Rotary compressor having a rolling piston with coupling groove
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSeseok Seol, Bumdong Sa
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Abstract
A rotary compressor includes a cylinder, a drive unit, a piston, a vane, and an oil passage. The cylinder includes a suction chamber for suctioning fluid and a compression chamber for compressing fluid. The drive unit rotates a drive shaft by connecting to the cylinder. The piston oscillates in the cylinder by connecting to the drive shaft. The vane extends between the cylinder and the piston so as to separate the suction chamber from the compression chamber, and some parts of the length of the vane are inserted into a slide groove formed in the cylinder. One end of the vane is connected to the coupling groove formed in the piston. The oil passage is disposed between one end of the vane and the rolling piston so as to receive oil therethrough.
Claims19
A rotary compressor comprising:
- a cylinder that includes a suction chamber for suctioning fluid, a compression chamber for compressing fluid, and a slide groove that extends from inside of the cylinder to outside of the cylinder;
- a drive device configured to rotate a drive shaft penetrating through the cylinder;
- a bearing coupled to the cylinder to support the drive shaft and shield the inside of the cylinder;
- a rolling piston coupled to the drive shaft inside the cylinder and configured to compress the fluid in the cylinder, wherein the rolling piston includes a coupling groove formed on an outer peripheral surface of the rolling piston;
- a vane configured to separate the suction chamber from the compression chamber, wherein the vane includes a slide part slidably inserted into the slide groove, and a coupling part that extends from the slide part and oscillatably coupled to the coupling groove;
- an oil passage provided in at least one of the coupling groove or the coupling part and configured to supply oil to the coupling groove or the coupling part, and
- wherein the bearing includes a step part provided on one surface facing the oil passage to intermittently communicate with the oil passage and configured to receive oil and to supply oil to the oil passage,
- wherein the oil passage includes a first oil groove recessed in an outer peripheral surface of the coupling part and extending from a first end to a second end corresponding to the coupling part, and
- wherein the second end of the first oil groove is provided to connect to the step part and configured to receive the oil from the step part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.