# US 11,441,559 B2 · Scroll fluid machine having separable main body unit and motor unit > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,441,559 B2 - Document ID: US11441559B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/755,827 - Filed: 2016-08-26 - Published: 2018-11-15 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2015-08-28 - Assignees: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Fuminori Kato; Shumpei Yamazaki; Yoshiyuki Kanemoto; Takanori Emi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11441559B2 ## CPC - F04C 2/025: {the moving and the stationary member having co-operating elements in spiral form} - F04C 15/0057: {Driving elements, brakes, couplings, transmission specially adapted for machines or pumps (brakes, couplings, transmissions per se F16, B60)} - F04C 18/02: of arcuate-engagement type, i.e. with circular translatory movement of co-operating members, each member having the same number of teeth or tooth-equivalents - F04C 18/0215: {where only one member is moving} - F04C 2230/60: Assembly methods - F04C 2230/70: Disassembly methods - F04C 2230/80: Repairing methods - F04C 2240/30: Casings or housings - F04C 2240/805: Fastening means, e.g. bolts - F04C: ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS (engines F03C); ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS ## Abstract A scroll fluid machine includes a main body and a motor unit. The main body unit configured to compress a fluid. The motor unit configured to drive the main body unit. The main body unit and the motor unit are connected via the eccentric portion. The main body casing and the motor cover are fastened with a fastening member. The motor unit includes a main bearing that is fixed to an inside of the motor cover by a flange. The main bearing is configured to support the shaft and is located between the flange and an end bracket on an opposite side of the main body unit with respect to the flange. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A scroll fluid machine, comprising: a main body unit configured to compress a fluid; and a motor unit configured to drive the main body unit, wherein the main body unit includes a fixed scroll, a revolving scroll, a main body casing, and an autorotation preventing mechanism configured to be held by the revolving scroll and the main body casing and prevent autorotation of the revolving scroll, the motor unit includes a rotor, a stator configured to rotate the rotor, a shaft configured to rotate integrally with the rotor, a motor cover including a morot casing, the motor cover and the motor casing each surround the rotor and the stator, a flange that overlies the rotor at one end of the motor casing with a first surafce of the flange being fixedly attached to the motor casing, and a main bearing configured to rotatably support the shaft being fixedly attached to the flange so that an external surface of the main bearing has an opposed facing relationship to the rotor across a space formed within the flange and the motor casinng, the autorotation preventing mechanism being attached to the flange at a second surface of the flange opposite the first surface that faces away from the motor casing, the eccentric portion is included at a distal end of the shaft, the main body until and the motor unit are connected via the eccentric portion, the main body casing and the flange are fastened with a fastening member, and positions in an axial direction of the main bearing and at least part of the autorotation preventing mechanism overlap each other when viewed from a radial direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein the motor cover includes a motor casing and the motor casing and motor cover are positioned on an outer side of the stator in a radial direction of the shaft and the flange is positioned at an end of the motor casing on a main body unit side of the motor casing. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 2, wherein the main body unit and the motor unit are fastened via the flange. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 2, wherein an inner side in a radial direction of the flange protrudes to the main body unit side farther than an outer side in the radial direction. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 2, wherein the flange has a fastening bearing surface fastened to the main body unit with a fastening member, and a position in an axial direction of at least part of the main bearing is closer to a distal end of the eccentric portion than a position in an axial direction of the fastening bearing surface. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein a fastening position of the main body unit and the motor unit is on an outer side in a radial direction than an outer peripheral surface of the fixed scroll. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein the main body unit includes the autorotation preventing mechanism configured to prevent autorotation of the revolving scroll, a fastening position of the main body unit and the motor unit is at an outer side of the scroll fluid machine in a radial direction farther than the autorotation preventing mechanism. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein an opening section is provided on the motor unit side of the main body casing. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 8, wherein the motor unit includes a balance weight on an outer side in a radial direction of the shaft between the flange and rotor, and a projection area viewed from an axial direction between the eccentric portion and the flange of the motor unit is an area including that of the balance weight. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein a balance weight is disposed in a space of the motor cover between the flange and the rotor. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1, comprising a revolving bearing configured to support the eccentric portion, wherein the main body unit includes an outer ring of the revolving bearing, and the motor unit includes an inner ring of the revolving bearing. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein the main body unit and the motor unit are removably connected via the eccentric portion. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The scroll fluid machine according to claim 1, wherein the fixed scroll and the revolving scroll comprise spiral wrapping sections which are respectively formed on surfaces of panels thereof, the wrapping sections of the fixed scroll and the revolving scroll overlapping each other to constitute a compression chamber.