Hermetic compressor and refrigeration system
A valve plate includes a suction port to which gas to be compressed in a compression chamber flows in and a discharge port from which gas compressed in the compression chamber is discharged, a projection that appears from the discharge port with the reciprocating movement of the piston is arranged at a position facing the discharge port at a distal end face of the piston, and the projection includes a flat surface extending parallel to a reciprocating direction of the piston, so that a highly efficient hermetic type compressor that reduces the dead volume of the discharge port and reduces the loss in the compression chamber and the discharge port is provided.
1. A hermetic type compressor comprising an electrical element and a compression element driven by the electrical element in an hermetic vessel, the compression element including a cylinder block with a compression chamber space, a piston that reciprocates in the compression chamber space, and a valve plate being arranged at an end of the compression chamber space and forming a compression chamber with the piston, the valve plate including a suction port to which gas to be compressed in the compression chamber flows in and a discharge port from which gas compressed in the compression chamber is discharged,
wherein a projection that appears from the discharge port with the reciprocating movement of the piston is arranged at a distal end face of the piston and at a position facing the discharge port,
the projection includes a flat surface formed at a side surface of the projection, extending substantially parallel to a reciprocating direction of the piston and facing an axial center side of the piston,
the discharge port is formed as a circle, and
a cross-sectional area of the discharge port becomes continuously greater from a surface of the valve plate on the compression chamber side towards an opposite surface of the valve plate on an outside of the compression chamber.
2. The hermetic type compressor according to claim 1 , wherein the projection is arranged so that the flat surface arranged at the projection faces the suction port side on the valve plate.
3. The hermetic type compressor according to claim 1 , wherein an intersecting portion with the distal end face of the piston at the projection is a curved surface of a predetermined diameter.
4. The hermetic type compressor according to claim 1 , wherein a direction of the flat surface is a direction in which a line Y, which is orthogonal to the flat surface and which passes a center of the flat surface, is in a positional relationship of intersecting between an axial center of the suction port and an axial center of the piston at a line Z passing the axial center of the suction port and the axial center of the piston.
5. The hermetic type compressor according to claim 1 , wherein a direction of the flat surface is arranged such that an extended line X of the flat surface facing an axial center side of the piston in the flat surface forms an angle α with respect to a line Z passing an axial center of the suction port and an axial center of the piston, the angle α being in a range of 15°≦α≦75° or in a range of 105°≦α≦150°.
6. The hermetic type compressor according to claim 1 , wherein a shape of the projection is such that a cross-sectional shape by a surface parallel to the distal end face of the piston is a polygonal shape.
7. The hermetic type compressor according to claim 1 , wherein a shape of the projection is such that a cross-sectional shape by a surface parallel to the distal end face of the piston is a rectangle.
8. The hermetic type compressor according to claim 1 , wherein an axial center of the projection coincides with an axial center of the discharge port.
9. The hermetic type compressor according to claim 1 , wherein a bell-mouth portion, in which a cross-sectional area becomes smaller from the compression chamber side towards an opposite side of the compression chamber, is arranged at a corner on the compression chamber side of the discharge port.
10. A freezer unit comprising a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a condenser, an expansion device, and an evaporator are annularly coupled by a piping, the compressor being the hermetic type compressor according to claim 1 .
11. A hermetic type compressor comprising an electrical element and a compression element driven by the electrical element in an hermetic vessel, the compression element including a cylinder block with a compression chamber space, a piston that reciprocates in the compression chamber space, and a valve plate being arranged at an end of the compression chamber space and forming a compression chamber with the piston, the valve plate including a suction port to which gas to be compressed in the compression chamber flows in and a discharge port from which gas compressed in the compression chamber is discharged,
wherein a projection that appears from the discharge port with the reciprocating movement of the piston is arranged at a distal end face of the piston and at a position facing the discharge port,
the projection includes a flat surface formed at a side surface of the projection, extending in a reciprocating direction of the piston, formed at a side surface of the projection and facing an axial center side of the piston,
the discharge port is formed as a circle,
a cross-sectional area of the discharge port becomes continuously greater from a surface of the valve plate on the compression chamber side towards an opposite surface of the valve plate on an outside of the compression chamber, and
an angle θ between the distal end face of the piston and the flat surface is in a range of 70°≦θ≦90°.