IP Library Granted Patent US 12,196,203
Granted Patent B2
US 12,196,203 · App. 18/584,759 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Scroll compressor and refrigeration device

Inventors: Katsumi Katou (Osaka, JP); Yasuhiro Murakami (Osaka, JP); Kazuhiko Matsukawa (Osaka, JP); Akira Mori (Osaka, JP); Eitarou Nakatani (Osaka, JP); Yuuki Matsumoto (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
F04C18/0253F04C29/028F25B31/026
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Patent No.
US 12,196,203
App. No.
18/584,759
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A scroll compressor includes a fixed scroll and a movable scroll. A facing surface of the fixed scroll that faces the movable scroll has a fixed oil groove. The fixed oil groove has a fixed circumferential groove portion. The fixed circumferential groove portion has a circular-arc portion that extends in the circumferential direction, and a wide portion wider in a radial direction than a groove width of the circular-arc portion. A facing surface of the movable scroll that faces the fixed scroll has a movable oil groove. The movable oil groove has a movable circumferential groove portion, and a radial groove portion that communicates with the movable circumferential groove portion. In a predetermined region of an angle range where the movable scroll makes an orbiting motion, a portion of the radial groove portion overlaps the wide portion as viewed from an axial direction.

Claims (26)

1. A scroll compressor comprising:

a fixed scroll; and

a movable scroll,

a facing surface of the fixed scroll facing the movable scroll, the facing surface of the fixed scroll having a fixed oil groove, and the fixed oil groove having a fixed circumferential groove portion that extends in a circumferential direction,

the fixed circumferential groove portion having

a first circular-arc portion that extends in the circumferential direction,

a second circular-arc portion that extends in the circumferential direction, and

a wide portion wider in a radial direction than groove widths of the first and second circular-arc portions,

a first end portion of the first circular-arc portion adjacent the second circular-arc portion and a second end portion of the second circular-arc portion adjacent the first circular-arc portion being connected together, and

the wide portion being provided at a portion where the first end portion of the first circular-arc portion and the second end portion of the second circular-arc portion are connected together,

a facing surface of the movable scroll facing the fixed scroll, the facing surface of the movable scroll having a movable oil groove, and the movable oil groove having

a movable circumferential groove portion that extends in the circumferential direction, and

a radial groove portion that extends in the radial direction and communicates with the movable circumferential groove portion, and

in a predetermined region of an angle range where the movable scroll makes an orbiting motion, a portion of the radial groove portion overlapping the wide portion as viewed from an axial direction.

2. The scroll compressor of claim 1 , wherein

the first end portion of the first circular-arc portion and the second end portion of the second circular-arc portion are arranged side by side in the radial direction and partially overlap each other.

3. The scroll compressor of claim 1 , wherein

the wide portion is wider in a radially outward direction than one of the first and second circular-arc portions of the fixed circumferential groove portion.

4. The scroll compressor of claim 1 , wherein

the fixed scroll includes a spiral fixed wrap and a suction port that is open adjacent a winding end of the fixed wrap,

the movable scroll includes a spiral movable wrap, and

an end portion of the fixed oil groove toward the winding end of the spiral fixed wrap is closer to the suction port than an end portion of the movable circumferential groove portion toward a winding end of the spiral movable wrap.

5. The scroll compressor of claim 4 , wherein

in the predetermined region of the angle range where the movable scroll makes the orbiting motion, a portion of the movable circumferential groove portion overlaps the fixed oil groove as viewed from the axial direction.

6. A refrigeration apparatus including the scroll compressor of claim 1 , the refrigeration apparatus further comprising:

a refrigerant circuit through which a refrigerant compressed by the scroll compressor flows.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 23, 2024
From: KATOU, KATSUMI; MURAKAMI, YASUHIRO; MATSUKAWA, KAZUHIKO; MORI, AKIRA; NAKATANI, EITAROU; MATSUMOTO, YUUKI
To: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
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Priority Claims (2)
JP 2021-136096 · Aug 24, 2021 · national
JP 2021-136097 · Aug 24, 2021 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2022024388 · Jun 17, 2022
Related Publication 20240191712A1 · Jun 13, 2024
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