Patent US 7,201,568
Granted Patent B2
US 7,201,568 · App. 10/721,193 · Granted Apr 10, 2007

Scroll fluid machine

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Patent No.
US 7,201,568
App. No.
10/721,193
Granted
Apr 10, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A scroll fluid machine has a low-pressure stage compression part for compressing a fluid sucked in from the outside between mutually overlapping wrap portions of two scroll members performing a relative orbiting motion and a high-pressure stage compression part for compressing the fluid sucked in from the low-pressure stage compression part between mutually overlapping wrap portions of two scroll members performing a relative orbiting motion. The scroll members in the low-pressure stage compression part have a larger radial gap between the wrap portions than that of the scroll members in the high-pressure stage compression part.

Claims (14)

1. A scroll fluid machine comprising:

a casing body;

a first bearing mount member fixed to a first side of said casing body;

a second bearing mount member fixed to a second side of said casing body;

a low pressure scroll unit provided on the first side of said casing body, said low pressure scroll unit comprising a first orbital scroll member and a first fixed scroll member attached to said first bearing member,

said first fixed scroll member having an end plate and a spiral wrap portion provided on a surface of the end plate, and

said first orbital scroll member having an end plate and a spiral wrap portion provided on a surface of the end plate facing said first fixed scroll member; and

a high pressure scroll unit provided on the second side of said casing body, said high pressure scroll unit comprising a second orbital scroll member and a second fixed scroll member attached to said second bearing member,

said second fixed scroll member having an end plate and a spiral wrap portion provided on a surface of the end plate, and

said second orbital scroll member having an end plate and a spiral wrap portion provided on a surface of the end plate facing said second fixed scroll member,

wherein said wrap portions of said first fixed scroll member and said first orbital scroll member define a radial gap, and said wrap portions of said second fixed scroll member and said second orbital scroll member define a radial gap that is smaller than the radial gap defined by said wrap portions of said first fixed scroll member and said first orbital scroll member.

2. A scroll fluid machine according to claim 1 , further comprising an electric motor provided in said casing body so as to extend between said first fixed scroll member of the low pressure scroll unit and said second fixed scroll member of the high pressure scroll unit.

3. A scroll fluid machine according to claim 2 , wherein said electric motor includes an output shaft connected at opposite ends to said first and second orbital scroll members.

4. A scroll fluid machine according to claim 2 , wherein a wrap height of said wrap portions of said second fixed scroll member and said second orbital scroll member is smaller that a wrap height said wrap portions of said first fixed scroll member and said first orbital scroll member.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Mar 14, 2005
From: TOKICO LTD.
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA HITACHI SEISAKUSHO (D/B/A HITACHI, LTD.)
Reel/Frame 016353/0831 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 26, 2003
From: SAKAMOTO, SUSUMU; SUEFUJI, KAZUTAKA
To: TOKICO LTD.
Reel/Frame 014748/0399 →